Recent Fla. slayings difficulty of tracking sex offenders
Thursday, April 21, 2005
TAMPA, Fla. -- A convicted rapist who had failed to register as a sex offender is accused of strangling a 13-year-old girl near Tampa. Three weeks earlier and 100 miles north, a registered sex offender who did not tell police he had moved is charged with abducting and killing a 9-year-old girl.
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