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WA - Sex offender kills teen while under GPS monitoring, police say

View the article here Just more proof that the sex offender laws and GPS will NOT prevent a crime, like everyone seems to believe it will. 03/12/2009 By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Patrick Oppmann - CNN VANCOUVER (CNN) -- When 13-year-old Alycia Nipp didn't come home from a trip to Wal-Mart, her family had no idea where she was, but a tracking device was transmitting the location of her alleged killer. The quirky seventh-grader, who went by "Licy," could tell you the origin of every neon drinking straw in her collection and she "sewed buttons on everything," said her aunt, Amber Hager. Her family thinks her free-spirited nature may be the reason she walked through a field popular with transients -- a field she'd been warned to stay away from and where her body was found February 22...continue to full post

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