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Originally Posted by AL18Wood View Post
Yes this is a long post, but It's nearly impossible to separate the train of thought into multiple posts on different "topics" as the entire train of thought and progression of logic is how I am now arriving at my own opinion of Jesse Matthew, how he came to be in the situation he is in, how he selected his victims, etc.
For those of use grappling with the feeling that Jesse Matthew doesn’t seem to fit the mold of most serial killers in terms of intelligence and trying to reconcile with how he could have flown under the radar for so long, here is my own analysis. I’ve spent a good bit of time reviewing the posts here, and have been following the case and all developments since this began. This is purely based on opinion and this is how I have made sense of the questions like Why? Why wasn’t there warning signs that people recognized? Why did some girls come into contact with him without him offending? How could he have pulled this off, etc?
Thanx for sharing and welcome to the Websleuths' family, AL18Wood...
Many times sexual predators begin their deviant behavior during adolescence. From my research, usually around the age of 14 years old. Juvenile misdemeanor crimes and some times even felonies are hidden from public scrutiny. Many times the justice system will recommend psychological treatment for youth sexual offenders. Constraints on sharing mental health are even more rigid. For this reason there is a critical window of time in JM's life that we are not privy too..
This is asked in virtually every missing/murdered persons case. Serial Killer Richard Ramirez; CA Night Stalker, said to the jurors that convicted and sentenced him to death, "Lucifer dwells within us all, I don't expect you to understand me, I am beyond good and evil, Lucifer will avenge me"!
RE: Why did some girls come into contact with him without him offending
Green River serial killer Gary Ridgeway, often let his victim's live in case he was ever caught, he could use them as defense witnesses. 'Hey, if I was a serial killer, why would I have let her live'?
It would be logical to conclude that JM is a psychopathic predator. I have learned to never misunderestimate a psychopath. Psychopaths are very calculating, creative, manipulative, and deflective..
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An example of a very brazened experienced escalated sexual predator serial killer<stranger> that was witnessed by many hikers with his victim immediately prior to her abduction<GA - 2008>. One of the witnesses was a retired law enforcement officer..
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/after-5-years-notorious-crime-still-haunts/nTyq3/
After 5 years, notorious crime still haunts
Witness, authorities left asking, 'What if?'
Minutes earlier, Blankenship saw a weathered, toothless man with a sheathed police baton walking near a pretty young woman carrying that leash. He thought they might be a father and daughter. But Blankenship, a former cop, got a gut feeling something was wrong after finding the odd assortment of gear. He started asking others if they had seen anything strange.
Bill Clawson, another hiker, had. Minutes earlier, Clawson, who was with his son and then-fiancé, spotted a scruffy man skulking in the woods as his family enjoyed a scenic moment. The man seemed impatient, as if waiting for the family to leave. Clawson and Blankenship walked back to where the stranger lurked.
Clawson left and turned in the items found on the trail to a nearby store. Blankenship readied the pistol in his pack and kept searching.
Blankenship found nothing, so he left as dusk approached. But despite his concern, his searching and questioning others at the scene, he failed to do something that still haunts him: “I didn’t call the police,” he said recently. “It’s horrible, but I didn’t call. If I had done things different, she could be alive today.”
“She” was Meredith Hope Emerson, a 24-year-old woman who vanished from the busy trail that day. Six days later, police found her headless body in another forest 40 miles away. 
