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What you say makes absolute sense to me Peter. However, when we look at the fact that they "disappeared AFTER the last John", I guess we can say that would be after their last KNOWN John. Somehow these girls all hooked up with the same killer after their last known scheduled encounters with different johns.
Well, you could always construct a hypothetical john after the last one and after that one is dismissed another one. But for each, you would have to ask the following questions:
- how did he find them?
- how did he make them take on another client after the last one scheduled?
- where did he bring them?
- and how?
See, our problem is not to construct a homicidal male popping out of the nothing, our problem is to figure out, how he knew where they were and be prepared to strike. If you look at Maureen Brainard-Barnes, she told friends on the phone all she wanted, was going home. Bit since she robbed, you can argue, she has pulled another trick. The problem is, she could have done so only in the red light areas of Manhattan. That means a random John. Normally, she worked strict hotel incall, but maybe, because she was robbed, this night, things were different. And maybe that brought her in the wrong location at the wrong time.
But the story goes on. Melissa Barthelmy leaves for a short term scheduled client. Given the time, she left, it was late when she was finished with him. And she just finished with a client who paid far more than usual (allegedly $1500). Plus, didn't she deposit another $900 earlier that day. So she had no pressure to go to any street corner to quickly pick up one more.
And the story goes on. Megan Waterman leaves the motel in Hauppauge in the middle of the night. So, no chance, she would come back at a time, she could have any hopes to pick up another non-scheduled client. In fact, she couldn't, she left her cell behind. So how would this client have contacted her? By telepathy? Not likely!
And then there is the last one, Amber Costello. Again, she went out to a client who offered more than usual money. Also Costello did normally only incalls, so this indicates, she new this john, which means, he has been in her phone records a number of times before. And this was late night action, so she finished there late. She had a lot of money on her. Why should she go for a non-scheduled john on the street corner now? And again the same question: How did he contact her if she hadn't a cell phone?
What those women met, after they left from her last clients, that wasn't someone posing as john. That was a hunter, a stalker, a blitz-attacker. For a very simple reason. Since at least three of them weren't in a position to need or even want a $50 quicky, chances were, he couldn't get them in a car with that trick. He had to know that. So he had to park his car somewhere near, blitz-attack them with the element of surprise on his side, pack them in his vehicle and off he went.
Could the girls have made arrangements somehow, other than through Craigslist, to hook up with their next client? Maureen having been robbed always sticks in my mind ... Could she have decided to just turn a street trick to get some quick cash? Can we find any reasons that the other girls may have decided to do the same thing. Do we know that none of these girls ever met with a john that they did NOT meet through Craigslist?
They probably met a lot of johns via other means than Craigslist. Or at least one of them did: Megan Waterman. She offered a service quite different than the other three. Female domination. Means, her usual clients liked to be dominated by her. Which in itself is an entirely different clientele than the other three had. However, due to the specific nature of this clientele, things in the BDSM world are a little more hush, a little more word of mouth advertisement is needed. So chances are, she had also contact to the private club scene in Manhattan. But that is exactly the problem. The killer chose her. So what is he? A Masochist? Obviously not. So why and how would he go in and out in the SM scene and the special niche of female domination? Not at all! So, the sex-cultural environment is different, but the physical environment is the same. The clubs are mostly Hell's kitchen and up to Times Square and it's side streets. So is 46th Street, where Maureen Brainard-Barnes rented a hotel room. And the bus terminal is not far away either. That leaves us with Amber Lynn Costello and Melissa Barthelmy. Now, Barthelmy lived usually in her boyfriend's apartment in the Bronx. But did she call in the johns to that place? Always? Because if not, the place to rent a hotel room for some hours would have been once more around 45th and 46th Street in Manhattan.
And Amber Lynn Costello? She lived in Long Island, but make an experiment: Enter her Babylon place and then get directions in Google first to Manhattan, then to Oak Beach. Manhattan is the shorter travel time. So part of her business was certainly in NYC and the hotspot there is again Manhattan between Hell's Kitchen and the Port Authority. So chances are, that area is LISKs primary hunting ground. There it is where he sees them first, chooses them, and starts to stalk. We know, he feels pretty comfortable around there. At least two of the phone calls to Melissa's sister came out of exactly that area. Times Square and Madison Square Garden, if I remember right. Which is btw another reason, I don't buy the "drunk white dude" show. A man with a cell phone on his ear is in those places so common, there is no chance to pick him out of the crowd. A drunk guy stumbling around there, that'S another problem. Because he would drag attention. Times Square and Madison Square Garden are both places with relative high police presence at all times. You may remember the thing with that SUV and the propane bottles, that should explain it.
And once more, keep in mind, that Amber Costello and Megan Waterman had no way to make out with another client anyway - they both had left their phones behind. Nobody could call them, they could nobody call. So, making out? No way!
Peter
