RSBM.
I try to remain as open-minded as I can about this case, because if I fall in love with any theory, I become blind to other possibilities. However, I find what you've written here very compelling.
Thanks a lot
My only issue is the speed thing, which you seem to view as very important. But serial killers can apparently go dormant for years (BTK, Grim Sleeper, and Joseph Duncan spring to mind) for reasons that nobody fully understands, but opportunity definitely has something to do with it, and maybe stress.
I think, here are two things messed up with each other. When I speak about kill quota it's basically kills/timeunit (week, month, year, whatever you pick) for a SK in his active mode. Of, course, if one goes dormant, his kill speed will during this time go down to zero. But during the active times, the kill speed will always go up till a technical limit is reached (aka he runs out of victims or time). So AC, who was already on a very high speed couldn't go much slower. A little if circumstances were against him, maybe. The interesting thing is, I don't even think, AC was really a psychopath, he was more of a mission-driven type, a black paladin in the making. A short series with fast start has always a touch of rpoving himself for an entirely different purpose.
BTK went dormant, because he found something, that for him was more exciting and satisfying. He married and built a family.
The Grim Sleeper didn't sleep at all, he killed all along, only nobody noticed.
I'm not too familiar with the Joseph Duncan case, but as far as I remember, there were several competing influences that formed him. So we talk here about a little bit a weird psychopathology, even for a serial killer. Still, as in the other cases, it shouldn't be a problem to find out, why he had breaks. In the hindsight, it's always easy.
I think there is a good argument to be made that Manorville was uncomfortable with dismembering. See my previous post about the sloppiness of the mutilated tattoo and also this:
If he was uncomfortable with dismembering, why did he do it three years after the first dismembering again? Because Jessica was the second woman, we know about, he dismembered, not the first.
The mutilation of the tattoo serves in my opinion not as forensic counter measure. For some reasons, I don't know, he disliked this tattoo or it's symbolic. It would have been easy to cut a piece of skin off and nobody would have recognized the tattoo anymore because it would have been gone. But the mutilation as statement demanded, that the tattoo basically remained recognizable. It's kind of a message, he didn't like it and it wouldn't have worked if he would have burned the paper, or in this case skin, wouldn't it?
"Taylors torso was left literally yards away from the main road and uncovered. Police have said she was found on a plastic sheet as though someone dragged or pushed her out of the car and then drove off." (from
Long Island Press)
All older articles described the torso sitting on a pile of wood. Which is staging. And so does by the way the one you're linked. I quote:
"Taylors body was found off Halsey Manor Road out in the open on a pile of sticks and wood just off a paved access road to a sump."
Third section, 4th paragraph. So, well, I say still, her torso was staged on a pile of woods. The other thing with the plastic refers to the other part of her remains. For unknown reasons, those guys have a thing with torsos, that's why they are also known as "torso-killers".
That doesn't sound so much like staging to me. It sounds like someone uncomfortable with touching the torso again. More sloppiness.[/QUOTE]
Well, I quoted from the article, you linked the part, that shows, it was staging and not sloppiness.