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News & Current Events Apr 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM

Florida sex offender’s body found stuffed in a suitcase and now a teen has been charged with murder

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Teen charged with murder after Florida sex offender’s body found stuffed in suitcase
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Teen charged with murder after Florida sex offender’s body found stuffed in suitcase
Police linked the suspect to the suitcase through an Amazon package found inside with his name
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sea-su Apr 9, 2026 +6711
"He \[Jones\] killed Daniel because Daniel was a sex offender. She \[his girlfriend\] told investigators she did not know how the two met, but said Jones had printed a list of sex offenders."
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LuinAelin Apr 9, 2026 +4846
Sounds like a guy looking for "moral" targets.
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cave18 Apr 9, 2026 +2513
Yup. Just an excuse to exercise "righteous" violence
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LuinAelin Apr 9, 2026 +1302
Yeah and the fact he printed a list suggests he wasn't going to stop at one.. He was just an idiot who got caught after one
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TurnkeyLurker Apr 9, 2026 +634
One *that we know of*.
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hell2pay Apr 9, 2026 +506
Idk, the circumstances in this case doesn't make him seem very competent in regards to murder. He answered the door at his ~~victims~~ own\* house and the victims parents ~~was~~ were\* the ones knocking. ¬He answered, looking disheveled and refused them entry. Then got his girlfriend tied into the whole thing, and left a f****** package with his name and address in on of the suitcases he put the guys dismembered parts in. Edit: *mix up on my part ¬added more info
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WankSocrates Apr 9, 2026 +374
> left a f****** package with his name and address in on of the suitcases I have seen comedy sketches about incompetent criminals that were less cartoonishly stupid than this.
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rhotovision Apr 9, 2026 +170
I’m picturing Mr Bean neatly writing his contact info on the luggage tag as he picks up a bloody arm from the floor and packs it into the suitcase.
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tincanphonehome Apr 9, 2026 +10
Backing into a car on the street and leaving his information.
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assotter Apr 10, 2026 +6
Worried about the wind blowing the paper away so uses a spare finger to hold it down on the bonnet
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TapTheForwardAssist Apr 9, 2026 +23
It’s like the Mitchell & Webb “Identity Killer” sketch: https://youtu.be/oL895peZpqY
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SpaceMarineSpiff Apr 9, 2026 +23
It's like something out of a spoof. I can perfectly picture Leslie Nielsen slowly revealing each new piece of evidence culminating in the killer's name literally being on the final and most damning one.
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Married_iguanas Apr 9, 2026 +66
He left a package addressed to him with the suitcases as well!
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Ben0ut Apr 9, 2026 +79
"Hey Sarge, there's a package here with some guys name on." "You dumb ass rookie - thats obviously a red herring left by the real killer."
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Transmatrix Apr 9, 2026 +8
Bake them away, toys
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A_wild_so-and-so Apr 9, 2026 +27
The murder happened at his house, not the victim's. >An investigation revealed that surveillance footage captured Daniel arriving at Jones’ home around 5:32 p.m. on March 20. Daniel, who lived about a mile away, was never seen leaving Jones’ house. But yeah, he immediately got his girlfriend involved as an accomplice after the fact, which is monumentally stupid.
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Day_drinker Apr 9, 2026 +12
The victim went to the accused home: "An investigation revealed that surveillance footage captured Daniel arriving at Jones’ home around 5:32 p.m. on March 20. Daniel, who lived about a mile away, was never seen leaving Jones’ house." Jones is the accused and Daniel is the victim.
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Coolbluegatoradeyumm Apr 9, 2026 +19
I mean you figure the rest of the potential victims will be on that list
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Human_Not_Robot_2023 Apr 9, 2026 +52
And printing a list makes it "pre-meditated"
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Acceptable_Cut_7545 Apr 9, 2026 +13
A true idiot, too. A second suitcase nearby had an amazon package with his address on it, which is how the cops arrested him so fast.
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kaisadilla_ Apr 9, 2026 +6
I'd also be interested in knowing whether he followed any criteria other than "he's in a sex offender registry". Not everyone in that list did something heinous enough to deserve death.
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Fredloks8 Apr 9, 2026 +60
That’s Dexter, makes for good TV.
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Snagmesomeweaves Apr 9, 2026 +6
*“I am god of the new world” -Kira* I think I’ve seen this plot before somewhere…..
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Teripid Apr 9, 2026 +70
Wasn't there a similar event in.. I want to say Alaska where two brothers had been abused and one had done pretty much the same thing. Not sure how many he attacked but there was a picture of him and his brother in court.
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varitok Apr 9, 2026 +89
Except the guy was using it as an excuse to rob people.
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alu_pahrata Apr 9, 2026 +28
and is somehow still financially supported by a felon-youtuber with a f***** of violence.
