Dead Sex Offender in Michigan

This popped up in a number comments. And while we have a fit of trouble mustering up sympathy for a deceased sex offender, the circumstances of his conviction seem a bit out of the ordinary:

• Sorenson was convicted in Illinois when he was 17 of having sex with a 14-year-old girl, said Northville Township police Lt. Greg Rhodes.

This is the unintended consequence of prosecuting high school kids who have sex. Still, this was a pretty bad way to go:

• Two thrill-seeking teenagers stabbed an adult acquaintance, took a blowtorch to his corpse and threw his severed head into a river, prosecutors said Monday as they charged the pair.
• Sorenson, who had worked as a bouncer, was stabbed multiple times in the back, his head sawed off and his body wrapped in the tarp, authorities said. Orlewicz and Letkemann burned his hands and feet with a blowtorch, possibly in an effort to conceal his identity, Worthy said.
• The teens loaded Sorenson's torso in a pickup truck, dumped it in a cul-de-sac and set it on fire using gasoline, Worthy said. A utility crew found it Thursday morning, police said.

All for the thrill of it. Amazing. We remember when a "thrill" was stealing some tires to roll down the alley, painting our names on garages and tipping over some cranky old lady's flower pots.