A convicted child sex offender who went missing after cutting off his GPS monitoring device was found dead in a Southern California riverbed. Merle Wakefield, 69, was convicted in 1980 and 1991 of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old and rape by force. He had been on conditional release since […]A convicted child sex offender who went missing after cutting off his GPS monitoring device was found dead in a Southern California riverbed. Merle Wakefield, 69, was convicted in 1980 and 1991 of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old and rape by force. He had been on conditional release since […]