'72-'73 Indecent Exposure suspect questions
Feb 28, 2018 22:34:57 GMT
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Post by rkz on Feb 28, 2018 22:34:57 GMT
Hello -
This is a description of the nighttime activities of a man who was exposing himself to women at the time the Cat Burglar was active, as per the SCSD's new page about incidents possibly tied to EAR:
This indecent exposure suspect also struck other areas of Rancho Cordova and Carmichael, on nights where no cat burglaries were reported. These incidents involved a male suspect who would knock on the front window, front door, or sliding glass door of the residence wearing only a t-shirt when a woman or teenage girl was standing near it. It appears based on the timing that he had been watching for a period of time until the desired victim was near the window/door. He was observed by the victim(s), committed lewd acts, and did not leave immediately. He was not observed to be holding anything including pants, and was occasionally chased by males who were also in the home. In one case, the suspect knocked on the front door, stood in front of the victim naked from the waist down, and demanded: “Give me a match.” She screamed, and alerted others in the house, but when they checked outside, the man was gone.
www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=4212543183b848e88d3432f5147321f6 (look under the "Indecent Exposure" heading.)
Did any of these victims/witnesses give a description of this man's penis? I know it's an odd question, but given that EAR was infamously under-endowed, it seems pertinent.
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The "Give me a match" line strikes (ha ha) me as odd. EAR left matches at crime scenes. (When did disposable lighters become popular? Were matches the standard method for lighting cigarettes or joints back then? At least it shows that he didn't use a Zippo.) It sounds like he could have said anything to get her attention, but he demanded a match. Why didn't he ask for a light? He specifically asked for a match. "Give me a match" is not typically how someone would casually ask for a flame with which to light a cigarette, even in the 70s. "Got a light?" would be a more common phrasing of this type of request. Not "Give me a match." Does this strike anyone else as being strange or telling somehow?
But it's also odd in that, if this guy WAS EAR, this would be another EAR-ism to add to the list of odd, strangely personal phrases he used. These phrases include "You better give me a good drop" (referring to orgasm? "Drop"ping sperm?), "I'll be gone in the dark"/"I'll be gone in the night," the notorious "Mommy" and "I don't want to do this anymore" sobbing, "Is Ray there?" (why "Ray?") etc. It seems like we're dealing with a guy who used very personal-sounding malapropisms and idiomatic speech. And he used his words as a tool of misdirection.
If we add "Excitement's Crave" to the "why does he talk this way?" list (the poem is chock full of odd, stilted, and awkward-sounding phrases); and if we entertain the possibility of witnesses noting a slight (or obviously faked) accent, it points to a man whose use of the English language was more eccentric than the average Rancho Cordova resident. What if EAR was a man who was known among acquaintances for dropping odd-sounding phrases and misused words into his speech and written correspondence? Has this been pursued before on this board? To me, those phrases and odd word choices (and the numerous misspellings in the Danville papers, if they really were the work of EAR) are indicative of someone whose grasp of idioms and grasp of the mechanics of the language would be noticeable to close observers because of their stark difference to how others speak and write.
This is a description of the nighttime activities of a man who was exposing himself to women at the time the Cat Burglar was active, as per the SCSD's new page about incidents possibly tied to EAR:
This indecent exposure suspect also struck other areas of Rancho Cordova and Carmichael, on nights where no cat burglaries were reported. These incidents involved a male suspect who would knock on the front window, front door, or sliding glass door of the residence wearing only a t-shirt when a woman or teenage girl was standing near it. It appears based on the timing that he had been watching for a period of time until the desired victim was near the window/door. He was observed by the victim(s), committed lewd acts, and did not leave immediately. He was not observed to be holding anything including pants, and was occasionally chased by males who were also in the home. In one case, the suspect knocked on the front door, stood in front of the victim naked from the waist down, and demanded: “Give me a match.” She screamed, and alerted others in the house, but when they checked outside, the man was gone.
www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=4212543183b848e88d3432f5147321f6 (look under the "Indecent Exposure" heading.)
Did any of these victims/witnesses give a description of this man's penis? I know it's an odd question, but given that EAR was infamously under-endowed, it seems pertinent.
ALSO:
The "Give me a match" line strikes (ha ha) me as odd. EAR left matches at crime scenes. (When did disposable lighters become popular? Were matches the standard method for lighting cigarettes or joints back then? At least it shows that he didn't use a Zippo.) It sounds like he could have said anything to get her attention, but he demanded a match. Why didn't he ask for a light? He specifically asked for a match. "Give me a match" is not typically how someone would casually ask for a flame with which to light a cigarette, even in the 70s. "Got a light?" would be a more common phrasing of this type of request. Not "Give me a match." Does this strike anyone else as being strange or telling somehow?
But it's also odd in that, if this guy WAS EAR, this would be another EAR-ism to add to the list of odd, strangely personal phrases he used. These phrases include "You better give me a good drop" (referring to orgasm? "Drop"ping sperm?), "I'll be gone in the dark"/"I'll be gone in the night," the notorious "Mommy" and "I don't want to do this anymore" sobbing, "Is Ray there?" (why "Ray?") etc. It seems like we're dealing with a guy who used very personal-sounding malapropisms and idiomatic speech. And he used his words as a tool of misdirection.
If we add "Excitement's Crave" to the "why does he talk this way?" list (the poem is chock full of odd, stilted, and awkward-sounding phrases); and if we entertain the possibility of witnesses noting a slight (or obviously faked) accent, it points to a man whose use of the English language was more eccentric than the average Rancho Cordova resident. What if EAR was a man who was known among acquaintances for dropping odd-sounding phrases and misused words into his speech and written correspondence? Has this been pursued before on this board? To me, those phrases and odd word choices (and the numerous misspellings in the Danville papers, if they really were the work of EAR) are indicative of someone whose grasp of idioms and grasp of the mechanics of the language would be noticeable to close observers because of their stark difference to how others speak and write.