So...given his apparently not-super-high IQ, do we think he really had hoped Alanna would be picked up with the trash collection?
I've thought all along that he was interrupted in some way, or he needed to dispose of her quickly because someone was coming home. Is it sleuthing to say he lived with his mother? I'm not sure of the constraints here. Anyway, maybe he thought he'd have more time to dispose of her, but his mom called and said she was on her way home or something. I think that it was trash day was a coincidence.
Or, he could have been entertaining this for a while, committed the act, and panicked afterward. In reading accounts of other teens who have committed these types of crimes, especially if they weren't in much trouble previous to the event, it seems like they fantasize, commit the act, and often panic in the aftermath.
This is just a theory, and I know *advertiser censored* has been around for a long, long time, but I wonder what role *advertiser censored* on the Internet plays in cases like this. It seems like people who used to commit these crimes started small and escalated. There were usually reports about the person being strange, some inappropriate touching, then the move to sexual assault without murder, then sexual assault with murder. Certainly, there are all types of sexual assaults and murders, but typically, in murders this horrific, there was a rap sheet or something overt that would have been a red flag in hindsight.
I wonder what role the Internet and readily available hardcore *advertiser censored* plays in escalation and if escalation is more private now. There's no way this guy was smoking pot one day and, without impetus, decided to lure, likely assault, and murder a six-year-old neighbor.
Years ago, in California, there was a case similar to this -- Danielle van Dam. The killer, also someone in the neighborhood, seemed to be an upstanding member of the community. At his trial, there was some testimony that he had rubbed his finger along the inside of a girl's mouth/teeth, but there weren't many of the classic warning signs. His *advertiser censored* stash, however, was another matter entirely and was a clear indicator that trouble was on the horizon.
