Post by lufttec on Jul 4, 2016 6:30:55 GMT
This serial rapist/killer carefully stalked his victims. I would doubt that he heard about Janelle's being the victim of another sexual assault, since he had previously raped and murdered a woman in the same neighborhood and was obviously familiar with it. I think it's just coincidental. I think that these women fit his profile - very pretty women. He also raped young girls in their homes who'd never been sexually abused by anyone.
I think like others have pointed out he found his ideal neighborhood with a green belt, trails, parks, schools, etc., homes for sale that he could visit and get the layout, and then he started stalking his ideal victims and waiting for the opportunity to attack. I believe Miss Cruz had some friends over and those young men were in the backyard when he came over the backyard fence before and he wasn't expecting them to be there. He may have lived elsewhere, in a non-Southern California location, and moved back to the area when he murdered Miss Cruz.
Los Angeles County. I don't know that he committed any rapes/murders there and he seems to have tip-toed by Los Angeles County to commit crimes in other counties, breaking his habit from Northern California where he attacked in multiple counties that were next door to one another. Some other posters think that maybe he did commit crimes in Los Angeles County. I don't believe it was murders otherwise DNA would have been uploaded to CODIS and hits would have been returned linking him to more murders.