On 19 Sep 2005 22:02:05 -0700, "robin hood zoro"
<robinhoodzoro@hotmail.com> wrote:

[the guy believes he is some kind of hero!!!]


Man in Wash. murders tries to plead guilty


DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP
Associated Press


BELLINGHAM, Wash. - A man arrested in the shooting deaths of two
convicted child rapists tried to plead guilty Tuesday before he had
even been formally charged.


Police believe Michael Anthony Mullen might have targeted the men in
reaction to a notorious case in Idaho in May in which two children were
abducted and one was slain.


"Can I have a speedy trial?" Mullen asked a court official, via closed
circuit television from jail, during a preliminary hearing Tuesday. "I
would like to plead guilty."


Prosecutor Mac Setter said Mullen would be formally charged with the
murders Wednesday. Whatcom County Superior Court Commissioner David
Thorn set bail at $1 million and scheduled Mullen's arraignment - when
a formal plea may be entered - for Sept. 16.


Police said Mullen, 35, called them on Monday to turn himself in and
later confessed to killing Hank Eisses and Victor Vazquez in their home
on Aug. 27.


The hearing revealed that Mullen may have had help on the day the two
men died. Setter said an unidentified woman whom he described as a
witness had driven Mullen to and from the scene.


Mullen may have been motivated by the case of Joseph Edward Duncan, a
convicted sex offender who is accused of killings and child abductions
in Idaho, police said.


"One possible reason was the case in Idaho," Bellingham Police Lt.
Craige Ambrose told The Associated Press. Ambrose wouldn't elaborate,
and Setter refused to discuss possible motives.

Police said they believe Mullen's claim that he killed the Bellingham
sex offenders because he knew details only the killer would know: the
caliber of the weapon used, and that the victims were each shot once in
the head.


"Mullen also said that he had planned the murders for some time and
that on July 13, 2005, he had accessed the county sheriff's sex
offender Web site, and from that selected at least one of the two
victims," according to a police statement.


As is typical in Washington, the sheriff's Web site lists the
residences of sex offenders who are required to register with local
authorities.


Mullen has a criminal record but no history of violence, Ambrose said.


In the Idaho case, Joseph Edward Duncan is accused of fatally beating
three people with a hammer in a home outside Coeur d'Alene in order to
abduct two children for sex.


He was arrested July 2 at a restaurant with one of the children,
8-year-old Shasta Groene. Remains of her 9-year-old brother, Dylan,
were found in a Montana forest two days later.


According to police, Mullen said he mailed a letter about the
Bellingham killings to several news outlets last week. The Bellingham
Herald, the daily newspaper in this college and mill town of about
71,000, reported Thursday that the letter threatened other sexual
predators.


Eisses, 49, and Vazquez, 68, were both classified as Level 3 sex
offenders, the type considered most likely to re-offend.


Their bodies were found by a roommate, also a sex offender, who said a
man wearing a blue jumpsuit and a cap that said "FBI" came to the
house, told them he was an FBI agent and said he wanted to discuss
their status as sex offenders.


The supposed federal agent told them that one of them was on a "hit
list," police said.


The roommate said he left while the FBI impostor was still there and he
found the bodies when he returned about four hours later.


Vazquez was convicted in 1991 of molesting several relatives, according
to court documents. He was released from prison about two years ago and
remained under supervision.


Eisses was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison in 1997 for raping a
13-year-old boy. He was released from supervision about two years ago,
said Kit Bail, Corrections Department field supervisor for the county.