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Jun 4, 2018 19:04:24 GMT
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Post by EaglesNumberOne on Jun 4, 2018 19:04:24 GMT
Maybe someone who lives in the Sacramento/Auburn or Visalia/Exeter areas can answer this. ( I don't know if we yet know of exactly where he lived during the times of these two crime sprees.) I did a mapquest on driving from Sacramento to Auburn (30 miles/30 minutes), when I narrow it down to Citrus Heights/Auburn its 20 miles/20 minutes. Both a straight run on I-80. My question is, even thought Sacramento and Auburn are only 25 miles apart, were they really different worlds ? Would someone in Sacramento know anything about goings on in Auburn and vice a versa. Remember this was an age with no cell phones, no internet, etc. Did JDD actually live in Auburn and Exeter so that he would not pop up on the radar of Sacramento and Visalia ? Son of Sam lived in Westchester county but murdered in NYC. I know a lot of us are saying , how could they miss him, and in many respects, I think if efforts had been coordinated, and these crimes had been taken more seriously, a wider net would have been used, and LE from neighboring towns would have been contacted, but is that realistic, or am I off base. I can honestly say, I am not 100% up to speed on goings on in towns 30 miles from me, but than again, we don't have a serial rapist running around (as far as I am aware).
I'm from the Auburn area. My father was hired onto Auburn PD in '79, effectively as the replacement for JJD. I was a kid when we moved there (6), but I did stay there until I went to college. If you lived in Auburn, you would go to Sacramento to go to the malls. We'd go there if we wanted to see a movie in a better theater because Auburn's theater was pretty weak. We'd go to Sacramento for the nightlife, on dates, etc. We lived further out on highway 49 in an area between Auburn and Grass Valley. It would take us at least 45 minutes to get to Citrus Heights from where we lived. If you were closer to Auburn proper, I could see making it in 30. To me, they were different worlds. You'd also pass through Newcastle (another small town) and Rocklin (another small town at the time), Loomis (another small town) and Roseville (much bigger than Auburn) before you'd hit Citrus Heights area. Sacramento was a big city, Auburn was just a rural town with less than 10,000 people in it. We got our news from the Sacramento affiliates and people had the Bee delivered to them up where we lived too, but we had our own paper in the Auburn Journal. I'd read the Bee for national sports, but for local news, the Bee didn't cover Auburn. That can give you a sense of how "apart" they were. I wouldn't really pay attention to crime that was happening in Sacramento in terms of it possibly being related to Auburn in any way. Auburn PD wouldn't be monitoring Sacramento crime either, unless some criminal from Sacramento would venture up to Auburn and do something like rob a bank, which did at least happen once and I remember that being a big deal for my father to work on that case because it pulled in the FBI, etc. It was definitely a "small town" and had that feel.