Would you think this SK is local or would he be someone who moves around? I've been saying for a long time that something was going on with missing black girls in NC, SC, and Fla.
On the missing web sites they are listed as endangered runaways but they never show up again. So I've thought this was just a easy title or excuse not to search for them. jmo
Okay, I took a quick browsing. Unfortunately, the articles from the Rockytelegramm are mostly not available anymore.
The victimology looks like a mess. From 18 to 50 we find everything and Nicholson, which is connected via DNA to Pittmann would be right in the middle, so extracting her doesn't change a thing.
The few pictures are interesting, because on the visual level, which is for most low organized SKs initial trigger in the victim choice, they have not much in common. Different hair cuts, skin color from middle brown to deep brown, different face shapes and different weight classes as it looks.
As far as I see, they found DNA on none of the victims except for Nicholson. An early report says, Wiggins died from blunt force trauma, Nicholson was strangulated and for the other victims it couldn't be established (with inconclusive in Battle's case which means she was beaten and strangulated but the ME can't say, what the fatal part was since over time, both would have been fatal).
The geographical profiling is a blast, but we shouldn't rely too much on it, because, since I know the mathematical modesl behind such programs, I know also, that they don't work if you don't have a clean victim list, means, only the victims of one SK in the model. Otherwise, you get distortions because basically the preferences of two individuals tend to pull the anchor points to a median position between the different anchor points of each killer. So take this geographical profile from PREDATOR as a good guess and approximately.
However, if you take Nicholson out for a moment, you get basically a straight dropping zone along this little road (I haven't found the name of it) and it's extension SW-ward. The anchor point would be then over the thumb, somewhere S of Pittman's house, but a way distant and maybe a little more East, but that depends what is there. SKs rarely just camp in the middle of nowhere in a tent.
So, what is left is not an anger-assault rapist like Pittmann (he has all the settings but not really lived it out). This guy has a higher degree of control (therefore no DNA) or is unable to perform (but most sexual motivated SKs have a rather excessive libido, so it's rare).
There are two things, that make me a little nervous about that guy. He had, as it appears a medium decreasing cool down time (not exponential but rather along a linearity). That indicates, he is urge driven plus another influence factor. Since there were no murders anymore as far as I can see, there is a high probability, he changed the area and kills on somewhere else. However, he was local, at least for a while.
The second thing is this secondary influence factor. This guy kill over a wide age range, but he knows the area. He is obviously not enough organized to make a narrower selection. This would normally add up to a type of "john-approach" and later blitz attack, but Wiggins' beating points out rage and power-gain. There is a difference between mere power-gain and control. This guy had changes in his life. Battle was strangulated but also beaten. My bet was, he lost control and just canceled the already started strangulation to beat her to death. So, either it's a real low IQ sadist (but then, why no DNA?) or he is also driven by some other delusion, maybe religious, ideological or just a wild mix.
My bet is a slim built black in the age bracket of about 45-55. He is in daily life rather shy and polite, a little bit hampered in his communication, but not really socially awkward. He is probably a regular church visitor. He was once in a very firm relationship or marriage, but his wife divorced him or just ran off. Not for violence in this relationship but for his basically ambition-less nature. This had to be around 2205 or 2006, a while before the murders started. And he moved away short after Pittman's arrest (or died, fell sick, that's another possibility).
Personally, I would expect a RAP sheet with petty theft in it, maybe minor drug charges but nothing heavier than pot. No domestic violence, no bigger crimes. In his youth, I would expect only the bed wetting part of the MacDonald triad, but not torturing animals. Not sure about setting fires.
Just some detail questions:
- Is Pittmann a left-hander?
- Did in one of the neighboring counties also disappear black girls?
- was the body, they found behind Pittmann's house buried in a shallow grave or out in the open?
