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I remember this episode of S&S and was so outraged by the attitude of police. So it's good to hear that they are looking at the case again, finally. Has there been update on how that's going?

Hi Cynical, it's been a while since I've checked back with this thread, so I was wondering if there's been anymore news or developments in this case since you last posted? Cheers ~Sakura

Nefertiri Trader's case has been covered in this week's episode of The Vanished Podcast. You can find the episode in the link below and there's a discussion about Nefertiri's disappearance on the podcast's private Facebook group, if anyone is interested in joining the conversation. I've also...

There is an Australian podcast called Phoebe's Fall which I strongly suggest you listen to Cynical, it's about a young woman who is found dead at the bottom of one of those chutes in a luxury Melbourne apartment building. Phoebe's death was initially ruled as a suicide, but Phoebe's family and...

Not behind his back I'm afraid, it was to his face and was apparently a running joke in the break room. Going back to the AC4 case, I really think you're onto something with that soup kitchen Cynical. I've said before that I believe there's some kind of religious element to this case, and if...

It's a lot harder to fake your own death than most people realise. Largely thanks to the movie industry, there's this idea that if someone really wants to disappear, they can manufacture their own death using a variety of means, such as killing a look alike and using the ol' set your car on...

I can definately see the similarities but to me, Tracy Ann Roberts and Megan Waterman look alike, whereas Molly Jean Dilts is a better match for Maureen Brainer-Barnes. That's just my perception though. It would be really interesting if someone could run these photographs through facial...

This may be further proof that the girls all knew the killer and if that's the case the footage wouldn't necessarily show the classic scene of a sex worker leaning into a car window to talk to a potential client, instead it might show the victims walking to a waiting vehicle with the killer...

A hyper-focused, mission oriented serial killer is unlikely to be hearing voices or anything like that, because these traits are more in line with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or other disorders that cause the sufferer to experience breaks with reality. Serial killers with these kinds of...

Do you think it likely that, if Coles could be tracked down, that he might be willing to talk to a civilian websleuther about what he might know? Coles lives life on the somewhat less than legal side of the tracks, so it's not surprising that he'd be reluctant to tell much of anything to the...

This is a little off-topic but I think it's relevant to serial investigations in general because there have been a number of serial killers who, after they were caught, have claimed to have multiple personalities. To name just a few: Kenneth Bianci, one half of the Hillside Stranglers; Thomas...

My old car was a tiny '92 two door Honda Civic and now I'm sitting here trying to work out the physics of how to fit four bodies in the back of the damn thing. LOL

The heads facing east is certainly the one aspect of this case that has made it really stand out. You speculate that the killer may have been attempting to draw focus towards AC and away from his comfort zone, and it occurred to me that the opposite could also be true, that he positioned the...

That's a really good point. We think of the sex act as something that takes place in a room, usually with a bed and with clothes removed but for street-level prostitutes that's often not the case at all. Much of their trade is plied in the backs of cars, in alleys or doorways or public...

That is very interesting to note, and it lead me to look at Islamic burial practices to see if anything stood out in regards to the positions of the AC4. Traditional Islamic burials position the deceased face up with their head pointing towards Mecca, which complicates things a little bit...

I agree, this case fits the profile of a mission-oriented killer. I personally believe there's a religious element to this case and that it shows in the positioning of the bodies but I also don't want to dismiss out of hand other theories like those LR1 put forward. I hear ya! I am in New...

No, I don't think we should discount the possibilities of these murders being something other than sexual serial murders. While I believe strongly that these are serial sexual homicides, the placement and staging of the women's bodies could also fit with some of the scenarios you mentioned...

It would take a strong tide to shift a human body, or turn a body over, in a ditch that shallow, and a tide high enough to shift the bodies would surely have breached the banks of the ditch. I found photographs of the ditch close up and in the top one you can clearly see what looks like a long...

Hi Cynical, I get the impression that you believe the bodies were staged intentionally, not moved by the tide and I agree for a couple of reasons. The first being purely practical, in that the water level in the drainage ditch, from all I've read, doesn't seem to get high enough to move that...