I'm a new member here and this is my first post in an active investigation so, please, go easy on me if I'm saying or asking anything that's been mentioned before. WCJD is one of the cases that led me to Websleuths and it brought me to tears just reading what she went through. With that in mind, I have a few questions about the case that, from reading this thread, I can't tell if they were answered or not. I'll couple these with the background reading that I've been able to do thus far. Could someone more familiar with the case fill in the (probably large) gaps and areas I'll certainly have missed?
1. Elsewhere in the thread somebody posted to the effect that a young woman who matched the description of WCJD was seen getting into a station wagon with up to three male passengers. Has this sighting been verified or disproved?
2. I've only made a surface reading of what was done to WCJD and I haven't looked at any mortuary pictures, nor do I intend to (I'm sorry; I don't want images like that in my mind). However, I did read something to the effect that she wasn't 'conventionally' raped; i.e. the assailant used a foreign object. Other posters have mentioned a potential connection to Samuel Little, who I gather is a violent sadist who enjoyed inflicting pain over and above 'normal' sexual gratification.
3. I don't know if this has been asked elsewhere, but what are the ergonomics of the above? Could the assailant have done what he did to WCJD on his own? Please forgive me if this sounds clumsy or inappropriate; I haven't posted in a forum anything like this one before, so I'm still finding my feet - BUT it seems from the reading that the assailant would have found it difficult to do everything that was done to WCJD on his own.
4. Given, judging from the surface reading I've taken from the case, that the assailant was someone who enjoyed hurting people, would it be possible that, instead of beating her unconscious (as Little, as a self-described 'prize-fighter' would have been more than capable of doing), someone else assisted the assailant? I haven't read anything to the effect that WCJD was tied or shackled, so if the assailant intended to derive enjoyment from what he did to her, he would require her to be conscious (if he's sadistic, he ought to derive no enjoyment from an unconscious victim?).
5. With the above in mind, is it possible that the assailant had help? Assuming WCJD was conscious during this, a solo assailant would have needed to immobilize her in some way. Is there any evidence that this was done? If there isn't, it seems as if he would have needed to use one hand to restrain her while, with the other, he did whatever he did to her with the 'foreign object'. This seems physically awkward, a difficult balancing act and one that would require a victim who was unable to fight back - which leads back to the above suggestion that a victim unable to struggle is of no enjoyment to a sadist.
6. A couple of comclusions spring to my mind as a result of this speculation: either a) he was much larger than she was and was able to overpower her, or, b) he had help. I haven't (and again, I have no intention doing this) undertaken any ergonomic evaluations as to the best ways to carry out a violent assault, but it nonetheless seems to me, as an outsider, as if whoever did this to WCJD might have benefited from a third party's help, unless he really was physically much larger than she. has it been ascertained for sure that the assailant acted alone?
I'm not in a position to help most of these John and Jane Does, but if I can help narrow the focus on their murderers, I hope I can help to do so.
