Recent content by elainebenice

He would have easily been able to work out a plea agreement that prevented him from being executed if he had confessed to these additional victims when he confessed to the others. I get that these are different jurisdictions, but there's plenty of examples where murderers in the same situation...

I'm not convinced there are additional victims yet. I have a hard time believing he could have refrained from talking about additional victims all this time.

Interesting. I've never really heard too much about criminologists or psychs actually taking the position there was a sexual component to his crimes, but I'm far from an expert on that one. I know there is always the consideration of stabbings having a sexual component, as well as...

BTK knew Marine Hedge ETA: he also didn't know Mr Otero was going to be home that day so that "family kill" wasn't planned

I'm totally picturing Dwight Schrute now

I agree, but I think there's a possibility he was more excited about it because of that reason, however sick that may be. That's the only thing I've been able to come up with so far

I'm not sure we know that for sure. I am assuming she wasn't eating in the dark so I would think there was at least a TV on or some light unless she was eating in another room, where again, I would assume there would be some sort of light on there.

I think it's very likely X's light was on as she was still awake and had just gotten food. Also, it appears there were Christmas lights, as well as other lights in the house (the neon sign) that would have provided light

This was exactly my point earlier. I certainly wasn't passing judgment on her for anything she did that night, but think this is a perfectly valid and reasonable explanation for what happened. Maybe that's not how it happened, but it's certainly a reasonable theory at this point based on the...

I wasn't insinuating that I was making any judgment about her not calling 911 immediately and not sure where you got that from. I simply mentioned it because others have had problems in their own minds explaining the delay. This is one possible scenario. I think it's pretty clear she had a very...

I don't believe we know, although I believe it was ultimately a friend who had to speak with the 911 operator because the two girls were too hysterical to make sense

Nope. I've used them in divorce cases

I'm not sure we can say E wasn't supposed to be there. I know the popular theory seems to be that he was surprised by E being there that night, but I actually think that's probably not the case. It's my understanding that E stayed over most nights with X as he lived in the fraternity house. If...

I think it may mean she went to sleep again at some point after he left, which makes sense to me for several reasons, even though I can understand why some people would question whether someone could go back to sleep after witnessing what she witnessed. It also helps explain the delay in calling...

Not trying to be argumentative, but couldn't this be said of almost all murders? Someone, usually a family member or roommate, is always going to discover them, right?