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November 29, 2020
Lauren Cross, Bob Kasarda
NWI Times

Ten-year-old Zachary Snider was smothered with a pillow, strangled, brutally raped and murdered by someone in his neighborhood.
His attacker, Christopher Stevens, was a previously convicted child molester and had been out of jail on probation at the time of the killing, but Snider’s parents had no clue. Neither did the neighbors.
That was July 15, 1993, in the small town of Cloverdale on the outskirts of Indianapolis.
A year later, the well-known Indiana murder case ushered in the creation of the state’s first sex offender registry,

Zachary’s Law, named after 10 year old Zachary Snider of Cloverdale who was molested and murdered by a neighbor who was a convicted child molester.  The law was passed in 1994 and requires offenders convicted of specified sex and violent crimes to register with local law enforcement agencies in the area where they reside or intend to reside for more than seven days.  Local law enforcement agencies must notify the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute when an offender registers locally so that the Institute can add the offender to the Indiana