New, horrid details are being reported on the Jessica Lunsford kidnapping/murder.

Suspect John Evander Couey was a registered sex offender who lived across from Lunsford’s home.

Here is an online guide that provides links to every available state sex offender registry. Use it.

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Update: Couple of readers and bloggers remind me that Couey was visiting his sister-in-law, whose home was not the registered address for Couey. Noted.

Also, the online guide I linked to does not have current info on California’s new database. It’s here. (Hat tip to reader Doug Mason.)

New Jersey’s, also not listed, is here.

The South Carolina link is broken. Here’s a good one.

Pennsylvania’s is here.

More: Ohio, Missouri

Update II: Jason Smith of Generation Why dug up Couey’s criminal history…

Apparently John Evander Couey is nowhere to be found on Florida’s Sex Offender Registry website. A search of PublicData.com reveals his convictions and the address in Homosassa, FL (listed as Marie Dixon’s address) where he was released as an “inactive offender” on May 6, 1997. Other tidbits from his rapsheet include:

Burglary/Forced Entry – residence – July 30, 1977 – sentenced to 10 years
Burglary/Forced Entry – residence – July 31, 1977 – adjudication withheld
Burglary – February 28, 1981 – sentenced to 7 years
Lewd/Lascivious conduct with child under 16 – April 8, 1991 – sentenced to 5 years
Forgery – April 9, 1995 – adjudication withheld
Hot checks – February 22, 2001 – sentence unknown

This says alot about our system. A man can harm a child in the most disgusting way and get a sentence less than he would if he broke into a house. It also shows a spotty history of parole/probation supervision:

Supervision start date: Supervision end date:
December 7, 1977 January 19, 1978

July 22, 1980 July 21, 1982 – during this time he committed his 3rd burglary

July 16, 1993 April 5, 1996 – during this time he committed forgery

May 6, 1997 December 7, 1998

April 24, 2001 April 23, 2003

Update III: Here’s Couey’s Florida sex offender registry entry. (via Jason Smith)

Others blogging…

Chris Short on a sex offender in his family’s neighborhood.

Random Musings of a Mom asks: “Why does Martha Stewart have to wear a monitoring bracelet on her ankle and pond scum, human debris like John Evander Couey (the confessed child killer — a convicted sex offender — in Homosassa, Fla.) did NOT?”

The Palmetto Pundit says the story hit too close to home.

Lorie Byrd writes about the sicko in her neighborhood.

Urban Grounds wonders about the wealthy sickos in Austin, Tx.

Update IV: Couey charged with capital murder.