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qtx Apr 9, 2026 +101
There was a study a while back that showed that people lower on the social scale were more inclined to hate (child) sex offenders more than people higher up on the social scale and it wasn't because they have a higher moral, it was because they felt so low on the social scale that they were desperate to find a group of people they could place underneath their own class so it didn't make them feel like they themselves were the lowest class. Same reason why prisoners hate sex offenders so much, not because they have morals (they usually don't) but because it makes them feel that they themselves are not the worst people on earth. So I never buy the having good morals line, it's just a way for them to feel like they are finally better than another group of people.
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Ludwigofthepotatoppl Apr 9, 2026 +46
Same reason the poor and uneducated are more prone to racist violence. “Give them someone to look down on, and they’ll empty their pockets for you.” —LBJ
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cb148 Apr 9, 2026 +2639
Young Dexter.
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norsurfit Apr 9, 2026 +538
Except Dexter did a good job of not being caught
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mfrank27 Apr 9, 2026 +352
Yeah he certainly didn’t leave an Amazon package with his address in one of the suitcases full of body parts.
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Rhamni Apr 9, 2026 +201
Ok but other than *that*, Mrs Lincoln, did you enjoy the show?
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guntycankles Apr 9, 2026 +10
Oh yes, it was a blast!
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Arboreal_Web Apr 9, 2026 +5
Absolutely mind-blowing!
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Elendel19 Apr 9, 2026 +88
Dexter had a boat, kids these days can’t afford that
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double_expressho Apr 9, 2026 +9
It's been a while. How did he dispose of his first body? He was a teenager, right? I don't think he had the boat yet.
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Wandos7 Apr 9, 2026 +25
In the Florida swamp full of gators, according to Original Sin.
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Sonifri Apr 9, 2026 +5
Guy should have started with someone who owns a boat.
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cespinar Apr 9, 2026 +66
He had plot armor. He got caught plenty, and should have been caught more.
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AggressiveSkywriting Apr 9, 2026 +34
Yeah people forgot that the entire second season was "he absolutely got caught and was doing everything he could to fix it."
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ProFeces Apr 9, 2026 +17
Not just the second season. Season 5 Quinn was onto him and hired someone (can't remember his name) to follow him. He was fully discovered at that point. Deb also walked in on the killing in season 5, but left because she understood the reason. Then she also walked in on Dexter directly seeing it. The later seasons La Guerta found all kinds of evidence he left at the scenes, found him in pictures and everything. There's probably more time in the show where people suspected/knee he was a serial killer than there wasn't.
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RazZadig_2025 Apr 9, 2026 +31
Dexter also had a dad that helped him out with his training. Having a cop teach you how to not get caught is a big boost.
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RaylanGivens29 Apr 9, 2026 +20
Everybody gets a mulligan though, right?
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monnotorium Apr 9, 2026 +354
New TV show coming to Showtime this summer
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ArenSteele Apr 9, 2026 +276
I just want to see young Dexter and young Sheldon forced to spend a summer interacting
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scenr0 Apr 9, 2026 +76
Thats easy! It's just The Riddler's personality split into two different bodies.
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ken10 Apr 9, 2026 +39
Man that would make a great riddler movie. Two different characters, and in the end they turn out to be the same guy. Wait a minute...
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hermaphroditicspork Apr 9, 2026 +34
Maybe they could have some kind of secret club where they fight for some reason...
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malthar76 Apr 9, 2026 +14
You probably shouldn't talk about that.
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128Gigabytes Apr 9, 2026 +51
they already made that, its called Dexter Original Sin it got 1 season and was canceled so they could focus on Dexter New Blood
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Astrium6 Apr 9, 2026 +53
*New Blood* was already out a few years before *Original Sin*. They canceled *Original Sin* to focus on *Resurrection*.
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butidktho_ Apr 9, 2026 +13
still upset about that. Original Sin was pretty good.
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A_wild_fusa_appeared Apr 9, 2026 +9
So is Resurrection, glad that’s getting a season 2 but I don’t understand why we couldn’t have both. There’s barely any actor overlap between them, if at all.
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wizzywurtzy Apr 9, 2026 +49
It’s a show about how they make the sex offender President and his entire cabinet rapes free of charge
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roadsidefoto Apr 9, 2026 +64
"DeeDee, you are so *stupid!*" [Beams local sex offender into his laboratory and melts him with a laser]
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Ashnagarr Apr 9, 2026 +10
They’ve brought back everything else…
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-TRTI- Apr 9, 2026 +6
And don't forget: You are stuuupid!
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Purple_Puffer Apr 9, 2026 +14
oh yeah, he had a slide with blood and the whole nine. This is local to me. crazy story.
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Tavern_Knight Apr 9, 2026 +6
Like... A waterslide but with blood?
