Murderer of two sex offenders sentenced to 44 years.

BELLINGHAM — A man who portrayed himself as an avenging angel for child sex-crime victims was sentenced to more than 44 years in prison Friday for killing two sex offenders.

Michael A. Mullen, 36, escaped a potential life sentence in a plea deal reached this week, ending a case considered one of the nation's worst cases of vigilantism against sex offenders.

Mullen had confessed to the high-profile killings in letters to the news media, expressing a desire to be executed as a symbol of retribution against sex offenders.

Mullen was initially charged with premeditated first-degree murder for the Aug. 27 slayings of Hank Eisses, 49, and Victor Vasquez, 68, charges that could have resulted in a life sentence.

The execution-style killings of Eisses and Vasquez — Level 3 sex offenders convicted of crimes against minors — alarmed law-enforcement and corrections officials.

The men's address was listed on Washington's sex-offender registry, the first such database in the country, and officials feared that public outrage over sex offenders could lead to copy-cat crimes. No such trend has emerged.

Mullen, a petty criminal with alcohol and drug problems, turned himself in a week after the deaths. Police say he posed as an FBI agent when he knocked on Eisses' door.

In letters to The Seattle Times, Mullen said he targeted Eisses through the sex-offender registry and was surprised when he found two other sex offenders, Vasquez and James Russell, also were living in Eisses' Bellingham house.

Mullen claims he interviewed the three before letting Russell go.

"... Out of the three only one showed remorse or guilt. He is the one I let go," he wrote. "... I came to the conclusion that they must die, along with my own execution at the hands of the state, to drive my point home that 'WE' will protect 'our' children

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After reading the thread 171 Year Sentence For Rape I decided to post this.

I have mixed feeling about this story. A part of me would like to declare him a hero despite his acts of violence, however it's up to society to deal collectively with these sex offenders, not vigilantes. In his mind I'm sure he feels justified, also seems to think it will bring the subject more attention.

I dont think the people he murdered were repeat offenders and were probably reformed, or in the process. The story doesn’t specify.

IMO, he killed so he should be killed...

If he is capable of doing it once (or twice in this case)...he is very capable of doing it again...and again....and again...

I don't beleive this guy should be killed but it's not up to me. I also don't agree with what he did so I wouldn't wanna be a juror for him. I'am just glad no more deaths caused to him or from him will continue!

It's sad that we still as a society even consider sex offenders like that even human. I know I don't. This story gave me a smile up but I'm sad he's going to jail for offing some "things" off the face of the earth. Too bad he turned himself in after on killing two of them. He could have at least got another 2 or 3 in the bag.

The law is the law. I might be able to understand if one of his children was molested or something of that sort that might provoke him to lose it but he sought these men out to kill them.

In regards to whether they were reformed or not, very few pediphiles are ever reformed. The majority of them go on to re-offend and in some cases kill their victims. We have 11 sex offenders living in our zipcode. My brother has 74...its a scary when you have children.

well good for him. i don't think he should be jailed at all, personally- but the law feels otherwise. so, considering that he knew what he was getting himself into and still did it, i admire him. (as odd as that sounds)

good guy, doing what many of us would love nothing more than to do. or me, at least. i'm just disappointed that he let them off with an execution-style death and not a more appropriate punishment for their crimes...

I agree with Kratos. People shouldn't be punished for doing society a favour

no good deed goes unpunished.....

guy is being locked up for killing 2 animals that society doesnt need? bah humbug.

if he was sure they were sex offenders i think he did the right thing.
imagine if they hurt someone you love i think you may be capable of the same, as for me, you dont wanna know what i would do to them.
they commit the worst of all crimes an deserve punishment way beyond conventional law

If you ask me, he should get 4 years not 44. He potentially saved more children by killing the sex offenders.

It was for the greater good.

ya i know if i have kids and one of those guys go near em they wont be going anywhere cept a 6 foot hole

wow i cant believe people condone this when they know they'd be the first ones crying about it if we all started taking the law into our own hands
what about when some bullied kid walks into school and starts blasting 13 or 14 year old kids who bullied them?
will you support him for that and say he was right?

This guy should be given a medal!

Mullen should've gotten the death penalty, if anyone should. What element of premeditated murder does this not satisfy?

