sillybilly-
My premise is just a premise, but I’m trying to suggest the killer of the GB4 may not be related to many of the other facts, clues, and circumstances of the case. I’m looking at it much simpler.
The method of the Manorville killer is much more violent and sinister. If he had a taste for cutting someone up, I would think killings would continue in that manner. The GB4 were handled “cleanly” and wrapped in burlap. As if the power and action of killing was the interest, not butchering. Cutting someone up is a gruesome action that would either appeal to a killer or not. So I don’t link the two. And the body parts found on Gilgo were not in the immediate cluster of the other 5 bodies.
I think the killer of the GB4 was methodical in what he did. No loose ends, protecting himself by his actions. Shannon would be an opportunity, but does he turn it on that quickly, always in the mood? I doubt it. I think he’s prepared, and the chase and preparation is part of the thrill. Shannon’s situation was vulnerable but with lots of loose ends, who was she with, who knew where she was etc. It would be rash and unplanned vs, the methodical nature of the GB4 killings.
JB and CPH. JB was linked directly to SG by the driver etc, so I can’t see him acting against her, and haven’t seen evidence pointing that way. And nothing connects him to the GB4. The facts on CPH are more confusing, but from what I’ve seen I just find him bumbling and unfortunately thrust into this. When I think about the GB4 case, I try to put myself in the mind of someone doing the killing. Where would I feel comfortable disposing of a body? Certainly not within a couple miles of my house. I feel the GB4 dump location screams of someone coming over the causeway from the LI mainland to dump and reverse directions or hit the western causeway. I think the killer lives within 40 miles on the mainland, otherwise he might choose a different area to dispose of bodies.
I was trying to emphasize the importance of the cross dressing Asian. If the GB4 killer killed him as well, then the cross dressing aspect of it should raise flags about the killer’s potential sexual confusion, perversion, identity, and past abuse. This killing may have been emotional in immediate reactionary anger vs methodical killings based on deep anger/hatred/other. And I would suggest it was unplanned, possibly leaving important clues if the night he died can be reconstructed in any way. I’m also not implying that transvestites are perverse, I suspect many are well adjusted, but one ending up dead may lead to finding the identity of the killer.