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ChemsAndCutthroats Apr 9, 2026 +325
After reading the article it seems that the killer himself may not be right in the head either. At first I thought it was one of those vigilante killings. You know, where they go after sex offenders because they can satisfy their craving for violence while also thinking it will be praised by society and excused because they went after someone who is already hated by society. There's always a few messed up people out there thinking they are the next Dexter or Batman. However the further I read the more it looked like the killer was losing connection with reality and perhaps going into a psychotic episode.
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Several-Age1984 Apr 9, 2026 +22
You mean the person who printed a hit list and started vigilante killing wasn't completely sane? Shocking.
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backcountry_bandit Apr 9, 2026 +315
I think you can immediately conclude that somebody who commits murder is “not right in the head”.
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JohnnyRedHot Apr 9, 2026 +94
Hey I think this Punisher guy might not be quite the hero
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backcountry_bandit Apr 9, 2026 +35
Somebody needs to alert the police to this
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JohnnyRedHot Apr 9, 2026 +29
Yeah, I saw him entering a diner And oh my god, he has a gun
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Lt_Pineapples_ Apr 9, 2026 +9
God that was such a good scene
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FtWorthHorn Apr 9, 2026 +9
This is the same reason streamers try to run their own "to catch a predator" but instead of having police with them they just beat them up and rely on the situation to prevent the victim from telling anyone about it. The point is the violence - the rest is just making an excuse for it.
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Erathen Apr 9, 2026 +41
>the killer himself may not be right in the head either. You don't say...
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unk214 Apr 9, 2026 +63
Don’t bring Batman into this, he doesn’t kill. Sure there are a few adaptations but his main thing is not killing.
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Tavern_Knight Apr 9, 2026 +82
I thought his main thing is bats
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NonsensePlanet Apr 9, 2026 +54
He doesn’t kill bats either.
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unk214 Apr 9, 2026 +6
He eats them, that’s how we got Covid…. Typical Batman bullshit.
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EngineeringNeverEnds Apr 9, 2026 +52
The thing is... he does. You can't violently beat people into unconsciousness night after night without killing a significant fraction of them.
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Yglorba Apr 9, 2026 +8
I think you just sort of have to accept that as part of the premise. Like, you couldn't go out and do the things Batman does night after night without dying or suffering severe injuries *yourself*, either; and you wouldn't really be able to hide your secret identity for that long. You have to go along with some of the basic premises of superhero stories if you want to enjoy them.
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Tycoonkoz Apr 9, 2026 +43
This is why Peeing in a park should not result in a sex offender addition.
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BabyJesusAnalingus Apr 9, 2026 +21
This is always when I think of when virtue-signaling idiots are like "get the wood chipper" when people are even just first ACCUSED of a crime. Jesus, calm down.
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SquindleQueen Apr 9, 2026 +6
There’s so much wrong with that. Most people on the registry do deserve to be on there, but there are people who are put on there for a multitude of reasons that most sane people would agree are bs (sex work related, LGBTQ people get put on there for invalid reasons). Like this reminds me of that one episode of Criminal minds where a girl goes missing, and a neighbor ends up handing out pamphlets about the sex offenders living in the area, and the dad of the missing girl sees that and immediately goes to confront one of the dudes on the list. The dude was on the list for soliciting a prostitute, nothing child related, and the dad literally almost killed him. Not saying that the list is bad, but like it’s far from perfect and this dude literally seemed like he was looking for “acceptable” murder victims.
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huntsab2090 Apr 9, 2026 +48
Wonder if king nonce was on the list
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wostestwillis Apr 9, 2026 +1580
Wow he dismembered him too, which may be obvious considering the suitcase. Also he kept his phone and left an amazon package with his own name on it and just left the suitcases unburied? He did all the brutal parts without the thinking parts.
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microslasher Apr 9, 2026 +819
I feel like when you dismembered a person there is 100 percent chance for a mental decline no matter the victim. There's no way that doesn't affect your sense of reality and people praising this is...short sighted? Idk it's wierd. Reactionary. Idk.
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EggsAndRice7171 Apr 9, 2026 +261
He was already gone mentally for sure before he killed the dude. People are just happy he killed a pedophile which I get to an extent. It doesn’t help that the top comment says he has a list of pedophiles which paints him prettier as a “red hood” style vigilante instead of a some crazy dude which is what he seems to be.
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BabyJesusAnalingus Apr 9, 2026 +113
If the justice system were infallible, sure. The guy was presumably convicted and paid his debt. Plenty of innocent people plead out, too. Devil's advocate.
