Secret life of child rapist who staged his own suicide exposed after neighbors find his body

An accused child rapist believed to have taken his own life since 2009 lived a secret life under a false name until his death last month exposed his secret. Christian Robert Bassam, 56, staged his own suicide after he was accused of abusing a young Kitsap County boy by leaving a suicide note in his car on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state, WABC-TV reported. But somehow he escaped and fooled law enforcement for 15 years, living in Los Angeles as a building maintenance worker named Mark Clemens, whose secret was only revealed when neighbors found him dead in his apartment. “Very shocking,” neighbor Tommy Cuellar told ABC. “That was our sustainer. This was the guy who had the keys to our apartments. It was alarming to say the least, as you can imagine.” Kitsap County, Washington Community Police […]
Source: News Beast

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