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Interpol says suspected pedophile caught in New Jersey
Yahoo/Associated Press ^ | 5/8/2008 | JOHN LEICESTER

Posted on 05/08/2008 9:22:13 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick

PARIS - Police detained a suspected pedophile in New Jersey Thursday, just two days after Interpol made a rare appeal for public help in the international manhunt to catch him, the police agency said.

Wayne Nelson Corliss, 58, was detained in Union City, N.J., Interpol said. He is suspected of sexually abusing at least three boys from Southeast Asia thought to have been as young as 6 to 10 years old, the international police agency said.

Interpol had asked for the public's help because two years of police investigations had failed to determine the man's identity, nationality and whereabouts.

It was only the second time that Interpol had launched such a public manhunt for a suspected pedophile. The first time, in October, led to the quick arrest by police in Thailand of Christopher Paul Neil, a 32-year-old Canadian.

Neil went on trial in March, accused of sexually abusing a 9-year-old boy.

Interpol said Wednesday that its appeal had produced more than 200 leads — potential names, locations and photos of the suspect — in the first 24 hours.

Photos seized by police in Norway in 2006 showed Corliss' alleged abuse, the international police agency said. He did not appear to make any effort to hide his identity in the photos seized from the computer of a man later convicted of child sex offenses, officials said.

Because of the lack of basic information about the man, Interpol officials had been simply calling the suspect "Mr. IDent" — shortened from the word identity.

Photos released by Interpol showed a gray-haired white man wearing glasses or lying on a checkered mattress or blanket in a yellow plaid shirt. Other photos seen by The Associated Press, not among those made public, appeared to show the man engaged in sexual acts with boys.

A computerized Interpol database of child abuse images played a part in the hunt for the man. The first photos seized in Norway and others received in the two years since were run through the database of more than 520,000 images.

In all, the database and police investigations helped turn up a total of around 800 images, including nearly 100 of the man himself and others of his suspected victims or places where he is thought to have committed his alleged crimes, Interpol said.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: interpol; nj; pedophile
Caught...
1 posted on 05/08/2008 9:22:16 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick
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To: Owl_Eagle; Sam's Army; Lazamataz; Darksheare; pissant; najida; r-q-tek86; blackie; ...

NJ...PING!!


2 posted on 05/08/2008 9:23:59 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Some days it is not worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
Wayne Nelson Corliss

But of course.

3 posted on 05/08/2008 9:34:45 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

They’re still looking for his step-brother Jeffrey Lee Bundy.


4 posted on 05/08/2008 9:38:22 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: martin_fierro

it fits....


5 posted on 05/08/2008 9:57:16 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Some days it is not worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson
Because of the lack of basic information about the man, Interpol officials had been simply calling the suspect "Mr. IDent" — shortened from the word identity

I propose the generic term- "Wayne Doe"

6 posted on 05/08/2008 10:38:26 AM PDT by mikrofon (IDiot)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

May his “thing” rot off painfully.

(spoken by the mother of a son)


7 posted on 05/08/2008 11:12:25 AM PDT by trillabodilla (Jesus Saves)
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To: trillabodilla

May it be painfully ripped off..


8 posted on 05/08/2008 12:20:01 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Some days it is not worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

“May it be painfully ripped off..”

Where he is going, he’ll have his anus painfully ripped!


9 posted on 05/09/2008 2:02:53 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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