Glad to have you at WS.
What are your thoughts on what happened to the girls?
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Oh boy, that's a steep, slippery slope I've been traversing for the last 4 years. I'm a crime buff with a deep interest in criminal psychology and profiling, with an AA in Criminal Justice, but never went anywhere with it. And I have a stepdaughter who was (is) the girls age, live in the same area, and rides her bike along some of the same routes. I've engulfed myself so much with this case (and others) at times that, I end up sitting in a dark room on a lap top, being powered solely on Doritos and Mountain Dew. So please bear with me, but here goes...
I think we are dealing with someone who is much more a "Zach Morris" than a "Wally" (see previous posts in forum). A "Zach Morris" is, well, just that, just like the Saved by the Bell character; cool, confident, suave and charismatic. Perhaps slightly narcissistic. He's clean-cut, not super slim or muscular, but average. Not particularly attractive, but okay looking. Between 28 -34 years of age at the time. He's likeable, but not dateable. He lives alone, and all of his romantic relationships end suddenly because he let's his "dark side" show. His egotistical aspect comes from an unapproving father who raised him to understand men are to be the power gender, and women are the subserviant gender. His mother would've been meek and obeyed. He understood the change of todays world, that not all women are meek and powerless and was able to "charm" his way into people's lives before showing his true need for power as a 'man'. This guy wouldn't seem the type to do this. He works in a repetitive factory job in the area (Tyson, John Deere, Bertch Cabinets, etc).
I haven't quite decided how I feel he got them into the car other than he used his charming wit in some way. This was a crime of opportunity, he saw, he followed, he conquered. He was at his wits-end with rejection from females and knew he could 'overpower' a child. I don't feel he threatened them into the vehicle. But he had to have some macho confidence to take two instead of one. The immediate risk of taking two is: - one could run -both could fight -possible bigger commotion. I feel this was his first major crime (priors may be domestic abuse, sexual harassment...) and he was counting on one, perhaps saw just one girl at some point (with the other being out of view), but when two arrived he had an ego-boost of "I can take two AND get away with it", but once in the car *SOMEONE* saw them (and either has forgotten or isn't able to put two-and-two together) and that made him panic and take the girls out of town. I don't feel it was specifically sexual in nature, but more of a power trip that may have included sexual acts.
This isn't someone anyone would suspect; he's never preyed on children before, but this opportunity gave him a power trip that was comparable to a drug high. He may have become slightly more paranoid after the incident, but hasn't really "let on" to anyone that he could be involved. He doesn't feel bad or good about what he'd done. He's neutral, without care. After the murders were over, he lost his high and just "exists" again.
He's much like a young Bundy, minus the looks, and if given the opportunity, he will offend again, but at this time his paranoia is keeping him from attempting anything.
Sorry if this seems like rambling, and it's the complete opposite of everyone else's profiling, but I just don't get the feeling that this guy was a "creep". I feel he is someone just average, but above average enough to not stick out and hasn't really 'let out' his inner demons to anyone but perhaps nibs of it to those he may have courted.
I could be entirely wrong...we could all be entirely wrong...This is just my gut feeling and knowledge from all the documents I've read in the past.