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FragnificentKW Apr 9, 2026 +116
My brother got arrested and charged with csam for pics of his gf while they were both in hs. He was 17 and she was 15 when they started dating. He had just turned 18 when he got arrested. The State Attorney tried to paint him as a pedophile/predator because he was 18 with lewd pics of a 15 year old, and tried to get him to plead out lest he have to go prison (This occurred before FL’s Romeo and Juliet law was passed) Thankfully we had a good lawyer and his record was expunged when the law passed. I’m sure there’s tons of people who are on the list who weren’t so lucky
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Dead_man_posting Apr 9, 2026 +47
I'm starting to think you genuinely need to be a psychopath to succeed as a prosecutor. That's been my experience so far with them. Plea signed = win, and no other context matters to them. The amount of pain and destruction they're causing never factors in.
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FragnificentKW Apr 9, 2026 +28
This was over 20 years ago and we lived in a small town. The prosecutor had ambitions to run for judge and 100% saw it as a potential trophy to hang on the wall to show how he was “tough on crime” by “putting dangerous predators behind bars”
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tawDry_Union2272 Apr 10, 2026 +4
too bad that judge wasn't in palm beach in 2008 to shut down the alex acosta/dershowitz sweetheart epstein deal...
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impressedham Apr 9, 2026 +14
John Oliver did a video recently about plea deals of you want to hear more about how unfair it is
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que_sarasara Apr 9, 2026 +45
Idk perhaps I'm the wrong one, but I just feel literally butchering someone is uh..like, if you can bring yourself to do that 100% you're just as fucked as the person you killed. Heavily side-eyeing the people praising this 🤨
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Vapur9 Apr 9, 2026 +58
He didn't have a list of pedophiles, but a list of sex offenders. There's a difference. You can get on the list for urinating in public.
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politicalpug007 Apr 9, 2026 +8
This is a common misconception. You cannot get on the list for public urination. You can get put on the list for indecent exposure, but this requires a gratification element. Public urination, assuming no gratification, could be a ticketable offense, but not one where you can end up on the registry. HOWEVER have overzealous cops charged someone who simply was urinating publicly with indecent exposure and gotten some convictions? Probably so. But that’s not the legal standard. Prosecutors must prove sexual intent. Source: Am a prosecutor. All public indecency charges have typically fallen in three categories: 1) mentally ill homeless person showing off their junk in public, really hard to prove intent bc of their illness, cases usually dismissed 2) someone showing a cop or someone they dislike their junk as a “f*** you”, really hard to prove sexual gratification intent (versus just being offensive), cases usually dismissed 3) a pervert getting off on masturbating in public, easier to prove and the actual intent of sex offense crime
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GreyLordQueekual Apr 9, 2026 +24
Did a little work as a butcher, life appears so strange from that perspective of one dead pig body to the next. Cant imagine how dim everything looks when its a person.
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Shneckos Apr 9, 2026 +7
I’ve seen people in other parts of the world bash someone’s head in with a hammer until their brains spill out, and just carry on like it’s another day. Supposedly in the name of justice, since I guess the guy was a rapist. Still, to do that to another human being. To mutilate and dismember and torture… you have to be sick in the head. But then you remember some people are no better than wild animals and morals just don’t come into play with them.
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lime_and_coconut Apr 9, 2026 +40
Well 19 year old boys are usually not known for their forethought
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BiZzles14 Apr 9, 2026 +7
It reads like someone going through a psychotic episode tbh
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TheKingsPride Apr 9, 2026 +5
He had a list, I think he just wanted to kill and didn’t think it out at all.
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blowingupthespot Apr 9, 2026 +3658
Lmao if you’re going to do vigilante justice, don’t leave a package with your name and information on it tucked in with the dead body.
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Biglyugebonespurs Apr 9, 2026 +1310
I did a double take. An Amazon package, with your name (and I’m assuming shipping info), packed in with the dismembered body parts. Lmao.
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awkgem Apr 9, 2026 +483
I rip of the shipping labels just to recycle them, he can't even bother when he's trying to get away with murder? Kids these days....
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AmItheonlySaneperson Apr 9, 2026 +142
You can absolutely reuse those boxes if you ever want to clear out your closet on eBay too if you take off all the labels and stickers (the Amazon prime branded tape is fine) . The crinkly brown paper amazon includes is great for stuffing your packages too. Oh but like also murder is wrong. 
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SqueezyCheez85 Apr 9, 2026 +33
Maybe he wanted to be treated like a hero in prison?
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Slighted_Inevitable Apr 9, 2026 +42
I mean, the guy spray painted over blood splatter lol…. Not the brightest tool in the shed.
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an0mn0mn0m Apr 9, 2026 +20
He went to school in Florida
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Brick_Lab Apr 9, 2026 +6
Honestly his defense should likely be "I've been framed, who would be dumb enough to do this?"
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throw_away1049 Apr 9, 2026 +81
Reminds me of when I was like 7, I made a bunch of paper planes and flew them into my neighbor's yard as my act of halloween vandalism. But the planes were all made out of scrap homework paper...all which had my name on them.
