Hale homicide victim was a convicted sex offender

8-15-17 Michigan

HALE, MI -- Before being killed and buried in his backyard in rural Michigan, a 72-year-old man served time for sexually assaulting a minor.

The Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry states Roger L. Knickerbocker II in July 2000 was convicted of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a victim 13 or younger. The charge is a life offense and involves penetration.

Since 2006, a person convicted of the crime when the victim is 13 or younger must serve a mandatory minimum 25 years in prison.

The crime occurred in Pontiac. The conviction was handed down in Oakland County Circuit Court. He was paroled of May 2009 and discharged from parole in May 2011, said Chris Gautz, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.

Knickerbocker had to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. He last registered on June 26.

Police ID decomposing body as that of registered sex offender

11-17-2016 Connecticut:

MERIDEN — Police have identified a decomposing body found in a Meriden apartment this month as that of an elderly man who was a registered sex offender.

The case is being investigated as a homicide.

Officers were called to the apartment Nov. 2 for reports of a body. Police on Wednesday identified the dead man as 73-year-old Thomas Wilderman.

Police have said that based on the state of decomposition, the man had not died recently.

Police say Wilderman's car was found in Hartford about two days after his body was found.

The Record-Journal reports Wilderman was convicted of sexual assaulting a minor in 1998. The state's sex offender registry indicates he was released from prison in July 2011. ..Source.. by The Bulletin

Sex offender found bound, killed in Phoenix auto parts shop

6-7-2016 Arizona:

PHOENIX - A registered sex offender has been killed in Phoenix. Police discovered the body of 73-year-old Reginald Locke inside his home near 24th Street and Roosevelt after he was reported missing Monday night.

Phoenix police say Locke was found bound with trauma to his body.

Aaren Shivers and his wife Irene Piper just can’t believe their neighbor was found dead.

"It’s very bad, and it’s disturbing really, because I’m literally right next door," said Shivers.

Police believe Locke lived in an area of Fred’s Auto Parts and Machine Shop. Locke was reported missing Monday night, but then found dead at about 11 a.m. Tuesday.

“The victim was restrained with signs of trauma to his body," said Sgt. Vince Lewis of the Phoenix Police Dept.

Okemos man tells judge he killed his father because he was 'enraged' about alleged sexual abuse

5-7-2014 Michigan:

LANSING — Greg Basolo said he shot and killed his father last year because he was “enraged” about other family members sexual abusing him as a child.

At a hearing Wednesday in Ingham County Circuit Court, Basolo pleaded guilty but mentally ill to second-degree murder in the shooting death of his 79-year-old father, Peter. The incident happened Oct. 25, 2013 at the Okemos condominium they shared.

Prosecutors said Basolo’s claims are baseless, and no one has ever been charged with sexually abusing him. Basolo, a former member of the Meridian Township’s assessing board of review, is 50. The alleged abuse would have happened more than 40 years ago.

“We dispute his allegation that he was sexually abused as a child,” Assistant Prosecutor John Dewane said in an interview.

A family spokesman said the family denies Basolo’s claims of sexual abuse.

Lealman man accused of killing mobile home park neighbor

4-14-2013 Florida:

A 60-year-old ex-convict is accused of fatally stabbing his 75-year-old neighbor, a registered sex offender, in a Lealman mobile home park.

Sylvester Johnson was arrested Saturday night on a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the death of William David Casey.

Casey's body was found in his home Thursday morning by a neighbor who had come to bring him food.

Johnson and Casey knew each other because both lived in the Palace Mobile Home Park, 2500 54th Ave. N. Investigators say Johnson went into Casey's mobile home sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday and stabbed him several times in the upper body.

Pinellas County Sheriff's detectives say they linked Johnson to the crime through fingerprints found at the scene. They say the motive may have been robbery, as Casey's wallet was stolen. No weapon has been found, and the investigation continues.

Florida's sex offender database shows that more than 100 men registered as sex offenders and sexual predators live in the mobile home park. It's on the western side of Interstate 275 at the 54th Avenue N exit, along Haines Road.

Johnson is not a sex offender, but the state considers him a career criminal. According to Florida Department of Corrections records, he has been in prison five times since 1984 for burglary, drugs, sexual battery and dealing in stolen property convictions.

He got out of prison in December after serving time on a cocaine charge, and was due to be on probation until 2020. ... ... ...

Court records show Casey pleaded guilty to the charges March 19. He was sentenced to two years of community control, followed by three years of probation.

On April 11, he registered as a sex offender at the Palace Mobile Home Park. ...Source... by Mike Brassfield

Sex offender found slain in Marysville

1-25-2013 Washington:

An 82-year-old man was found dead in his Marysville home by a family member.

MARYSVILLE -- Police in Marysville are investigating the death of an 82-year-old man who was found early Friday morning in his ransacked travel trailer.

"What we have is a homicide investigation," Marysville police Cmdr. Robb Lamoureux said.

A family member discovered the man when he went to check on him early Friday. By early afternoon, police were asking for the public's help in locating the slain man's 2006 Chevrolet Colorado. The champagne-colored pickup truck, license B03681A, is believed to have been stolen.

"We are considering the occupants as being armed and dangerous and ask that the public do not try to intervene. We simply want them to call 911 to report the location of the vehicle," Lamoureux said.

Detectives were called to a home in the 9800 block of State Avenue about 3 a.m. Friday.

The first officers to the scene quickly determined the death was a likely homicide and called for detectives, Lamoureux said.

Police were not releasing the man's name pending notification of family and confirmation of identity by the Snohomish County medical examiner.

Late in the day they confirmed that the victim was a registered sex offender.

An 82-year-old man with convictions for statutory rape and indecent liberties was registered as living in the neighborhood where the homicide occurred.

According to the sex offender registry maintained by the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office, the man had convictions in the early 1980s for offenses against girls ages 8 to 14. While in prison, he was determined not to be a good candidate for sex offender treatment.