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    CA CA - East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer *ARREST*

    He visited Australia while in the Navy, which was before the Visalia cases. I haven't heard that he ever went back. EDIT: I'm looking at the Mr Cruel cases now, and I can see why people see similarities, but they appear to be a de-escalation. Why would he go from murdering couples to not...
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    CA CA - East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer *ARREST*

    The Visalia Ransacker attempted to abduct a teen girl (I believe 14), and Visalia and Sacramento LEOs seem fairly sure these were among JJD's first crimes. I believe one of this other victims was 13 or 14. But most of his victims were adults, and I believe they ruled out the Mr. Cruel...
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    CA CA - East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer *ARREST*

    There are a ton of reasons police could be searching the backyard (just to be thorough, looking to see if he buried some of the items he stole, etc.), but in some of the photos/video they appear to be using ground-penetrating radar and marking spots in his backyard.
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    CA CA - East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer *ARREST*

    I wonder if they got DNA from the shoelaces recently, now that DNA technology has improved to where police can get touch DNA.
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    CA CA - East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer *ARREST*

    Roger Kibbe, who was also local to Sacramento and the brother of a homicide detective, used that to avoid capture while killing in the 1970s and 1980s. He would pick up a woman in one county and take her to another before killing her, knowing that the departments wouldn't talk much. Even after...
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    CA CA - East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer *ARREST*

    Exeter/Visalia. The confirmed Visalia Ransacker cases started in 1974, but may go back to 1973. There's at least one murder connected to this series of burglaries. https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2018/04/25/breaking-visalia-ransacker-aka-golden-state-killer-may-behind-bars/550310002/
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    CA CA - East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer *ARREST*

    Apparently the Visalia Ransacker used dishes as an alarm system much like EAR/ONS did. Or at least, I read that in one of the several articles I read earlier today (I think one of the ones at the Visalia Herald-Delta).
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    CA CA - East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer *ARREST*

    This would add another murder to his list - Claude Snelling, who the Visalia Ransacker shot and killed while attempting to abduct his daughter Beth Snelling. The bullets in the murder matched a gun stolen in one of the confirmed Ransacker burglaries.
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    CA CA - East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer *ARREST*

    Not sure if this made it over here yet, but he's been confirmed by LE as the Visalia Ransacker. Those cases began in 72 IIRC.
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    Deceased/Not Found TN - Marsha Brantley, 51, Cleveland, May 2009 *Arrest*

    It doesn't look like she's been ruled out for several unidentified bodies on NAMUS that at least loosely match (age and length of time missing).
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    CA CA - I-5 Strangler - Roger Reece KIBBE, 1970's-80's

    Skeletal remains were found by hikers in Placer County, on a rural road just off of Interstate 80, one of the routes between Sacramento and Reno. http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article197039324.html There's not much information known yet - they're not even sure how old the remains...
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    Found Deceased CA - Blaze Bernstein, 19, Lake Forest, 2 Jan 2018 #7 *Arrest*

    That cut looks very much like the trend of "high and tight" haircuts among the alt-right white supremacist types: http://www.esquire.com/style/news/a51116/high-and-tight-fascism-neo-nazis-white-supremacists/
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    Found Deceased CA - Blaze Bernstein, 19, Lake Forest, 2 Jan 2018 #7 *Arrest*

    That is a potential reasoning behind a violent stabbing, but not the only one. Knives have some symbolism among neo-Nazis, and it wouldn't be the first time that neo-Nazis had stabbed someone to death. According to sites like KnifeDepot.com and MilitaryItems.com, daggers were carried by Nazi...
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    CA Kenneth Vanderford and Kevin Etherton

    A pair of men have been linked to a pair of brutal murders in Lodi, California. Kenneth Vanderford, 52, and Kevin Etherton, 26, have been charged with the murder of Dorothy Wiederrich, 74, on Feb. 13, 2016. They were arrested a year ago for the murder of Alan Gregor, 53, and arson on Sept. 25...
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    GUILTY TX - William Lewis Reece, Serial Killer - Laura Smither, 12, Kelli Cox, 20, and Jessica Cain, 17

    So he's suspected in four murders and convicted of at least three abductions and sexual assaults, right? He would have been 20 in the late 1970s. Any chance he's responsible for other Texas Killing Field murders before the abductions that landed him in prison?
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