Many of the twisted people who are sex offenders don't look the part -- they seem like upstanding citizens, until you get them alone with a helpless kid.
Others, though -- well, let's just say they might as well have a large neon sign on their forehead saying "Why yes, I am a sex offender."
The Texas Attorney General's office has a list of recently arrested fugitive sex offenders, people who generally failed to register as required by probation. Some highlights:
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| Photos courtesy Texas AG's office |
Richard Wayne Endsley
Crime: Indecency by sexual contant with 11-year-old boy
Red Flag Number One: The name Wayne.
Red Flag Number Two: Beard that says "I have no respect for the rules and mores and so-called 'normal' society"
Red Flag Number Three: Headband.
We do like the photographer's decision to forego the usual cinder-block background and go for a bucolic setting. Probably a moonlighting wedding photographer.
John Douglas Cromeans
Crime: Aggravated sexual assault of eight-year-old girl
Red Flag Number One: The eyes, of course. Police should arrest this guy on general principles if he ever gets within two blocks of a school-bus stop.
Red Flag Number Two: Really, with those eyes you don't need any other signs.
Justin Blake Ard
Crime: Aggravated sexual assault of boys aged one, four and eight
Red Flag The stylish bangs, which proudly denote he has given up all hope of having sex with a woman his age.
Robert Bagsby
Crime: Indecency by exposure with five-year-old girl
Red Flag: If this guy hasn't mastered the "Creepy Grandfather" look, he's in the top three. Has a bit of the Grandpa Munster look to him, too.
Gail Brooks
Crime: Indecency with four-year-old girl
Red Flag: Mr. Magoo glasses. Dude may have thought he was hitting on a 42-year-old stripper.