I usually just lurk here, but today I wanted to say this...please pardon the length...I just get a feeling that CM committed the murders as a part of an assassin fantasy, like a game that he thought he was capable of being successful in; and the murderers' plan was very brazen - taking out 3 people, stealing a car, stealing phones and car keys, approaching IF in the mall, and leaving 2 bodies without much escape time -and he almost got away with it! However, his actions after the murders seem so fractured and got him caught....driving through the checkpoint with an unregistered weapon and an unlawful silencer; acting so unstable at the checkpoint that they call to check on his family; driving GB's car (most probably with GB's bloody body in the front seat or trunk), (or having an alive, kidnapped, GB drive) 100 miles; leaving GB's car and body in such an open area; leaving DNA and hair at the scene in Riverside; keeping the murder weapon;his demeanor in court - he looks like he is mentally and emotionally spent. He took a lot of risks beyond the actual murders... It's like he was so wrapped up in the "murder plan" that he didn't think out a "post-murder plan." Additionally, I believe there was a reason they were targeted, whether a paid hit, drug-related, or an obsession by a mad man, I don't think GB, SB, and IF were random victims - he sought out IF in the mall after GB was already unaccounted for. As far as GB's body and car being left in a public parking lot, after missing for weeks...I wonder that keeping the car and GB's body hidden drove weak CM a little crazy (or crazier!), having to deal with the reality of a decomposing body, he "lost it,"based on his (previously mentioned above) fractured behavior. That is when he began to come apart and make mistakes. Remember, he was stopped at the checkpoint and acted odd the day after GB was located. And, as far as a possible obsession, could it have been GB who was the object of the obsession? I say that because it was GB who CM kept with him, not IF. Perhaps CM saw GB as having everything CM didn't, even if from afar. SB and IF almost seem like (pardon me) "collateral damage." They would raise the alarm, already were, actually, by recognizing GB missing and making calls to locate him. I also ponder that CM took the phone and keys from SB before IF even came out from work, like in a staged robbery, to make sure he stayed there, what else could SB do but wait for IF? Would explain why they stayed in the parking lot so long. I have wondered if CB attempted to abduct IF before she got to the car, and she ran, thus 2 gunshot wounds. SB wouldn't have been able to follow or call immediately for help and GB in the trunk could have helped control her.
Further, CM just doesn't seem like a gang-banger to me, but more a person who was disillusioned regarding own capabilities. He either accepted a "hit" or had his own reasons, and he miscalculated his own abilities. This case just reminds me so much of some of the crazy Dungeons and Dragons murders we had during the '80's (some rightfully linked, many not), and gaming has become so much more gory and violent than that era. People believe they can drive like in video games and movies, shoot like in video games and movies, and carry out plans like in the movies, referencing CM's "assassin" passwords and top 50 assassin movies he linked. I'm not anti-gamers, etc., but I think CM is a weak person and fantasized about being revered as a "Jackel" of some sort, if only in his own mind. He does not look mentally stable to me. He looks emotionally and mentally malleable and flat...
MOO..and thanks for listening!