I'd say the creator of the profile was only pretending to be sort of local: "Alaska born, Indiana raised, travel living. LA NY business travel."
Source of image was the video from this news article: New question emerges in Delphi murders: Who runs fake profile 'anthony_shots'?
If you listen to the ISP video about the fake profile (also contained in my link above), the press information officer says that "The fictitious anthony_shots profile used images of a known male model and portrayed himself as being extremely wealthy and owning numerous sports cars. The creator of the fictitious profile used this information while communicating with juvenile females to solicit nude images, obtain their addresses, and attempt to meet with them."
So IMO he wasn't just "being local " to groom them - we have the ISP saying that he's getting these addresses and the attempts to meet are real. There was definitely a reason local girls were targeted beyond just that they were easy to relate to.
Source of image was the video from this news article: New question emerges in Delphi murders: Who runs fake profile 'anthony_shots'?
If you listen to the ISP video about the fake profile (also contained in my link above), the press information officer says that "The fictitious anthony_shots profile used images of a known male model and portrayed himself as being extremely wealthy and owning numerous sports cars. The creator of the fictitious profile used this information while communicating with juvenile females to solicit nude images, obtain their addresses, and attempt to meet with them."
So IMO he wasn't just "being local " to groom them - we have the ISP saying that he's getting these addresses and the attempts to meet are real. There was definitely a reason local girls were targeted beyond just that they were easy to relate to.