Interesting! I don’t know about anyone else, but I somehow glossed over the fact that he is left-handed. The rape victim says he held the gun in his left hand.
I’m a lefty myself so I’m not leftist? but are there any other lefties here who notice how many left-handed serial killers there are? (Also an inordinate amount have the middle name Wayne, which is strange.)
This study is interesting.
Edit to add: Only 10% of the population are left-handed. This narrows down any suspect list.
20 things you didn't know about being left-handed - CNN
Good post. I know DNA is the way a killer in this type of case is likely to be identified eventually but as an amateur sleuth if you do not have access to the DNA I have always found it best to concentrate on the description and mannerisms of the offender to look for commonalities. These are horrible crimes but of course the rape victim lived and therefore she has good witness testimony that unfortunately the other two victims cannot provide. People cannot change who they are including Serial Killers they can only disguise certain things. I tend to think about the same things and sometime say the same thing and phrases until picked up on it and I would bet this offender had a habit of telling his victims they should have been my careful with their security arrangements. Here is some of it:
Details still fresh
The victim reported she had left her job at GiGi's about 2 a.m. June 20, 1990, and returned to her boyfriend's house at 7826 Terra Cotta. Her boyfriend, a commercial pilot, was traveling, so she ate takeout alone in the living room.
"Then she walked upstairs heading towards the bedroom and a man popped out of her bedroom door," Miller said.
The man wore a fishnet stocking over his face, black gloves, and a dark shirt and pants that matched, possibly a uniform. He held a long-barrelled handgun in his left hand. "Where's Randy?" he asked, referring to her boyfriend by name.
The man taunted her, putting the gun to her head and cocking it. He bound her hands behind her back with gray duct tape before taking cash from her purse. Then he duct-taped her eyes and mouth shut, threw her on the bed and shoved a bag or pillowcase over her head.
"He became very vulgar with her while he was raping her, and he told her she wasn't very observant, that he had a military uniform, which was probably him trying to throw her off the fact that he might've had a security guard uniform on," Miller said.
After he finished, the man ordered the woman to lie on the floor and not move. "I may be in the house for an hour or for five minutes," he said.
The woman later discovered he'd disconnected the phone and put the receiver under the mattress.
When Miller tracked the woman down in Galveston County, she still remembered her attacker's features through the fishnet stocking. On Friday, she described him for
Lois Gibson, HPD's forensic artist.
She said he was a white man in his mid-30s, about 6 feet tall and 180 pounds with brown hair, brown eyes, a possible mustache and olive skin.
Miller hopes someone will recognize the sketch. He also wants to hear from other women the man might have raped.
"We know there are other victims," he said. "I still think he's out there, and he is who he is — a rapist and a killer. He still could be doing this today."
DNA may help break notorious 'Lover's Lane' murders