Anyone who cheers Mullen is more repulsive than any sex offender.

Actually, all that mullen seems to be a threat to are sex offenders...so i'm in the clear, and if he isn't hurting me, and only killing those without a trace of humanity left in them, is it really still murder? that's an ethics question for another time. though i for one, shall not weep at the deaths of those two...things...

This guy should of gotten life...What would you rather have, 2 sex offenders of a mass murderer?

I agree 100% child sex offenders are scum and should be wiped out. Why should OUR taxes pay for them to live in jail, to feed and clothe them?! no way more power to that man.

2 sex offenders harming innocent people...or 1 mass murderer killing said sex offenders and no one else...hmmm...i'm going to have to get back to you on that decision FF...i don't think i can choose there...

I agree that sex offenders are horrible people, but there is no justice for killing them...The guy is just as sick and twisted as the sex offenders...44 years is too little.

I must disagree with you there...from what i've gathered, the mo of a vigilante killer, is usually done for fame, or senseless vengeance, in which anyone he/she sees fit is a valid target, which would make him sick correct. however, turning himself in after killing 2 proved he only had a specific goal in mind, making the killing premeditated yes...but he serves to be little threat to anyone else now, even other sex offenders, as he could have continued killing.

Who knows, people are driven by insane ideas, and he could of been driven to kill more. An animals mutilater was caught here after a 3 week hunt in which he killed and skinned 22 foxes, 14 dog, 3 cats, 2 horses, a cow, and a llama all within 15 minutes of my home. The Police said he was raving to kill more, and he could of easily started killing humans.

That is very true, often times, the serial killer starts out on animals. but turning himself in showed remorse did it not? or at the very least, a cessation to his desire to kill?

Taking two human lives cannot be dismissed just because he turned himself in....He deserves Life in jail.

If Hitler turned himself in, would you forgive him?

If Hitler had only targeted sex offenders, yes, I would.

Tis a shame he only got 2 of those "things". He should have went down taking as many as humanly possibly.

Well as he is already 36 and has recieved a 44-year sentence he wont be getting out until he is 80 if he survives. Now that doesn`t leave him much time to live freely. I don`t agree with people taking the law into their own hands in this manner but I certainly wont feel any sorrow for the deaths of these two parasites.

hmmm 2 guys raping kids... or a guy killing guys that rape kids..


is that suppose to be a hard question?

The justice system failed us. Sex offenders can never be refformed, nor is their punishment fitting for their crime. So many cases of molestation go under reported that it seems like these criminals are getting off scot free.

It's disgusting to sit there and sympathize with these criminals.

The children that they harmed, their lives have been changed forever. They will always be victims, it is a scar that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

The fault does not lie with Mullen, it lies with the courts.

I agree, not a big debate on my side. He should've gotten rid of more before getting caught.

I can only assume that you and anyone else who thinks the way you do are merely misinformed, young teens without a clue.

Mullen is scum. Anyone who supports him is also scum.

Ridiculous, no-one should be congratulating this murderer, it's not his authority to eliminate those who he does not see fit to live on this earth. Of course, you may have children to want to have pedophiles locked away forever, but these are people that are just like us, they deserve hope. No-one has that entitlement of taking it away for their own selfishness of feeling secure.

ur calling those 'things' humans? dear god man

let him go free,
he has done a lot of people a favour an saved many more from being hurt

It's well and good. Until, of course, he decides that you deserve to die because he deems that you too are immoral and sub-human.

You cannot be serious

They deserve hope They deserve nothing, not even to live. There is no telling how many lives those 2 scum bags have destroyed, small innocent lives. I am sure that if one of these men molested your kid you would have a different opinion. Do you know anybody who has ever been molested. I do, and I can assure that even 20 years later, they remember the horrible things that have been done to them.

They should give this guy a medal.

Sex offenders get off all to easily. The latest news should tell you that. There has never been any succesful rehab of these kinds of people, none to my knowledge anyway. They do a fairly short amount of time and re offend fairly quickly. While the victims of these sick sob's suffer from thier experience for the rest of thier lives.

