Forest_Wood
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There were some reports of neighbors seeing odd things from RH, like him burning things in the middle of the night in his back yard. And him sitting in his truck late at night. So they weren't oblivious. And once a person gets a reputation in the community for doing odd things, others become more on the lookout too. With the onset of neighborhood watches and online neighborhood e-lists, communities are more connected to the goings-on around them. It was reported they were a tight-knit neighborhood of law enforcement, and service people who are trained to notice things.RE: Victims going into the house.
I think people are overestimating the perceptiveness of neighbors. When is the last time you noticed a neighbor carrying groceries? Personally speaking, if I saw a woman walking into a house late at night, I wouldn't put too much pass on it. My first assumption would be that they are a friend or relative. The victims were all sex workers. Sex workers understand that they need to be discreet. They likely visited the homes of married men many times in the past. There have been many serial killers who murdered sex workers inside their homes, and in all of those cases, the victim willingly went back with them under the pretense that it was just an ordinary outcall. I think that performing the "takedown" outside of the residence is even riskier from his perspective.
However, these surveillance techniques may not have been as common 20 years ago.
I agree I think the takedown outside residence would be very risky.
MOO.
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