Recent content by eritain

... as far as we know. A Redditor suggested the other day that he could have stalked and robbed drug dealers. People don't usually file police reports on their stolen drug money.

I think the simplest explanation is still that he was trying to shoot McGowan and he hit the flashlight by chance. The reasoning just seems circular to me: "EAR was a crack shot! Proof: He nailed the flashlight!" What makes us sure he was aiming at the flashlight? "Well he hit it, didn't he? And...

Nah. The ring has that hole near the tip of the handle, the tip itself is narrower and pointier, and there's scalloping on the curved bows on either side. Not a match.

w00t! One more lead in LE's hands! And pointed questions seem to me more promising than "well, tell us whatever you remember." I'm sure they are familiar with the voices of every EAR-obsessed crackpot by now, and can recognize them and hang up with less investment than email. I don't think VR...

That rules out your co-worker as EAR, but not as the other person of interest in the Maggiore murders. As I said before, I don't think that sketch is EAR. It's very hard to reconcile with EAR sketches from other events: The jaw is too angular, the face isn't narrow enough. The other Maggiore...

Suspicious vehicles do include some work vans, with windowed double doors in the back. One witness was very sure the taillights were vertical, which is unique to the Ford Econoline, but as usual with eyewitnesses, descriptions vary.

I suppose that depends what "later" means. Was that peep/van/mask/knife thing before or after Feb 1978? The sketch you recognized is one of two suspicious people sketched after the murder of Brian and Katie Maggiore in Rancho Cordova on 2 Feb 1978. For my money, if either sketch shows EAR/ONS...