pittsburghgirl
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Well--and I mean this for anyone who would abduct and kill three women--I think the trigger can be one of several things but I think of those triggers as more general.
One would be opportunity, which involves time, location, and materials. A time span in which the crime can be carried out, a place to take the women, a place to dispose of the bodies and running into the right victims in the right place at the right time, with the proper tools (guns, knives, duct tape, rope, vehicles--whatever the abductor uses). That is what cruising and stalking are about. Looking for opportunity.
If the perpetrator acts alone, there is probably some kind of building urge to do whatever it is that feeds that person's screwed-up needs. Some serial killers have a kind of timeable cycle; for others it might have to do circumstances in their lives. e.g., a killer who only kills while on the road for his job.
Other people could also be triggers; I am sure that some crimes would not be committed if two people crazy thoughts and evil urges didn't come together. In my local area, a group of people (fairly young) trapped, tortured and killed a young woman with mental disabilities. It is very unlikely that crime would have been committed by any ONE of those people.
MM, you know I agree with you about Cox and his need for multiple, changing alibis.
One would be opportunity, which involves time, location, and materials. A time span in which the crime can be carried out, a place to take the women, a place to dispose of the bodies and running into the right victims in the right place at the right time, with the proper tools (guns, knives, duct tape, rope, vehicles--whatever the abductor uses). That is what cruising and stalking are about. Looking for opportunity.
If the perpetrator acts alone, there is probably some kind of building urge to do whatever it is that feeds that person's screwed-up needs. Some serial killers have a kind of timeable cycle; for others it might have to do circumstances in their lives. e.g., a killer who only kills while on the road for his job.
Other people could also be triggers; I am sure that some crimes would not be committed if two people crazy thoughts and evil urges didn't come together. In my local area, a group of people (fairly young) trapped, tortured and killed a young woman with mental disabilities. It is very unlikely that crime would have been committed by any ONE of those people.
MM, you know I agree with you about Cox and his need for multiple, changing alibis.