Victim: Alexis Murphy, 17, missing from Shipman, VA, 03 August 2013 - #4

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Curious Me said:
I found the Living in the Shadow article below very helpful. There's a story in there about how RAT met Samantha and her Mother. It talks about his case against his arrest. Now, in this case, I think LE must have something solid on him in the actual abduction of Alexis.

Where are they? Two missing girls, one suspect
http://www.readthehook.com/109994/wh...ls-one-suspect

Living in the shadow: As Samantha Clarke's family mourns, a suspect claims police harassment
http://www.readthehook.com/108360/li...ice-harassment
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:wave: Here's those links again.

http://www.readthehook.com/109994/where-are-they-two-missing-girls-one-suspect

http://www.readthehook.com/108360/l...amily-mourns-suspect-claims-police-harassment
 
FrauShan78 said:
Just wanted to do some research on serial killers with accomplices and found this. Also, the second link is about the psychology of male team killers. I posted a few examples of male team killers and some of female/male teams. All the information on team killing is on the links below.

"PARTNERS IN CRIME
Alton Coleman and Debra Brown
Maybe people shouldn't be surprised that a boy who had to endure the nickname "Pissy" because of a tendency to wet his pants would grow up to be one of America's most savage spree killers. And it certainly didn't help that Pissy would go to prison on a robbery charge and emerge two years later with a tendency to dress in women's clothing and a desire for rough sex. Whatever the reasons, Alton Coleman and his girlfriend Debra Denise Brown will go down in history as a short-lived U.S. version of Great Britain's multiple sex-slayers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.

Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, the Hillside Stranglers
It takes more than a few homicides to get the attention of the people in a city the size of Los Angeles. Murders are a daily occurrence. So when three women living hi-risk lifestyles were found strangled and naked on hillsides very few people lost sleep over it. Only a couple sharp homicide detectives became nervous that this was just the beginning. Everything changed when five "nice girls" were abducted from their middle-class neighborhoods.

Two psychopathic cousins made torture into an unspeakable art form as they experimented on their young victims, giving new meaning to the concept of "Evil."

Charles Ng and Leonard Lake
Cruel, psychopathic son of wealthy Hong Kong businessman, discharged from the Marines for stealing, and his accomplice kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered an estimated 25 captives in a fortified bunker in California -- all caught on video. When Lake killed himself with hidden cyanide tablets, Ng fled to Canada, setting the stage for one of the most expensive legal battles in U.S. history, dwarfing the O.J. Simpson trial.

The Chicago Rippers
Robin Gecht & his friends rampaged Chicago in the 1980s. They talked about how they had kidnapped women off the streets, raped them, and stabbed them with knives, razors, tin can lids, and can openers. With piano wire, they then amputated one or both breasts and masturbated onto them. Gecht's "rippers" took the flesh they had removed from their victims, cut it up, and consumed it as a form of ancient devilish communion.
The Mansonesque type of killer is rare —the person who can persuade others to kill or harm others for him. According to three confessions, Gecht was exactly that type of person. While Manson's brood was larger, the three men who followed Gecht were just as deadly, and it's quite unusual to have four people involved in such an extensive string of sexually sadistic murders.

Christopher Worrell and James Miller
Australia's first serial killer partnership was made up of a charismatic psychopath and a dependent drifter who went on a killing spree that left seven women dead.

Gary and Thaddeus Lewingdon
During the late 1970s, the city of Columbus, Ohio and outlying areas were plagued by a series of indiscriminate and brutal murders, which claimed the lives of 10 people.
The ".22-caliber killings," as they would later be dubbed by the media, began on December 10, 1977, with the murders of two women at Forkers Cafe in Newark, Ohio, some distance outside the city of Columbus. Joyce Vermilion and Karen Dodrill, had been shot multiple times as they walked out the rear door of the cafe, shortly after its closing at 2:30 a.m.
This and subsequent murders were distinguished by the amount of overkill — the bodies were literally bullet-ridden.
Finally, in 1978 suspicion focused on two truly weird middle-aged brothers, one very much under the influence of the other.

Gerald and Charlene Gallego
We have a few stock images that spring to mind when we think of serial killers. Maybe we see a Jeffrey Dahmer-type character--quietly savage, a misfit loner who practices his unspeakable avocation under society's radar. We probably do not, however, associate married couples with our notions of serial killing.

Gerald and Charlene kidnapped and killed ten people, mostly teenage girls, lured and captured in well-planned schemes, the ultimate goal of which was to provide a steady procession of disposable "love slaves." Depending on whose story you believe, Charlene Gallego was either a reluctant facilitator of, or a willing participant in her husband Gerald's tragic extended binge. After the couple's apprehension, Charlene claimed that Gerald had beaten and intimidated her into helping him, but Gerald, for his part, insisted that she had taken part in the assaults and killings. "We had this sexual fantasy see, so we just carried it out," Charlene later recounted chillingly. "I mean, like it was easy and fun and we really enjoyed it, so why shouldn't we do it?"

