He attacked and killed not one, but two women. Inmates are going to be having lots of fun with him...If they put him in general population.
TRANSLATION: He knew what they found in his trailer and he knew he was good and screwed.
His actions so far look to be self-serving. So, he kills the Shunicks' daughter, then writes the bereaved parents a letter? To what point? Far from wanting "closure for them", I think it was more a "please don't let the world think too badly of my for my monstrous crimes once you hear them" coverup.
For some reason, I get the overwhelming sense that BSL was trying to lessen the heinousness of his crimes not for legal reasons, but for the benefit of those who know him personally. Shallow? Indeed. But considering how a RSO said nothing about sexual motive in the murder of young, pretty women and how he tried to justify going off on Mickey when she fought like a hellion, I'd say his motivations all point towards self-image.
I get loads of solace from knowing he was so badly injured that he had to seek medical care. Only fear of his own death would push him to go to a hospital after committing a murder. Alibis and lies aside, his pain must have been horrific and further heightened once his adrenaline rush wore off.
He moved her body to the cemetery and found his hand wouldn't function. He tried to dig. He covered her with leaves and debris. He tried cleaning out his truck. He threw a bike into a body of water. That's a lot of activity for someone with multiple stab wounds and a badly injured hand. Only desperation would have pushed him so far with blood everywhere, his adrenaline no longer pumping, and his body getting progressively weaker from enormous pain, blood loss and mental exhaustion as he tried desperately to cover up what had simply become too much evidence.
Each imagery of motion brings to me a grim satisfaction that he suffered for much, much longer than the woman he murdered did. Her pain was over relatively quickly. If he sustained nerve damage in his hand, I can almost guarantee that he will be feeling that for the rest of his life...As he should.
My numbers have to do with evidence found in his home. There may be more women from whose demise he did not keep trophies. But three more is the rumble I keep hearing, too, and from more than one corner.
"Life threatening" doesn't seem like a long shot at all, if he was in danger of bleeding to death from his wounds. After all, you can nick the femoral artery, and even though the wound itself isn't too big, you can bleed out like a stuck pig relatively quickly.
For instance, if he grabbed that knife and severed tendons, then it's a good bet he also slashed nerves and veins. I don't know about you, but I'd like to think he was dirtying his drawers as he drove down the road and observed his own life force draining from a hand which was at once on fire (where the nerves were severed) and horrifyingly numb and unresponsive. Let's not forget that he was also stabbed in his neck, his back and his arm (I think). Human blood, because of its opacity, looks a LOT worse in terms of volume, and it's hard to gauge exactly how much you lose.
