Post by foxmulder on Mar 20, 2017 8:56:09 GMT
If you believe Shelby, EAR was still alive in 1991 to make the phone call to a former victim. If that is true, I have a thought:
Perhaps EAR came out of "retirement" so to speak and killed Janelle. He found that bludgeoning didn't hold the same thrill it did back in 1981. Perhaps his compulsion escalated further and evolved further. Perhaps he moved on to murders which involved other methods - and which perhaps have yet to be linked to him.
We see already in his basher murders that he's trying to test things. He's taking the bindings with him. He's trying to make the scene look like a robbery gone bad to throw the cops off. He's experimenting a little bit. We don't an will never know how long he spent with his murder victims before killing him, but perhaps he graduated to abduction.
Think about it from his POV if you can. What we know of EAR is that he got off on dominance and terror. On destroying people emotionally and physically. Now, he's leaving a trail of victims and bodies behind. With DNA on the rise - which I am certain he was aware of - perhaps he considered "no body, no murder."
I see in the ONS crimes a fledgling murderer. A guy who was crude and just getting his taste for murder as the next step - the next thrill - a graduation from rape. Bludgeoning may be brutal, but it's also very basic. I mean if we're going to step into a psycho's mind, there are a lot more interesting ways to kill a person. And EAR strikes me as very exploratory in his crimes: Developing his script, changing his MO, doing a 180 from EAR to ONS. I think he entered a third phase we just haven't connected to the other two yet.
I can easily see him jumping from just bludgeoning to abducting victims and torturing them for days before dispatching them and hiding the body. I mean, if you get off on power and control, what's more powerful than having a victim in your own house, ready to be killed whenever you want them to be? What would offer more control over the situation and the victim than something like that? Sick yes, but EAR wasn't exactly the picture of normality.
I can see him trying out different kinds of methods and murders that lack any ties to his ONS phase but maybe would, if investigated, hold some similarities to his EAR phase.
Just as EAR and ONS were not linked for almost 20 years as being the same guy, I believe that there are other murders with very very different MOs in the late 1980s and 1990s that could be linked to EAR. I believe that he changed his MO both to avoid capture and because bludgeoning just wasn't as "fun" as it once had been.
I'm interested in hearing your views.
Perhaps EAR came out of "retirement" so to speak and killed Janelle. He found that bludgeoning didn't hold the same thrill it did back in 1981. Perhaps his compulsion escalated further and evolved further. Perhaps he moved on to murders which involved other methods - and which perhaps have yet to be linked to him.
We see already in his basher murders that he's trying to test things. He's taking the bindings with him. He's trying to make the scene look like a robbery gone bad to throw the cops off. He's experimenting a little bit. We don't an will never know how long he spent with his murder victims before killing him, but perhaps he graduated to abduction.
Think about it from his POV if you can. What we know of EAR is that he got off on dominance and terror. On destroying people emotionally and physically. Now, he's leaving a trail of victims and bodies behind. With DNA on the rise - which I am certain he was aware of - perhaps he considered "no body, no murder."
I see in the ONS crimes a fledgling murderer. A guy who was crude and just getting his taste for murder as the next step - the next thrill - a graduation from rape. Bludgeoning may be brutal, but it's also very basic. I mean if we're going to step into a psycho's mind, there are a lot more interesting ways to kill a person. And EAR strikes me as very exploratory in his crimes: Developing his script, changing his MO, doing a 180 from EAR to ONS. I think he entered a third phase we just haven't connected to the other two yet.
I can easily see him jumping from just bludgeoning to abducting victims and torturing them for days before dispatching them and hiding the body. I mean, if you get off on power and control, what's more powerful than having a victim in your own house, ready to be killed whenever you want them to be? What would offer more control over the situation and the victim than something like that? Sick yes, but EAR wasn't exactly the picture of normality.
I can see him trying out different kinds of methods and murders that lack any ties to his ONS phase but maybe would, if investigated, hold some similarities to his EAR phase.
Just as EAR and ONS were not linked for almost 20 years as being the same guy, I believe that there are other murders with very very different MOs in the late 1980s and 1990s that could be linked to EAR. I believe that he changed his MO both to avoid capture and because bludgeoning just wasn't as "fun" as it once had been.
I'm interested in hearing your views.