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| GPS corroborated WA sex offender's confession |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 02/25/2009 |
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VANCOUVER, Wash. – A GPS tracking unit that a homeless sex offender is required to wear corroborates his story that he killed a 13-year-old girl in a Hazel Dell field, investigators said Tuesday. Click Here! According to a probable cause affidavit filed in Clark County Superior Court, Darrin Eugene Sanford was being monitored by the state Department of Corrections, and the GPS unit shows he was in the field when Alycia Nipp was killed Saturday night. Detectives investigating the case identified Sanford, 30, based on descriptions provided by people who had seen him in the area. The affidavit says that when they questioned him, he confessed. He told detectives he met the girl near some vacant homes and walked with her into the field, where he tried to have sex with her. "Sanford said that he wasn't able to complete the sexual act and after she 'giggled at him' that he was overcome with a violent rage," Detective Rick Buckner wrote in the affidavit. The man didn't recall what he hit her with - a knife, stick or beer bottle. An autopsy determined she was stabbed to death. Later that evening, Sanford moved the body to an area where the girl would be found, Buckner wrote. Nipp was a seventh-grader at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Vancouver, and was taking a shortcut across a vacant field in the Vancouver suburb Saturday night when she was accosted. She had been out walking the neighborhood with friends at the time. Her mother reported her missing, and her stepfather found the body at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Sanford, who is being held without bail for investigation of aggravated first-degree murder, made an initial court appearance Tuesday and was appointed an attorney. Senior Deputy Prosecutor John Fairgrieve said he expected to file a formal charge Thursday afternoon. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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