REPORTS: MISSOURI MAN EYED IN ABDUCTION CASE DIES

PFMLIT ABDUCTION KIDNAPPING, DECEASED SEX OFFENDERS, DECEASED SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS, General, MIRACLES DO HAPPEN


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Paul S. Smith, a 38 year old registered sex offender, who was a person of interest in theabduction of 4 year old Alisa Maier, shot himself Wednesday when the police approached him forquestioning.  Alisa was found a day later wandering around a car wash parking lot in a St.Louis suburb more than 80 miles from her home. Smith was listed on the Missouri sex offenderregistry as having sodomized a 10  year old boy in 1995.  He also served prison time oncharges of tampering with a motor vehicle and receiving stolen property.  Even after Smithshot himself, police still refused to call him a suspect in the case.  We're not saying thisis a suspect.  He's a person of interest.  Authorities also wouldn't comment on whetherAlisa was sexually assaulted during her roughly 26 hour ordeal.  She was examined at a St.Louis hospital for nearly three hours on Tuesday night, where she was also reunited with herparents.
(Missouri)