The way AA was described by neighbors and friends sounds exactly how the perp that killed my friend was described. IMO, it sounds like how a lot of perps who commit really violent crimes are described. I am not shocked that he wrote a book about violent murder - and I am definitely not shocked that he did research on how to kill someone in a really gruesome way while writing his book. The whole "quiet on the outside, he'd never do this" mask is one that is common with rape as well - but it's not evident and may not ever be evident whether a rape was committed here. I hope through further investigation more will be revealed on who AA truly is and whether there are further crimes that have gone unreported.
@doyoulovemepfg I am so sorry about your friend’s murder (and, as are we all, about the horrible ending of ML’s short life).
Given how incompetent and narcissistic AA seems to be and have been, however, combined with his apparent obsession with still and video photography and violent “fantasy,” I would not be surprised to learn AA taped, live-streamed, or photographed or otherwise recorded many of the acts related to the current crimes against ML (and perhaps we will learn of investigators or witnesses to evidence of other past crimes).
I have a hard time given what we already know about this person AA that he would not in some ways be excited by, proud of, and revel in video, audio, and/or still photography of this presumably most recent and perhaps as well prior crimes of physical and/or sexual violence, domination, incapacitation, abduction, and annihilation. AA seems like the type to keep a scrapbook, trophies, resume, evidence of his crimes to relive and fantasize about.
As horrific as this may be, and I’m really hoping in some ways that Im wrong about all this, AA would not have voluntarily destroyed his trophy reel. Only once he thought that investigators might be closing in on him, he may still have resisted if at all possible destroying his trophy reel.
He may have burned his computers and cameras and physical files on location, but if he has done what it seems that he had to ML and possibly bad things to other people in the past, I hope he was too needy/greedy/vain/obsessive/compulsive to let go of everything, and that somewhere hidden on an off-site server somewhere IT man thinks is off grid, there will be clear and incontrovertible evidence of the horrible things he did which will enable a rapid and bulletproof conviction of any/all persons responsible for these crimes.
I bet all the cyber folks are still working around the clock to track this stuff down, for AA surely tried his best to destroy anything/everything onsite that would lead him back to ML or her death.
IMO/MOO
