rainwaterstill
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Well, now, @JDough and @BNA, this topic re: the killer's conscience is a most interesting point, and it is upon this item in particular (all JMOO) -- or a close family member's or friend's conscience -- that this case will be solved.
At one time... in the past (but... Who knows just *how* distant that past? -- the killer *did* have a conscience (MOO), but...in the days and weeks leading up to Feb. 13th, 2017, I believe that he kept pushing his conscience aside, until...finally, he *acted* upon his impulses.
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In his professional life, the killer is viewed as highly responsible, intelligent, diligent, and...*conscientious*. He is highly esteemed by others for his community service and compassion toward those less fortunate. (All just amateur opinion here.)
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Now that Abby and Libby are gone (gone, but far from forgotten, to be sure), he wants nothing more than to totally *forget* that day, and the images that are seared upon his thoughts. In his private moments he tries to escape the horror, but...it's impossible. He has few truly "close" friends, and has very few family with whom he's in touch. *They* (MOO, of course) have assured him that they will never, ever "blow his cover", and he *mostly* trusts that their promise to conceal his identity is good, but...every now and then, he... wonders: What *if*? What if I *were* to confess? To admit to this? All of those who know me -- and especially my family...our family's good name of many years will be...totally destroyed. *Can't* do it. Especially now. Been this long...maybe after...after those closest to me have passed away, and they will no longer be hurt, shunned, even rejected by everyone who knows them, and especially so that they avoid the potential risk of being considered complicit, since they know all of this...
All entirely JMOO (though I can truly understand why many here would believe that the killer is utterly remorseless, and that his having such inner conversations sounds so implausible...)
To him (since IMO he occasionally reads and posts here) I would say this: Give it up! Clear your conscience! What could be worth *more* than a clear conscience? Why live as "two people" -- the guy your co-workers know, and the guy who *you yourself* know?
Praying that he will make this choice sooner, rather than later.
Just MOO, but he has no intention of making that choice. If he did, he would have turned himself in long, long, ago. He thinks he has outsmarted LE and congratulates himself daily, if not hourly, on that. Gutless pile of excrement that he is.