1,800 Sex Offenders Missing (Florida)

[barbaraann]

Posted on Tue, Mar. 29, 2005
HERALD WATCHDOG | CRIME

1,800 sex offenders missing

The kidnapping and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford has raised new concerns over how to track the more than 30,000 registered sex offenders and predators living in Florida.

BY JASON GROTTO AND LUISA YANEZ
[e-mail]

One month before a registered sexual offender allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, Florida law enforcement agencies had lost track of at least 1,800 other sexual offenders statewide, according to a review of Florida's Sexual Offender/Predator Registry.

John Evander Couey, the man who would confess to killing Jessica, was not even listed as one of them because no one knew he wasn't living at his reported address and was staying near the Lunsfords.

The fact that Couey wasn't marked as missing raises questions not only about how aggressively the state tracks offenders known to be on the lam, but how many others have absconded and aren't noticed at all.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11253735.htm

Missing Children in Florida:
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=usMapSearch&missState=FL&searchLang=en_US


If I lived near Pinellas Park instead of in the far NW corner of the US, I would print up flyers with these facts and hand them out to the Terri Schiavo protestors and ask them if they would demand action from Jeb Bush and the Florida legislature to protect LIVING children.

[murielm99]

1. They lose kids in the foster care system,

and lose sex offenders.

They just cut off health care to about 100,000 children.

I hope the next Democrat who runs for governor is taking notes on all this.

[BlueFlu]

2. One has been found...

in the middle of the Operation Rescue circus outside Terri Schiavo's hospice:

Scroll about halfway down http://www.operationsaveamerica.org/

Joshua Heldreth (10), learning to stand for Jesus.
Scott Heldreth cried when he saw his son arrested. Ordinarily those would be tears of sorrow for a father watching his son being handcuffed. But Scott's tears were tears of joy because Joshua, in attempting to bring water to Terri Schiavo, had taken to heart the mandate in Matthew 25:35-36. “I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in.“

More on the kid and his dad:

http://www.operationsaveamerica.org/articles/articles/more-about-josh.htm

Then check out the sexual offenders registry:

http://www3.fdle.state.fl.us/sexual_predators/OffenderFlyer.asp?keys=38964

[nonconformist]

16. Wow.

That guy looks batshit insane. What a wonderful posterboy for this whole affair.

Nice detective work!

[Barad Simith]

3. I'm gonna go out on a limb here...

...and state that Florida seems to be a pretty messed-up place to live.

:D

[MsConduct]

4. I don't you've gone out on a limb. I think you pretty

much have gotten the same impression of Florida that I have. Those bush bros sure know how to run states into the ground, huh? I love living in the Northwest, how about you? ;-)

[QC]

5. "I love living in the Northwest"

What's up with all the serial killers?

[truthisfreedom]

6. Wisconsin used to be famous for them. now Minnesota has the Red Wing

high school tragedy... perhaps you shouldn't speak so quickly! 8^|

[QC]

8. Nobody can top the Green River Killer. And then there's Ted Bundy.

Sorry to be snarky, but the smug self-congratulation around here gets annoying sometimes.

[Krupskaya]

18. Red Lake, not Red Wing.

Red Lake Reservation. Red Wing is more than 500 miles away.

[htuttle]

20. Wisconsin is more famous for cannibals, not serial killers

But as long as you stick to well-traveled highways, you'll probably never run into one. Except during Oktoberfest...

[papau]

22. I recall the Wisconsin lampshade maker that just wanted the skin

back in the mid fifties

Made Life Mag and upset a young guy - me - at the time.

[bobthedrummer]

28. The Ed Gein case involved Freudian themes imo

But Dahmer was far worse.

[LiberalFighter]

30. Cousins would tell stories about the guy when we were younger

[bobthedrummer]

27. We also contibuted Senator Joseph McCarthy, Les Paul, Robert La

Follete, Lori Bembenek and Liberace to name a few other Badgers of note.

[MsConduct]

7. LOL don't blame me for them! I didn't give birth to or raise

any of them. Good tip though, stay away from strangers in cars who want to take you to the deep woods.

[QC]

9. I didn't birth Jeb Bush.

Barbara did. And considering what has come of it and the cataclysmic damage that has resulted, I have often thought that her love tunnel should be declared a public menace ;-)

[MsConduct]

13. LOL no argument here! The whole bunch should have their

family portrait used as the illustration for the word "Disaster" in the dictionary! ;)

[Barad Simith]

11. We caught 'em all. Yup.

Ted Bundy, that Green River guy, Rafael Resendez Ramirez, Westley Allan Dodd, the fat fuck who filled up on junk food while on death row until he won the right not to be hanged because the resulting decapitation would have been cruel and unusual punishment, Lee Boyd Malvo...

We got 'em all. It's perfectly save to move to the Pacific Northwest now. Come on up!

[QC]

12. Actually, the Florida cops caught Bundy.

If the police in Washington had done their job he would never have paid his famous visit to the Chi-O house.

But I do appreciate the invitation! I have a cousin in Seattle--he's a psychiatrist. (No, he's not Frazier.) Perhaps I will pay him a visit sometime.

[Barad Simith]

14. Thank you!

That guy was starting to get on our nerves, what with all the killing and such. Please tell the Florida cops I said good work.

[LostinVA]

24. I lived there for 11 months

And moved, because so many people (specifically politicians, etc.) were CRAZY. This from someone who lived in NC for two decades, and now lives in VA. You're spot on, I think.

[FreepFryer]

10. They're at Disney World in Orlando. No worries. {sarcasm}

Because of the legal peculiarities of the Disney territories, they may in fact thrive there.

[Hekate]

15. They lose foster kids, sex offenders, and legitimate voters

Guess that's what you get when the place is run by Banana Republicans.

More and more, Florida sounds like a swell place to be *from*.

Hekate

[Cooley Hurd]

17. Well, they found ONE sex offender right in Pinellas Park...

[teryang]

19. Florida cops catch hundreds of pot smokers every day

...and they are an important source of economic revenue.

[DoYouEverWonder]

21. And it's zero tolerance for drug offenders

while wacko, pervert, child molesters go free on a daily basis.

[LostinVA]

25. As long as pot smokers are off the streets and homosexuals can't adopt

I'm happy.

[noonwitch]

23. I thought Florida sentenced sex offenders to long sentences?!

I thought they got 25 to life for it. What are all these guys doing out on parole?

[leftofcool]

26. Hello Jeb....................

You fucking moron. This is your respobsibility!!!!!!!!!!

Left of Cool

[Walt Starr]

29. And the Flordia government concerns itself with a single woman

who is missing her cerebral cortex.

:eyes:

[Tribal150]

31. I have questions about this case

Why were the other people living in the house, Dittrich and Secord, given $500 bail? They're accessories, and they lied to the police.

I find it strange that there haven't been pictures of those two published anywhere either.