Good morning everyone!
I can only post how I feel after reading about psychopath rapists and murderers for over three decades.
First, while some seem dismissive of him dousing his own pet with oil and setting it on fire as benign and just being a teenager, I do not dismiss such horrid actions. I have never known a single teen or adult for that matter that had the capability in their hearts to do such a cruel sadistic thing. It isn't normal behavior for anyone to do but it is a trait many psychopaths possess. It showed even then he had a depraved dark heart with little or no value for other living things. I also recall when they searched the junkyard they found several other bones. I don't think his pet cat was his first animal victim either or his last. He seemed to draw pleasure from doing this or he simply wouldn't/couldn't have done it. IMO He also seems to like fires and believes/uses fires to destroy things or in this case, TH. Another trait of a psychopath.
We could say the same thing about every psychopath murderer. The why would he/she do this or do it this way... comes up in every case when one of them is caught. Imo, we do not process thoughts like a psychopath does. They always think they are far smarter than they ever are even those who aren't highly intelligent. We then try to apply our own rational thoughts to what they do and what they did and why they did it the certain way they did their crimes. Many times we often say 'but why would he/she do that?' The answer most often is we don't know. Rapists and murderers are filled with irrational thoughts and trying to apply our own rational thinking to something far from society norms just isn't doable. We will never fully understand why murderers do what they do and in the manner they carried out each one.
As far as Auto Trader why would it be necessary for him to block his number then? He wasn't telling them TH was to meet Steven Avery at the junkyard. He wanted it on record she was to meet his sister. He left the impression he wasn't even going to be a part of the transaction and TH would be meeting with his sister. That is the very reason he said all of this to AT. They would relay the message telling her she would be meeting a female at the junkyard. Why would he lie about his sister wanting to sell her van when she did not want to do so? Why would he set this all up when he knew his sister would be away from the premises when TH arrived expecting to meet his sister? The entire thing was a lie. She wasn't selling her van and he knew it all along but it was a way to get 'that girl' to come to the junkyard where HE would be the only one waiting for her.
I absolutely do believe he felt he was owed a rape. After all he had already spent 18 years in prison for one he didn't do. He was known to be violent against women and I think deep down he hated women in general and he seethed with hate during the time he was locked up. I think he sat there for hours in his cell thinking of ways to murder a female if he ever got out.
If you look up the profile of a psychopath you will see one of their traits shows they are very vindictive revengeful individuals. Even if they don't become murderers and are highly successful professionally they will crush anyone and everyone in the ground to get to the top. Feelings for others never matters to the psychopath. They feel they are entitled to do whatever is necessary to get even when they feel they have been wronged. Its all about getting even or getting ahead and they will do anything... even murder to obtain that goal.
As far as why would he spend his money on these kind of tests if he was guilty is simple to me. What does he have to lose by doing so? He isn't the first defendant who has professed they were innocent who have tied up the courts for years and having other tests run only to be found out they were really guilty.
He wouldn't have to go to a bar and take a chance of being seen. This way he could slowly begin to lure his targeted victim to his own comfort zone.....the place and layout he knew better than anyone... without ever stepping foot outside of the junkyard.
He was deceitful that day. He lied and said TH would be meeting with his sister. He lied when he told AT that his sister wanted to sell her van when that wasn't the truth. He was deceitful when THs number was the only number he blocked twice that day when he called her.
Thanks for replying Dexter.