Henry Lee Lucas
Along with psychopath sidekick Ottis Toole, he traveled the U.S. raping, robbing, killing, and mutilating men, women & children. Originally thought to have killed 360 people, some of his confessions are now discredited. Whatever number of murders he & Toole committed, these two serial killers set a new standard in depravity.

Kevin Crump and Allan Baker
Two career criminals murdered Ian Lamb, a complete stranger for $20, a package e of cigarettes and a couple of gallons of gasoline. Then, for no other reason than that one of the men had once worked for her family as a farm hand, they kidnapped Virginia Morse, a young mother of three, from her home. Morse was raped and tortured repeatedly while Crump and Baker drove to neighboring Queensland. Next, they tied her to a tree and shot her in the eyes.
Recently, Australian courts have struggled with the constitutionality of real life imprisonment where particularly horrible killers are "never to be released."

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris
He signs his prison fan mail "Pliers."
His psychiatrist saw what he was: "a highly dangerous man, with no internal controls over his impulses, a man who could kill without hesitation or remorse." When he was released from prison, Bittaker told a cellmate that someday he planned to be "bigger than Manson."
Along with prison-buddy psychopath Roy Norris, Bittaker constructed a van called the Murder Mack and collected pretty teenage girls to rape, torture and kill in the San Gabriel Mountains. In the isolated mountain areas, they went to work on their young victims with vice-grip pliers, urging them to scream into their tape recorder before they snuffed out their voices forever.
Yes, he's on death row in California a condition that stretches into decades playing cards with other serial killers, filling frivolous lawsuits against the state and selling his fingernail clippings to murder groupies.
Parole of a 'Speed Freak Killer'
They got drunk together, abused illicit drugs together, and are believed to have committed their first of possibly 20 murders together. One of them is on death row. The other on parole after serving only a few years in prison. Now, an angry public wants to know what went wrong with a system that failed to keep a suspected serial killer behind bars.

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/partners/index.html
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/partners/team_male/1.html
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Thanks for posting this, but I think I probably should've gone without reading this! OMG, hoping RAT isn't as sadistic as these guys (if there is such a thing as mildy sadistic)...
 
A lady that works for me in our warehouse came into my office today. She was pretty upset. She doesn't have tv or internet so didn't really start looking at all the news until last night. She lives within a mile of RT and recognized him as the creepy guy that she would see at the foodlion. He would always follow her to her house in his truck when ever she ran into him. It looks like he was stalking other women as well.
 
eremite said:
A lady that works for me in our warehouse came into my office today. She was pretty upset. She doesn't have tv or internet so didn't really start looking at all the news until last night. She lives within a mile of RT and recognized him as the creepy guy that she would see at the foodlion. He would always follow her to her house in his truck when ever she ran into him. It looks like he was stalking other women as well.
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Welcome eremite!
:welcome:
 
eremite said:
A lady that works for me in our warehouse came into my office today. She was pretty upset. She doesn't have tv or internet so didn't really start looking at all the news until last night. She lives within a mile of RT and recognized him as the creepy guy that she would see at the foodlion. He would always follow her to her house in his truck when ever she ran into him. It looks like he was stalking other women as well.
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Before this is over with, I expect we'll here alot more stories just like this! MOO
 
writer411 said:
@moxiethyme, the light I'm speaking of is at the intersection of 6 (at the opposite end of the 29 entrance) and 151. Maybe it's a stop sign, though, I've been waiting there in line due to something red, lol (I make a bad witness). As you can see, one does fall quickly into autopilot mode driving around here, which is why its so easy to lose one's wits when driving these long stretches of open country road, one almost goes into a hypnotic state, that's why its difficult to remember seeing things along these roads. There are many times I get to my destination around here, and I don't remember the drive, and I'm like whoa! Also, I suppose could contribute to what makes one vulnerable to attack on these roads.
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I agree on the autopilot, its what makes the long drives seem like nothing I think.... I also think it is why when there is something different and unusual, like a car on the side of the road, it is so remember-able... (brain fog on spelling, sorry!) because it doesn't fit in that normal passing landscape our brain is used to seeing...

nursebeeme said:
http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/p...1e3-86e9-0019bb30f31a.html?mode=image&photo=0 http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/p...cle_cf705f30-050a-11e3-86e9-0019bb30f31a.html
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Nursebeeme... I'm feeling quite dense here... but, maybe you can help?

1) how can I get my picture that is on my profile to show up in my post, like the vball pic is showing up next to your name? I cant seem to figure that out....

2) how, when on my computer, can I get a still shot from a video, and zoom in on it, and then post it on here.... like the others did when getting close ups of RAT's neck tattoos?

