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Thanks, that was an interesting article! rbbm.
"By no means was the hammer killer sophisticated enough to pick locks or use glass cutters to enter homes. Instead. he went to areas he was familiar with and went from home to home trying door knobs. If windows and doors were locked at one home, he immediately went on to the next residence.
“He was very juvenile in his approach. How does he gain entry into homes? He walks down the street and jiggles doors,” Walker concluded. His profile recommended detectives look for a very young man in his early to mid-20s, he said.
Walker recommended that police fingerprint every doorknob and window in the neighborhoods where the attacks happened. The suspect likely went down a row of homes until he found an open door.
That meant the killer was not a stalker, who watched a neighborhood for hours, days or weeks until he knew all the habits of his victims, Walker said. Instead, he was a minimally skilled prowler who randomly targeted homes in areas where he had familiarity, either because he lived or worked nearby. All four home invasions in the Denver area were along an east to west corridor, within a few blocks of Hampden Avenue, he said.
Most importantly, Walker predicted the attacker’s background would include acts of violence, whether he was the victim or perpetrator. It could be that he was the victim of child abuse. Another possible scenario was that he had been beaten up or chased away by a physically-larger homeowner during a home burglary. It’s possible the homeowner never reported the confrontation to police, he added.
This would teach the burglar to enter homes with protection, Walker said. The weapons chosen also said something about the killer. The unsophisticated burglar apparently didn’t have the resources to buy a gun. Instead, he used a weapon readily available to him that he was familiar with. From then on he would be armed when he entered homes because he wouldn’t know what he was going to find when he got inside."
I hope Vanessa is alright and happy. 
