Two Sex Offenders Killed in Home

Aug. 29, 2005 -- -- Police in Bellingham, Wash., are investigating whether a man posing as an FBI agent killed two sex offenders living in a halfway house.

Police identified the two men who were shot and killed early Saturday morning as Hank Eisses, 49, and Victor Vasquez, 68. Both men were convicted child rapists.

Eisses and Vasquez lived in what neighbors said was a halfway house for Level 3 sex offenders that community residents had fought against when it was proposed more than three years ago.

Level 3 is the highest level of sex offender -- those considered most likely to re-offend -- but some residents of the area told ABC News affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle that in the three years since the sex offenders moved onto the block, they have caused no trouble.

Investigators went door-to-door with a sketch of the suspect, asking locals if they've seen the man they believe went to the house posing as an FBI agent.

"Yeah, he had like an FBI hat on, just like the police thing, and he had a flashlight," Collin Cofield, a neighbor, told KOMO-TV.

Police say the suspect was wearing a black baseball cap with an FBI insignia on the front, pants with white stripes down the outside and has a tattoo on his leg with the letters "t" "w" or "w" "t."

Detectives believe the fake FBI man spent more than two hours at the house talking to the men who lived there. He reportedly told one of the sex offenders they were on an Internet "hit list."

"We think it was a ruse a person would use to get close to individuals," said Bellingham police Lt. Craige Ambrose. "If he was the one that killed them, it allowed him close proximity to them and to develop some trust."

When one of the roommates went to work, the fake FBI agent was still at the home, but when the man returned six hours later, his roommates were dead, police said.