Suspect in girl's kidnapping has died (Alisa found yesterday)

St. Louis Post Dispatch ^ | July 8, 2010 | PATRICK M. O'CONNELL

[Ramius]

If you rape a 10-year-old, you should be executed! If that had happened, the little four year old would have never been snatched.

Yah... that's easy-to-understand point. Of course... the reason that rape doesn't carry the death penalty, even with child, is that (and it's a fair point) the law doesn't want to create an incentive to just kill the victim. If the penalty is the same whether the victim lives or dies, then few if any victims will be allowed to live. But I agree it would be more satisfying to see them hang.

[bgill]

“He had a string of convictions, including one in February for stealing a car from a repair garage near Troy. That similarity to the burglary and murder at Smitty’s Garage in Hawk Point has locals thinking. Don Buretta says Smith repainted the car stolen from El Rancho Garage, his family’s business, just as he tried to do with the kidnapping getaway car, “When I heard he was repainting the vehicle, same M-O, it was shocking. Very shocking to find out that this guy, he should have been in jail a long time ago, just a repeat offender on everything. It just blows my mind, somebody like that is running around.””

http://www.kplr11.com/news/ktvi-alisa-maier-smith-murder-connection-070810,0,2389419.story

Two garages, two stolen cars, two repainted stolen cars, two pedophiles, two or possibly three deaths... it just keeps adding up. He should have been in jail, like duuuh! Who’s the judge that kept letting him out or giving him short sentences? Another relative?

[sodpoodle]

There should be more investigations into these two room-mates and every missing boy & girl NATIONWIDE. Wonder if they had internet access?