Post by bjbruther on Mar 9, 2018 19:44:03 GMT
I really think the military/security thought is a "rabbit hole" down which many speculators have gone. If you read the right materials, such as US Army Combat Leaders Guide, which you can buy at any military base in the 1970s, which I did, you can get the rudiments of tactical thinking down, then it just requires application, context Boy Scouts or JROTC or just "playing war"to hone those skills. For example, when I played war, way back in the late 1950s, early 1960s, we ambushed each other, hid in the bushes, crawled around over the ground, all of which was to escape the attention of our target, plus our parents. All skills the EAR/ONS had, nothing special . . . Of more attention, should be his burglary-fetish burglary crimes which may have got him caught very early on, he would have been a teen, and in the 1960s, it would have been seen as "acting out", or teen hi-jinks, perhaps even natural curiosity--watching local girls after dark. I do not think that he was the Visalia Ransacker, but he would have committed something like those burglaries wherever he started his explorations. The VR physical description is very different from a 5'9, sandy-haired, early 20s, physically fit individual reported as the EAR. Another brief thought, we might not know about his first rape, actually, if the woman or teen girl did not report it, we always read that rapes are often not reported -- the "dark figure", so he may have been even more prolific, all the more reason to go back to the first incidents and look at those prowler reports again, especially any predating the first known rape--hang up calls, noises outside late at night--all things that might have logically led to an EAR attempt or attack. A survey of women and girls living in the area at that time on-line might reveal attempts or actual rapes bearing the signature in embryo. As the reports were published in the newspapers, women obviously felt more comfortable reporting the attack, and once he turned to couples, only the male might want to hide the attack out of shame, but the publicity drove the reports.