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Also, it seems like there were two things going on. There is the sexual part of the rape. Where the EAR seemed to have trouble with limpness and .... And there was the domination and terror which the EAR did not seem to have any problem with. The EAR would seem to be a likely candidate for BDSM. And not just some weekend warrior but possibly a well respected and revered member of clubs. I would like to ask if it matters who the EAR was terrorizing, whether male or female, does the sex even matter to him. If he knew your worst fear, reagardless if he enjoyed it or not, wouldnt that be the one he would choose. A women violated while the man watched or listened, helpless to save her. Knowing that their lives would somehow be frozen in that moment. Could the ear have even been gay? Or bi-sexual? And trying to get his own revenge against the "breeders"? San Francisco was having riots during this period.
Drugs. Mermelstein. Hetrick. Jones.
Could any of the above help to explain what happened?
I jumped on this thread a couple of days ago after a long hiatus from WS-- I'm a native Sacramentan/Carmichaelite so I naturally checked here to see the progress on this case-- thank you all for the links and tips toward media sources.
I realize, again (as I felt this back then too), that I am probably a peer (in the same age group) of this rapist/murderer... It's easy for my senses to go right back to those times and the atmosphere that permeated my neighborhoods.
Having spent the last couple of days watching the documentaries and reading Sudden Terror, I have come away with a distinct impression of this dude. The whole middle class thing, knowing the manners in those neighborhoods are "not to butt in" and "don't be nosy," he knew he wouldn't be looked at or searched for-- and he was right. Knew everyone was conserving energy, turning off lights, especially exterior lights... Let's just say I kind of feel like I know him, went to school with him, perhaps not actually, but his social "type."
Here's my basic synopsis: He was raised in a very dysfunctional upper middle class home; his mother was dominant and I think she sexually abused him, and often. He hated his father for being an ineffectual witness to the sexual relationship going on, he couldn't do anything about it "his hands were tied." Perhaps the abuse even went on right next to him in the same bed, and his father "just laid there."
The homosexual ideas don't ring true to me, as a matter of fact, the entire sexual act seems to be a scene from his past that's replayed over and over (captured while asleep, subdued, positioned on the stomach, threatened, then onto the back, then removed to another room and onto the stomach again, lotion, masturbation, make her do it, then onto her back... and so on. Methodical, unchanging, and since it was there from the very beginning, I feel the ritual was the impetus for the invasions, not the sex.
Actually, I get the feeling he might have even been asexual outside of these attacks-- he was sexually inept, at best, barely even penetrated the women, but when he did it was at the same moments in the ritual. He did not exude sexual power, it was rage, terror, and many times, anguish (the sobbing and crying at the end of it all).
I think the whole thing for him, psychologically, was about correcting his role in the play: he as the ******er not the ******ee; he as the power, not the powerless, and when he included the men, it was to humiliate and demasculate them-- render them worthless.
There are a few things that puzzled me along the way: the variety of vehicles that seemed to be associated with his prowling and his get aways-- at first I thought a mechanic who used the cars in for repairs, then after I learned he wore mostly dress socks (very weird for a college aged guy at that time) I thought used cars salesman.
My feeling is that when he went to Goleta and graduated to murder, it was in effort to make it all stop. To end it. The first victims were execution style-- shot in the head, the man on his knees... And then another attack, the ritual was abbreviated and erratic, and the true rage came through as over the top (loss of control) bludgeonings. This erratic style and bludgeoning continued in the next five break-ins and murders. Then they stopped, the last one after a 5 year break.
My feeling is that it may be possible that the psycho-drama played out in all the EAR/ONS rapes and murders may have been satisfied. His rage-filled bludgeonings releasing all the pent up residual hatred.
I don't believe he stopped prowling, and perhaps burgling-- because I think there was a huge satisfaction in violating the sense of security in those nice neighborhoods (they were never safe for him). I think he's out there and operating on such a different modus operandi that he's off the radar, even if he's on it (the "petty" crimes that don't get investigated by police). I believe he's safe now, in that he'll never go to jail, but he's still getting some satisfaction against the communities that let him down.
I don't know who he is, but as technology progresses to the point that dna is used for all kinds of common identifications (better than any fingerprint, it will happen), they'll find him. The layers of his facade will be stripped away leaving him exposed to the only thing the cops have on him, dna. (shoot, even a close relative's dna could expose him)
There. Now I've got this out of my system, I'm going back to read the last few pages of this thread!
My Opinion Only :moo:
