This is an article from the New London Day today, you have to wonder what NH Is thinking now huh? They don't want him anymore than anyone else does. Live Free or Die right?

"Michelle Spencer was 6 years old on July 19, 1981, when her older brother watched her walk down the sidewalk of their Laurel Hill Avenue neighborhood in Norwich. She never came back.

By 6 that evening, about 100 firefighters, police officers, friends and neighbors fanned out in the neighborhood, nearby woods and railroad tracks in search of the child.

On July 21, 1981, two workers from Norwich Public Utilities found her body, partially clothed and bruised around the neck. Stuffed underground, she lay atop a grate inside a pumping station.

Police said there was no way the girl could have crawled into the pumping station by herself.

The man who pleaded guilty to the murder, who police determined had strangled and then sexually assaulted Michelle before putting her body into a storm drain, is now living in Derry, N.H.

Douglas Allen Simmons, now 47, moved into 71 East Broadway, Apt. 3, in Derry over the weekend, according to police. On Thursday, his name and photo were posted on New Hampshire's child sex offender Web site.

The apartment where Simmons lives is near two private schools, a public-school bus stop, a park and the public library.

People in Derry remained on edge Thursday as town officials considered passing an ordinance restricting where sex offenders can live.

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Simmons was a 20-year-old sailor living in Norwich when he lured freckle-faced Michelle into his apartment that July day more than 26 years ago and murdered her. He strangled Michelle with a paint-speckled gray telephone cord, then sexually abused her and disposed of her body in a sewer drain near her home. The paint was later matched to Simmons' apartment.

At the time, Simmons lived with his wife of five months in the same building as Michelle, just two floors above the Spencer family, which had recently moved to the neighborhood.

A Michigan native, he was a machinist's mate aboard the submarine tender USS Fulton. On that day he had just returned home from drinking with friends.

Michelle, wearing green shorts and a red T-shirt with a “Wonder Woman” emblem on it, was last seen playing in her front yard. The day her body was discovered, The Day's headline read: “A beautiful child” and described the girl's older sister, Laurie, crying in a relative's arms on the front porch of their home.

“I tried to teach my children not to get into cars with strangers and not to talk to people they didn't know,” the child's mother, 34-year-old Patricia Spencer, told a reporter at the time. “I'm sure Michelle knew that. What happened to her was something I was always afraid of, having daughters, you know.”

At Simmons' sentencing, a prosecutor said Simmons hit the child's hand when she reached for his stereo and, when she began to cry, covered her mouth with his hand to quiet her. She collapsed to the floor. Simmons grabbed the telephone cord, wrapped it around her neck and strangled her.

The prosecutor said Simmons then molested the girl before putting her body in a cardboard box and dumping it in a storm drain.

Simmons essentially ended up with a 35-year sentence and five years of probation, but earned time off for good behavior because of laws in effect when he was sentenced, said Philip Fazzino of the New London's state's attorneys office. Simmons served about 22 years in prison and completed probation.

Amid some controversy, he was released on probation in 2003 in Connecticut after Michigan officials scuttled his attempt to move there to be near his mother, Jacqueline Dean of Grand Rapids. A judge ordered Simmons to complete probation in Connecticut.

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Derry town councilors scheduled the meeting Thursday to discuss the possibility of enacting an ordinance to limit where sex offenders can live after police announced Simmons' relocation to the New Hampshire town.

“I've never had as many phone calls about any issue as this one,” Councilor Kevin Coyle said. “I think parents are very concerned. I think people are very concerned in general.”

Councilor Brian Chirichiello said he was surprised to learn there are no state laws preventing offenders from living so close to a school.

“We need to really have an open discussion and find out what is the best course of action we need to take for the town,” he said.

Cheryl Lynch, director of the Derry Public Library, said security at the library near Simmons' apartment is already tight. “We're vigilant every day,” she said. “We ask the patrons to be aware of their surroundings.”

The private schools near Simmons' new address are the Derry Montessori School and St. Thomas Aquinas School.

Paul Rakiey, principal of St. Thomas Aquinas, a former prison superintendent, said steps have been taken to ensure students' safety.

“I think they have a sense that I'm very, very cautious because I know there are people like this out there,” he said.

Donna Compagna, founder and headmaster of the Derry Montessori School, said her students are safe. “It's sad we live in a society where we have to be accepting of people who have committed some really heinous crimes living right next door to us,” she said.

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Simmons' mother spoke briefly with the New Hampshire Union Leader this week. “He served his time. He's doing fine. He's been out of prison over five years,” Jacqueline Dean said. “He just wants to live his life.”

Asked whether Simmons has friends in New Hampshire, Dean said she believes he does.

The family of Michelle Spencer could not be located for comment.

Simmons is free to live wherever he wants because his sentence and probation are completed; in New Hampshire he is required to register for the child sex-offender list. He came into the Derry police station Monday and registered, police said. There is no mention of his murder conviction on the New Hampshire state police site.

Simmons was never charged with sexual assault, but later admitted it.