Post by northernjustice on Apr 8, 2014 17:54:25 GMT
According to this article, 28/29 year old Caroline Schneider was found at 4:28 PM on Tuesday afternoon (March 20, 1979 - I assume, since the newspaper is dated March 21, 1979). Ms. Schneider had left work at approximately 10:00 PM on Monday night. The EAR committed a rape in the early morning hours of March 20, 1979 in Rancho Cordova. So, he would have had to have raped?/killed Ms. Schneider in Lodi and driven to Rancho Cordova and committed a rape which was at approximately 5:15 AM.
But I agree it seems quite unlikely, especially to imagine him murdering first, then raping a few hours later. But anything is possible in this bizarre epic. . .
As Brad pointed out, the Rancho Cordova one involved a woman being beaten but not sexually assaulted. In both cases from March 20th, women were being beaten in the face, though the first one was strangled to death and the other was left alive. Unfortunately there were no witnesses to the Lodi incident, so we don't know if he wore a mask or had other similarities to the EAR.
So getting away from my "sexual frustration" theory from earlier (though that could have factored into both beatings), but continuing on the theme of his escalating violent behavior just prior to moving to SoCal, maybe his brute rage was intensifying and the sexual assaults were becoming less of a priority while the sheer violent anger was intensifying. Of course, the Southern California cases involved sexual assault, but since we don't have living witnesses from those, we don't know if the rapes were as important to him at that point as the intense physical violence.