EAR was probably 6 feet or taller in 1976
Oct 1, 2018 14:44:21 GMT
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Post by magnumforce73 on Oct 1, 2018 14:44:21 GMT
Sept 28, 2018 23:09:33 GMT @wonky said:
"When you see a buddy with a black eye and cut lip, their pugilistic opponent is almost always described as a 6'4" hell's angel or football player type, and never a 5'7" accountant..."
Heh. Very true this statement. Ultimately, at the end of the day, there are plenty of tough customers--both of short and of tall stature--and while there are plenty of smaller guys who are literal Hell on Wheels in a brawl/one-on-one, J.J.D. is not one of them. Slightly above average height, average body type with a tendency towards packing on excess weight (endomorphic shades). I once again refer to the May 1977 S.C.S.D. internal Department memo containing EAR Evidence Summaries: "The suspect's weight has been estimated from the descriptions of his build. He has been described as SLENDER with an athletic build. Well muscled, not heavily muscled as a weight lifter [sic] but more like a runner or a swimmer." This is a very important distinction because swimmers and runners are muscled--their muscles are smaller in overall size, yet far more prominently featured in their physiques because of low body fat percentage; musculature is glorious in its display--but it requires shredding under 10% bodyfat, and there is no way J.J.D. was EVER even remotely close to being under 10% B.F. In the 79 Auburn photo, J.J.D. is slender without question, but look at his neck, his deltoids, his biceps/triceps, and his chest/pec muscles--flat, lacking in robustness, "delicate" looking, and lacking in definition. As a younger guy, J.J.D. might have had some athleticism, but at the end of the day, body type cannot be avoided: he's more endomorphic than most; what that means is that for as long as he lives, he'll always have to watch his carbohydrate/sugar intake--and basically keep it at 0 if'n he wants to look semi-presentable/respectable sans shirt.
Fatboy shed a considerable amount of weight in a short amount of time--like, from the time he shot out Det. McGowen's flashlight in Visalia to about the time the little weasel materialized in #1's Paseo Drive bedroom. Look at that 79 Auburn photo where he's clutching the baseball bat and forcing a smile as though he's having his teeth extracted: he is "skinny." Not built. Not solid. "Skinny"--as the "Legal Beagle" accurately called it. Dollars to doughnuts this clown used speed/methamphetamine during the EAR phase to not only keep up his energy levels, but to shed all that weight.
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There is a difference between just "skinny" and "slender athletic build". Many victims described him as "slender athletic build". Some even muscular. I never heard or saw in any of all of the reports were he was just described as "skinny". I know @thedog likes to describe him that way but I've never heard of a victim describing him just as "skinny"...and they saw him half naked, not in grainy 1970's newspaper photos in full uniform.
I understand that, and am well-aware of that. All that being said, I'm going to stand by my statements: Joey ain't a "muscular" guy. Mayhaps my definition of "muscular" is radically different from others' definition, and this is no slight towards the victims or any witnesses--I take heavily into consideration the fact that the victims (especially) were undergoing the worst moments of their lives in the pitch black of darkened homes, and such trauma affects the mind's ability to accurately recount things. If Joey was truly built like an Adonis, you would have heard such--in more than one instance--in the reports very explicitly stated, and you did not. From my experience, people tend to have a bad habit of throwing terms like "athletic," "slender," "skinny," and so forth around as general purpose terms to describe someone lacking a beer gut, or belly fat--and so often, that becomes mistaken for being "muscular." As someone who's being slinging iron for twenty-one years, and who follows a "regimented" nutritional plan, I like to think that I've cultivated a talent for discerning body types and what the difference is between an impressive physique--and a not-so-impressive physique (and how to rectify a not-so-impressive physique). This is one point in which I respectfully disagree with you. He's not "all that." He never was--and that was further affirmed in April, and later in July following his weight loss. If he was "real," he'd never have let himself balloon into a toadstool.
I really should have expected this back in April when he was unmasked and arrested--the "Real McCoy" was NEVER going to live up to "The Legend." And sure enough: HE DID NOT!
Besides, W!--every time I picture Joey, I picture a pear-shaped Fatboy with an ample rump as wide as the caboose of a 57 Chevy Bel-Air clumsily vaulting a fence and squealing like a stuck pig hitting the High E note after getting cornered peering into windows. Damn if that doesn't sound like a wig-donning chrome domed psychopath running loose in a small college town in Central California...
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