Disturbed skinhead couple kill sex offender; get wrong kind, don’t care

Earlier last month, a particularly disturbed skinhead couple (which is somewhat redundant, but go with me here), tracked down and killed a convicted sex offender and his family who was forced to register on the state sex offender registry.  According to the Las Vegas Sun, which was reporting on events in Union, South Carolina, Jeremy and Christine Moody, who are skinheads and were apparently both molested as children, decided to make up a hit-list of sex-offenders on the South Carolina sex offender registry, and kill people on it. 

The Moodys at their sentencing

They chose 59 year-old Charles Parker, who had been convicted of taking sexual advantage of a disabled woman, and served his time.  Don’t get me wrong.  I do not condone at all what Parker did or was convicted of.  Moody didn’t bother to parse what Parker did, though, and thought he was killing a pedophile.  Moody and his wife decided to kill everyone in the house they ran across, and had others on their list to get to next.

Moody drove up to Parker’s house and popped the hood of his car.  When Parker came out to see if he needed help, Moody and his wife forced him inside at gunpoint, shot him and his wife, and stabbed them.  They had apparently gone to church that day. 

Police had no problem finding Moody from Parker’s surveillance equipment.  Moody had a tattoo that says “Skinhead” on the side of his neck.

Moody thought he was getting revenge for whomever Parker had molested.  The law had already punished him.  Moody and his wife and serving the rest of their lives in prison.  Parker was, too, in a way, living on the sex offender registry.  He rightfully had a surveillance camera system and knew he would be the target of attacks.  The state gave him a sentence in prison, then gave him a sentence when they put him on the registry making him a target for people like the Moodys.  With some states putting anyone who is convicted of any sex-related crime, soliciting a prostitute, being a prostitute, committing statutory rape when the ages are only a few years off (which for a time was the norm for sex offender registries, and fortunately states like Texas have been paring back from and only making the registry for violent sex offenders), perhaps it is time to look again at whether the sex-offender registries are overused in every state and should be confined for what they were originally legislated to be: a registry of violent pedophiles or violent rapists so the community could be warned.  Not to create targets for crazies like the Moodys.  It’s the Scarlet A of the internet generation.