3) what the HECK does MOO mean?!??

:)
 
MoxieThyme said:
I agree on the autopilot, its what makes the long drives seem like nothing I think.... I also think it is why when there is something different and unusual, like a car on the side of the road, it is so remember-able... (brain fog on spelling, sorry!) because it doesn't fit in that normal passing landscape our brain is used to seeing...



Nursebeeme... I'm feeling quite dense here... but, maybe you can help?

1) how can I get my picture that is on my profile to show up in my post, like the vball pic is showing up next to your name? I cant seem to figure that out....

2) how, when on my computer, can I get a still shot from a video, and zoom in on it, and then post it on here.... like the others did when getting close ups of RAT's neck tattoos?

3) what the HECK does MOO mean?!??

:)
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MOO- my opinion only
 
eremite said:
A lady that works for me in our warehouse came into my office today. She was pretty upset. She doesn't have tv or internet so didn't really start looking at all the news until last night. She lives within a mile of RT and recognized him as the creepy guy that she would see at the foodlion. He would always follow her to her house in his truck when ever she ran into him. It looks like he was stalking other women as well.
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Welcome to the board eremite!

I do hope your co-worker will call, write, or have someone email local Law Enforcement this info. They may need it to keep him in jail, where he should be. I am so happy she is safe and he is in jail!!! However, there may be an accomplice, so she really should let the police know, just don't scare her too much about that to make her not want to call it in.
 
eremite said:
A lady that works for me in our warehouse came into my office today. She was pretty upset. She doesn't have tv or internet so didn't really start looking at all the news until last night. She lives within a mile of RT and recognized him as the creepy guy that she would see at the foodlion. He would always follow her to her house in his truck when ever she ran into him. It looks like he was stalking other women as well.
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This is essentially what happened to me. I heard about it like the day she was declared missing thru a friend, but didn't really pay that much attention to it. Then, I had a drs appt and my dr was talking about it and I immediately came home and hopped on here because this site was my go to source for info during the Sarai Sierra case. I can't say i've even seen this man at the supermarket or not. I usually 100 percent focused on shopping in/out. I don't look to the left or right. Like your coworker, I don't have TV, but I do have internet. BTW, this is essentially why I think they pulled him off the streets, that he might strike again, and I'm convinced he has an accomplice
 
astridxx said:
http://ht.ly/nUhZI

I know this link was already posted (Lovingston Man Says He Recalls Randy Taylor’s 'Strange' Behavior) but I found something that really creeps me out and needed to share:

"Johnson says he's seen Taylor in the Lovingston Food Lion parking lot, just sitting and watching people.

The Food Lion parking lot overlooks the Liberty gas station where Alexis was last seen on August 3."
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Yes, and there is another case listed upstream (I think in the thread re: possible victims) mentioning a victim's abandoned car in the Food Lion parking lot.

<o/t, but does anyone remember those horrid videos of Food Lion employees repackaging rotten meat, etc....surprised they are still in business after that big scandal...I know many shut down after that.>
 
MoxieThyme said:
I agree on the autopilot, its what makes the long drives seem like nothing I think.... I also think it is why when there is something different and unusual, like a car on the side of the road, it is so remember-able... (brain fog on spelling, sorry!) because it doesn't fit in that normal passing landscape our brain is used to seeing...



Nursebeeme... I'm feeling quite dense here... but, maybe you can help?

1) how can I get my picture that is on my profile to show up in my post, like the vball pic is showing up next to your name? I cant seem to figure that out....

2) how, when on my computer, can I get a still shot from a video, and zoom in on it, and then post it on here.... like the others did when getting close ups of RAT's neck tattoos?

3) what the HECK does MOO mean?!??

:)
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MOO: my opinion only :moo: (cow!)

if you want to add a picture to your avatar

1) save the picture to your computer

2) go to the user control panel (look up on blue bar: user cp)

3) click avatar

4) click upload file

5) select picture you saved

6) hit save
 
FrauShan78 said:
Here is that burgundy car in the back right corner of the pic. Does anyone have a pic of the burgundy car that was in the news photo at the residence to compare? Could this be the Grandmothers car and he borrowed it? I wonder...

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They are not the same car, IMO. The one in the driveway is much narrower in back, looks like a subcompact hatchback. The one in the picture here is a wagon.
 
Moxie: if you take a still of a video: take a screen shot, save it to your computer as an image then attach (click go advanced then hit the paper clip)

You must also include the media link you took it from
 
<Gosh, so creepy to see that picture of Alexis....there is no way she could have imagined the horrible fate she was about to meet.>

Nurse, question: would this post be an example of personalizing a post? Could you please explain further what you mean by this, bc sometimes I throw in little things here and there which maybe I shouldn't do. TIA>
 
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