@Truthspider:
The lie detector test on JB was inconclusive, I didn't hear anything about a lie detector test on CPH yet. Did I miss something? But anyway, how long is h in this medical state, he is in right now? Would he have the physical abilities to commit those murders in the first place? I admit to some confusion, when it comes to CPH, he appears to me like someone half-dirty accidentally caught in something dirtier. But then, what you wrote about the whole condo thing is really suspicious and could place him mentally near to the Manorville murders.
And in fact, even the numbers are generally too small for a real significant statistics, we find especially in cases of torso killers a higher number of doctors in the list (as in at least five other categories of sks). Doctors have another attitude to the nastinesses that come inevitable with dealing with dead bodies.
@Minazoe: I miss what you refer to. The killer killed, that is the only reason we talk about him on this board in the first place. But a sadist is not always just a sadist. There are a lot of psycho-pathological combinations, for example in connection narcissistic personality disorder (e.g Alcala), OCD (e.g. Dahmer), religious delusions (those appear as sadists in the victimology but are driven by other urges in fact) and so on (in fact, there are about fifty sub species of homicidal sadists known). Most of them would be able to kill any kind of victim, but would only perform sexual acts (and for torso killer dismembering has a sexual component) on those victims having a sexual attraction to them which is given by their sexual orientation.
@waltzingmathilda: In general, phone calls of SKs are of four symptom categories:
1.) The injection in the investigation. This is kind of the common knowledge thing we hear all the time at Criminal Minds and such, but in the reality it is quite rare and limited to certain types. Normally not torso killers because they use bodies and parts of them as statement, but for mission driven types and self-aggrandizers, it has happened (e.g. Jack the Ripper and Zodiac and to a degree Son of Sam)
2.) The sadist, who adds psychological torture to his crime to raise the stakes. Especially psychopathic sadists with additional symptoms of schizophrenia or dissociative personality disorder (type Bundy) have a tendency to taint and that can also include calls to family members if those have a lot of media attention.
3.) The attention hogs (again e.g. type Zodiac and also BTK) feel undervalued. They make calls or send letters, but mostly to media organizations like new papers or news agencies.
4.) The mission driven types feel sometimes urged to explain their deeds. This is especially common in the area of religious delusions (keep in mind, believing in human sacrifices to prevent earthquakes can be for such killers also be religious).
The problem is, most serial killer cases, I studied ended up with not one singular personality disorder but with a bunch of primary and secondary diagnoses. So it is possible and probably, phone calls can be driven by more than one of these 4 symptomatic urges. I would have to see a transcript of those phone calls to make it a little bit more water tight. From the first impression, based on the little details, I read as of yet, there are two cornerstones in those calls:
- The reference to the lifestyle
As in "your sister was a
, you are a
, the world is full of
and this is, what you get for it". This is not sadistic, even it appears so. Comparisons with a group are always preaching, explaining and self-justifying. This is basically just saying "
deserve to die and so I am justified to kill them" For those types, it is also justification for everything else, he does to the victims, including rape, because it allows to reduce them to mere pieces of meat.
- the references to sexual acts, he performed on her sister and implicitly threatened to do to her to.
This isn't a stand-alone, this is in it's interpretation consistent with the other cornerstone. There are a lot of cases known in which rape/sodomy/forced oral sex and such practices were not just for sex but primary to humiliate and punish the victims for their flaws, failures or just to establish control/power over them (we saw a lot of this in the Bundy and Hillside Strangler cases and even more often in cases of serial rapists). Regularly, if stand alone, such references would point to a narcissist/sadist type with a psychopathic mindset, however, together with the repeated references to the lifestyle, it feels more like "punishment" and "threat with punishment". Punishment includes of course always the right to punish and justification by the duty to punish. It is kind of a power play which serves rather to compensate for feelings of inferiority in the killer than the real sexual act in itself.
But be careful with that, I can base that only on some hunches because I have no transcripts of the complete phone calls.
