sex offender stabs daughter, is on the run

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:26 pm

this guy needs to be caught fast!--------Father Sought In Daughter's StabbingPolice Believe John Rollins Tuggle Stabbed His Daughter While On Camping Trip

Wayne Harrison, Senior News Editor

POSTED: 8:25 am MDT July 21, 2005

UPDATED: 10:14 pm MDT July 21, 2005

DENVER -- A manhunt is under way in Idaho for a registered sex offender from Colorado who allegedly stabbed his 12-year-old daughter while they were on a camping trip.

Authorities say John Rollins Tuggle is a convicted sex offender.

Sheriff's officials in Idaho said the girl had numerous stab wounds all over her body when passersby found her tied and bound along a rural road in the Idaho Panhandle, late Wednesday. She had been lying wounded on the road for four to six hours before she was spotted, officials said.

A medical helicopter airlifted the girl to a hospital in Couer d'Alene, Idaho, about 90 miles away. The girl was then transferred to a Spokane, Wash., hospital. She was listed in critical condition following surgery Thursday afternoon, but was expected to survive.

Idaho authorities identified 37-year-old John Rollins Tuggle as the suspect in the case and issued an arrest warrant charging him with attempted murder. They said no other suspects were being sought.

Criminal records obtained by 7News show Tuggle served nine years in an Idaho prison for the statutory rape of a relative. He was released from prison in January 2004. Tuggle lived with his brothr in Hayden, Colo, the Routt County Sheriff's Office told the Steamboat Pilot & Today newspaper. He most recently worked as a painter in Steamboat Springs, the newspaper reported on its Web site.

"We have the whole world looking for him," said Shoshone County Sheriff Chuck Reynalds.

Deputies have interviewed the girl and were searching areas where Tuggle has relatives, the sheriff said.

The girl lives in Idaho. Tuggle had traveled there to visit his daughter, who he apparently hadn't seen in 10 years. He told the girl's mother that he was taking her to the mall and then disappeared, officials said.

Tuggle is described as 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes and numerous tattoos. He may also have a goatee.

Tuggle is an "outdoorsy person" who could be hiding in remote areas of the mountainous Idaho Panhandle, Reynalds said.

He's believed to be driving a 1989 Ford Escort, with Colorado plate number 329-JXG. The license plate is registered to Tuggle at a Hayden, Colo., address, according to motor vehicle records.

Tuggle should be considered armed and dangerous, authorities said, as he is known to carry large knives. Anyone with information on Tuggle is asked to call the Shoshone County, Idaho Sheriff's Office at (208) 556-1114.

The manhunt began just weeks after another registered sex offender was arrested in Idaho in connection with the abduction of a young girl and her brother and the slayings of three adults.

The brother's body was found at a Montana campground. The 8-year-old girl was freed after a waitress at a restaurant in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho spotted her with the man and notified authorities.

The 12-year-old girl in the latest case is recovering at the same hospital in Spokane that the girl from the earlier abduction was admitted to for a week after her ordeal.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:42 pm

I hope someone sees him, and causes him a slow, painful death. TRUE justice.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:29 pm

he left his own little girl on the side of the road to die....i'd like to remove that smile from his next booking photo.

the sheriff says she is in very serious condition.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:32 pm

lady cop wrote: he left his own little girl on the side of the road to die....i'd like to remove that smile from his next booking photo.

the sheriff says she is in very serious condition. GO GO GO Lady Cop:driving:

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:34 pm

Seems we are seeing more and more sex offenders not only repeating the molesting, but molesting and killing. When will the judicial system get the message?

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:23 pm

off topic...here's some good news...the scumwad dirtbag who raped and murdered beautiful little 5 year old Samantha Runnion was sentenced to death today. and he is being taken to san Q. to be in the next cell to scott peterson in the adjustment center. i hope they get along real well. i hope their dreams are haunted and their inevitable appeals used for toilet paper.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:24 pm

Better news would be that they actually carried out the death sentence.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:32 pm

Peg wrote: Better news would be that they actually carried out the death sentence.i agree...you got 20 years?

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:38 pm

LOL Let's hope so. Of course, in those 20 years, they could end up winning an appeal and overturning the conviction.

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:43 pm

I can't stand these people

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:46 pm

I can't either. Sad thing is, we just had 2 arrested here this week. The one has had similar charges (rape and molestation of a child) against him before, but the charges were reduced in a plea agreement. Now another 12 year old boy and possibly more children, are paying the price for this plea agreement. :-1

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:19 pm

this piece of human excrement has been captured. police are releasing no details.

venus · Post by **venus** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:09 pm

the creatures who carrt out these sick acts are not human in my mind so why do the PC policers keep saying to lock them up forever is in breach of their human rights....

When you do that to a childyou have no human rights. Here in England it is terrible this monsters get a damn slap on the wrist and are released into a system that does not have the man power to watch them

An island with towers guards and a shoot to kill policy sounds perfect to me. Or asd my gran says, put em in a room with the parents of their victims , it won't be slow and pretty but at least justice will be done.