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nohopeforhomosapiens Apr 9, 2026 +8
and then.... don't leave us hanging
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shitty_fact_check Apr 9, 2026 +24
Sadly his neighbor is now in two suitcases.
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wyvernx02 Apr 9, 2026 +31
Sounds like he was already the prime suspect in the disappearance with plenty of evidence pointing towards him even without that. That was just icing on the cake.
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PersephoneSymphonies Apr 9, 2026 +46
Maybe vigilante knows he will get caught so figured might as well make a whole lights, camera, and action production
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semperknight Apr 9, 2026 +16
I'm assuming it was the guy on the left that realized he did that.
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Lordpicklenip Apr 9, 2026 +2046
Daniel was a sex offender who molested a child, but, based on his behavior, Jones sounds like a serial killer looking for acceptable targets to justify his actions.
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JDSchu Apr 9, 2026 +684
They could make two entire TV shows about a guy like that. That would be a good thing to put in people's minds, right? Vigilante justice?
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KohlsCashOfficial Apr 9, 2026 +235
4 shows
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BeingABeing Apr 9, 2026 +159
A TV show, a sequel, a prequel (within the frame of the sequel) and then a sequel to the sequel (with no reference to the prequel)!
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LaneMcD Apr 9, 2026 +41
Don't forget the books!
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deadlybydsgn Apr 9, 2026 +14
> 4 shows Law & Hoarder: The Dex-Files
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TCpls Apr 9, 2026 +70
But what if they added a jacked detective that’s always looming over him. Maybe he has a catch phrase when he surprises someone
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tyrantcv Apr 9, 2026 +29
Want some fries motha fucka?
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Realtrain Apr 9, 2026 +12
>Jones sounds like a serial killer looking for acceptable targets to justify his actions. But listnook told me vigilante justice against sex offenders is always a good thing!
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iFoegot Apr 9, 2026 +47
Yeah, if you know someone is a sex offender, it means they have already served their sentence. >! I know what you guys will say, but average people do not have the power and influence to walk away from the crimes they committed !<
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Available_Border1075 Apr 9, 2026 +5
I agree, we hear most about the most hopeless and extreme cases, but recovery is possible.
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Goblue5891x2 Apr 9, 2026 +92
Not the sharpest planner. Did everything but smile and wave at cameras.
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7thor8thcaw Apr 9, 2026 +14
The wild thing is where the body was found. I went to high-school across the street from the entrance to the compound. Its a place where bad stuff happens. It's enormous. Plenty of room for crime.
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A1000eisn1 Apr 9, 2026 +576
Jesus Christ y'all need to read the article before commenting. This kid is seriously fucked in the head.
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Trajik07 Apr 9, 2026 +217
Yeah, but it's funnier to make the same dexter joke that 100 other people have already said!
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tlollz52 Apr 9, 2026 +51
Don't even need to read the whole article. Just in general I don't agree with vigilante justice. I can sympathize with a parent or victim or someone close to a victim doing something like this but just some rando going around off-ing sex offenders is a pretty fucked up person not fit for society.
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Swordf1sh_ Apr 9, 2026 +44
> but said Jones had printed a list of sex offenders. > now faces multiple charges….murder, dangerous and depraved without premeditation. How is it without premeditation if he clearly printed a list with his victim on it and the victim came to his house?
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MajorasShoe Apr 9, 2026 +302
America is so weird. Some sex offenders get chopped up and packed like luggage, some get to be president of the US and start wars for fun.
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RebaKitt3n Apr 9, 2026 +78
Hey! He doesn’t start wars for fun. He starts wars in the hope of diverting attention from the fact that he rapes children.
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thoreau_away_acct Apr 9, 2026 +26
And to defraud the market while he's at it
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Ruffler125 Apr 9, 2026 +278
If you print out a list and justify your murder like this, you're unhinged in a way that's not compatible with society. He would have done something to someone innocent at some point.
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ZebraSandwich4Lyf Apr 9, 2026 +107
Yeah I don't care what his motive is, carrying around what was effectively a hit-list and chopping people up with a knife and cleaver is psychopath behaviour.
