GSK Map and Punishment Page Overlay

[albion]

Apr 20, 2015 2:38:35 GMT albion said:

Just some thoughts

1. The best detail is of the commercial buildings.

2. I see at least three delivery trucks. Going from the top of the page down, label them A, B, and C. For truck A, there has to be a fairly good amount of room behind that strip mall for that truck to back in like that. Truck B seems to have a better dock, but it still would require backing up from the street, which might not get approved by the city. Truck C seems very interesting. For one thing, that would be a very dificult spot to back up a truck. Turning around in the parking lot would take a very skilled driver. And backing in from the street would be equally bad, especially with soccer moms and sports cars buzzing in and out behind you. Adding to the problem, there is another building in the lower right that may or may not have cars parking in front of it.

3. Staying with the loading dock access for truck C, I find it very odd that the drawer of the map would have the delivery trucks passing over a bridge to get to the loading dock. I think that would have been needless extra cost. Additionally, the building to the left of truck C seems to have truck access also. But if you match the scale of truck C with the access, it seems it would block that entire drive when backed up to the building. That would be poor planning wouldnt it? Who would want to lease that building in the bottom right with those type of headaches? I dont think the city would have approved that.

4. A shopping center maximizes retail space, parking space, and walkways. Garden areas and shrubs and trees are nice, but they dont bring in the money. Unless it is a highend space, I dont see why anyone would build it the way it is drawn. And by looking at the residential streets he drew, I tend to think, that according to the scale, that area wasnt highend. Unless the area is very close to something like the beach or a larger lake, then I can't see buyers paying the extra money for the location.

5. On one steet it appears that he drew the driveways. And that they came directly from the street to the front of the homes. I believe this is a sign of smaller, single family homes. Higher priced homes would have the occasional circle drive or the detached garage with the drive on the side of the house.

6. Part of the thought behind the drawing may have been the idea of building the residential areas in three phases, or dividing up the building of the homes for three seperate builders, much like the City of Irvine was built. The cul-de-sacs in the bottom right could have been the third phase, possibly still undecided upon.

7. The long street with the island cul-de-sac does seem to be a defect. He could have avoided the problem by opening it up to the street beyond. I would think more that this idea would lend itself to someone imagining the drawing as he wrote it, rather than someone copying it. It reminds me of Irvine in a way. As a target that area would have been ideal for the reason that if LE responded and drove directly to the address, he could have jumped the back fence and gotten a very good head start. Especially if he parked a car or bicycle on the street behind those few houseson the circle part of the cul-de-sac.

8. I tend to think that in the commercial area, the drawer uses circles to draw the trees and shrubs. Is it possible that the rows of X's in the cul-de-sac area is the representation for some kind protective barrier or possibly some kind of silt fence to limit the amount of soil run off into the planned lake? Or even where the propsed utility easement will be.

9. As for the writing in the lake area, I have been leaning towrd "Lake Sports" and "Take Dogs". Earons would have likely been a fan of both of those.

10. As for the freeway and the offramps, being so close to a major thoroughfare as that would be a great selling point. For anyone who has looked at the propsed plans for developments, artists quite often do not follow scale, but rather try their best to include all the good points of a development. So even though I think the development was planned for somewhere close to the freeway, I dont think it had to necessarily match how it was drawn.

11. The inclusion of the HVAC units on top of the roofs seem interesting as well. I dont think a painter would be interested in the units on the top of the roof. I would think first of a developer, the general contractor, an aspiring architect, HVAC of course, electrician, and a roofer.

12. Back to truck B. Is the building at which it is parked designed to be one business? I see some hazy lines which could be dividing it. The only rear access for the building is where truck B is stopped at the loading dock. If the building was divided, wouldnt this be a problem also? Is the drawer supposing that some of the businesses wouldn't want rear access to their shops? Even if it was on business, would the fire and safety inspectors approve this? I dont think they would. For a real development, I would think they would have had to change this. Depending on what you believe, the idea that the drawer would not have recognized the need for good Fire Dept access to the commercial center might be telling. It might also support the idea that this map wasnt copied from an existing neighborhood.

13. The sharp angular bend in the major road on the left side seems deliberate. The gradual curve in the lateral road on the top seems deliberate also. The areas where a road comes off of another with a solid line at its connection seems to be part of the creative process. As if the main roads were copied or already drawn there and he was imagining what he could place within. The residential road with the small dog leg on the bottom seems to be a defect as well. That would make for an odd entrance into the development, imo.

