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WI Predator-Law Poster Boy Gets Released

Loaded on Aug. 15, 1998 published in Prison Legal News August, 1998, page 25
Filed under: Discrimination, Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Civil Commitment. Location: Wisconsin.
On Halloween, 1973, nine-year-old Lisa French disappeared while trick-or-treating in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Gerald Turner, a neighbor and friend of the French family, was ultimately convicted of abducting, raping and murdering the girl. Dubbed the Halloween Killer, Turner languished in the maxi- mum-security Waupun prison until 1992, when he …

 

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