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Have not read anything that indicate staging for the AC4, GB4, or manorville victims.
In light of early reports, it does appear the AC4 victims may have been "posed" ( link ). Importantly, posing indicates a psychological component. For example, the missing shoes, facing east, bit, could be reflective of religious overtones related to the killer's belief system. This sort of posing could also be the killer's signature. As it is something that is specific to this particular killer. The MO could arguably be the process by which the killer attained his victims and the strangulation thereof.
The GB4, otoh, do not appear to have been either staged or posed. That they were wrapped in burlap could be nothing more than utilitarian. The MO would arguably be convincing the victims to leave their cell phones behind. The killer's signature, that which is necessary to complete the ritual, would be the phone calls. In this case, the killer needs to reach out to the victim's loved ones to complete his ritual.
As for manorville? I could not find anything that indicated either posing or staging. If reports are to be believed, however, that "more than a dozen dismembered women have been found in the past decade" ( link ), then the manorville's MO is quite well established: dismemberment.
As for the male? In light of reports he died a violent death and was a cross dresser ( link ), one can surmise his death likely involved an enraged john who found out at the last minute the woman he hired was really a man.
As for the mother and child. That one is a tough one. One could argue staging, in that the they were purposefully placed some distance from each other: the goal being to throw LE off. Which is what staging is about. Since the child death is not considered a homicide ( link ) *and* she was wrapped in a blanket, it is quite plausible that she died of natural causes. This, however, doesn't explain how not only she, but her mother, ended up discarded along ocean parkway.
That said, and all things considered, I tend to agree with Peter: that there are multiple killers at work. Whether we're looking at tandem killers (ala competition)? Doubtful. However, I do think he has a point wrt the manorville killer hearing about the findings in December, then discarding his victims remains at first thaw in March.
In light of early reports, it does appear the AC4 victims may have been "posed" ( link ). Importantly, posing indicates a psychological component. For example, the missing shoes, facing east, bit, could be reflective of religious overtones related to the killer's belief system. This sort of posing could also be the killer's signature. As it is something that is specific to this particular killer. The MO could arguably be the process by which the killer attained his victims and the strangulation thereof.
The GB4, otoh, do not appear to have been either staged or posed. That they were wrapped in burlap could be nothing more than utilitarian. The MO would arguably be convincing the victims to leave their cell phones behind. The killer's signature, that which is necessary to complete the ritual, would be the phone calls. In this case, the killer needs to reach out to the victim's loved ones to complete his ritual.
As for manorville? I could not find anything that indicated either posing or staging. If reports are to be believed, however, that "more than a dozen dismembered women have been found in the past decade" ( link ), then the manorville's MO is quite well established: dismemberment.
As for the male? In light of reports he died a violent death and was a cross dresser ( link ), one can surmise his death likely involved an enraged john who found out at the last minute the woman he hired was really a man.
As for the mother and child. That one is a tough one. One could argue staging, in that the they were purposefully placed some distance from each other: the goal being to throw LE off. Which is what staging is about. Since the child death is not considered a homicide ( link ) *and* she was wrapped in a blanket, it is quite plausible that she died of natural causes. This, however, doesn't explain how not only she, but her mother, ended up discarded along ocean parkway.
That said, and all things considered, I tend to agree with Peter: that there are multiple killers at work. Whether we're looking at tandem killers (ala competition)? Doubtful. However, I do think he has a point wrt the manorville killer hearing about the findings in December, then discarding his victims remains at first thaw in March.