14. The layout of the land would determine the flow of the water that would fill the lake. I would think that whatever parcel of land this drawing was based on, it would have a small valley in the center of it. I believe that this, along with the proximity to the freeway and the detailed commercial areas, would be a very telling aspect of the true location of the map. Personally, I feel the commercial area would be the high ground, and the area to the right would be the low ground and the drainage for the lake. I also tend to think that, as the map is oriented on the website, north would be to the left, and east would be to the top of the page. I also think this would imply that the notebook was folded back while he drew it, and that the drawer was right handed. I wonder if they can check the page to determine if there is some kind of body oils or smudges on one side of the drawing more so than the other.

For these reasons above, and the fact that it was written on the paper it was, I think it was either a very early sketch of something he was working on, and therefor a great deal of changes may have been made which could make the present area unrecognizable. Or it was a class assignment. If that is the case, and LE distributed this to the teachers in and around the crime areas, I cant understand why some student or teacher doesnt recognize what school or teacher would have given this assignment.

I wanted to add to this post. Something that got me thinking about the words written in the middle of the page. As good as anything else I have seen for the second word is "dozer". Shortened version of bulldozer, and what someone in the business of land developing would call it. A bulldozer and grader would be the machines of choice for building a man made lake. Following in that line of reasoning, a possible word for the first could be "spade". The higher end developments frequently use a tree spade to transplant larger trees into the development, especially around the entrance ways. These larger trees give the site a more established appeal and takes away from the boxy look that many of the developments have when they are first built. Tree spades are an attachment that can be placed on a skid steer, tractor, or tracked machine. A study of the map does show that the author did pay close attention to the placement of trees and shrubs.

By this explanation, I think it adds some to the idea that the development was not built at the time of the drawing, or has never been built. It also might support the idea that the author had a particular land tract in mind when he drew this map. I have mentioned the location of Hollister and Storke before, and if this map were to be of that location, it could have been drawn prior to the highway being finished and the off-ramps being built.

Here is a pic of a tree spade for those interested. Everyone knows what a dozer looks like and does.

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[Mitchell]

Custer, Mad is the word, and this illustration were all found at the same time and in the same location, correct?

Ruled notebook paper was utilized to produce Custer and Mad. The map was illustrated on unruled paper. Today I would say it was computer or printer paper though a much larger variety. I suppose there was typewriter paper at that time.

So, what sort of paper was available to a middle schoolers at the time? What did a junior high school supply list typical consist of in the mid to late '70's? Is this some kind of specialized craft paper that may have been uncommon at the time?

[happycamper]

Sept 5, 2015 8:54:24 GMT bob said:

the second word looks like "leaving"

I posted a list of crime tokens that he took

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Hi Bob, where is the token list please?

[bob]

Hi happy,

It's on September 24th (posting date). Look in the members tab "Bob" and enter "crime tokens" in the search box on the right. 2 pages pop up. It's on page 2.

[sultrycrockett]

Dec 9, 2015 17:53:18 GMT Mitchell said:

Custer, Mad is the word, and this illustration were all found at the same time and in the same location, correct?

Ruled notebook paper was utilized to produce Custer and Mad. The map was illustrated on unruled paper. Today I would say it was computer or printer paper though a much larger variety. I suppose there was typewriter paper at that time.

So, what sort of paper was available to a middle schoolers at the time? What did a junior high school supply list typical consist of in the mid to late '70's? Is this some kind of specialized craft paper that may have been uncommon at the time?

I didn't realize the map was on different paper.  This entire time I've been lurking, after having read McNamara's article and this thread, I had assumed each of the pages had been pulled out of the same original source notebook.

After originally viewing the back of the map I had thought off and on that there are stylistic differences in the map's penmanship versus what was seen in the Custer homework assignment and that self-reflective rant on being upset at a 6th grade teacher.  I had sort of ignored this suspicion because I had assumed the paper all came from the same notebook.

I felt like the word "punishment" was possibly written by someone other than the person who wrote the random names or words and other papers.  This led me to consider that maybe the page was doodled on by some random kid in a classroom somewhere, but was then later defaced by EAR after it was stolen.

