Post by locard on Jul 29, 2017 7:15:27 GMT
There is zero evidence for that. This is sheer speculation.
As for my first point, that he lived in an oppressively religious environment, obviously I'm making an inference. If you believe that the VR is EAR, many of his targets attended the same church in Visalia. The parents of the 2nd victim were out of town on a church trip for the weekend, and I think it's possible that he knew them. I suspect this also explains why he was always drinking beer and soda and, smoking cigarettes at his crime scenes. Doing those to things had to fill some need or desire in him because they didn't help him commit the crime; they actually made it more likely he'd get caught. He also cursed excessively and looked at porn in convenience stores. I suspect he wasn't able to do these things in his home environment. He used strange verbiage during his crimes, and if you believe that Excitment's Crave is authentic, it appears to be heavily influenced by seventh day Adventists. There is a great post in the gsk library. He also sometimes covered victims, which may indicate some level of shame.
I think the Southern California crimes were commuter crimes because I find it conincidental that the beginning of a new cluster coincided with his escalation to murder. I think he planned on killing the Queen Anne Lane victims, but he needed to move further away from the NoCal clusters to avoid LE making the link.
EAR constantly threw out red herrings. Nothing he wrote is to be trusted as representative of his real life. It could be just one of many ruses that he used.
The East Area Rapist constantly threw out red herrings to throw people off his tracks, including using beer cans, cigarette butts, etc. Victims didn't smell tobacco on him or alcohol. As one of our members here noted that EAR may be just the opposite of his red herrings: non-drinker, non-smoker, etc.
When he evolved into a serial killer (GSK) he covered the victims not because he had a sense of shame but so that he wouldn't get covered in blood spatter when he bludgeoned them.