Wondergirl
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I thought it was interesting that Wondergirl made connections to the Sonia Varaschin and Audrey Gleave cases as well. However, it was the use of patterns that allowed her to do so. When we look for similarities between crimes, were really talking about patterns.
I think the Varaschin and Gleave cases may contain useful tidbits that could help us here and we should keep an eye on how they develop because there are some similarities.
And it looks like the Varaschin case is going to hinge on DNA evidence.
BTW Gleave was stabbed, but cause of death in the Varaschin case has not been revealed. Because of the amount of blood found in her home, many are making the assumption that it was a stabbing (and it may have been).
Some key differences when you compare Varaschin and Gleave to the Jessop case are:
- a child is not involved
- no abduction involved
- murders occurred in the victims home
Also: one victim was moved from her house, the other one not.
Gleaves murder had a confirmed sexual component, Varaschin is unknown. Police have been very tight-lipped about releasing details of the Varaschin case (except the details about the boots but when that failed to break the case wide open, they have since fallen mute).
I dont count Varaschins killer moving her as an abduction because its almost certain she was killed in her home, then moved to the wooded area. A pathetic attempt to clean up the crime that was beyond hopeless. Elements of disorganization on the killers part (sorry, I do tend to look at criminal behaviour patterns that way organized vs. disorganized).
Maybe Im too inside the box?
This is why it's useful to have one's thinking challenged here in the thread.
I would like to do more of this kind of thing - searching for other crimes that could be related to the perpetrator were hunting. I just find it hard to believe that this person (C's killer) put his knife away and lost all interest in doing things to children. This guy is out there and hes left a trail. We need to look to the past and find it. Recognize it. Where did he go? What did he do?
And to do so, we must look for patterns
Did Christines killer relocate to another part of the country? Brad Foster took off to the east coast for a period of time after he was caught molesting children. He took off again after the accident with the van. Did Cs killer do the same?
Patterns
Is he still in Ontario, or did he move to another province?
Patterns.
Don't get me wrong - I totally agree about their being patterns within behaviour, but, it can get convoluted, and assuming behaviour A is a pattern, so, therefore, behaviour B must also follow a pattern, and so on, is where it gets murky.
I did make the assumption about Sonia, thank-you for the correction, you are right, COD has not been released. The profile for her killer, is one that would NOT correlate with the killer of Christine, in that Sonia's killer's profile is of a younger man, thereby rendering the perpetrator to young to have committed an act on Christine.
I am glad you brought up the confirmed sexual component to Audrey's murder, as there are some details there, that indicate a rage and mutilation tendency by the perp, perhaps moreso than Sonia's, or perhaps only because we KNOW about it in Audrey's case, where we do NOT know of it in Sonia's.
Wouldn't ViCLAS have correlated the DNA, and circumstances by now, though?
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/tops-opst/bs-sc/viclas-salvac-eng.htm