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JarOfNightmares Apr 9, 2026 +18
He was 100% a psychopath. If he couldn't find a sex offender I bet he'd have gone for a prostitute eventually
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Total_Network6312 Apr 9, 2026 +25
It's already the issue with the death penalty. We shouldn't be killing people because we can't be 100% certain they did the thing they are even convicted of. Plus, is killing people right or wrong? Oh it depends on the situation, and who gets to decide? that's weird
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cherrysparklingwater Apr 9, 2026 +106
Not particularly bright. 1. Involving another party in the disposal of dead body. 2. Having an Amazon package with your name nearby the disposed half-open suitcase with vultures. 3. Picking a sex offender with one count [*Lewd or Lascivious Battery with Victim 12-15 Years of Age F.S. 800.04(4)(a)(1)*](https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/800.04) in 2018. The offender would've been 20 at the time and killed at 28. 4. Disposing the body in an *open field,* c'mon man. **He is no Dexter, and the victim didn't seem to be some serial rapist.**
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Hopeful_Method5175 Apr 9, 2026 +9
You’re right that this kid is an idiot, but The Compound isn’t an open field. It’s a *massive* maze of crumbling, abandoned streets, scrub, and heavily wooded land with thick brush, interspersed with some trails because it’s a popular place for illegal off-roading and pretty much all things illegal, including murder. Dumping a body there was still stupid, though, because The Compound has had its reputation for decades and PBPD patrol it regularly. If something seems off, they’ll show up quickly.
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PettyTodd Apr 9, 2026 +19
Dexter always did his homework first
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GermanPayroll Apr 9, 2026 +26
Dexter was also a tv show
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isavaevenava Apr 9, 2026 +8
How can you watch dexter after he destroyed literally everyone around him life and think hell yes I want that
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Senator_Bink Apr 9, 2026 +14
Aside from the vigilante's basic stupidity, I find myself wondering what level of offender his victim was--from what little I read, it wasn't clear if this was someone who raped little kids, or who got involved with someone a couple years younger than them in school? I know when I was in high school, I was at times involved with guys 2-4 years older than I, and one time involved with a guy 3 years younger. Depending on how the ages hit, most of us could have been inadvertent sex offenders. I'd hate to have some knucklehead like this come after me on that basis, you know.
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sentient-sloth Apr 9, 2026 +7
I hear you and definitely could’ve found myself in the same boat. Worth noting though that Florida does have Romeo and Juliet laws that allow offenders to be removed from the registry if the victim admits the sexual acts were consensual, is 14 or older, and both the offender and victim must be within 4 years of age. This didn’t happen in this case though.
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Hot_Disk635 Apr 9, 2026 +144
There’s vigilantes justice and then there’s finding any excuse to fulfill your sick fantasies.
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zaphtark Apr 9, 2026 +75
“They’re the same picture”
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FirstPotato Apr 9, 2026 +12
“I only like extrajudicial killings when I agree with them” is a deranged thought process and a crazy slippery slope, too.
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HoorEnglish Apr 9, 2026 +38
Kid is a psychopath btw.
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baegnoth Apr 9, 2026 +27
This is one of those cases where people are going to react emotionally because of who the victim was. But at the end of the day, vigilante justice isn’t justice. A teenager being involved makes it even more complicated, and it feels like there’s probably a lot more to the story that hasn’t come out yet
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Scotty_Gun Apr 9, 2026 +78
The alleged offense for which Daniel was convicted, occurred when he was a 19-year old high school student and the alleged victim was between the age of 12 and 15. Daniel confessed, during a post Miranda interview that was conducted at his high school, without his parents present. More details can be found on the Brevard clerk of court website. The media reports mention Daniel’s RSO status numerous times but don’t bother to disclose these details. This underlines the problems with a permanent sex offender registry. Without any additional gradation, he was forever associated with human traffickers and abusers. This marked him as a target, for the rest of his life.
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SynysterDawn Apr 9, 2026 +42
And the majority of comments I’m reading on this post are perfectly fine with that – and if you think a teenager murdering someone and dismembering their corpse is at all problematic, than you’re just a pedophile defender.
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LSTNYER Apr 9, 2026 +10
Leaving an Amazon package with your name on it inside the evidence? That's bush league. With all the serial killer tv shows these days stuffing a body in a suit case in general is a dumb idea. He could have easily just dumped him in a swamp and let the gators take care of it. And since this screams "premeditated", a little forward thinking about the steps and precautions to take might have been useful.
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CRoseCrizzle Apr 9, 2026 +262
There are a couple of details that I'm not clear on after reading the article: Why did the sex offender visit the teen's(who ended up killing him) home? And what did the sex offender do to be originally charged as a sex offender? It's hard to have an opinion on this case without knowing the whole picture. Edit: People are focusing a lot more on the 2nd question than the first one. At no point did I say that the 2nd question justifies the murder.
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coondingee Apr 9, 2026 +120
[https://florida.arrests.org/search.php?fname=colie&lname=Daniel&fpartial=True](https://florida.arrests.org/search.php?fname=colie&lname=Daniel&fpartial=True) Lewd and lascivious battery on a child age 12-16. Edit 12-15
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sillylittlguy Apr 9, 2026 +11
a bit more info https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=105395 https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/800.04
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Low_Brass_Rumble Apr 9, 2026 +468
>It's hard to have an opinion on this case without knowing the whole picture. I mean... is it? Feel like the pretty easy and clear-cut opinion is "I hate sex offenders, but letting random teenagers decide who lives and who dies based on their own personal judgment isn't acceptable in a functioning society"
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vodkaismywater Apr 9, 2026 +18
Right, people don't seem to understand that a core purpose of the criminal justice system is to prevent vigilantism. Vigilantism is so corrosive to a functioning society that Balkan cultures [invented a whole new gender](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sworn_virgins) just to deal with it.
