Doe's profile says that it was updated 6/29/2014 but doesn't say what was actually updated. It could have been a new e-mail address for the police involved, for all I know.
I like how (often, but not always) Charleyproject will say what about the case was updated when an update happens.
There is no longer any mention of him having a disease around age 5. I can't figure out why they once, but no longer, thought that to be case.
In one of the 2011 posts, outofthedark brings up JW Gacy and his many travels.
He's one of the closest male/male "sexual" serial killers that I can think of, but I don't think "Septic Tank Sam" was GWG's victim.
Gacy was a sexually sadistic murderer of young males, but from my (admittedly not the greatest) memory, he usually strangled his victims (or at least killed them without the use of a gun). "STS" had a bunch of nasty things done to him (which I wouldn't put past Gacy) but he was also shot several times.
Gacy did in fact use lime on his victims. Could that what is meant by the "limestone" mentioned on Doe? Gacy used it mainly to speed decomposition and to keep the smell down.
With all of the bad things STS went through, I can't help but think that the lime dissolving his flesh may have been an additional part of the torture. I don't see why the killer would be too worried about dissolving his body (or even preventing smells) when the septic tank was a mile from any houses.
He was found ≈45-mi from Edmonton, AB and ≈220-mi from Calgary, AB so he wasn't really IN a huge metro area (alà Gacy's norm) or even that close. Without benefit of an airplane, he was found about 1600-mi (24+ hrs) from Chicago.
To those who think that "Septic Tank Sam" is an offensive name for this guy...
There are countless individuals in the world who are now simply known as "John" or "Jane Doe."
I wouldn't want a name so closely related to the potty, but at least it's a NAME. While kind of tacky (perhaps because of that), people can remember SEPTIC TANK SAM more easily than they could "John Doe #19230736356..." or "Deceased male 4/77 from Tofield, Alberta, Canada"
Please also don't forget that it was the actual investigating police (though perhaps just between one another) who knew Patrick Kearney's victims as "*advertiser censored* in a bag" until they were identified and he was apprehended and many likely still do. We still don't think so highly of people different than us in our world today. "We" just use different code-words to try and hide that from those can't already see through those "new" terms/phrases.
