SPD Vice detectives have arrested a 24-year-old Kent man after officers received a tip about a bizarre posting on Craigslist.
According to police, last week, vice detectives were notified of a Craigslist ad titled “A strange desire.”
I have a very strange thing that I want to do. I would like to meet a woman to fuck…but here’s the catch; just as I’m about to fill her pussy with cum…I want to kill her. Serious iquiries [sic] only please.
* Location: Auburn
According to SPD, Vice detectives emailed the man, who told police he was “looking for someone who wanted to be killed, but was willing to kill an unwitting participant.” The man also allegedly told officers he wanted to be paid for the act.
After exchanging about 30 emails with police, the man agreed to meet an undercover officer at a Seattle motel. He also told detectives he wanted to double his asking price.
Yesterday, police staked out the hotel and arrested the man, who has been booked into the King County Jail for investigation of attempted murder. He has not yet been charged.
According to court documents, the 24-year-old man has previous convictions for theft and indecent exposure, and was charged in 2008 for allegedly exposing himself to a female exchange student on the Green River Community College campus.
UPDATE: Documents just released by the King County Prosecutor’s office provide a few more details about this weird case. Court records say an undercover officer told the 24-year-old man that he wanted someone killed, and asked him if he’d be willing to carry out a murder. The 24-year-old man agreed—which is why he allegedly asked to be paid—and was later arrested at the Aero Motel in Georgetown carrying a knife and a length of chain.
Court documents also say a Craigslist employee notified police about the posting, but do not explain why the 24-year-old man’s ad was not removed.
I’m putting that headline on an ironic hipster t-shirt.
No doubt a loyal Stranger reader…
Thank you SPD vice for weeding out that freak!
So, what’s the problem with that?
Where’s Dan to defend what to consenting adults do in their own bedroom?
Green River can’t catch a break.
This headline is not necessary. I’m a Stranger regular, not offended by much, but did you really need to put that in bold type?
Timothy: I agree, but I’m saving my outrage for Mudede’s followup.
QUEER GAY ANUSES OF COLOR AND SIZE AGAINST COPS AND JAILS SAY SEND THIS HETERO TURD TO JAIL!
Yep, thanks SPD.
Thought crimes have landed! Just in time for summer.
did he really think he would get away with it?
Here’s what I’d like to see more reporting of, and more commenting from Police and DA’s everywhere…
This man is very likely mentally ill. While his actions are, indeed, criminal, police and DA’s and News outlets like to report these stories as though good has triumphed over the evildoers in our world, and they’ve taken down a criminal mastermind.
At least he’s not gay.
There’s the Stranger, and then there’s the papers that refuse to print the F-word and the S-word.
I’m sure it’s just Jason Fortuny conducting another ‘experiment.’
Perhaps “Serious iquiries [sic]” will let him off the hook with that little technicality.
Oh, Kent. I will never miss you.
maybe this guy would have found someone willing to pay him to fuck/kill someone…. somehow, and he would somehow pull it off.
but maybe this guy wouldn’t never do anything if no one answered his posts.
i’m glad it was investigated, it seems this guy needs help and/or to be off the street. but there’s a part of me that does think — like with some of the 50 year old fat truckers on to catch a predator — that were no one to respond this guy would just have an imaginary scenario on his hands.
it makes me think there should be a different set of penalties for those caught under such circumstances.
I have come to believe that some men are so controlling that it drives them crazy when women control that man’s sexual inclinations. Sexual attraction is the one power women have over men and this makes some completely batshitcrazy.
And still the ad remains on craigslist, which mouths a lot of empty words about being responsible. Right.
The only time the Stranger mentioned Georgetown by and large is when it is something negative, dramatic, or just plain sketchy. Keep it up, please. I don’t want any of your slog readers down here.
Why attempted murder? Why not conspiracy to commit murder? I mean, technically he never actually made an attempt on the undercover cop’s life.
@20: yup. Sadly, my father is both a slave to his need to fuck lots of women other than this wife, and simultaneously deeply fearful of women and their witchy power to make him fuck lots of women other than his wife.
Sometimes I hate being a guy.