Post by locard on Aug 27, 2017 23:11:38 GMT
I think the key to solving this case is going to be this offender's ties to Santa Barbara County and the Goleta, CA murders. EAR/ONS had to have lived, worked, or visited in that area. He committed at least four murders in Goleta, CA. The first couple he tried to attack were able to escape. (Also Goleta senior citizen Eva Taylor's 1974 bludgeoning death has all of the hallmarks of an EAR/ONS crime and Orange County Sheriff's Investigator Larry Pool thinks that EAR/ONS may have committed Taylor's murder. A male hopped her rear fence, pried open a slider door, bludgeoned her, and only stole items of little value from her home.)
Goleta, CA and Santa Barbara County's population are much smaller than Sacramento County's population and I think this offender may be easier to locate there from any ties that he had there: family, friends, coworkers, and acquaintences.
If EAR/ONS murdered Eva Taylor in April 1974, then his crime spree may have started in Southern California and not Sacramento County. (Does anyone know if Santa Barbara County kept any physical evidence from Taylor's unsolved murder that could be DNA tested to see if EAR/ONS' DNA was found at her murder?)
If the EAR honed his criminal skills in Visalia, CA as the Visalia Ransacker, as the F.B.I. thinks is "likely", then the Sacramento area rapes weren't this offender's 'first rodeo'. The VR committed hot prowl burglaries primarily on weekends, starting in April 1974. The VR shot and killed Professor Claude Snelling who saved his teen daughter from being kidnapped by the VR. The VR shot at, and could have killed, Visalia Detective Bill McGowen during a stake out to catch the VR. The bullet hit McGowen's flashlight. The VR escaped. McGowen, who knew local Visalia youths, did not recognize the VR as being a local youth. The VR never struck again in Visalia. Shortly thereafter the EAR attacks started.