Post by rkz on May 1, 2018 22:35:35 GMT
I was reading this LA Times article about the attack on Margaret Wardlow and her mother, 11/10/77 in Sacramento:
www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-golden-state-victims-20180430-story.html
...and this jumped out at me:
"At some point, the young girl heard him go into the kitchen to get a pile of plates. He then walked to her mother's room and stacked them on her back. If the plates rattle, he told McKeown, he would kill them both.
He turned on the stove exhaust fan and the kitchen faucet. This way, his victims wouldn't know when he left."
Has this detail - that he turned on the stove exhaust fan and the faucet in the kitchen as he left the scene - ever come up before in reports of this attack?
I ask because it's not on the Cold Case EARONS site's description of Attack #27, nor is it on Quester's site. I can't find this detail in Sudden Terror either (though I may have missed it scanning the books just now).
But these two features of this incident are interesting, because there have been rumors for a long time that one of the pieces of JJD's MO that LE have been holding back was that EAR would leave faucets running in the house as he was leaving. Anyone have any other info about this? Did he do this at any other attack? Did the VR leave water running? Did he turn the stove exhaust fan on? I had read that he would turn OFF noise-making home fixtures like furnaces and ACs so that he could hear better while in houses. It would make sense that he'd turn some home fixtures off on his way out, I suppose, at least thematically.
If this was one of the bits of info LE has been holding back from the public, why would it suddenly appear in an LA Times article about EAR after his capture? Does anyone else find this kind of strange? Why hasn't this part of this attack been recounted in any of the usual repositories of info until now?
www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-golden-state-victims-20180430-story.html
...and this jumped out at me:
"At some point, the young girl heard him go into the kitchen to get a pile of plates. He then walked to her mother's room and stacked them on her back. If the plates rattle, he told McKeown, he would kill them both.
He turned on the stove exhaust fan and the kitchen faucet. This way, his victims wouldn't know when he left."
Has this detail - that he turned on the stove exhaust fan and the faucet in the kitchen as he left the scene - ever come up before in reports of this attack?
I ask because it's not on the Cold Case EARONS site's description of Attack #27, nor is it on Quester's site. I can't find this detail in Sudden Terror either (though I may have missed it scanning the books just now).
But these two features of this incident are interesting, because there have been rumors for a long time that one of the pieces of JJD's MO that LE have been holding back was that EAR would leave faucets running in the house as he was leaving. Anyone have any other info about this? Did he do this at any other attack? Did the VR leave water running? Did he turn the stove exhaust fan on? I had read that he would turn OFF noise-making home fixtures like furnaces and ACs so that he could hear better while in houses. It would make sense that he'd turn some home fixtures off on his way out, I suppose, at least thematically.
If this was one of the bits of info LE has been holding back from the public, why would it suddenly appear in an LA Times article about EAR after his capture? Does anyone else find this kind of strange? Why hasn't this part of this attack been recounted in any of the usual repositories of info until now?