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I also agree that he’s on the younger side of the estimates. I’m wondering if his parents were divorced, and he was shuttled between households, so he didn’t feel like he had a real “home.”

I grew up in N California, and sometimes it felt like the adults had abdicated. My middle class, college educated parents divorced, and managed to get into EST, Transcendental Meditation, Consciousness Raising, a Feminist Group, and a Pentecostal Church, and I’m sure I’m missing something. At least they avoided Jim Jones’ church, and The Family commune.

There’s a satirical novel titled The Serial that gives an interesting view of the time.

I think there’s a good chance that EARONs had a dysfunctional family. I also think he was part of a construction crew. Maybe his dad or step dad was in construction, and traveled between new home developments as they were being built.

Interesting, there is also a book about knots by a Kat Winters: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Knots-Kat-Winters/dp/1930408404/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506618691&sr=1-4&refinements=p_27%3AKat+Winters

Perhaps a love of knots made Kat aware of and interested in EAR/ONS back in 2005? If only this were true, how life can be so random and arbitrary!

Sliding doors and windows are a very common entry point for offenders.

Before bed consider adding a door jammer on any doors that lead outside and open inwards. These can also be used on sliding glass doors but then again you can always just throw a sturdy pole/pipe in the track of these. Old broom and mop handles are great for this. Anything that slides is incredibly easy and quiet to open with a bit of force.

Close any curtains or blinds once the sun goes down and keep the porch light on every night.

Billy Jensen and Paul Haynes were her co-writer and researcher, respectively. This is the book. Though it’s sold out now! I would HIGHLY recommend you read this excerpt. by Michelle. It shows just how brilliant and passionate she was, and why so many of us are devastated by her early passing.

There are laws that stop criminals from profiting from their crimes in this way. It's possible for family members or someone else from his life to do it, but I'm not getting the feeling that we'll see anything like that for a long time.

For something along those lines, check out the book by Kerri Rawson (BTK's daughter) in a couple of months! She's my twitter buddy and has amazing insight. https://www.amazon.com/Serial-Killers-Daughter-Story-Overcoming/dp/1400201756

That looks pretty awesome- did you also write the book about knots or is that just a freaky coincidence?

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Knots-Kat-Winters/dp/1930408404/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506605930&sr=1-5&refinements=p_27%3AKat+Winters

I think you should check out Evil Has a Name, it's fantastic!

I don't care much about Renner either. Guy seems completely clueless about so many things and people. I don't trust his judgment at all.

As for the White Mountains, not sure there's a book length story there either. Just as you and I are done with the "my obsession" narrative, I'm also not into "haunted place" narratives.

As an FYI, here's an author, Bill James, who actually did solve a case, The Man from the Train

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Train-Solving-Century-Old-Mystery/dp/1476796254

Also, if you haven't read Popular Crime, it's fascinating.

Think your best bet would be a book like this one-

Case Files of the East Area Rapist / Golden State Killer https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999458108/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_IWFYAbFA2VHT9

The recent 40th anniversary press release by investigators would probably be the next best.

It is called "Case Files of the East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer."

https://www.amazon.com/Files-Rapist-Golden-State-Killer/dp/0999458108

I haven't read it myself, but I've heard that Kat Winters' book is extremely detailed. https://www.amazon.com/Files-Rapist-Golden-State-Killer/dp/0999458108

These are Winters' two books:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0999458108/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0999458116/

That Michelle McNamara book about his case

https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Be-Gone-Dark-Obsessive/dp/0062319787

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-His-Mind-Original-Stalker/dp/1549884204/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540667717&sr=8-1&keywords=Anne+Penn

The victim, Jane Carson-Sandler has written a book about the crime and her life afterwards. She also spoke at Crimecon. Here she is now, with a link to her at Crimecon. I sure wish I knew if she mentions the car and talks about the investigation in her book.

http://www.oxygen.com/blogs/crimecon-my-name-is-jane-carson-sandler-and-i-was-victim-5
https://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Fear-Story-Surviving-Shadows/dp/1491735996

This was touch DNA. Meaning it was a tiny trace amount. It could have even come from the person who packaged the underwear.

It was the Ramsey family who covered up another family member. The intruder hypothesis was dismantled by Kolar in his book Foreign Faction step by step.

There was a spiderweb across the broken window they said the intruder gained access to. It is the police crime scene video.

Their sons prints were all over the bowl of pineapple yet neither of the parents claimed to have given her pineapple. Pineapple was in the autopsy report.

Whoever wrote the note and made the meal put everything back in the exact same place it was taken from. Note was done using a pad from the home.

Kolar explains this all step by step.

Moral of the story, don't tell your wife your Christmas bonus when she is writing the ransom note.