Because EAR was a notorious burglar, the assignment could have been lifted from some random kid's room while EAR was ransacking during one of his dozens of home entries that did not result in a rape.  If you're a kid, you're probably not going to notice some old homework or notebook pages are missing.  If you do, you would probably just think you dropped them somewhere and lost it.  EAR prowled full-time and at any point could have lifted a kid's backpack or notebook.  If he did this, took the writings of some kid, defaced it and then left it, it could have been a taunt.

If you're LE and you discover that the offender has been in some random kid's room, and he may be targeting that unknown kid for punishment, and might have drawn a map, it would create additional panic and result in more terror for the community.  It could have been left on purpose.  People freaked out during the Zodiac case when they heard he might target a bus full of kids, and this got a lot of press in Northern and Central California.

This is just a theory based on my impression, but the word "punishment" is distinctly different, particularly in the large swoops and the continuation of the final letter.  It's not completely cursive, it has an unusual capital 'N' and is almost a hybrid of different styles.  If that was intentional, the writer possibly wanted to obviate the message.  The 'ment' is cursive but uses really sharp points and absurdly bold swoops, which are not similar to the penmanship of the other writings, but are similar to a signature you'd see from someone with a large ego, like an athlete or celeb autograph.  The homework has a softer more controlled cursive style that doesn't have such sharp points, and I think I also read somewhere that the word "punishment" was done in ink.

Also, after reading the Mad is the world rant, it struck me as juvenile, along with the Custer homework.  The mental maturity and use of language reflects to me someone around maybe 15 or 16 with relatively low-to-average reading comprehension.  To me it doesn't feel like EAR, just the ramblings of a teen with angst who might have ADHD and is somewhat maladjusted and has been punished for it.  It's relatively normal, not deviant or strange or violent, which is what I'd expect from someone with EAR's proclivities.

As someone who has done a fair amount of writing while growing up, I feel you recognize that it takes time to develop your own distinct superficial writing style.  If you're a celebrity, it takes time and practice to develop a signature with large swoops and style that eventually seems unique and befitting of your ego.  The word "punishment" has a more mature writer's style and variation, and is quite a departure from the simplicity of the homework, which is more rigid and better follows the basic rules of penmanship and cursive.  In "punishment," there is just not any level of control or acknowledgement of rule.  It almost seems impulsive, but with an intent to differentiate it from everything around it.  I'll bet if they've analyzed it, the pressure is quite a bit harder and the paper shows a drastic difference between the writers.

I think LE released it because they're hoping someone will recognize having written the assignment and angst story as a kid, and that might lead somewhere because at some point it ended up in the possession of EAR and was left at a scene where he had parked after an attack.  EAR probably didn't do this a second time because it had no real perceivable effect the first time.  LE just booked it into evidence and it never made the papers nor was mentioned during press conferences.  It was essentially just forgotten until recently.

[warren]

Excellent analysis, sultry.

[sultrycrockett]

Feb 8, 2016 16:29:57 GMT warren said:

Excellent analysis, sultry.

Thanks Warren, it's been a while since my detective days working in Miami with Tubbs in the 80's.  It was my first post and it was something that had been nagging me since I viewed the homework and map, pal.  

We all know this EAR clown was a young man when he started, but I don't feel he was as young as the teen in those writings.  That word "punishment" and how it was written gives me exactly the impression that it was EAR, and is completely consistent with what would be expected from someone his age, with his personality and sexual behavior, and with how he imposed himself upon the lives of others.

As methodical as he was and as quick to evolve as he was from crime-to-crime, it doesn't strike me as likely that he'd be the sort of person who would keep his old 9th grade homework sitting around in his car for years and drop it at a scene by accident.  Someone suggested he was a pack rat and those papers could easily have just ended up on the ground when he got in or out, but his crimes don't show a disorganized pack rat; neither did the profile done on him by that psychologist lady in Florida.  He was disciplined and conscientious between his escape routes, how he protected his identity, hid his stutter, developed scripts and consistent tactics, and where and how he parked. 

Of course he did make a few mistakes here and there.  He was spotted out and about, he did drop a few things like bullets and other pieces of evidence, but he never carried anything that would be of consequence should he drop it by accident like an I.D. card or selfie with his mother.  Him driving around with really old homework seems ridiculous to me mainly because no one does that, certainly not someone with his attention to detail.

Richard Shelby mentions in that YouTube podcast regarding his book that EAR was careful to switch license plates and use a variety of vehicles which were dead ends when LE tried to run traces on them.  Given EAR's methodical approach, I don't see how he would be cruising for victims with really old homework laying around near the driver's side door ready to fall out.

