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Washington State Sex Offender Vigilante Dies In Prison
Loaded on July 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2008, page 41
On April 15, 2007, Michael Mullen, 36, the Washington State prisoner convicted of having committed vigilante murders of two registered sex offenders, was found dead in his cell at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center near Aberdeen, Washington. Mullens was alone in his cell when he died and the death was ...
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