Post by superman on Feb 3, 2017 11:20:32 GMT
Feb 2, 2017 21:00:07 GMT nick said:
We can't be sure June 18th 1976 was the first attack... but due to the information we have about EAR and his approximate age, it would at the very least be one of his earlist attacks (if not THE first). I think appearing to the victim naked from the waste down can tell us a bit about his sexual nature and what excites him. I don't think it is just the sexual sadism and terror he gets off on, there are elements of exhibitionism and 'flashing' behaviour.
I would be interested to know if there were any reports around the general area of men exposing themsleves to women, masturbating etc. I'd be surprised if EAR went from 0 - 100 in terms of his sexual offending... there would likely be a SEXUAL progression. Even if we assume EAR was VR... and the peeping and burglary turned into sexual assault, you wouldn't expect him to go from that to turning up to a persons house naked from the waste down and ready to rape them.
Its very possible he knew some of these early victims... or at least saw them around his neighbourhood. The fact he only appeared to his victims early on wearing no pants is quite important because I think there are only two possible scenarios for him starting and then stopping this behaviour:
1. He knew the victims he attacked whilst nude from the waist down and felt more comfortable in the commission of the assault than he would have with a random victim.
2. He did it because he is an exhibitionist, a flasher and wants women to look at him... he then stopped this after satisfying that side of his desire because he was worried this could potentially identify him because it is a personality trait rather than just part of his MO. This wasn't part of his MO... this was part of his sexual makeup.
I personally think it could be both of the above.
He also then went back to 1973 and stop of a time when there were an unusual amount of prowling or peeping toms as he preferred to call them. This was during nighttime patrols in Rancho and there were more than usual, I asked for a number he said more without giving a number, he said he did recall exact numbers but when a similar call comes in in the same area it's most likely real. Patrol units responded each time but were unable to locate the suspect, a lot of the time the reporting party would confront the peeper before the sheriff would get there and he would be gone. The description was mostly it was dark given as a description and only a direction of travel, there was no vehicle description ever given as far as he was aware. They just got dark clothing as what peeper was wearing and an assumption it was a kid from the reporting parties but he believes that was just what people thought a peeper was back then.
So the short answer is there were reports but nothing really for Sheriff Deputies to go on, they did perform tons of extra Patrol in the area and stopped loads of subjects including vehicle stops. This most likely was never assigned to the Investigations unit and was most likely considered a Patrol problem at the time due to very little or no leads. It could be EAR early beginnings or a completely different guy or even guys operating independently of each other. There were plenty of other criminals out during these same times.
Did you hear of any actual flashing incidents... or public masturbation and/or lewd behaviour? Appearing without pants on with his genitals on show has a feeling of exhibitionism to me. A neighbour also reported seeing a half naked man in the neighbourhood just walking away after one of these assaults occured where he attacked the victim without any pants on. It has exhibitionism written all over it.
He didn't just want the victim to see him... he wanted to be seen half naked.