Stephen A Marshall "The vigilante Paedophile Killer"

Stephen A Marshall "The vigilante Paedophile Killer" Marshall was driving through rural Maine under the cover of night with three guns by his side and a laptop with 34 names and addresses he’d found online. It was the early hours of Easter Sunday in 2006, and 20-year-old Marshall, a dishwasher from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, was paying a rare visit to his father in Houlton, Maine, a town near the US-Canada border. His father was asleep and had no idea that Marshall had taken his truck after quietly slipping out of a window. Around 3 AM, Marshall reached his first stop: about two hours southwest in the town of Milo, Maine. Fifty-seven-year-old Joseph Gray was asleep in his living room, Marshall shot and killed Gray through the living room window. Over the next few hours, it’s believed that Marshall drove by at least four other homes, but it wasn't until just after 8 AM that he met his second victim. Twenty-four-year-old William Elliott answered the door of his mobile home in Corinth, Maine, after Marshall knocked. Even after Elliott crumpled to the floor, Marshall continued to shoot him. As his Toyota pickup peeled out of the driveway, Elliott’s girlfriend took down the license plate while her boyfriend lay dying. After abandoning the truck in Bangor, Marshall hopped on a bus to Boston. Around 8 PM, as it approached its destination, the bus was surrounded by police. In his final act, Marshall put a .45 calibre handgun to his head and pulled the trigger. He was pronounced dead a few hours later. Gray and Elliott's murders came at a time when the internet was new enough that fears were sparked that this sort of extreme vigilantism would become commonplace. Lawmakers in Maine and other states floated the idea of taking the registries offline. Maine’s was shut down—but only for a day. Gray and Elliott were among around 2,200 names on Maine’s online sex offender registry in 2006. Marshall was able to access their photos, names, addresses, identifying characteristics—even their places of work. And he wasn’t the only one checking them out. The registry was the state government’s most popular website at the time, receiving more than 200,000 hits a month. Thanks and Credits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marshall_(murderer) https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/marshall-stephen.htm https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne9ew7/how-sex-offender-registries-can-result-in-vigilante-murder FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/maonfb/ INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/murderanalysed/ REDDIT - https://www.reddit.com/user/ MurderAnalysed MEMBER'S PROGRAM https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgKQOAJL776mdx-bSjtJQJA/join INTRO BY ENGLISH GRAVE/AVCM STUDIOS - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxUKFg4a4mzI14PCDZOqtWA Podcast https://media.rss.com/letshaveachataboutmurder/feed.xml Contact info: murderanalysedbusiness@gmail.com Mail Address: M.A. Business PO Box 617 Welwyn Garden City AL7 9QZ