Also, we know EAR always wore gloves.  Did they find numerous sets of prints on the homework and map?  Did the dogs respond to the area where the scent trail ended, or did they respond directly to the scent on the homework evidence?  McNamara's article is non-specific about why exactly the investigators believe all the homework evidence is EAR.  There's information about the map, but no specifics on how the homework and angst writing is directly tied to EAR, other than it was found there.  There isn't anything on a fingerprint or DNA match, or fiber match, and there's nothing about handwriting comparisons among the many different names and words scrawled on the different pieces of paper.  

My view is that when you add it all together, I think "punishment" has to be differentiated from the other two pages.  Also, if "punishment" is in pen, then you would naturally assume anything else near it, perhaps the map itself or other words or names in pen, are all related.  Obviously we don't have enough details from LE to know exactly what sorts of analyses have been done on all 3 pieces of evidence, but visually I think you could conclude what I did.

[Drifter]

sultrycrockett ... Also, the baseline for the word "punishment" is uneven, apparently indicating that the person who wrote it was emotionally unstable or mercurial.

Your analysis was interesting. Welcome to the message board.

Drifter

[Michelle Cruz]

Almost like a quickly drawn Plat Map... Is he a surveyor...? just a thought...

[trabuco]

Feb 9, 2016 17:11:32 GMT Michelle Cruz said:

Almost like a quickly drawn Plat Map... Is he a surveyor...? just a thought...

A surveyor has been suggested before. Could be.

[trabuco]

Feb 8, 2016 15:35:23 GMT sultrycrockett said:

Dec 9, 2015 17:53:18 GMT Mitchell said:

Custer, Mad is the word, and this illustration were all found at the same time and in the same location, correct?

Ruled notebook paper was utilized to produce Custer and Mad. The map was illustrated on unruled paper. Today I would say it was computer or printer paper though a much larger variety. I suppose there was typewriter paper at that time.

So, what sort of paper was available to a middle schoolers at the time? What did a junior high school supply list typical consist of in the mid to late '70's? Is this some kind of specialized craft paper that may have been uncommon at the time?

I didn't realize the map was on different paper.  This entire time I've been lurking, after having read McNamara's article and this thread, I had assumed each of the pages had been pulled out of the same original source notebook.

After originally viewing the back of the map I had thought off and on that there are stylistic differences in the map's penmanship versus what was seen in the Custer homework assignment and that self-reflective rant on being upset at a 6th grade teacher.  I had sort of ignored this suspicion because I had assumed the paper all came from the same notebook.

I felt like the word "punishment" was possibly written by someone other than the person who wrote the random names or words and other papers.  This led me to consider that maybe the page was doodled on by some random kid in a classroom somewhere, but was then later defaced by EAR after it was stolen.

Because EAR was a notorious burglar, the assignment could have been lifted from some random kid's room while EAR was ransacking during one of his dozens of home entries that did not result in a rape.  If you're a kid, you're probably not going to notice some old homework or notebook pages are missing.  If you do, you would probably just think you dropped them somewhere and lost it.  EAR prowled full-time and at any point could have lifted a kid's backpack or notebook.  If he did this, took the writings of some kid, defaced it and then left it, it could have been a taunt.

If you're LE and you discover that the offender has been in some random kid's room, and he may be targeting that unknown kid for punishment, and might have drawn a map, it would create additional panic and result in more terror for the community.  It could have been left on purpose.  People freaked out during the Zodiac case when they heard he might target a bus full of kids, and this got a lot of press in Northern and Central California.

This is just a theory based on my impression, but the word "punishment" is distinctly different, particularly in the large swoops and the continuation of the final letter.  It's not completely cursive, it has an unusual capital 'N' and is almost a hybrid of different styles.  If that was intentional, the writer possibly wanted to obviate the message.  The 'ment' is cursive but uses really sharp points and absurdly bold swoops, which are not similar to the penmanship of the other writings, but are similar to a signature you'd see from someone with a large ego, like an athlete or celeb autograph.  The homework has a softer more controlled cursive style that doesn't have such sharp points, and I think I also read somewhere that the word "punishment" was done in ink.