As a bonus you should watch the parents denying Patsy's handwriting in their family photo album with captions on what each photo is about. They claim they don't know who wrote in their own family photo album. That a stranger could have done it. The clip is 30 min long and you can see them deny it in this deposition at around 9 minutes 30 seconds. It sort of makes you cringe.

>Can you link to the transcript.

"Sudden Terror" by Larry Crompton, around the 300-page mark or so ( LINK ).

yes, wrt Crompton's book.

No wrt Crompton putting old-timers off "we've checked out EVERY cop/police officer." I still feel that burn.

As with Crompton, I didn't think it could be a cop~~where the 'ef did JJD find the time. yea, his wife was in college/law school but at 27-33 yoa I came home tired every night.

How the 'el did JJD have that momentum?

Thank her for what? She didn't do anything other than write a book on the case that was filled with info that's been around for years.

There are also other people that wrote books about the case much better than she did, two of them being detectives that worked on the case:

• Case Files of the East Area Rapist / Golden State Killer by Kat Winters and Keith Komos
  
• Hot Prowl by Jack Gray
  
• Sudden Terror by Larry Crompton
  
• Hunting A Psychopath: The East Area Rapist / Original Night Stalker Investigation - The Original Investigator Speaks Out by Richard Shelby
  
  Michelle McNamara had nothing to do with solving the case, yet for some strange reason certain people seem to think that it wouldn't have been solved without her. Or course that's just ridiculous because she had nothing to do with investigating or solving it. But now I almost can't read any article about earons with out her name being mentioned even though she had nothing to do with the case.
  
  The only people that deserve a thank you in this case are the police that finally solved it.
  

RE Point 3. Almost all FBI profiles of serial offenders of his ilk make reference to a desire to join the military or police force due to their particular desire for control and power and almost all fail selection as their other divergent personality traits are not compatible, basically: "Does not play well with others". From other serial rapists I've read about their 'normal' life is normally on a knife-edge between existing and chaos, you can't spend most nights running around the neighbourhood in a mask with no pants on and expect your day job / relationships not to take a hit. I would thoroughly recommend reading Son: A Psychopath and His Victims by Jack Olsen to get a detailed look at the life of the type of man that can work and be in relationships, albeit dysfunctional, but also be a prolific serial rapist. Interestingly in this case the detectives involved believed he would have killed if he's remained at large.

Maybe something approaching what is described below, or a personality with which the perp keeps his true nature bottled-up until he reaches a saturation point; where the perp has to lose control of his false normalcy in order to act normal again.

I could definitely see a Rader type of situation.

I found the below information while researching enhanced/coercive interrogation techniques. I think it's possible the perp studied those types of torture techniques.

Does the personality described in the excerpt below seem familiar to anyone?

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>While poking around in the trash, Taylor saw a U.S. Army intelligence officer, accompanied by a Korean intelligence officer, pass by in a jeep. Taylor had been investigating the American for several months, so he quickly dropped what he was doing and followed them. Taylor had opened the case when a number of his Vietnamese sources began complaining to him that an American military officer, in cahoots with the Koreans, was murdering Vietnamese civilians for the CIA. The American officer was regularly seen at the Da Nang Interrogation Center, assaulting women prisoners and forcing them to perform perverse acts. He had a reputation as a sadist who enjoyed torturing and killing prisoners. A psychopath with no compunctions about killing people or causing them pain, he was the ideal contract killer.

>Taylor's principal source was a Vietnamese woman who knew where the American assassin lived. Together they watched the house, and when the man emerged, Taylor recognized him immediately. The man was the Da Nang Phoenix adviser, in which capacity he periodically appeared at the CID compound dressed in the uniform of a U.S. Army intelligence officer.

>"The guy was crazy," Taylor explained. "He was my height, slightly taller. He had dark hair and a runner's build. He had three or four names and eyes you'd never forget -- like he was acting at throwing a tantrum. Like Jim in Taxi. He was angry all the time," Taylor continued. "When he walked through a crowd of Vietnamese, he just pushed people aside. The first time I saw him, as a matter of fact, was outside Koslowski's office. A Vietnamese sentry blocked his way, so he slammed the guy up against the guardhouse. Right then and there I knew that someday we were going to fight.

>"He didn't look or act like a military officer," Taylor added. "That's why I started watching him."

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Please Be Advised: I am not suggesting the individual described above is the Golden State perp.

I included the excerpt cited above to serve as an example of the type of personality the field (sorry; I couldn't think of a more suitable word) of Enhanced/Coercive Interrogation tends to attract.

Source: The Phoenix Program By Douglas Valentine; page 172.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Phoenix-Program-Douglas-Valentine/dp/0595007384

**The book was reviewed by Morley Safer for The New York Times.




http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/books/body-count-was-their-most-important-product.html


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Edit: grammar I think. Added a word.