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...came upon two brothers, Cole and William Neer, who were taking a shortcut through the park on their way home to supper. He tied them up, molested one, stabbed them both, then fled back to his apartment as police and ambulance sirens wailed in the distance. Dodd wrote about the thrill of it. "I was kind of afraid that I was going to get caught," he told the Oregonian. "And then as I watched the papers, I realized that the police didn't have any clues...
Seven weeks later, Dodd found a four-year-old boy playing alone in an elementary school playground. He coaxed Lee Iseli home with him to play some games. "When we got there, I told him he had to be real quiet because my neighbor lady didn't like kids," Dodd said. He then stripped off Lee Iseli's clothes, tied the boy to the bed and began taking Polaroid pictures as he molested the child. He later mounted the photos in a 4-in.-by-6-in. pink photo album labeled FAMILY MEMORIES...
...paused at one point to make an entry in his diary: "6:30 p.m. Will probably wait until morning to kill him. That way his body will still be fairly fresh for experiments after work." Dodd began strangling the boy at 5:30 a.m. He revived the child twice before finally killing him and hanging the body in a closet and burning the boy's clothing, except the Ghostbusters underpants, which he kept as a trophy...
Police were shocked at the pitiless confessions Dodd offered freely upon arrest. His crimes easily persuaded a jury to condemn him, but they had a far more incendiary effect on public sentiment toward sex offenders in general. As Dodd's story unfolded in court, pressure mounted on Governor Booth Gardner and state lawmakers to pass what became a uniquely tough law. It requires that convicted sex offenders register with police wherever they move; that authorities must let the community know about the felon in their midst; and, most controversial, that the state be allowed to lock up repeat offenders after...
...legal system that treated Dodd far too gently until way too late now struggles to make amends. Unless the predator law is overturned, sex offenders in Washington will be either watched, or jailed, forever. It is ironic that for Dodd, who fought hard for the right to be hanged, that would be the worst possible punishment. The prospect of what amounts to a glamorous public suicide was vastly more appealing than a life spent alone in a cell the size of a parking space, crushed by boredom, without the least chance of freedom. For him, perhaps justice would have been...