CA CA - East Area Rapist aka The Original Night Stalker 1976-86

Ausgirl said:

I just gotta put this down here before I forget.

"How does a guy move around a middle class neighbourhood at night without somebody hearing or seeing him?"

"On a bike."

^ lines from some show I was watching and I got a 'ding-ding-ding' - Okay, so rapid fire thoughts for later investigation:

- In Visalia, he was a kid. He had a bike. Limited car access? Probably just a bike, hence all the hits in one street on one night. He stashes the bike in some bushes and bam-bam-bam, house after house, with the bike near enough to run to if he's spotted. May have lived in Visalia but he could have ridden there from another place nearby. I'm thinking he wasn't wholly local, as he'd get recognised riding around those streets. But there again, maybe he 'fit in' too much to be a suspect. Somebody would known about his peeping, though, is my bet. Maybe has a juvie record for it. Maybe people didn't make too much of it. But I know in my gut he was a serial peeper long before he ever set foot in anyone's house for criminal purposes.

- As EAR, he had a car. Probably moved out of home by then. But he's learned the bike is the quickest, quietest way around the streets. People eyeball a strange car - but they likely won't look twice a cyclist.

- As ONS, he's refined his techniques fully. This was him degenerating as a criminal. Thrill-dead, he escalated his crimes as his psyche devolved.

So what kind of vehicle fits a bike in it? Van, station wagon, hatchback are my first thoughts. Maybe a sedan trunk, if it's a smaller framed bike.

/endbabble

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Kitzmann said he has contacted the developer, who he declined to name but said is still in business in the Sacramento area. “I’d like to find out who the subcontractors were and come up with a list of their employees,” he said.

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Irvine police Lt. John Condon said some paint was found on a tool left at the scene of one of the Original Night Stalker homicides his department investigated. “We’re not sure how it arrived at the scene or the circumstances,” he said. “Over the years, there have been a lot of different theories.”

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Traces of blue paint were found in three back-to-back East Area Rapist cases in Sacramento County in 1977. Clark described them as microscopic chips of blue architectural paint that likely came from someone who had been using a paint sprayer. In the late ’70s, he said, paint sprayers typically were used only by professional painters, leading investigators to focus on someone engaged in the building trades.

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Ausgirl said:

I just gotta put this down here before I forget.

"How does a guy move around a middle class neighbourhood at night without somebody hearing or seeing him?"

"On a bike."

^ lines from some show I was watching and I got a 'ding-ding-ding' - Okay, so rapid fire thoughts for later investigation:

- In Visalia, he was a kid. He had a bike. Limited car access? Probably just a bike, hence all the hits in one street on one night. He stashes the bike in some bushes and bam-bam-bam, house after house, with the bike near enough to run to if he's spotted. May have lived in Visalia but he could have ridden there from another place nearby. I'm thinking he wasn't wholly local, as he'd get recognised riding around those streets. But there again, maybe he 'fit in' too much to be a suspect. Somebody would known about his peeping, though, is my bet. Maybe has a juvie record for it. Maybe people didn't make too much of it. But I know in my gut he was a serial peeper long before he ever set foot in anyone's house for criminal purposes.

- As EAR, he had a car. Probably moved out of home by then. But he's learned the bike is the quickest, quietest way around the streets. People eyeball a strange car - but they likely won't look twice a cyclist.

- As ONS, he's refined his techniques fully. This was him degenerating as a criminal. Thrill-dead, he escalated his crimes as his psyche devolved.

So what kind of vehicle fits a bike in it? Van, station wagon, hatchback are my first thoughts. Maybe a sedan trunk, if it's a smaller framed bike.

/endbabble

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Larry Pool, a retired Orange County detective who began working on the case in 1997, said investigators have chemically analyzed paint in the past as one of the many details in the case. Now an investigator for Broadcom, Pool continues to follow leads and work with authorities in his spare time.

“It’s one of those cases you want to see solved before you breathe your last,” he said.

A screwdriver with five types of paint on it was found near the 1981 Irvine crime scene, he said.

“It may be very relevant,” he said. “It may not be.”

At the time, Pool said, investigators questioned whether the paint-stained screwdriver could mean the killer worked in construction. The screwdriver could also have been stolen and simply used as a burglary tool, he said.

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STANDREID said:

It could be but paint evidence didn't lead to the solution of the Jack the Stripper Case although it did enable police to find the building where the bodies were initially stored.

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STANDREID said:

Gary Ridgway was a serial killer and a painter who was loose at the time but I assume his DNA has been checked.

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At the height of the hysteria in 1979, Costa Mesa was covered with posters of the police composite sketch of the suspect. It was drawn from a description by (Marolyn) Carleton's son, who saw his mother's killer bolt from their apartment.

The killer was described as strongly built, 25 to 30 years old, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, with an olive complexion and pock marks on his cheeks.

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Ambercat said:

I was able to locate more information about a sketch that some people thought may be related to EAR-ONS from the late 1970s in Orange County, CA. The more that I learn about the sketch, the less that I think it is related to EAR-ONS.

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