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Beefourthree Apr 9, 2026 +57
"but" statements are a form of nuance, we don't do that here.
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ChairmanLaParka Apr 9, 2026 +6
> Why did the sex offender visit the teen's(who ended up killing him) home? Could've been as simple as being required to inform that he's new to the area.
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gucknbuck Apr 9, 2026 +25
Point two should be changed to "have they shown signs of rehabilitation". We really need to shift our mindset to give people the opportunity to change and not focus on what they did, but what they've done for reparations.
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Great_expansion10272 Apr 9, 2026 +30
I'd say it's a bloody case. It had a dead guy inside it
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TripleSingleHOF Apr 9, 2026 +18
>A second suitcase found nearby also contained remains, along with personal belongings and an Amazon package addressed to Jones. Jones was arrested that same day. Protip: When murdering people, make sure to not leave an Amazon package with your name on it with the body.
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Crazyripps Apr 10, 2026 +9
Reading the story it sounds like this guy was trying to be Dexter. wanted to kill and just picked someone that made him feel like he stil had morals
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O-parker Apr 9, 2026 +30
She goes to his house , see’s blood splattered around after getting odd request from him … and then spends the night 😔 There’s more than one disturbed person in this story
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Illustrious_Unit7914 Apr 9, 2026 +31
Or I don't know, *she might have been scared as f**** to leave right after the moment she saw blood on the walls. Women definitely learn when to have a fawn response.
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alu_pahrata Apr 9, 2026 +24
All these comments are acting like being on the Sex Offender list makes you a valid target for murder one, what the hell? So if you complete your sentence, you still get to be offed by a random member of society, it should be celebrated? He was 19 when he was placed on the list, 28 when killed, how does that make dismembering his corpse and shoving it into a suitcase ok?
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dahms911 Apr 9, 2026 +10
People are 100% emotion 0% rational thought about this topic. They’d rather have forever punishments for sex offenders than ever try to do anything to try and prevent the crime occurring in the first place, all the while thinking they’re helping anything other than their own sense of vengeance.
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joestaff Apr 9, 2026 +7
It's always suitcases. Those things aren't c****, ya know.
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Gilles_of_Augustine Apr 9, 2026 +193
Sex offenders can be rehabilitated. For some it works, for others it doesn't. But it's not our right (it's not *anyone's* right) to preemptively assume that someone can't be rehabilitated, and murder them for it.
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SaturdayNightPyrexia Apr 9, 2026 +135
True. Some even become president.
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Kukukichu Apr 9, 2026 +44
Not sure he was rehabilitated though. Probably just can’t get it up anymore.
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Gilles_of_Augustine Apr 9, 2026 +25
That's an example of a sex offender who never faced justice to begin with (and, in all probability, never *stopped* offending), not a sex offender who paid their debt to society and may or may not be re-offending.
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Disney_World_Native Apr 9, 2026 +37
Exactly. Vigilantism doesn’t end well. That is why we seek justice and correction (which should include rehabilitation and treatment) There is a whole stigma around research in this field as well as politicians looking weak on sex crimes. Imagine if that negative view wasn’t there, and people could self report (or if identified), could get treatment, and live a good life. We would have less cases of assault (and murder) than we do now.
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Gilles_of_Augustine Apr 9, 2026 +25
Exactly. We like to imagine *all* sexual offenders as cold-blooded, sadistic, Jeffrey Dahmer types. And certainly some are. But this article really opened my eyes to the spectrum of people who suffer from those kinds of urges: https://medium.com/matter/youre-16-youre-a-pedophile-you-dont-want-to-hurt-anyone-what-do-you-do-now-e11ce4b88bdb You read the title and you're like  "... the *f***?!*"  but then you read the kid's actual story and it's like  "...wow. This is just a good kid who lost the mental health l****** in a *big* way, and is putting in a herculean effort *every single day* to never hurt anybody, and he's *succeeding* at never hurting anybody, and he *still* gets seen as a monster. I don't hate him. I just feel sorry for him, and respect the way that he's facing a struggle that he never *asked* for and doesnt *want*, and wish he didn't have to deal with that."
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Onair380 Apr 9, 2026 +4
When i see top comments, it looks like people think its their right.
