Someone (sorry I don't remember the name) posted a photograph of a graffiti cross on one of those old buildings. It is shaped the same way as the cross that was found. Makes me wonder if he visited those buildings in the past and drew that cross there.
ETA: It was writer7 who posted those photos. I don't know how to link a post. It is post 882 in thread 17
callyn, the thought has crossed my mind as to the cross being Austin Reed Sigg's calling card, literally.. This may have been used as a taunting device, imo, rather accidentally left at the crime scene...
Imo, and from the info known, Siggs is very intelligent, charming, calculating, creative, manipulative, deflective, and just plain damn evil..
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_crime[/ame]
A signature crime is a crime which exhibits characteristics idiosyncratic to specific criminals, known as signature aspects, signature behaviours or signature characteristics. Where a modus operandi (MO) concerns the practical components of a crime which can also be unique to one suspect, signature aspects fulfill a psychological need and, unlike the MO, does not often change.
Two examples cited in Crime Classification Manual by John Douglas are a bank robber from Michigan who required tellers to undress during the robbery so he could photograph them, and a rape case where the perpetrator forced the husband to return home and be humiliated by the event. These characteristics move beyond modus operandi, because they fulfill a psychological need rather than a need of practical execution of the crime.[1]
The 1898 Gatton murders also exhibited signature aspects. Following the murders, the bodies were re-arranged so their legs crossed over their bodies with the feet pointing west.
[2] Ted Bundy also used a complex series of signature behaviours