Also, after reading the Mad is the world rant, it struck me as juvenile, along with the Custer homework.  The mental maturity and use of language reflects to me someone around maybe 15 or 16 with relatively low-to-average reading comprehension.  To me it doesn't feel like EAR, just the ramblings of a teen with angst who might have ADHD and is somewhat maladjusted and has been punished for it.  It's relatively normal, not deviant or strange or violent, which is what I'd expect from someone with EAR's proclivities.

As someone who has done a fair amount of writing while growing up, I feel you recognize that it takes time to develop your own distinct superficial writing style.  If you're a celebrity, it takes time and practice to develop a signature with large swoops and style that eventually seems unique and befitting of your ego.  The word "punishment" has a more mature writer's style and variation, and is quite a departure from the simplicity of the homework, which is more rigid and better follows the basic rules of penmanship and cursive.  In "punishment," there is just not any level of control or acknowledgement of rule.  It almost seems impulsive, but with an intent to differentiate it from everything around it.  I'll bet if they've analyzed it, the pressure is quite a bit harder and the paper shows a drastic difference between the writers.

I think LE released it because they're hoping someone will recognize having written the assignment and angst story as a kid, and that might lead somewhere because at some point it ended up in the possession of EAR and was left at a scene where he had parked after an attack.  EAR probably didn't do this a second time because it had no real perceivable effect the first time.  LE just booked it into evidence and it never made the papers nor was mentioned during press conferences.  It was essentially just forgotten until recently.

Your logic and writing style makes for a great read imo.

[sultrycrockett]

Nov 12, 2015 7:56:19 GMT albion said:

Apr 20, 2015 2:38:35 GMT albion said:

Just some thoughts

1. The best detail is of the commercial buildings.

2. I see at least three delivery trucks. Going from the top of the page down, label them A, B, and C. For truck A, there has to be a fairly good amount of room behind that strip mall for that truck to back in like that. Truck B seems to have a better dock, but it still would require backing up from the street, which might not get approved by the city. Truck C seems very interesting. For one thing, that would be a very dificult spot to back up a truck. Turning around in the parking lot would take a very skilled driver. And backing in from the street would be equally bad, especially with soccer moms and sports cars buzzing in and out behind you. Adding to the problem, there is another building in the lower right that may or may not have cars parking in front of it.

3. Staying with the loading dock access for truck C, I find it very odd that the drawer of the map would have the delivery trucks passing over a bridge to get to the loading dock. I think that would have been needless extra cost. Additionally, the building to the left of truck C seems to have truck access also. But if you match the scale of truck C with the access, it seems it would block that entire drive when backed up to the building. That would be poor planning wouldnt it? Who would want to lease that building in the bottom right with those type of headaches? I dont think the city would have approved that.

4. A shopping center maximizes retail space, parking space, and walkways. Garden areas and shrubs and trees are nice, but they dont bring in the money. Unless it is a highend space, I dont see why anyone would build it the way it is drawn. And by looking at the residential streets he drew, I tend to think, that according to the scale, that area wasnt highend. Unless the area is very close to something like the beach or a larger lake, then I can't see buyers paying the extra money for the location.

5. On one steet it appears that he drew the driveways. And that they came directly from the street to the front of the homes. I believe this is a sign of smaller, single family homes. Higher priced homes would have the occasional circle drive or the detached garage with the drive on the side of the house.

6. Part of the thought behind the drawing may have been the idea of building the residential areas in three phases, or dividing up the building of the homes for three seperate builders, much like the City of Irvine was built. The cul-de-sacs in the bottom right could have been the third phase, possibly still undecided upon.

7. The long street with the island cul-de-sac does seem to be a defect. He could have avoided the problem by opening it up to the street beyond. I would think more that this idea would lend itself to someone imagining the drawing as he wrote it, rather than someone copying it. It reminds me of Irvine in a way. As a target that area would have been ideal for the reason that if LE responded and drove directly to the address, he could have jumped the back fence and gotten a very good head start. Especially if he parked a car or bicycle on the street behind those few houseson the circle part of the cul-de-sac.

8. I tend to think that in the commercial area, the drawer uses circles to draw the trees and shrubs. Is it possible that the rows of X's in the cul-de-sac area is the representation for some kind protective barrier or possibly some kind of silt fence to limit the amount of soil run off into the planned lake? Or even where the propsed utility easement will be.

9. As for the writing in the lake area, I have been leaning towrd "Lake Sports" and "Take Dogs". Earons would have likely been a fan of both of those.

