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People very often don't notice actual eye color. I know people who don't even know the eye colors of their family members.
CO - Jessica Ridgeway, 10, Westminster, 5 Oct 2012 - #12
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People very often don't notice actual eye color. I know people who don't even know the eye colors of their family members.
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Why does it always have to be kitty cats? :cat: :cry:
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Just looked online and colored contacts can be as inexpensive as $15 per box. It's also possible to get samples after an eye exam. So cost wouldn't be an issue.
Younger people today tend to spend more time and money on image altering products. IMO, the possibility of a male in his age bracket using colored contacts to alter his appearance would not be a stretch.
This is going to sound weird, but there seem to be so many people with brown/hazel eyes that I almost always notice when I'm talking with someone that has blue eyes. If I don't notice eye colour, I can usually assume that someone's eyes are brown/hazel. I don't think children would notice something like this ... but the older I get, the more I notice it.
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I agree, if we consider how unreliable witness accounts are in general then add the expectation that a witness must communicate his/ her interpretation of a suspect's likeness to an artist....well, I can't rule out the possibility just because the sketch isn't an exact match.
Cats>Felines>Females...
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I think location also plays a factor. Having once lived in a region that was originally settled by Northern Europeans, not having light hair with blue eyes was unusual....
http://www.expertlaw.com/library/investigators/serial_killers.html#4
5. Victim Objectification
As a serial killer steps away from his base, whatever it may be, to begin the hunt for human prey, it is almost always true that he knows absolutely nothing about the person who is fated to become his victim. This is true even in the case of such serial killers as William Lee NEAL- Colorado, who cultivated his victims over lengthy periods (acquiring their possessions as well as their trust) before finally and viciously ending their lives. But for him as well, each future victim began as a stranger about whom he knew nothing. In this way does a serial killer differ from a man who, in a burst of anger, kills his adulterous wife, as well as the cold-blooded planner who kills for revenge?
It may be that having no prior knowledge of a future victim further enables the process of that victim's objectification. For as far as he is concerned, his next victim is not even a human being, in the accepted sense. So, well before he ever crosses paths with his next victim, he has already stripped that person of all human meaning and worth; he has unilaterally decreed from afar that the person is deserving of no human consideration whatsoever.
Thus, then, in a serial killer's perception of his victims; past and future: that each is nothing more than an object, depersonalized in advance, existing only for himself and his enjoyment, and solely to be seized and used as he sees fit. Moreover, he perceives his unseen prey not just as an object to be used, but as an object unworthy of any consideration, worthy only of extreme contempt, vicious abuse, and ultimate destruction.
5. Victim Objectification
As a serial killer steps away from his base, whatever it may be, to begin the hunt for human prey, it is almost always true that he knows absolutely nothing about the person who is fated to become his victim. This is true even in the case of such serial killers as William Lee NEAL- Colorado, who cultivated his victims over lengthy periods (acquiring their possessions as well as their trust) before finally and viciously ending their lives. But for him as well, each future victim began as a stranger about whom he knew nothing. In this way does a serial killer differ from a man who, in a burst of anger, kills his adulterous wife, as well as the cold-blooded planner who kills for revenge?
It may be that having no prior knowledge of a future victim further enables the process of that victim's objectification. For as far as he is concerned, his next victim is not even a human being, in the accepted sense. So, well before he ever crosses paths with his next victim, he has already stripped that person of all human meaning and worth; he has unilaterally decreed from afar that the person is deserving of no human consideration whatsoever.
Thus, then, in a serial killer's perception of his victims; past and future: that each is nothing more than an object, depersonalized in advance, existing only for himself and his enjoyment, and solely to be seized and used as he sees fit. Moreover, he perceives his unseen prey not just as an object to be used, but as an object unworthy of any consideration, worthy only of extreme contempt, vicious abuse, and ultimate destruction.
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Mostly the same old stuff being rehashed. The Arvada PD sketch of the guy who tried to lure the kids with candy keeps getting dragged out and compared to people even though neither that guy nor the person being compared (current: the guy arrested last night for driving around with his mother's dismembered body in the trunk) have anything to do with Jessica's case.
At first we thought the guy with his mother's body in the trunk was a real breakthrough, but it only took a few hours for LE to say he wasn't related. Which caused some of us to conclude LE probably has something the public doesn't know about that they can immediately use to tell whether it's the person they're looking for.
Even that is changing in our new world of cultural melting.
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Very interesting connection.
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Exactly what I thought. I can't imagine how she only got 15 years.
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I think location also plays a factor. Having once lived in a region that was originally settled by Northern Europeans, not having light hair with blue eyes was unusual....
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I was hoping Colorado only had one person out there who would kill and chop up his victim. I guess not.
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Gosh in light of this report I think locals should be diligent in no child or adult walking anywhere alone. "If" this is connected perhaps this killer really doesn't have a "preference" to his Victim? So much we dont know about him that any local should never be walking alone. MOO
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thanks for those excerpts FoxFire. i was initially convinced this was a local, someone she knew. now i'm thinking he's just off the charts crazy and random.
i recalled another tool available to CO LE yesterday. we have mobile vans that monitor vehicle emissions. they are typically parked near intersections of 2 highways. there's one pretty consistently at the major intersection north of JR's house where highway 36 & highway 287 meet. i'm not sure exactly what info they capture from vehicles, but at the very least it's license plates
i recalled another tool available to CO LE yesterday. we have mobile vans that monitor vehicle emissions. they are typically parked near intersections of 2 highways. there's one pretty consistently at the major intersection north of JR's house where highway 36 & highway 287 meet. i'm not sure exactly what info they capture from vehicles, but at the very least it's license plates
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