"Thanks, Missizzy, for the welcome and the heads up about what Tricia prefers. I have followed your suggestion.
As for the other murder, my daughter also saw where someone proposed that theory, and she too asked what I thought. Here is part of what I said back: (...)I really doubt it. I was kind of surprised he worked up the balls to attack even one person, even though the victim he chose was a 61 year old woman who couldn't have been much of a physical challenge.
(My partner) said something that makes a lot of sense, that he killed her because she was everything he wanted to be and couldn't. She was successful as a minister, liked and loved by many people, respected, and a woman. But he was also killing himself when he killed her (and maybe (his mother)?). So basically I think this was a one time deal. If it had fallen through or gone wrong he might have just killed himself anyway in his fit of rage and self-loathing.(end)
My short version of what to glean from his website is that he seemed to feel a created version of a reality was just as real as the 'consensual reality' the rest of us agree to be true. Basically, if he could imagine something and write it up as true, it could become true FOR HIM. The line between fiction and non-fiction was so blurry as to be non-existent for all practical purposes.
So as a guide to what he wanted to be, to his inner desires, yes, it's a good guide. For true facts, almost no use at all.
More later, I have to go mail books before the PO closes!"
I brought this over from the "renata" thread,her ex-wife,susan ,the one he tortured and murdered in one of the short stories is posting there now...
