Post by arlington on Oct 31, 2017 8:28:30 GMT
Fully agree that he exited the neighborhood on foot after the attack, traveling south along the river and there's a fair chance that it was EAR witnesses running by the minnow hole, and he could've likely had a vehicle parked in the neighborhood to the south, but if that's the case don't you think it wouldn't make sense he entered the neighborhood from the Casalida pedestrian bridge? It would make more sense to me that he entered the neighborhood on the same path he left it on.
Otherwise if he parked a car down south, how (and more importantly why) did he end up on the east side of the highway to the north, in order to cross the pedestrian bridge.
I mean it's possible his vehicle was parked on the east side of the highway, and after running south he circled back around to it. But also possible he lived within running distance, did enter/exit neighborhood the same way, stole a bike somewhere, etc
Yeah, I think regardless of whether the EAR entered this neighborhood via The pedestrian bridge at Casalida, or whether he entered from the levee, when he bolted south along the levee it wasn't the first time he'd been down that trail. It was almost certainly his planned escape route to get out of the neighborhood and he came close to getting caught with the babysitters father arriving during the attack. As noted, by the time the police arrived he was long gone into a neighborhood to the south outside of where any police would've had blockades set up.
I wonder if this attack made EAR feel like each successive attack in Sacramento was increasing the chances of his apprehension, he wouldn't attack in Sacramento again for nearly a year, and only 1 more time ever. Also, if the phone calls to the Modesto couple (attack 32) were EAR in April/May 78', he almost immediately shifted his focus to CCC after this attack. It's also likely the parents in attack 29 scarred him off, so his last two Sacramento attacks were likely close calls. Throw in the one before that in Foothill Farms (29) where there wasn't a rape, and the fact that by then he was well known in Sacramento and the focus of LE efforts, and he probably shifted his area of operations as a matter of survival and to avoid being snared.