Someone on the Claremont thread brought this case to my attention, and I too thought immediately of Cowan. It was mentioned that Gerard's injuries were absolutely horrific.
Sad fact is, though, there's a ton of violent pedos, a lot of repeat offenders, in this country, walking around when by all common sense they shouldn't be. What a pity this didn't get the same national attention Daniel's case got...
No one has been charged. There's been no inquest. And police aren't saying whether the cold case will be reviewed.
His grief-stricken family - who lived in Newman in the Pilbara region at the time, where father Stuart worked in the mining industry - don't even have a death certificate.
-- this is just disgusting. His poor family.
Had to be an experienced and bold pedo, to snatch an 11-yo kid right off the street like that. I have little doubt it was a violent, unplanned abduction, a crime of sheer opportunity. Though reports state there was no evidence of sexual activity:
..the cause of death was so horrific that it was kept from most of the taskforce. Gerard's parents were deliberately kept in the dark.
http://www.news.com.au/national/no-...r-of-gerard-ross/story-fncynjr2-1226730066395
Does this seem a bit strange? Reports also clearly say he was "strangled", and was found with the ligature around his neck. That's terrible enough -- but hardly anything so awful that a
homicide taskforce might need to be shielded from it!!! I am thinking there might have been extensive mutilation, which would indeed cause that level of distress to officers.
Why I say "pedo" is, sometimes violent killers get their sexual release from the sadistic things they do to a victim, some of them can't even have a normal sexual response and can only experience pleasure through mutilation or torture. This doesn't mean that Gerard's attacker was not a pedo. There's plenty of documented sexual sadists who've killed, but not raped, using their knives or whatever as defacto penises. Gerard's killer was for sure a pedo -- just a particularly sick kind of pedo.
And people that sick are, fortunately, not as common as garden variety pedos. They're more likely to have done things that people take notice of, though... there is usually things in their past that have disturbed the people around them. Sexual sadists, like regular pedos, can be very good at hiding their sexual preference - but they have more trouble hiding their sadism altogether.
This man will very likely have a laundry list of cruelties against animals and other kids in his younger years. If he's anything like the many sadistic child killers I've looked at, he may have a parent that he describes as "overbearing" (I actually have a theory that some of these "overbearing" parents are overbearing *because* they know or suspect what their child is, but don't want to admit it, so rather than seeking help they become overly watchful and controlling). It's likely he was an 'outsider' at school, and perhaps was bullied for being "odd". He may have several sexual fetishes, which don't necessarily have to reflect his interest in young boys, but they will be strange and obsessive. He will find it hard to maintain a normal relationship. If he's one of the few who can maintain a partner, his sex life will not be what anyone could call "normal".
^ I base this on a general picture of the many sadistic killers/mutilators I've researched. All these things are pretty common among that type of person.
Someone knows this man, and likely has seen hints of how sick he really is. I am shocked at how little attention this case had gotten..
Here's MAKO's list of known sexual offenders in WA:
http://www.mako.org.au/temp_wa.html
Gerard's killer may well be on that list -- people like this never stop at just ONE attack.
Thanks for the link to the article I quoted here. It has a lot of details about the investigation. Interesting, about the dog hairs. And also, the several persons of interest, particularly the guy from the 'murder house'.