Being of a different mindset about how or why JM ended up in the Galveston area, I'm curious as to your thoughts that it is deliberate choice for rather gruesome reasons. I have read and appreciate many of your posts and just wonder what is it that leads you to believe there is a specific connection that would imply knowledge of the history of the area. I haven't seen or read anything that leads me to believe that JM would be likely to seriously study up on SKs, emulate their actions or make pilgrimages to their notorious sites.
it seems to me that most of what we have learned about JM indicates impulsivity, recklessness and someone frequently on the prowl for an opportunity. The active search for an opportunity (vulnerable target) may be a deliberate action, but I just don't see him having a game plan that places great significance on the actions of other SKs/predators or symbolism in his choice of locales.
This delving into his MO may seem a better fit for the "what we know about JLM" thread, but I believe who he is, and how he approaches his predation, informs where he would take his victim(s) and where he would leave them. And I think it is more likely that after a "successful" prowl, he would head to a fairly local area that he knows well, offers the privacy he needs and a place to leave his victim. If his MO is more sophisticated, strategic and/or symbolic that would open up an entirely new can of worms to search through.
I'd appreciate if you could elaborate on what leads you to believe his actions are much more deliberate and not "accidental" i.e., going to Galveston due to significance of the location.....and what do you think that could mean for where he might have taken HG? Not meant to be confrontational question in any way--just curious as to a different line of thinking. TIA :+)
Thank you for asking. It's always appreciated and I welcome this process, not stuck on any one way to try to approach this. The reason I thought it may have been deliberate is that he took the time with his social media facade. Part of that was to engage in interacting and following the Harrington's efforts to find their daughter through a support group, that had local young women on it as well, according to WSers, from whom I've learned most of what is known about his activities. It's been mentioned that he was a hiker and had linked to various sites associated with it and other outdoor activities. Early on, he was said, in the press, to have told a long time acquaintance that he spent much of his free time playing online poker. He was said early on to have linked to a group advocating for teachers accused of abuse, an association from his past. He was said to have scrubbed his facebook page soon after the videos of him appeared. He was said to have, by a verified insider on this forum, received friendly legal advice soon after the videos appeared. He was said to have blacked out his facebook page picture soon after he went into CPD and called a defense attorney, before he took off for Tx.
He was reported in the press to have left with family inside the car with him during the chase, then ditched them who knows where, once he lost LE surveillance. His friends were reported to have questioned him about his likeness to the perp sketch, so he chose to change his looks. There are many more reasons besides, examples of choice he made, that would lead me to think that he had the penchant, capacity and motivation to inform himself about the thing that may have interested most in life. The thing he apparently may have hidden so well from all he knew, as far is known. He was reported in the press a couple of times by anon sources that he latched onto people, those who knew him from school and those who were with him that night. He may have not been super smart or able to control his impulse to rape and murder, but he may have known for a long long time how to game this world in order to get away with it. I think the chances are not small that he may have latched onto that idea, the way he felt as a predator. That he may have fed that same perverse ego on the notion by mastering it, by studying, even emulating others like himself. That the truest from of flattery perhaps may have been behind his choice of ending up where he did seems more likely, not some obscure college bacchanal, the way I still see it. So these are just some of the reasons, respectfully presented in the wrong thread, to try to explain why. Sorry bessie. Most of all though, Hannah Graham has been impossible to find until now.
I am sincere in saying I appreciate your question. The more there's a chance to take it from every angle the more what is true is exposed. Thank you.