A Kentucky teenager has pleaded guilty to killing a convicted sex offender who lived nearby.
The Daily News reports 17-year-old Lance D’artagnan Lear of Auburn entered the plea Monday in Logan Circuit Court to charges of murder and arson. The plea agreement recommends a 20-year sentence.
Lear told the judge he went to Jerry Caudill’s home on June 7, 2017 around 3 a.m. and set it on fire knowing Caudill was asleep inside.
The only way this will change is if some totally innocent person or God forbid a child is injured or killed mistakenly by one of these vigilantes
Iserved… I hate to disagree, if it would be the child of an RSO injured or killed by a vigilante , they will blame the spouse for staying there with a child, or blame the RSO for not leaving his family. our families do not matter to them.
Ill keep must of my thoughts to myself. But ama go out on a limb and say this kid probably has a criminal record,or issues he hasn’t addressed. It’s a cowardly premeditated move @ 17 wow. Ill respect someone more who confronts me with an issue against me ,and if they feel so adamant to the point they need to get physical,please, you’ll be doing both of us favor ,cause I got SHT I want to get off my chest too! Hopefully I wont get charged for self-defense…this a Bullsht. Sorry guys.
Parole guaranteed, no matter how he behaves in prison the parole board will idealize him.
I have said it before and will say it again.. I have said it since 1997 and I have been right. I will keep saying it until they either finally succeed in burying me or people actually listen and I will continue to be right.. Stick your head in the sand if you must but just remember this eventually will be you or a loved one..Not “if” but WILL..It will be you or a loved one or maybe even you and a loved one..
The only thing power respects is equal power.. When that power owns the media and the courts and the police you can get it into your heads those avenues wont protect you…
If every single person on the registry stands up and adds at least one person who cares about them there is enough people to make an immediate change and stop..YOU need to MAKE it stop, or it wont..IT is the ONLY way it will stop. Is it possible some may get hurt or killed? Is it possible you may get “shamed” ? aren’t these things happening to you already? Do nothing they will continue to happen and they will get worse.. DO SOMETHING and at least you have a chance.. Sir Issac Newton told you what you need. He was right then and it is right now. You need equal and opposite force to stop it and you need more force to make sure it never comes back.. Anything else and you get nothing else. A cool million people on the registry and if each has 1 friend its an easy 2 million people.. That is change..If you stop groveling. If you want to continue groveling then stop complaining when it gets worse, by complacency you have contributed to it.
Hi all! Well I have seen the way of truth, and that is we who are on the registry are screwed , on Monday 29th , I was founded guilty by two sheriff officers, and thrown in jail, I had a individual come to my home and yell that I am a Pedophile so I call 911 and they tell two deputies are in route so I hang up well the guy who was yelling this he took off and here is where I am guilty due to me being on the registry, the deputies say well you are on the registry so what is the harm? I say that’s some bull so they go and talk to the guy. Well they come back and say where is the box cutter you used to cut his tires , I say what? Well I had a witness and the deputies say well he doesn’t count due to him being with me. Well I go to jail and the other guy gets to leave. Now I live in Florida and I feel this some straight bull. Hell the state I got convicted in sent Florida a statement saying I was not required to register but oh well I have a misdemeanor to worry about now, hell maybe it is time take the easy way out
Should have had a hate crime enhancement the victim was targeted because of his status
Offenders can’t protect themselves … their address….name and offense are public and they expect it to keep people safe??!! Who exactly are safe??!! It’s one umbrella for them all and everyone gets wet and they all don’t deserve to be rained on
Just a reminder, anyone can write to the judge and state their grievances as concerned (registered) citizens.
Hello, he killed him, Premeditated-Life in prison.
Clearly premeditated murder, if true. Betting the media tried to clean up this story a bit because the victim was a registrant (and still might be).
Murder is a capital offense in Kentucky – KY Rev Stat § 507.020 (2018). No judge would accept a 20 year plea deal if the victim was anything but a registrant.
Okay so how many more are going to have to be killed by some nutcase vigilante before it is realized that this registry does not work. As stated many times before it does nothing to prevent crimes since most crimes are committed by first time offenders. I think I am safe where I live, but you never know who is watching those lists. God forbid since it is against the law to have a weapon to protect myself and family. Just where is it going to end?
I’m wondering about this topic always
Would it be possible for the relatives of this offender to sue the registry for endangerment to this victim and his family? Just asking.
So where to begin? Lets start with the fact that when this little prick gets out of prison say 12-15 years from now, he will be able to get a job with a company like IKEA because his 12-15 year old conviction won’t show up on their 7 year background check, whereas they did find my 20 year old conviction even though they say that they weren’t searching for it because I was on the registry.
Not good enough? How about this. This twerp gets a plea bargain for a 20 year sentence on a felony murder rap that could have carried the death penalty had he been a mere year older. His victim, however, could have gotten life in prison for possessing dirty pictures.
so’s get 20 years for one cp picture, or more (life, as recently posted here), and he gets 20 for murder?? Justice system gone haywire…