He was known as the Golden State Killer, East Bay Killer, the East Area Rapist and the...
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It's difficult to have so many potentialities for why these young people were viciously slain.
I still tend to think it was someone who had a personal animus against one victim, or against the group as an entirety. Whether it was a girl he couldn't have, or the group represented a popular and social life that he couldn't attain.
The one thing I really haven't felt was true is this whole thing about a serial killer because others in the PNW have been killed in similar fashion. I know LE does not believe at this time that they are connected.
However, it crossed my mind how the Golden State Killer originally had other nicknames. The East Side Rapist, the Diamond Knot Killer and the Original Night Stalker, until Michelle McNamara in her book tied them all together and labeled him the Golden State Killer. She was right--they were all one guy, who moved all around California and sometimes changed his M.O.
So that is giving me pause. But only somewhat.
Maybe there IS someone who is, let's say, "The 13 Killer," for example. It's going to be exponentially more difficult to find him if he's a multi-state killer.
Overall I do still believe it was someone local who crossed paths with these kids; once, twice or frequently. Someone who directly chose them. Someone who didn't know or didn't care that there were two others at home.
And that is the belief that LE seems to have, and they know so much that we don't. Thinking about how the GSK was originally assumed to be separate people, however, is giving me a small percentage of thinking it may POSSIBLY be more than that.
Jmo and I don't even know if I believe it myself.