Hi,
I read the article and I'm not too impressed about those facts. First thing, you have to keep in mind, is, that this article is not only guess but guess based on the guesses of LE and run through the filter of what they deem as politically correct to tell. Reality looks a little different:
- - it's one killer, not many
As of yet, we have to see one piece of evidence that the one dismembering women and the one just parking them along the road are the same. The methods of killing, the way of disposal, the degree of boldness and the different degrees of remorse still point out two serial killers. To ignore such details have in the past led several times into missing someone and it's not that rare to have two SKs in one area. During the Hillside Strangler investigation, the investigators missed Alcala because they thought it's so unlikely to have one more around after they dealt already with a team. Lucas and Toole crossed ways with Alan Shore. The Grim-Sleeper had another guy in his own backyard. For Ted Bundy, we have at least two more whose work was booked on Bundy. So to wish it's only one is not a fact.
- All victims were sex workers
In fact, we know for five victims they were, can assume it for a sixth and the child was the kid of a sex worker. The rest as of yet, is assumption. Legit speculation if you want to call it that way. However, over the last five decades, at least half of all victims of SKs around the world were sex workers. Hanson, Albright, occasionally Bundy, the Hillside Stranglers, they all killed prostitutes. Which doesn't mean they were all one and the same person in the first place. And looking a little closer at it, we can recognize little details in kill method (strangulation and beating are the top favorites of SKs, followed by guns), disposal (in remote areas like Hanson did or near to the redlight district as Albright did?), mutilation (Albright went for the eyeballs, Hanson didn't mutilate at all, Alcala used remote ways he found on maps). So even if they would be all sex workers, it doesn't prove it was just one and it doesn't say, he wouldn't take someone else next time if he finds the opportunity.
- Shannan Gilbert is not connected
We have to wait for a little more information about the autopsy results. However, I mentioned earlier doubts, she was connected at all and I won't stop that now. So to me, it's not a surprise. Because if she would have been a victim to the guy who killed the GB4, LE would have found her body with them and if it would have been the dismemberer, she would have re-appeared at least partially a lot earlier. So well, when I told my doubts, it wasn't hard fact, now it looks as if it will be soon.
- Police fears new victims
So Dormer assumes any normal serial killer to stop and lay down when police is behind them? But not this one? Huh?
Lets face it, there were three cases I heard of yet, when a known SK stopped:
BTK stopped because he was busy having a family
Buono, one of the Hillside Stranglers wanted to lay low. Bianchi, the other one didn't and so it didn't work out.
In France was a case of a guy who strangulated regularly a prostitute all two weeks. Later they found out, he was a trucker, had a new route and killed now in Asutria and Italy.
So, SKs normally don't stop. Police activity enforces them often to go bolder, mock LE and indulge in their feeling of superiority. So yes, Dormer is right to fear new victims. But they can be everywhere. What makes him think in the first place, the GB4-stretch was the only of the killer's private grave yards?
- He is not a cop
Now, we have to congratulate Mr Dormer for sure to have figured something in December, others had figured out in Spring already. Cops are there the whole year, this guy was there during summer/early Fall only. Almost all serial killers have diminishing cool down periods. A constant timing and skipping one year is a warning sign about someone who kills also in other places. And the alleged knowledge about police work was rather low level and included some actual misperceptions.
- He is from Long Island
The person who wants to drop bodies there need to know that this beach exists. The rest is just using a road. So there is no need for the killer to acutally be a local. Rifkin dropped his victims in LI as well and he was no LI local. Bundy killed in five states and yes, for times, he was local in two areas of those. Still, he found always enough remote places to dispose of the bodies. So the choice of this stretch of piece is no prove, he is a local. In fact, only in one case since the 1970s (and we talk here worldwide about thousand plus cases in that time), the dumping ground was really connected to a killer who once lived near to it and that was Buono, the older of the Hillside Stranglers.
So well, I am not ready to take, what Dormer assumes, as facts. The game is still open for other ideas.
