Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 4:21:14 GMT
EAR was thought to be young by the majority of his victims, also. They encountered him in person. We don't know if he was "giving the impression" of being young or if he was actually young.
I tend to side with the impression of the victims - and Quasar, by the way - rather than relying on trying to make an aging POI fit into a profile that nobody, including the vast majority of the victims, agrees with.
No, we don't know for sure whether he was just giving the impression on purpose or if he really was young. So let's analyze it.
Not all of the victims described him as young. Some thought he was considerably older than others did. How is it supposed to be determined which ones were correct? Do we automatically go with the majority description to the exclusion of the other victims' descriptions? Why do we accept some descriptions and not others when they all came from victims that encountered him in person? Is it because we have a preconceived notion that he is young or we've been told that based on the opinion of others?
How many described him as 18 years old?
Taking what the majority say or deriving an average age from the descriptions under the circumstances, has a good chance of being unreliable.
Eyewitness descriptions, even when someone is unmasked, are notoriously faulty. That is well studied and proven - and has been brought up many times on the boards, yet is ignored by most when it comes to EAR. Why is it counted on in this case for a rapist that immediately terrorized the victims and maintained their level of terror, threatened them when they looked at him, remained masked, all but one never saw his full face, it was usually under low lighting conditions, he often tried to mislead, etc? Don't most think EAR often acted and mislead? It seems like most agree on that, but can't accept that he tried to mislead about his age. It is not hard to purposely leave a false impression under the circumstances.
Follow the evidence - the real evidence and not myths or falsehoods perpetuated by some. Aren't there other worthy avenues to explore in this case besides the "young guy that just got lucky" theory? Have the multitude of different LE agencies over the last 39 years been successful in chasing the young guy that fits the mold that some keep insisting fits EAR? Why keep doing the same thing that hasn't worked?