6-30-2006 Virginia:
A local airman who committed suicide carried a dark secret to his death.
That Air Force sargent was also accused of knowingly exposing a teenager to H.I.V. And he ended his own life before the case could go to court. His body was found Tuesday morning at the Grandview Nature Reserve in the Fox Hill area of Hampton at the end of Beach Road.
According to court records, last year a 15-year-old boy came forward saying for months he was being paid for sex by a man named Brett who he had met over the Internet. The investigation let to Brett Byerly, who confessed to the crime, but not that he was H.I.V. positive.
In this home, police say Brett Byerly paid the 15-year-old boy $100 each time they had sex. Police say it went on from April to July of 2005, around the time he posted this message to his parents: "Get the pork chops ready, I'm coming home".
MI- Man accused of taping girls at art fairs kills himself
Article Tags
.Michigan,
2005,
Age 49-59,
by Unknown Cause,
Suicide/s US - of SOs Accused
8-12-2005 Michigan:
LUNA PIER (AP) - A 49-year-old Birmingham man charged with videotaping up the skirts of girls apparently has committed suicide. Andrew Fowler was found dead this week in a motel in Monroe County. Ann Arbor and Plymouth police had charged Fowler with multiple counts of sexual misconduct. Birmingham police arrested Fowler at his home last week.
Police had seized his camera and discovered images of him following young girls and a young boy. The images up skirts appeared to be those of girls ages 10 to 12. Luna Pier police didn't say how Fowler might have taken his life. They don't suspect foul play. ..more.. : by WWMT
LUNA PIER (AP) - A 49-year-old Birmingham man charged with videotaping up the skirts of girls apparently has committed suicide. Andrew Fowler was found dead this week in a motel in Monroe County. Ann Arbor and Plymouth police had charged Fowler with multiple counts of sexual misconduct. Birmingham police arrested Fowler at his home last week.
Police had seized his camera and discovered images of him following young girls and a young boy. The images up skirts appeared to be those of girls ages 10 to 12. Luna Pier police didn't say how Fowler might have taken his life. They don't suspect foul play. ..more.. : by WWMT
TX- Sex offender commits suicide
Article Tags
.Texas,
2006,
Age 60-69,
by Gunshot,
Suicide - Left Suicide Note,
Suicide/s US - of RSOs
7-22-2006 Texas:
A Decatur man committed suicide outside his home in a residential neighborhood Monday evening.
Decatur Police Chief Rex Hoskins said the police department received a phone call from a man who told officers where to locate the body of a suicide victim at 2705 South College Street in the Brookhollow Addition in south Decatur.
Hoskins said he went to the location and found the body of Gerald Merrick, 64, partially in the roadway in front of his home. He had died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A note was found in the home. Hoskins said the note referred to some "bad things" he had done.
Merrick was a registered sex offender, according to the Wise County Sheriff's Office. The aggravated sexual assault, which took place in August of 2003, involved a 4-year-old male. ..more.. by Staff
A Decatur man committed suicide outside his home in a residential neighborhood Monday evening.
Decatur Police Chief Rex Hoskins said the police department received a phone call from a man who told officers where to locate the body of a suicide victim at 2705 South College Street in the Brookhollow Addition in south Decatur.
Hoskins said he went to the location and found the body of Gerald Merrick, 64, partially in the roadway in front of his home. He had died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A note was found in the home. Hoskins said the note referred to some "bad things" he had done.
Merrick was a registered sex offender, according to the Wise County Sheriff's Office. The aggravated sexual assault, which took place in August of 2003, involved a 4-year-old male. ..more.. by Staff
CO- Drowning called suicide
Article Tags
.Colorado,
2006,
Age 24-36,
by Drowning,
Suicide - Left Suicide Note,
Suicide/s US - of SOs Accused
7-26-2006 Colorado:
A Longmont computer engineer accused of luring a 13-year-old girl over the Internet for sex drowned himself, authorities said Monday.
