FlowerChild
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Serial Killers and Spree Killers and Serial Child Molester/Adbductors/Killers are the exception to the "nutjob" rule. This is (as far as we know), not the work of a serial killer or a spree killer or a practiced abductor. There have been no other murders with same MO, no suicide after killing family or "enemies" and no attempted or successful abductions.
It's highly unlikely these murders were the work of a Traditional Serial Killer, it just doesn't fit the MO of having complete control, privacy to work and being able to linger with the victims, take souvenirs, revisit victims and possess them after death as they couldn't in life. Serial Killers are NUTS, but they are controlled nuts, you are correct, they don't "snap" because they were born without the ability to "snap" - they don't feel anything - the murders themselves are an attempt to feel SOMETHING. They feel a need to kill, but they control that need and mask themselves in a shell of mundane, normality...they fit in and look so darn normal because they WORK at fitting in, it doesn't come naturally. They are usually severely sociopathic and they are not suicidal, they are in fact, driven to live - they don't feel guilt or pain, they only fear one thing, the loss of self control - and that's what death is ultimately.
However it COULD be the work of a Serial Spree Killer IF there are more similar murders within the next month. Usually Spree Killers must continue to kill with regularity (randomly and violently) for a reason that is only inside their head. They do "snap" and they are not capable of controlling their "snaps"... and once they start, they can't stop. They will kill again when the stimulus that causes the "snap" is repeated.That doesn't mean they are acting like nuts all the time,at least in the beginning - it's more that they are constantly feeling a pressure build and eventually they can no longer control it and must kill again for relief. Once the pressure is relieved, they can often return to "normal" - but the periods of "normal" become fewer as the relief they feel after killing no longer fufills their need for inner calm. They are often severely psychopathic - with the added dimension of a severe personlity disorder. They often end with a suicide or suicide by cop - they do feel guilt and feel they deserve to die. To them, death means a welcome relief from their inner pain - their uncontrollable urges will stop forever.
Child Molestors/Abductors/Killers want their victim, to them, killing them is a sad but necessary final step in their fantasies. A step they won't take until they are about to, or have achieved physical intimacy with the victim. They are sometimes collectors who take young 11-12-13 year old girls and boys and keep them for a long time in a secret room, or place. These men don't gun down potential victims on the side of the road without touching them - they just move on to another victim if they aren't successful. For these men it's their FANTASY and the sex that are important and necessary, the killing is a clinical necessity so they can continue to have their fantasy. To possess their victims is everything to them - that is the goal, not the killing. These man are often pedophiles or fixated on an ideal love object of a certain age or appearance. They are sexually deviant and have a rich, complex fantasy life that they are compelled to try and make a reality...and most (outside the long-term collectors) are always disappointed (and angry at the victim) that reality doesn't feel as good as the fantsy they have nurtured and built and created in their head. And so they abduct, assault (or attempt to assault) and kill, in that specific order, over and over - until they are caught. They are indeed mentally ill, and nuts, but their nuts is built-in, often from birth, they have never expereinced life any other way. They don't ever " go nuts", because their "nuts" is so much a part of them and their inner dialog that their behavior in public never changes. In fact, they often constantly require validation that they are "normal" - they seek out OTHER people like them in a desperate bid to justify what they do and how they feel. These guys just "are" nuts, like we "are" normal. :rant: (And IMO, the child molestors and collectors cannot be cured, because you can't cure something that has an organic origin inside the brain - they are what they are, just like we are heterosexual or homosexual - until we find the origin of sexual attraction in the brain and learn to analyze it and then properly manipulate it, what they have wrong with them cannot be fixed, all we can do is get better at diagnosing them before they hurt a child and for their own safety and the children's remove them from children forever.)
I just don't see this particular murder fitting any of the three scenarios above. Does it fit Thrill Killing? Maybe. It does fit Anger, Revenge, Vindication, and Payback - OH YES! This crime had passion and extreme overkill - and it was up close and personal - even beyond what Spree Killers do. This feels targeted somehow the target maybe the girls, or maybe someone in the girl's lives. The killer meant to kill Taylor and Skyla - no doubt - and that feels planned - not at all random. This wasn't someone acting out an impulse, a wild crazy fantasy, this was someone who came to kill and calmly and methodically did kill and then walked away as if it was nothing.
Just My Opinion Though - Your Mileage May Vary......
