Check out questerfiles article on The Majiorie murders. Looks like he slipped through then too. The suspect sketch is a dead ringer for him as a cop. Both suspects were cleared at the time even though some investigators had reservations about them being cleared. HMMMMMMM.
So yeah. Seems like he could have been nabbed, even before shoplifting the dog repellant,and hammer.
So twice he got away.
Seriously SMH.
Look at the headings at the top of Quester's site.
The first three are Bermuda Triangle, Bigfoot, UFO's.
The guy is a fringe-dwelling conspiracy theorist / whack-job! Not a reliable source of information!
The suspect sketch is a dead ringer for him as a cop.
This is actually a really useful example of how people (not talking about you in particular AgeofAquarius) find ''matches'' with sketches that are of totally innocent men..
Here is a quick summary for everyone who is seeing a "match" between a sketch of a man who was not the EAR who happened to pass by the scene of the Maggiore murders, and the photo of JJD with a mustache.
I totally get why people are still making this mistake btw - it has even been reprinted online by media outlets!! :facepalm:
1.) An 11 year old girl saw two men walking together, before the shooting
2.) She was interviewed three times and each time her descriptions changed
3.) Somehow she still picked out the mustachioed guy from photos (can't recall if they were yearbook photos or mugshots?? They were not showing her photos of local cops asking "is this the guy?")
4.) The mustachioed guy gave the police the name of his friend (the other guy in the ORIGINAL newspaper article.)
5.) They both freely admit to being in the area and hearing the gunshots
6.) Mustachioed guy even passes a polygraph
7.) Several other witnesses, who were not 11 years old and didn't keep changing their descriptions, saw what who we now know was Joseph James DeAngelo Jr - and he did not have a mustache at the time:
www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=4212543183b848e88d3432f5147321f6
Look under the heading Witness #4 for where all this information came from.