Thinking about the serial killer aspect: if you prey on kids, you're going to know that you'll find them hanging around around parks, malls, recreation facilities, etc. on days off from school. It would only take a passing mention, maybe something overheard in a cash register line or a coworker requesting a day off because the kids are home, to clue him in that he might be able to find somebody. He could have cruised the location earlier or simply followed people.
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My gosh, our Late Great Foxfire used to talk about this...let me see if I can find an exact quote, I may have posted it already early on, but I love looking for stuff Foxfire said.
Eta:
Double dejavu, as we have already had this conversation here in Abby's and Libby's thread on because I think I remember referring to it...
This was actually a conversation between you and Foxfire, carbuff from Lizzie and Lyric's thread (still looking for Foxfire's post also):
Quote from Foxfire: (still not the one I'm looking for) on 12.12.13 re: Lizzie and Lyric:
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...sdale-13-July-2012-35&p=10040123#post10040123
""After researching and studying sexual predators/SKs for years, I've learned that most are very observant, calculating, and become very good hunters over time. Most have a reason for everything they say, and everything they do.
RE: Sexual predators go to the source -schools, playgrounds, malls, bedroom windows.
EC & LC, rode their bikes to the park on 07/13/2012, without parental permission and may, or may not have done this before. Tomorrow, children will be in school. In July, children are out for summer break. A child predator would know this...
Sexual predators, although having a preferred victim/s will, lower their expectations as their window of opportunity diminishes, analogous to a mountain lion hunting their prey.
SS, The abductor did not pull off a flawless crime, imo. All of the illusive dots have simply been overlooked, or have not been collected, nor connected, as of yet, imo..
The primary difference between EC & LC's abduction, compared to KS & DH's abduction is that DH escaped MJK's wrath..""
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Post by carbuff on 12.12.2013
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...sdale-13-July-2012-35&p=10040870#post10040870
"Foxfire, my research on predators and serial offenders agrees with yours. They're predators. Even if they haven't fantasized and planned a specific crime with a specific victim, they're always looking around them and thinking in terms of victims and escapes.*Is this a place where children congregate? Is that an isolated corner where I can accost them unseen? Does that street give me an easy escape route? Hm, this isolated park where a friend took me fishing could be useful some day. Nobody'd ever think to look here.*And because they're always on the lookout, they can recognize opportunity instantly.*
It's like a coyote looking for a meal. Coyotes know what paths rabbits follow and where they go to eat and drink. They know if they're near a path to water at twilight, they're liable to find a rabbit going to drink. When a rabbit comes down the path, he's ready to spring.*
So I think it's very likely that such a predator (whether sexual or thrill killer) might have cruised past the lake hoping for an opportunity, spotted the girls at an isolated spot at the lake, and pounced, just like a coyote pouncing on a rabbit.*
Is that planned? Yes, but it's not planned in the sense of choosing a specific victim, planning to get to them, luring them, etc. There are killers who do that, but I don't see a lot of evidence of this sort of planning.*
p.s. (Note that I don't think this is the only possible explanation."
end of quote by carbuff from Lizzie and Lyric's thread
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...sdale-13-July-2012-35&p=10040870#post10040870 )
