By  Steve Huff

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David Barton Sullivan was first diagnosed as a schizophrenic at age 6. By the time he stabbed Anna Svidersky that night in Vancouver, he'd had a number of run-ins with the law, stays in mental hospitals, and tried to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. He had been prescribed the antipsychotic medication Risperdal and the antidepressant Prozac by his physician at Kaiser Permanente, but it is not clear if he was compliant in taking his medication.

Sullivan attempted to kidnap a 14-year-old girl from a gymnastics center in 2001.

Due to his schizophrenia, he spent 90 days in a mental hospital under evaluation. He was found competent. Sullivan stood trial then and was convicted of "unlawful imprisonment for a sexual motivation."

Sullivan served 90 days in prison.

When he murdered Anna Svidersky on April 20, 2006, he was living with his parents.

Sullivan could not be found in a search made of the sex offender registry for offenders in Clark County or Vancouver two days after his arrest. A search for Sullivan via the U.S. Dept. of Justice website, www.nsopr.gov, yielded a result showing his full name and county of residence, but on clicking Sullivan's name through that site, no full record could be found, only an error page for the Washington registry.

This begged the question: did Sullivan's being arrested again somehow implement his swift removal from the current registry, or was he to be found there in the first place?

Was there any way the community could have known a man so randomly dangerous was living in their midst?

The question being asked by Anna Svidersky's many friends and family, by many citizens in Vancouver, WA, was most likely the most obvious one why was Sullivan free to roam about at all, much less with a 6-inch steak knife in hand?

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