This may be stating the obvious or just thinking too hard and wanting to reach for connections, as much as there's an attempt to not over reach. The patterns of JM's life from public records as presented on the timeline on WS (link below), the cases he has been linked to through forensic evidence, those missing women who have no connection or any reason to believe that they will, mapped out as just for hypothetical reasoning, tickles the brain.
He may have had reason to be around when some of them went missing in some of those places. He may have progressed as he may have gone on to rape and murder more women. He may have had moments of remorse, mitigation, vindictiveness, or secret attention seeking, in the cases where the bodies were found. He may have struck when he could, as SKs are known to gain confidence with every kill.
The things that were happening in his life that preceded the night he was last seen with Hannah Graham may have been good for him. He's back in the game coaching football. He has gone from a college drop out (well, kicked out for sexual assaults), to taxi driver, to possibly an a care-taking job in a nursing home, to an orderly in a prestigious place in his world. He may have not been teased about looking like a police sketch for a while. As one familiar with him was reported say in the press 'that he was doing so much better lately.' The mystery "live-in" girlfriend of 4 1/2 years or so, a relationship that was reported to have ended 2 1/2 months before the night he walked away with Hannah Graham, was life better for him after that too?
You get the impression that JM is at the high point in his life. It may be possible to assume that he had great confidence, a certain recklessness exhibited with his social interactions that night as reported in the press. I agree with foxfire, that the sacramental aspect of his rituals may be inherent, and that he may have had the urge to return to that place either through location or ritual, the signature act for him. He may have done this well enough before, disposing of his victims. That night he left with Hannah Graham, he may have fallen into automatically knowing how to avoid detection, how to build an alibi, but it may have not worked. It just seems it may be possible that something went wrong for him before he returned to his apartment.
He returned to his apartment at some point the next day. The roommates are cooperating with police so it may be known when. He chose not to use his alibi and come forward and say something like 'oh, yeah. i bought the girl a drink and dropped her off near her house. she wasn't in good shape.' No. He didn't do that. He only said something like that if the initial reports in the Daily Mail quoting his family are credible, to them.
He chose to scrub his facebook page about the time videos came out as mentioned in the WS forum. He spent time preparing to move as was reported in the press, according to his landlady. He takes his time before he actually goes into see LE with his family. If what the verified insider on this forum has said is true, he reached out to friendly legal advice on what to do next, before he went LE. Then soon after he has a chance to lawyer up, it was mentioned here by WSers, that he blackout his picture, then he takes off for Tx. This may just be me, but he has not acted like an innocent man from the get go, not in court, where to me, he seems resigned, not abject, nor objecting or any sense of protest for his innocence.
Anyway, the point is (pardon the tome), and considering all the useful information foxfire posted to help, it seems like it may have been possible that JM had some sacramental ritual that was at the core of what drove him to do these things. It's possible that those who knew him, know where, when and maybe even what that may have been. That may be such deeply dark stuff to know, maybe just have sense of it in their bones. I imagine it may be terribly difficult to share, but I hope they do. Where is that special place JM liked to go over and over again?
Timeline and maps
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...h-Graham-MAPS-amp-TIMELINES-**NO-DISCUSSION**