I have a friend who did 10 years for killing the molester of his best friends son.
The judge in the trial of the molester let him walk and as he left the court room, he smirked at the men. proud of himself for getting away with sodomizing a small child and his ability to now do it once again as our legal system failed us. Unfortunately for that sick piece of &*^%, he ran into my friend near an alley, he grinned at him, as if to say there was nothing he could do now, my friend just lost it, and beat him to death. He is a great man and a great father to his children.

hear hear..

well, you know what can happen when one assumes....still i think along a very similar mindset as the one you are criticising, and i see no contest in the question of 'who would you rather have, 2 child rapists, or 1 murderer of child rapists' even on the concept of viewing a vigilante killer as horrible as a child rapist...2 child rapists would still be worse than 1 vigilante killer...wouldn't it?

Would it?

Really, what do we know about this situation?

Were the victims 5 year old children, or 18 year old 'children'?

Where the men rapists? Did they kidnap some small child, drag her out to the woods, brutalize the body, and leave her broken?

Or did they simply do some fondling for which they spent time in jail for?

This vigilante, was he a reluctant hero? Does he hate the thought of violence, but acted in what he believed was justice, afterwards feeling so much remorse that he turned himself in?

Or was he a man looking for a reason to kill, who randomly selected two pedophiles from a list intended to protect people, who broke into their homes and shot them, execution style, glorying in the death, and then made a bid for fame, hoping that he would forever be remember for his actions?

Who is good and who is bad?

I hold your friend in high regard.

cant wait till the day when the government grows brains and automatically give life or death sentences for those sick sob's...


but waiting for that day may never come, but once it does, PARTY!!!!!!

Right there, intentionally or not(I'll say intentionally) Aquatus asks a significant question and points out unless we know more we cannot state whether it was a good thing, or a bad thing, we cannot pass any form of judgement. it's just when you mention children being harmed, everyone (most everyone) gets a little on edge.

LOL
Teens????
no, a 35-ish y.o. mother, actually, with a sense of Justice that leans toward the protection of children.

So y'all want to let of the murderer just because he killed bad people? What is wrong with you people. The murderer is just as bad as the child rapists. He commited 2 feloniesm and according to law, and depending on what state he was tried in, he probably would of gotten the death penalty. It is him who got of easily...Don't you think the relatives and parents of the two murdered people are in mourning?

sex offenders or not they are humans with a sick view of life the murderer played god and deemed those people to be killed which is not right The man thought they deserved to die and he is now punished for it would you support the muderer of your friend of family because they were sex offenders No you wouldn't you would kill that man

glorifying this man will make more deaths sex offenders or not these people could have changed but now they never will sure they were evil but still a human being now this man is being turned into a hero for what Hitler did Hilter deemed the Jews as evil and killed them and he is hated for it what makes this man any different I am disgusted on how you view this man HE TOOK LIFES!! something that cannot be made into a heroic act is what this man did and your just encouraging children to do this and others by making murder seem positive and good i know what your going to say " but BIR they were evil" SO WHAT!!
Taking others lifes is just as evil as what they did and shouldn't be made intp a heroic act.

this man had no right whatsoever to deem 2 people as not worthy enought to live and kill them The attackers of the WTC deemed those innocents as not worthy to live and look now they are the victims of a terroist attck ( which i belive was bush ) but look we don't glorive them NO!! i cannot stretch how stupid you sound " But they can't change because usally they don't " Key word: USALLY how did this man know that the people weren't going to change how did the man know that they would do what they did again HE DIDN'T!! he has no right to live either so i guess i should kill him and ill be a hero YAY!!
" But he's not a evil person he turned himself in" Whats your point he still killed people and he is a murderer of 2 people

I hope that all murderers or criminals out there who could change or be innocent will die see how bad that sounds

no, i don't think he's as bad as the child rapists, because he didn't prey on innocents. the men he killed, while basically technically classified as humans were far from innocent and while his act is also against the law no innocents were harmed. it is true that the families of those killed are in mourning...do you think that the families of the children who were molested are relieved...do you think that the children harmed are finally no longer afraid of the monsters grabbing them again? just a question. i'm bored today with way to much free time. pay no attention

he had justice in mind. Justice for those children. that makes him better than the rapists who do not care about the innocent lives they ruin.

In a nutshell-

Murder=bad
Rape=very bad

But for everything else, there's MasterCard.

i am such a twisted person i am actually going to laugh at that...wow...quite funny...