10. As for the freeway and the offramps, being so close to a major thoroughfare as that would be a great selling point. For anyone who has looked at the propsed plans for developments, artists quite often do not follow scale, but rather try their best to include all the good points of a development. So even though I think the development was planned for somewhere close to the freeway, I dont think it had to necessarily match how it was drawn.

11. The inclusion of the HVAC units on top of the roofs seem interesting as well. I dont think a painter would be interested in the units on the top of the roof. I would think first of a developer, the general contractor, an aspiring architect, HVAC of course, electrician, and a roofer.

12. Back to truck B. Is the building at which it is parked designed to be one business? I see some hazy lines which could be dividing it. The only rear access for the building is where truck B is stopped at the loading dock. If the building was divided, wouldnt this be a problem also? Is the drawer supposing that some of the businesses wouldn't want rear access to their shops? Even if it was on business, would the fire and safety inspectors approve this? I dont think they would. For a real development, I would think they would have had to change this. Depending on what you believe, the idea that the drawer would not have recognized the need for good Fire Dept access to the commercial center might be telling. It might also support the idea that this map wasnt copied from an existing neighborhood.

13. The sharp angular bend in the major road on the left side seems deliberate. The gradual curve in the lateral road on the top seems deliberate also. The areas where a road comes off of another with a solid line at its connection seems to be part of the creative process. As if the main roads were copied or already drawn there and he was imagining what he could place within. The residential road with the small dog leg on the bottom seems to be a defect as well. That would make for an odd entrance into the development, imo.

14. The layout of the land would determine the flow of the water that would fill the lake. I would think that whatever parcel of land this drawing was based on, it would have a small valley in the center of it. I believe that this, along with the proximity to the freeway and the detailed commercial areas, would be a very telling aspect of the true location of the map. Personally, I feel the commercial area would be the high ground, and the area to the right would be the low ground and the drainage for the lake. I also tend to think that, as the map is oriented on the website, north would be to the left, and east would be to the top of the page. I also think this would imply that the notebook was folded back while he drew it, and that the drawer was right handed. I wonder if they can check the page to determine if there is some kind of body oils or smudges on one side of the drawing more so than the other.

For these reasons above, and the fact that it was written on the paper it was, I think it was either a very early sketch of something he was working on, and therefor a great deal of changes may have been made which could make the present area unrecognizable. Or it was a class assignment. If that is the case, and LE distributed this to the teachers in and around the crime areas, I cant understand why some student or teacher doesnt recognize what school or teacher would have given this assignment.

I wanted to add to this post. Something that got me thinking about the words written in the middle of the page. As good as anything else I have seen for the second word is "dozer". Shortened version of bulldozer, and what someone in the business of land developing would call it. A bulldozer and grader would be the machines of choice for building a man made lake. Following in that line of reasoning, a possible word for the first could be "spade". The higher end developments frequently use a tree spade to transplant larger trees into the development, especially around the entrance ways. These larger trees give the site a more established appeal and takes away from the boxy look that many of the developments have when they are first built. Tree spades are an attachment that can be placed on a skid steer, tractor, or tracked machine. A study of the map does show that the author did pay close attention to the placement of trees and shrubs.

By this explanation, I think it adds some to the idea that the development was not built at the time of the drawing, or has never been built. It also might support the idea that the author had a particular land tract in mind when he drew this map. I have mentioned the location of Hollister and Storke before, and if this map were to be of that location, it could have been drawn prior to the highway being finished and the off-ramps being built.

Here is a pic of a tree spade for those interested. Everyone knows what a dozer looks like and does.

This is a fascinating series of posts.  One initial thing I found interesting, from your observations regarding the arrangement of the trees (in idea #3), is that there was a lack of consideration on the part of the designer for anything beyond the superficial scope of the green areas.  There was little to no planning for anything commercial and convenient for the community, only for the planner.  This shows a poor understanding of economy, commerce, and the necessities of human life in a normal community setting.  But it also shows a focus on the greenbelts, and them having some utility to the designer. 

Communities always require several things.  They require water, access to resources, ease of travel, and organization.  You pointed out the designer had little to no recognition of certain fundamental rules of city planning.  This certainly puts the designer more in the novice category, with an interest in the drawn subject matter, but lacking in any expertise or thorough understanding of a real potential community.  If we're talking about someone within EAR's suspected age range at the time the map was discovered, this would fit right in-line with where you'd expect his knowledge level to be on a lot of different life topics.  Most people who are young adults are still learning the basics, and certainly anyone who is studying to be a landscape architect, or a master planner for a community, would probably have some understanding of the basics, but not show a polished complete understanding of the subject matter.  A younger person would overlook some of those oddities you pointed out.

