Jesse Timmendequas

Jesse Timmendequas (born April 15, 1961) is a convicted sex offender who kidnapped, raped, and strangulated Megan Kanka, who was 7 years old at the time. He had two previous convictions for sexual assault. On July 29, 1994, he lured Kanka into his house and raped and killed her by strangulation with a belt. He was first sentenced to death, but was then commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on December 17, 2007 when New Jersey abolished the death penalty. His crimes are the reason behind the creation of Megan's Law.