Can someone explain to me why LM, a known escort who had clients and got clients from escort websites for sex, would advertise on Craigslist looking for men who were into S&M? For free? He was looking for men to participate in S&M and bondage for "fun"? When he claims he was doing this in his profession? He obviously never really had sex with either of them because even though he claims he taped the sex, it was not there on the camera. For what reason would he do this? Other than to find a man online to murder for his "snuff film"?
Oh I know Dr. Allard. Do not try to apply logic to LM because he was in a psychosis. :banghead:
There has to be a reason why none of his internet history or recent sites visited before and after the murder is coming out at this trial. The Crown can't even suggest that there was or wasn't a record of him using Craigslist where he claims he met these men.
MOO
Well... regardless of "being in a state of psychosis" (GMAFB still...), LM had the foresight to use both Tor (
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en ) AND a VPN service (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network ) while posting, especially in the latter timeframe of his activities online. That will have made it very, very difficult (but not necessarily impossible) for both LE and his defence team to follow/check up on his tracks online. Tor is free to use, and a good VPN service is cheap, costs around 5-10 USD per month. A fraction of what he made from just one client as an "escort". What has given LM away again and again is his choice of subjects and his endless hunger for fame. He HAD to make sure his "cult following" was fed, so even while behind what he thought to be a safe "wall" he HAD to make sure he was recognized. While staying "safe" and untraceable using these precautions. I have worked with IT since the early 80'ies, before the internet even came along (yeah.. I'm that old, lol). And trust me, just getting this whole thing set up and running to a degree where you are actually staying anonymous online to some degree (or thinking you are) is not an easy thing. It takes work, research and a
sound state of mind. It is not something you do easily, and not something you CAN do if "confused"... having "lapses of memory"... being "psychotic". That just won't happen.
I am still of the firm conviction that LM has perhaps not faked his schizophrenia, but he has, and still is, embellishing and adding to it for his own gains, to an extent where he would be guaranteed an income from the disability program (and making sure that income would keep on rolling in even after moving to a different city), while also making drugs of various sorts available to him, which he could then either sell or use on unsuspecting victims. Many of the drugs he has been prescribed induce retrograde amnesia. What better way to do his thing (be it robbing victims or whatever) is there? Temazepam also induces retrograde amnesia, like almost all benzodiazepine based drugs. The lucky guy he performed his "dry run" on (MOO) is very, very lucky, and may not even have any recollection of what happened, who he met, where he was, or what they did together. He was still groggy when leaving... so he has to have been served more than just a few doses.
LM is cunning, devious, inventive. Convinced of his own genius, and still is. He has - IMOO - one goal, and one goal only.
Fame.
Regardless of the cost, to victims, taxpayers, whomever.
If ever I saw a cunning and self serving narcissist, he fits the bill better than anyone else.
MOO of course.
