At the expense of not being politically correct, I think everyone is overanalyzing the AP murder too much.
I will bet anyone 100 dollars that it's either going to turn out to be:
(1) A creepy white man in his 40's/50's who lives a double life, is addicted to *advertiser censored*, and who has had an obsession with Anne from watching her on the news. Along the lines of the BTK killer, or the Gary Hilton guy who killed Meredith Emerson in Georgia. Probably either lives a double life as a husband with a family, or some lonly guy still living at home with his mother.
or
(2) A couple of black thugs in their early 20's ala the Knoxville murders already discussed, or the Eve Carson murders in North Carolina.
In my honest opinion, it's going to turn out to option #1 for a couple of reasons... One is that a gun was not used, nor did the motive seem to be robbery which is more common with option #2 type crime.
The fact that she was bludgeoned in her face indicates to me that it was likely more "personal" ala a creepy, methodical stalker as opposed to a random robbery.
Does anyone care to disagree?
I certainly am not trying to offend anyone, but I watch enough news and follow enough true crime stories to be able to confidently state that it was likely one of these two "types" of people.