Post by riverstorum on May 2, 2018 3:07:14 GMT
May 1, 2018 15:47:25 GMT aek said:
This guy is way, way beyond Dennis Rader. Not in depravity (Rader is as bad as you can get), but in terms of his ability to juggle so many different parallel lives that could have revealed him but somehow never did.
As Larry Pool said in an article this morning in the LA Times--how did this guy ever sleep?
One officer was Joseph DeAngelo, who arrived in 1973. He worked there for three years, known for his professionalism and ambition in the field and his aloof, cool nature to his colleagues.
"He was just over-educated for the small department of Exeter. He just knew anything you wanted to talk about," said Farrel Ward, who worked in the department for 30 years. "I think he had a bachelor's degree, all kinds of training. He didn't fit in with the other guys. We liked to joke and screw around and take the stress off of what we were doing. He was always serious." ...
The officers there considered themselves a family, and DeAngelo, who was 27 or 28 when he joined the department, stood apart, Ward said.
Sometimes during slow periods on a shift, Exeter police officers would radio to each other to meet up in a place where they could shoot the breeze until they had a place to go.
Ward said he'd do that with DeAngelo, but the conversations were mostly one-sided and strained.
"I liked him, but he's not the type of guy that I'd have over for a barbecue. He's just … stand-offish. Too serious. Seems like he's always thinking," Ward said.
DeAngelo had a good rapport with the public and treated them well, Ward said. But he never revealed personal details. Ward didn't even know where DeAngelo came from before arriving in Exeter. He did say that he had to put in his time in the small department so he could move higher in law enforcement. He wanted to go on to "bigger and better things," Ward recalled.
He jokingly suggested that DeAngelo consider the FBI, Ward said.
Even after DeAngelo's arrest, Ward said, nothing about their interactions had appeared odd or sinister.
"I couldn't believe it. I was devastated. At first I thought it was someone with the same name. 'It can't be the same guy,' " he said. "I worked side by side with that guy. I could've been one of his victims, really easily.
"It's kind of scary."
.............literally everything he described is odd and sinister.
What's scary is that we the people are at the mercy of imbeciles in LE.