Interesting....
Blue Ridge Knives.
Ka-Bar
Door Dash
Match
Hmmmm.
Combine that with what we know from the lists was found places... that's quite a few different brands of knife in play, isn't it? Even if he only had one of each brand, that's what, three, four? Ka-Bar, speculated to be the murder weapon. A 'knife' no descriptor, a folding knife, a...something-Cutlery brand knife? I've forgotten. And now Blue Ridge?
Even if it's only one per, that seems a lot of knives for someone who doesn't seem to hunt or fish or camp.
I'm going to drop a quote here. Douglas, from Mindhunter. Douglas is very quotable, I'll give him that.
“Dennis Rader quoted Harvey Glatman as saying, 'It was all about the rope.' What exactly does that mean? The rope symbolized total control. The ultimate fantasy would be to keep these victims alive and dominated indefinitely, although both men knew that wasn't possible.”
That line, "It was all about the rope" has been running through my head since the early threads of following this case, since long before the arrest. Now, obviously, in this case, there is no rope. So it's not as direct as comparison as Rader was making when he quoted Glatman, both killers with an obsession with ligature strangulation.
But, since the early threads, what has been running through my head is, "It's all about the knife."
Why a knife? so many on here have asked. It's messy, you can injure yourself, you have to get up close, the victim can fight back, you can miss what you're aiming for, especially in the dark, it's a knife for a knife fetishist or collector or exmilitary, not a hunter, not a fisher, not a camper, and so on. Why not a gun? It's quick and you can do it from a distance? Why not strangulation? You can get up close, it's quiet, you can't stab yourself on a ligature or your bare hands.
I have felt from early on, it's a knife because,
it's all about the knife.
I think it was always going to be a knife because he'd thought about it so often and for so long, and when he thought about it, it was always a knife.
So yeah, I'm very overtired, so probably not as coherent as I could be. I am not any kind of psych, especially not a profiler, but I think the knife is key. The knife might have even been more important to him than the victims. I think there's going to be a fixation on knives somewhere in there that goes back a long, long time into a dark, deep place in his mind. And I expect to see evidence that suggests that when we get to trial.
Very much My Opinion Only, and I apologise in advance for typos or incoherence, I'm about four hours past my bedtime.
