Ok to my theory of why the SK is dismembering not to hide the ID of the Victim, but to hide traces of DNA evidence
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JT, Missing since July 18-21 2003. (Link 1)
Tattoo Removal-
The common theory is that the tattoo was removed to conceal the ID of the victim. Yes, Tattoos are a means of Identifying victims. But notice the way the tattoo was removed. According to (Link 1) see Pic.
A police photo taken at the scene shows a tattoo on the right side of her back, with dozens of razor-thin crooked gashes, as though someone spent some considerable time not merely cutting the tattoo off but repeatedly slicing it from top to bottom. Police say it took medical examiners pushing the skin together to figure out what the tattoo was: a red heart with an angel wing that said, Remys angel.
We have to assume that this was done post-mortem, and all indications lead us to believe this is the case. Here we see he did not remove the wing, simply just the name part. Remys Angel This implies he is not interested in hiding the victims ID, but the name tattooed on the victim. It is a partial tattoo and could be traced back to the victim regardless. According to (Link 1)
A Washington, D.C. detective recognized the tattoo, six months later, as belonging to a woman reported missing by another local prostitute.
The killer of JT had no interest of hiding the victims ID by disfiguring the tattoo.
Side note: Any one notices the wing? Google Hells Angels and you can see the similarities. If she was a prostitute for the Hells Angels, she could have been tagged by her pimp. And when she fled maybe this pimp or his counterparts in NY tracked her down and she was killed for that reason.
Body parts and dump sites-
(Link 2) Ms. Taylor's nude body, with her head and hands severed, was discovered July 26 by a woman walking her dog near Halsey Manor Road and the Long Island Expressway.
The removal of the hands could mean that the victim my have put up a fight and had DNA from her killer under her fingernails. Same could apply to the head, by biting the perpetrator and having the DNA in her mouth. And taking the tattoo theory I proposed, this would make more sense than to mutilate to cover the victims ID.
Link 1 -
http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/03/24/long-islands-other-serial-killer/3/ Mar 2011
Link 2-
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/nyregion/in-brief-a-manorville-body-is-identified.html Feb 2004