Here's my question.... this dude really loved taking on a persona, committing a bunch of crimes in that "series" (for lack of a better word) and then dropped it for a new one. Before he was determined to be the ransacker, the rapist, night stalker, etc did amy of the series overlap? Or when he was done with one, he was done and moved on to a new m.o. Did the timelines overlap at all?
The reason I ask that is this.... if he "put away" one persona before starting a new one, I will be very surprised if the one we know about is last. Before they knew it was the same person, they assumed he moved on or died. But, now we realize, he just morphed into a new crime spree.
I hope this makes sense. I notice weird details, but I am horrible with dates and locations and timelines. Thanks!
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He was known by several other names than the ones that have been posted the most on this thread, eg he was also known as the "Diamond Knot Killer" and the "Creek Killer"
There were some slight overlaps in the time-frames of some of these crimes, and evidence is emerging that JJD may have been responsible for up to five separate crime series.
5. Original Night Stalker: 1979 - 1986
4. East Area Rapist: 1976 - July 1979: (though he almost certainly committed one rape on the 21st of October 1975)
3. Visalia Ransacker: - 1974 - December 1975
2. Eight months ago, the Sacramento Sheriff's department discovered a series of crimes quite similar to the Visalia Ransackings that took place in Rancho Cordova and the East Area of Sacramento during late 1972 and 1973.
1. The most recent edition of the podcast 12-26-75 seems to have found a whole range of crimes that were happening in Exeter (where JJD's sister was living) from 1970 - 1973, that seem very similar to the Rancho Cordova cat burglar AND the Visalia Ransacker.
There are probably many dozens (or hundreds) of burglaries, prowling and peeping incidents etc... dating back to the 1960's that investigators haven't found evidence of yet. There will probably also be some rapes and murders prior to 1975 that we aren't aware of yet.
The reason why I don't believe JJD committed any more rapes or murders after 1986 (when he was 41 years old after all) is that there are always tell-tale signs of his pathology in his crimes. He always stole coins, and stamps, conducted extensive prowling, made phone calls to the victims both before and after the attacks, was obsessed with piggy-banks, targeted the daughters and partners/wives of successful businessmen etc...
Even though he kept moving around California and kept TRYING to change his MO, he couldn't help but leave clues behind at every scene. And once he lost his physical prowess he almost certainly lost the will to try another attack where he had more chance of being caught than of being successful.
He switched from hot prowl burglaries, to masturbating in the bedrooms of girls in Visalia, through to rape and finally murder, but all the way along the spectrum you see the same compulsive behaviors over and over again.
I suspect he would have kept up creepy behaviors such as stalking women and making obscene phone-calls for as long as he possibly could - one victim believes he called her fives time in 2017. But once he felt he could no longer outrun a police officer giving chase I suspect he abandoned the rapes and murders following Janelle Cruz in 1986.
My own opinions.
