CA CA - The Doodler *UNSOLVED*

[Leprikawn]

It is suspected he has other victims out there.

Hmm…I wonder if police ever looked at art students. Theoretically there should be enrollment records at the California College of the Arts dating back to when the Doodler was active. He was described as making drawings for his victims and his age suggests a college student. If he was enrolled at CCA as a student then there should be a few staff members still around who would recognize his composite sketch. I would enquire especially in the departments of comics, illustration and painting and drawing. Hopefully someone remembers his work. Assuming of course he was a student there.

Great idea. Most schools have year books they could probably look back on. Sites like Classmates some times archive them. Sounds like the police know who he is and are just looking for a match on DNA. It's upsetting that the Diplomat and Entertainer still will not testify. Things have changes so much over the decades and this is a killer we are talking about.

 

[GracefulD1an]

Great idea. Most schools have year books they could probably look back on. Sites like Classmates some times archive them. Sounds like the police know who he is and are just looking for a match on DNA. It's upsetting that the Diplomat and Entertainer still will not testify. Things have changes so much over the decades and this is a killer we are talking about.

Based on my knowledge of the case and how genealogy is dealt with in the African American/Caribbean American communities it might be easier to do the college route. I mean from what I heard there are a limited number of people of those communities who do DNA tests as compared to the abundance of European Americans on genealogy databases. Not only that but it wasn’t until 1870 that African and Caribbean Americans were listed in census records as individuals coupled with the practice of breaking up families via the act of slave markets. Then there’s the diversity of genetic profiles in individuals of African ancestry and the chance he was born from a one night stand or something worse alongside the chance he was adopted out meaning finding his family would be complicated. Hence why I suggested college archives.

Sorry if I wrote a long diatribe but I wanted to highlight the problems the investigators are likely running into via reliance on genealogy alone.

 

[moonglow123]

I haven't read about this case in years, I didn't know they had a probable suspect but his surviving victims weren't willing to testify. Completely understandable to not want to face the stress and stigma of testifying, but heartbreaking they couldn't get justice.

 

[GracefulD1an]

Yeah they have had a rough idea for a while now but don’t have concrete evidence to connect the person of interest to the crimes.