Here is another article about the Petit home invasion trials and Hayes supposed foot fetish. It says that police recovered a collection of women's sneakers that included the dates they were obtained and how they were obtained. So I'm assuming if they are connected to AC, the unsolved CT murders or any of the LI bodies, they will probably know pretty quickly...I intend to follow this angle of this case pretty closely.
This article is also interesting because it says that Komisarjevsky was abused as a child and the description of the abuse sounds almost exactly like what Hayes used to do to his brother as a child...typically dominant/subdominant pair? Maybe Hayes really was the mastermind behind the rapes and murders...
sorry, i'm straying off topic, but this type of occurrence is literally my worst nightmare...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/petit-home-invasion-komisarjevsky-abused-child/story?id=14677053
I'm always ready to stray a bit off and speculate, so ...
Hayes is a shoe fetishist, maybe also a foot fetishist (funny, but that's not necessarily the same). That's out of doubt. The point, where I have doubts is the connection AC and Hayes for the following reasons:
- the AC victims were stages. From a foot fetishist, I would expect to drop the body and keep the shoes. He has no reason to bother anymore with the body since he got the object of his obsession already. This doesn't exclude additional disorders, of course, but the usual pattern would be fetishist/sadist as secondary obsession/sociopath. The point here is, that this type is mostly driven by the fetish and even the secondary sadism is more like a fetish obsession with an act but real torture behavior. There is no rage as driving factor (therefore sociopath not psychopath). While that fits bigger parts of what Hayes did in the Petit house, it doesn't fit the full body staging in AC.
- on the other side of things, the AC victims were prostitutes from a technically not too extended redlight district, they were all disposed in ditches running mostly in a North-South direction, face down, head turned to the East. That is full body staging and therefore either a message or connected to the killer's fantasy in toto. In other words, the missing shoes (while the victims were socks) excludes a foot fetishist and makes a shoe fetishist highly unlikely because it is only one of a set of details belonging together.
I'm not sure, which case are the CT murders, you refer to. There are so many out there. Can you give me a hint? Keep in mind, I am originally European and thus always a little confused with this American love for abbreviations.
We have to be careful with this abuse stories of Komisarjewsky. Those details basically popped up only during the trial and took more and more exactly the shape that would fit the "common knowledge" of kill teams. So there is a good chance, this abuse story or at least the details of it are rather defense tactics than truth. You would need a real sociopath to figure such a game out and Komisarjevsky is in my opinion no sociopath in the first place. But then, most defense lawyers have a pretty sociopathic mindset.
Admittedly, I hate to go over that bridge of the classic dominant/subdominant kill team. Almost all kill teams, I have studied were of course serial killers (including some ancient kings and their queens who would definitively fit the bill). Over the time, some dozens of such teams came together. And I never could really even find a trace of that classic in their stories and behavioral patterns. Take the Hillside Stranglers as example (I love the well known cases for that purpose). You can without a problem find a hundred books telling you, Angelo Buono was the dominant part, Kenneth Bianchi the subdominant. Common knowledge. Unfortunately, none of these books will explain, why it was Buono, who gave in to another girl hunt even after he had already decided to lay low for a while. If Buono would have been dominant, he wouldn't have given in Bianchi's demands. And in the end, it was Bianchi, who continued killing after he left LA while Buono stopped. So, common knowledge obviously stands here in contradiction to the facts. And even if you turn it around, making Bianchi dominant and Buono subdominant, it doesn't work out, because Buono did much of the torturing and raped the victims first. In fact, Bianchi didn't even rape all of them. So, dominant/subdominant changed for those two all the time and in fact, they were driven by different fantasies even there were similarities. Charles Ng and Leonard Lake, same problem. The one team, that comes a little nearer were Wuornos and Tyria Moore (keep in mind that was a sexually bond team, a kill couple), but even there it was more protective/protected. So, due to my experience, I doubt the dominant/subdominant model also for Hayes and Komisarjevsky. The giveaway here are the rapes. Hayes went for Mrs. Petit, an adult woman. Komisarjesky went for the kids. Hayes killed the mother before burning the house, Komisarjevsky left the girls behind to burn alive. Of course, now, after Hayes got already the death sentence, Komisarjevsky would love to look like a hapless follower, but in the details, he shows at least as much sadism and violence as Hayes.
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