I have not read all the many posts but has
1) The calmness, and what this implies, of the spider-video smoker been discussed?
2) Previous similar abductions (is it okay to mention them?)
2.1) Claudia Lawrence
2.2) The Batman Rapist
1) For a man about to abduct a young woman the smoker is extremely calm. "I'll just roll some tobacco then abduct a woman." He is not looking this way and that, nor seemingly nervous in the sense of being jittery. I'd be pacing up and down. Looking at my watch. Touching my face and hair, tearing it out probably. If Libby Squire is being put in the passenger seat, the smoker is very proficient doing it, very confident that she won't get out before the central locking is activated, and I think he would not have put her in the car in the first place, in so calm and professional a way, if he had been unaware of the sort of the thing an abducted person would do.
2) I think that this indicates experience in abducting women. Upon that basis, what other similar unsolved incidents are there?
2.1) The abduction of Claudia Lawrence nearly exactly 10 years ago, may also have been by a silver hatchback driver. In the police video of the hatchback braking, the reflections in the houses opposite may show that that the hatchback pulled over.
Other than a similar type of car are there any other similarities? The Claudia Lawrence case featured a "left handed smoker"
Left-handed smoker
and looking at the current spider CCTV video at about 30 seconds from the start
CCTV clip shows activity before Libby Squire was last seen
it would seem that the smoker gets his tobacco out with his left hand from his left pocket which may mean he is left handed. Is spider man smoker left handed?
The car in the Libby Squire "spider video" is described, earlier in these threads, as a silver Astra Mark 5 SXi, which is a sporty car. Is the silver Ford Focus in the Claudia Lawrence case being driven in a sporty way -- the hard braking especially? If so, the way in which a sporty left-handed silver hatch-back drivers can get women to disappear without a trace, so far, are shared. The approximate region of the UK is also similar.
This is probably not relevant but the smoker may be wearing cycling gear and the Oak Road CCTV video
seems to show the same cyclist going in both directions, the second time with a bag according to someone on an earlier thread in this series. This is also a feature of the Claudia Lawrence case in which some guy went into the small road behind her house and came back with a bag (of surveillance equipment?) after about 2 minutes.
Are these really similarities, and are there any (others)?
2.2) Further away, and further in the past, The Batman Rapist of the 1990's, who also has not been caught, drove cars around in sporty way, with women inside before he raped them, as related in the News of the World article below
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.true-crime/VBMkQ4QBvYg
The Batman Rapist generally used the victims cars but he may have escalated to abduction and murder, in his own car, probably a Ford, with the murder of Melanie Hall RIP, whose body was found beside a motorway ramp, with some Ford (Focus?) keys found nearby.
Have there been other sporty car driver abductions?
By the way, what would make someone that easy to put into a car? If the abductor sprayed his victim with some teargas first would that make the victim easy to lead around?
