Post by cleopatra on Apr 15, 2018 4:37:10 GMT
I finally watched episodes of Unmasking a Killer. I found the episode which discussed the EAR’s profile very interesting, seeing that I’ve read a lot about serial killer profiling.
I watched a Dateline show that was entitled “Golden Girls Serial Killer (or something like that), so I thought it was going to be about older women killers. It turned out to be about elderly women living in gated communities and/or upper middle-class neighborhoods who were being murdered by the same killer. Only one victim was robbed and none of them had anything in common so detectives felt catching the killer was going to be quite a challenge.
Turned out the killer was a woman. She was in her mid-40s. A registered nurse who was highly respected by the doctors and other medical staff at the hospital she worked at. She had always been a thrill seeker; she did sky diving, rock climbing, she worked out so she was fit, she was intelligent, charismatic, and she was very attractive (dark blonde hair and blue eyes). She strangled all of her victims. When one victim wasn’t dying, she grabbed a hard object then bludgeoned her head repeatedly.
The killer told a prison psychiatrist she targeted elderly women who reminded her of her mother. The victims were all around the same age as her mother. Her mother was domineering and controlling, and always put her down. No matter how good she was at anything she did, her mother still told her she could have done better. She told the psychiatrist that she hated her mother but she couldn’t kill her, so she killed those other women instead, and the whole time while she was strangling them, she thought of her mother and how she was finally getting to do this to her. Ted Bundy said that whenever his fiancé *ed him off, he would go find a woman who looked like her, then kidnap, rape and kill her.
The nurse and Ted Bundy chose victims who looked like the person they filled in for and who belonged to similar social statuses as them.
I believe the EAR/ONS may have chosen his victims the same way. When he started out in Rancho Cordova, he chose young victims in their teens. He may have been angry with girls he either dated or wanted to date, who rejected him. So I believe he was in his late teens at that time. Later, he chose couples and sometimes mothers who were home alone with their children. He may have been angry with his own mother or with a girlfriend who wouldn’t pay attention to him when they were taking care of young children. He may have been angry or jealous of couples who were in relationships that he wished he had. Or with a roommate who always had a girl over, which may have been why he chose couples and placed dishes on the man’s back and took the woman to another room – this way he could be the one making out with an attractive woman while the man had to be in another room.
By the time he was killing in So Cal, he may have been picking couples who lived together and/or were married, who reminded him of couples he was very angry with or jealous over. Those victims may have filled in for the couples who angered him. I believe by that time, he was more established, had a higher paying job, lived in the same kinds of houses and neighborhoods as his victims, and perhaps he even lived in the same neighborhood as one of his victims. I believe that he had a serial-killer-mid-life-crisis when he decided to re-live by re-doing his original attacks when he targeted Janelle Cruz.
I believe he has a family and a good job, and no one at all in his life, whether it's family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc.... has the slightest clue that he is the EAR/ONS. Because this guy is smart and he doesn't want to get caught more than anything else in the world. I believe the profilers on the show were correct when they said his sobbing episodes were all acts. One cannot be in a psychotic episode and remain focused the way he did. He also demonstrated patience, as was proven by his stalking and gathering of info, and breaking into homes in advance before attacking. Those traits show that he had/has the ability to tone down his crime sprees, especially as he matured as he got older, and even to stop altogether if it meant keeping him from getting caught.