Police and prison officials are doing their best to prepare residents of an Appleton neighborhood for the release of a man convicted of the 1988 rape and murder of a 6-year-old girl.
Vince Fisher has spent the last 26 years in prison for assaulting and killing the daughter of his girlfriend. The 66-year-old man will soon be living in temporary housing in Appleton.
Tom Smith, a spokesman for the state’s sex offender registry, is stressing to Fisher’s future neighbors that Fisher’s victim knew and trusted him.
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“The myth of stranger danger really is a myth … 93 percent of victims know who the perpetrator is,” he said.
Smith said that more than a third of sex crimes are committed by members of the victim’s household.
Smith also assured parents that Fisher will be on a GPS monitoring device and confined to his apartment during the hours when children walk to and from school.
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