Summersolstice
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You may all be right and I have no idea whether or not RW shaved any part of his body.
Not to be splitting hairs here (heheh), but Dictionary.com defines "hairless" as synonymous with "bald".
hair·less
 
adjective
without hair; bald: his pink hairless pate.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hairless
Thesaurus.com lists various synonyms for "bald", including the word "hairless".
bald
Main Entry: bald
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having no covering
Synonyms: baldheaded, bare, barren, depilated, exposed, glabrous, hairless, head*, naked, shaven, skin head, smooth, stark, uncovered
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/bald
Merriam-Webster and Oxford online dictionaries have no separate definition for the adjective - it being understood that the suffix "less" means "without; lacking".
It also has to be considered that that particular word was merely the arbitrary choice of the witness, or the reporter's source, or the reporter him/herself.
As for premeditation, whoever perpetrated these crimes obviously premeditated them, whether or not he shaved his body. These were not crimes of sudden passion. From what we've read (i.e. duct tape, photography, etc.) extensive
planning had to go into all of them.
JMO
Common usage is the key. Common people say "bald" for a skinhead, "hairless" for other body parts. I wonder if there is some insider knowledge on the issue of where the hair was missing?