I don't know how I have never heard if this crime until tonight. After reading this thread, I never want to be alone in an empty building again. A couple thoughts..
I watched the video of the suspect before reading any comments. I assumed I was looking at a woman, possibly pregnant, by the walk. After reading the details of the crime I am leaning more towards it being a man. I think when interrupted by the victim, a woman would have ran away or hid, a man I can see fighting and killing.
I don't think I could ever be convinced that this was a targeted attack because of the way the suspect was so casual about walking around beforehand. No way would someone planning a murder risk walking around that much. Too much potential for being on camera, leaving evidence, and not catching the victim alone, or by surprise. A murder is a big risk, the adrenaline and nerves that one would feel while waiting for the victim would not lead to someone taking their time, snooping around casually like in the video. If it were a planned attack there would be a trail of evidence to follow, conversations, planning, in 7 years I believe all of that would have been unraveled by now.
In my town we have a lot of alcohol and addiction issues. Businesses are often broken into and the videos are usually very similar, other than the outfit. Just a drunk or high person, casually snooping around, taking food from the school kitchen, breaking a few things, just to be destructive, and then leave with at most a laptop, or something not even worth the trouble. Sometimes they wear a Halloween mask, because I think part of it is just entertainment for people not in their right minds. So my theory is this person could have been having a drink or getting high while parked in the gun store parking lot and then headed over to goof around in the church. Maybe they thought it would be funny that the videos were going to show a "law enforcement" person broke in and that was why that outfit.
I think this person is very inexperienced, either young, mentally off, or intoxicated. They just happened to get very lucky with the way the cameras worked and didn't work, I don't think any of it was skills or experience. They could be so freaked out by what ended up happening that it scared them straight and they have stayed out of any trouble since then.
I watched the video of the suspect before reading any comments. I assumed I was looking at a woman, possibly pregnant, by the walk. After reading the details of the crime I am leaning more towards it being a man. I think when interrupted by the victim, a woman would have ran away or hid, a man I can see fighting and killing.
I don't think I could ever be convinced that this was a targeted attack because of the way the suspect was so casual about walking around beforehand. No way would someone planning a murder risk walking around that much. Too much potential for being on camera, leaving evidence, and not catching the victim alone, or by surprise. A murder is a big risk, the adrenaline and nerves that one would feel while waiting for the victim would not lead to someone taking their time, snooping around casually like in the video. If it were a planned attack there would be a trail of evidence to follow, conversations, planning, in 7 years I believe all of that would have been unraveled by now.
In my town we have a lot of alcohol and addiction issues. Businesses are often broken into and the videos are usually very similar, other than the outfit. Just a drunk or high person, casually snooping around, taking food from the school kitchen, breaking a few things, just to be destructive, and then leave with at most a laptop, or something not even worth the trouble. Sometimes they wear a Halloween mask, because I think part of it is just entertainment for people not in their right minds. So my theory is this person could have been having a drink or getting high while parked in the gun store parking lot and then headed over to goof around in the church. Maybe they thought it would be funny that the videos were going to show a "law enforcement" person broke in and that was why that outfit.
I think this person is very inexperienced, either young, mentally off, or intoxicated. They just happened to get very lucky with the way the cameras worked and didn't work, I don't think any of it was skills or experience. They could be so freaked out by what ended up happening that it scared them straight and they have stayed out of any trouble since then.