The body of Sunil Mehta, 28, was found Friday in McCall Lake, about three miles west of Longmont. His death has been ruled suicide by drowning, according to the Boulder County coroner's office.
Mehta was arrested July 7 in Westminster after allegedly arranging to meet a Jefferson County investigator who was posing as a girl online.
They met after a series of explicit Internet chat sessions over nearly a month in which the "girl" was told to "keep it our dirty lil secret."
Mehta, who was free on bail, was facing charges of Internet luring of a child, enticement of a child and attempted sexual assault on a child, all felonies.
His wife and a friend reported him missing Thursday night.
Two suicide notes were found in his home, leading authorities to the city-owned lake, where his car and another suicide note were found, said Longmont police Cmdr. Craig Earhart. ..more.. by Rocky Mountain News
A Longmont computer engineer accused of luring a 13-year-old girl over the Internet for sex drowned himself, authorities said Monday.
The body of Sunil Mehta, 28, was found Friday in McCall Lake, about three miles west of Longmont. His death has been ruled suicide by drowning, according to the Boulder County coroner's office.
Mehta was arrested July 7 in Westminster after allegedly arranging to meet a Jefferson County investigator who was posing as a girl online.
They met after a series of explicit Internet chat sessions over nearly a month in which the "girl" was told to "keep it our dirty lil secret."
Mehta, who was free on bail, was facing charges of Internet luring of a child, enticement of a child and attempted sexual assault on a child, all felonies.
His wife and a friend reported him missing Thursday night.
Two suicide notes were found in his home, leading authorities to the city-owned lake, where his car and another suicide note were found, said Longmont police Cmdr. Craig Earhart. ..more.. by Rocky Mountain News
KS- Fugitive kills self
Article Tags
.Kansas,
2006,
Age 24-36,
by Gunshot,
Suicide/s US - of RSOs Accused
7-29-2006 Kansas:
.Sheriff's deputies standing on the porch while seeking a fugitive at 16511 Metcalf Ave., Stilwell, heard a gunshot. "When officers went into the home, they found Mr. Joey Carlton Ruttman, 29, in the bathroom with a self-inflicted gunshot wound," Master Deputy Thomas Erickson said at the scene.
An emergency medical helicopter landed in the back yard about 2:15 p.m. Monday. The crew flew Ruttman, 29, unconscious and suffering from a head wound, to Overland Park Regional Medical Center, where he died at 5 p.m.
"He had been basically on the run since ... May 17 when he missed a court date on these new charges," Erickson said. Ruttman, a registered sex offender, had remained free on $50,000 bond related to charges dating to 2005: two counts of indecent liberties with a child and two counts of sodomy, Erickson said.
The crimes involved a 14-year-old neighbor girl. In 2003, a court convicted Ruttman on a charge of sexual exploitation of a 17-year-old girl. Actions involving the girl had been videotaped.
.Sheriff's deputies standing on the porch while seeking a fugitive at 16511 Metcalf Ave., Stilwell, heard a gunshot. "When officers went into the home, they found Mr. Joey Carlton Ruttman, 29, in the bathroom with a self-inflicted gunshot wound," Master Deputy Thomas Erickson said at the scene.
An emergency medical helicopter landed in the back yard about 2:15 p.m. Monday. The crew flew Ruttman, 29, unconscious and suffering from a head wound, to Overland Park Regional Medical Center, where he died at 5 p.m.
"He had been basically on the run since ... May 17 when he missed a court date on these new charges," Erickson said. Ruttman, a registered sex offender, had remained free on $50,000 bond related to charges dating to 2005: two counts of indecent liberties with a child and two counts of sodomy, Erickson said.
The crimes involved a 14-year-old neighbor girl. In 2003, a court convicted Ruttman on a charge of sexual exploitation of a 17-year-old girl. Actions involving the girl had been videotaped.
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