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DMazz441 Apr 9, 2026 +6
Somebody watched a lot of Dexter
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genital_lesions Apr 9, 2026 +12
I hate vigilantism, but I also hate policing subculture. I guess in the long run, vigilantism is worse. Chronic reoccurring systemic failures of the justice system is what allows for vigilantism to thrive. We need major policing and incarceration reform so that justice is served out with rehabilitation as the foremost priority and if rehabilitation cannot be effective on certain individuals, then we need a more humane way that separates those who cannot be rehabilitated from the rest of society. I'd also argue that we need better preventative, upstream solutions to help people from getting to the point of offending. Unfortunately, this also means having a stable economy, affordable housing, and living wage jobs that do not require higher education.
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SamuraiMike81 Apr 9, 2026 +11
Why isn't trump on that list of Florida sex offenders?
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thesaint1000 Apr 9, 2026 +10
Not the Florida Sex Offender I was hoping for.
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solit0n Apr 9, 2026 +11
Well, shit. He could’ve at least started at the White House.
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SomethingIWontRegret Apr 9, 2026 +7
>Florida sex offender's body found stuffed in a suitcase Pleasepleasepleaseplease Sigh.
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Classic_Cow_5852 Apr 9, 2026 +5
Florida man strikes again
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JerrySeinfeldsMullet Apr 9, 2026 +5
He’s going after the wrong sex offenders
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queefburritowcheese Apr 9, 2026 +3
>{charged with] murder, dangerous and depraved without premeditation. Uh, given the information in the article, it sounded very much premeditated.
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deathcoar Apr 9, 2026 +9
you literally live in florida, why the hell would you not feed the body to gators or something and get rid of any physical evidence of murder?
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oliferro Apr 9, 2026 +7
Bro thought he was Dexter
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Motorcat33 Apr 9, 2026 +203
Tbf you can end up on a sex offender list by just peeing in a public place, like on the side of a building. Didnt read the article though
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datsoar Apr 9, 2026 +86
The sex offender victim liked 12-15 year olds. https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=105395
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nicklovin508 Apr 9, 2026 +82
That’s presidential material right there
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Elbit_Curt_Sedni Apr 9, 2026 +11
I'd laugh if this wasn't the world we live in now.
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AmethystApothecary Apr 9, 2026 +20
I think the 12-15 is just referring to the same "under 16" and there aren't many details about the crime other than he's guilty. Heinous, he would have been 20/21 and definitely would/should have known better than to be lewd in any way towards someone between 12-15. Still probably didn't deserve to be murdered and dismembered, especially if he wasn't a repeat offender. I don't think we need black and white morals where we're just okay with bad people being brutally murdered. ETA: I was actually able to locate the claims [https://vmatrix1.brevardclerk.us/beca/get\_document.cfm?doc\_num=7F0B468E-5056-B465-1FAA52E4B20B109B](https://vmatrix1.brevardclerk.us/beca/get_document.cfm?doc_num=7F0B468E-5056-B465-1FAA52E4B20B109B)
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Kitsunedon420 Apr 9, 2026 +9
He was also 19 at the time, and did not re-offend over the last 10 years, which seems important to mention.
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Seigmoraig Apr 9, 2026 +156
You can also see what the person did to get on the list, I'm assuming they didn't pick a wall pisser
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Luniticus Apr 9, 2026 +17
They did not: [https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=105395](https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=105395)
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hoptagon Apr 9, 2026 +18
"Hey, at least I'm house broken"
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LargeWeinerDog Apr 9, 2026 +108
We're talking about a teenager. I wouldn't assume to much
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camoeron Apr 9, 2026 +58
He was caught because he left an Amazon package with his name and address with the remains. Yea not too bright.
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LargeWeinerDog Apr 9, 2026 +17
Everything about this points to that kid being an idiot. He did a lot of different things that would have lead him being tied to this murder. But leaving the amazon package is peak stupid.
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Electrical-Lab-9593 Apr 9, 2026 +26
"Prime Suspect." Sorry i will see myself out
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Anakha00 Apr 9, 2026 +19
This one was Lewd or Lascivious Battery of someone 12-15 years old.
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upvoter222 Apr 9, 2026 +37
Tbf, even if someone commits a serious crime, that doesn't give random people the right to kill them.
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SufficientGreek Apr 9, 2026 +4
The charge is Lewd or Lascivious Battery with Victim 12-15 Years of Age F.S. 800.04(4)(a)(1) in 2018. [Source](https://web.archive.org/web/20260331160710/https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=105395)
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SadExercises420 Apr 9, 2026 +117
This is such a stupid cop out. The vast majority of sex offenders are on the registry for actual sex crimes 
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rautx15 Apr 9, 2026 +24
It is true though. The mother who authored Jacob’s law, which came as a result of the Jacob Wetterling case, later lamented that it was catching people for things such as public urination, or an 18 year old who is dating a 16 or 17 year old classmate, which was never the intention as it bogs down the system against real offenders. 2 years later it was basically replaced by Megan’s law that’s is functionally the same, but requires public disclosure of the crimes and the person who committed it.
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