Your observation about the green areas has two tentative implications possibly connected to the case.  It has been suspected that EAR had ties to real estate in some way because a weirdo was seen and talked to by some agents.  He went to empty houses and walked around them.  It implies he spent time in vacant homes to possibly prepare for future attacks, or he used them as a perch to watch the neighboring homes.  Because attacks occurred on property recently purchased, or near homes for sale, Detective Richard Shelby had surmised that EAR used them to his advantage.  If one of EAR's parents were involved in real estate, he would've inherited some knowledge of real estate, such as the variables that affect home value, and how communities are laid out.

EAR recognized that communities do often have greenbelts to navigate, and this seemed to be somewhat of a focus in the map.  Additionally, because of the real estate connection to EAR, I think it was very apparent that the same knowledge was applied in the Janelle Cruz murder in SoCal.  TruthAndSoul had recently started a thread with some aerial map shots that showed her community as having an excessive amount of greenbelts and park areas, much like the map drawing.  These types of designs were his favorite for stalking and escape.  From the psychology of his behavior, you could argue that the map would be akin to a fantasy of someone like EAR, with his chosen pursuit and age range.  

Another poster mentioned Dungeons and Dragons, which is like a role playing fantasy game.  The act of fantasy on paper to create a setting seems like something a solitary person like EAR would draw with his interest in a community's layout.  It was also critical for him to be somewhat knowledgeable with regard to the use of trees and greenery.  A profiler had suggested that prior to his crimes he must have engaged in a good amount of fantasy before the actual act, and that is the case with a lot of serial offenders.  They gradually transition into stages of accomplishment and evolution, but they start out with fantasies that must be played out.  The drive and motivation always stems from their fantasy world, unless of course they're like spree killers and impulse killers who kill situationally. 

Based on some of your observations of the map, there seems to be some evidence that EAR's knowledge demonstrated more than an inherited basic understanding of real estate, which at the very least he had.  No one at 21 suddenly becomes a full fledged real estate agent on their own.  

You proposed in idea #14 that this was typical of what you'd expect from a student.  I think that is right on the money.  I think it is quite likely, as you stated, that it was related to a college course.  This falls in-line with what we know about his rape schedule.  He seldom attacked on Sundays.  Every college student knows that Sunday is your cram day, which is why college libraries are always full on Sunday nights.  I also suspect he lived at home and his mother made him attend church.  The summer he was gone from the rape scene was probably school-related, like study abroad or an internship somewhere.  Everyone likes to think EAR could've been a complete loser, but I feel he showed a lot of discipline.  He certainly wasn't totally irresponsible, and if the poem was his, the poem hinted at an educated person.

I personally think college transcript records could be an excellent investigative tool, especially if they can be cross-referenced with other databases.

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This is by far one of the best threads on the board. Great job all around, this is some very thought provoking stuff everyone

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Feb 10, 2016 21:22:10 GMT @murdoc said:

This is by far one of the best threads on the board. Great job all around, this is some very thought provoking stuff everyone

Yeah, that map needs a thorough looking at.  If that map has indeed been conclusively linked to EAR through DNA or fingerprints or something, it is an interesting piece of evidence.  Do you know if it is possible that it just maybe isn't connected to EAR?

There's some debate on the poem, but what about with this map?  Does anyone have information besides the fact that the map was found near where EAR parked?

I'm just curious about any arguments out there against the MAP being EAR's.

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Feb 11, 2016 4:24:59 GMT sultrycrockett said:

Feb 10, 2016 21:22:10 GMT @murdoc said:

This is by far one of the best threads on the board. Great job all around, this is some very thought provoking stuff everyone

Yeah, that map needs a thorough looking at.  If that map has indeed been conclusively linked to EAR through DNA or fingerprints or something, it is an interesting piece of evidence.  Do you know if it is possible that it just maybe isn't connected to EAR?

There's some debate on the poem, but what about with this map?  Does anyone have information besides the fact that the map was found near where EAR parked?

I'm just curious about any arguments out there against the MAP being EAR's.

I agree.

Did you read the other documents from the same notebook?