Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 20:19:59 GMT
What I think should be done is an investigator should try and track down all the auto salvage yards operating in Sac at the time, talk to the owners and generate a list of suspects based on a revised profile. I really think the profile on Arch's website (the one everyone has read) has some serious problems, so using it as a way of identifying POI's may not be helpful. But if a new, better profile (one that focuses less on what he might have done in his private life and more on what we know he did as the EAR/ONS) could be created and taken to owners and employees of auto salvage companies that were operating in Sac at the time, it might yield a solid suspect.
Of course, it still is possible that Q's deceased POI is our guy. He bears more than a passing resemblance to some of the sketches and seems to fit some of the criteria. However, we know nothing about what kind of person he was at the time of the crimes. Does he have solid alibis? Was he the kind of person who could have committed these crimes? I think the first kind of question will be much more important than the latter in identifying our perp. If it were obvious that he were the type of guy who could have committed these crimes, someone would have given his name to LE already. Then again, someone did. Apparently he was cleared, but how? These questions need to be asked and answered by qualified LE or professional investigators, and if Q's POI is not the perp, I think it would be fruitful to continue looking in that same direction — tossing hand grenades, as Q puts it.
Even if Q's guy is not THE ONE, he might have known him or worked with him. I keep thinking about Q's notion of "the unsuspected." It is a brilliant idea, really. At least, I think it is. If the FDLE profile was/is correct, our guy would have been suspected. There would have been major red flags that everyone around him would have seen. He would not have been able to go a lifetime without someone suspecting him — the small penis, the psychopathic personality, the bondage fetish, the unexplained absences, the secrecy and paranoia that being an unidentified serial killer must certainly entail. This leads me to believe that something in the profile was very wrong. We've all been looking for a suspect when we should have been looking for something else altogether — someone who flew under the radar; who seemed like a normal guy to everyone around him, including his family and sexual partners. If this guy was the raging psychopath we all imagine; who loved tying up his girlfriends and had an unquenchable desire to rape and terrorize, he would have been suspected. He would have had incidents stretching back to childhood that suggested he was deeply distrubed. He would not have been able to close up shop seemingly at will for five years, then suddenly resurface to rape and murder a young woman, then go back to being the unsuspected if he truly fit the profile on Arch's website. I have a feeling that our guy is going to be shockingly normal when and if he is found. I imagine he hid the sadistic part of himself so well that almost no one besides his victims was ever aware it existed.
[last paragraph moved to Profiler thread, by Drifter]
