I am bringing this post over from the closed thread so I can reply.
Posted by Ghostwheel
Do you mean predator in general or child predator? Because I don't agree with that. John Albert Gardiner comes to mind. As does the green river killer, BTK, Roger Kibbe, Anthony Sowell, Joseph Harwell, Ted Bundy... I could go on.
I was not talking about serial killers and I have no evidence that LE is even thinking this is a work of a serial killer. Serial killers can often be nomadic too though. That is one of the reasons they are hard to catch and will do many murders before and if that ever happens.
I am talking about children who were kidnapped and later found murdered where the suspect turned out to be a stranger or wasn't one of the parents. Couey had never kidnapped and murdered another child in her area. Even Joseph Duncan traveled out of state to kidnap the Greone children in Idaho and did not remain in the area. The man that murdered Somer Thompson moved once he had killed her. LE did not warn the community when Carlie Brucia was taken by Joe Smith. Not once in any of those cases was the community warned that a predator had a child in their community. Only when an arrest was finally made did we know then the perpetrator was a stranger predator.
A side note. The distance from Mark's home to where Dylan was found does not convince me that the perp is the father either. Jessica Lunsford was found right across the street from where she lived. Samantha Runion's remains were found 7-8 miles from where AA kidnapped her.
Usually a stranger predator/murderer of children wants to discard the body in a remote area quickly after the murder. Imo, most tend to leave them above ground as they have no emotional attachment to the child. Just like AA left Samantha's body above ground. Just like Somer Thompson's killer discarded her little body in the trash dumpster and her remains were found far away in Georgia in the landfill because he quickly threw her body away in the trash.
In fact I read an article about parents who murder their children and the trends that are seen. Mothers seem to swaddle the child (blanket or clothing) and deposit them close to where they went missing. They often submerge the child in some type of water or near a water area.
Bio fathers tend to go great distances with the child's body often hundreds of miles and will throw the bodies out in a dense remote area. They also tend to bury the child more often. Probably due to the male having more strength to dig the grave.
Just speculating of course but it seems most fathers who murder their own never want the child or children to be found.
IMO
Some of your facts are a little off. For Carlie Brucia, they broadcasted surveillance video of her being abducted. I think that's telling the community there is a predator loose.
Samantha Runnion was found 50 miles north of her house and someone saw her being kidnapped by a stranger. And she was on the news as having been kidnapped within an hour. Same with Somer Thompson. ETA(not that anyone saw Somer being kidnapped, just that she was on the news)
Couey was caught, so there is no way of knowing if he would have kidnapped another child. So was Jarred Harrell, who was also suspected of molesting another child the previous year in that same house, and he was already being investigated on child *advertiser censored* charges. And he went to familiar ground for disposal, the dumpster of a restaurant he worked at. And he moved AFTER he was asked for his DNA, no doubt knowing he would be caught. Joseph Duncan kept moving because he kept getting caught . I think you will find that predators who don't hit the same area again are usually ones who have been caught at something and leave, or get arrested. Which in Dylan's case, of course, brings the deputy arrested on child *advertiser censored* into view. This does not mean LE knows that predators don't come back to the same area in the slightest.
If you happen to know cases where the predator was caught several years after and it turned out they only attacked one child in the area and was never caught, then moved on, that would be interesting.
I'd like to read that article that says bio dads take their children hundreds of miles away, as I have never seen that. If you know where the link is, that would be great, but no worries if you don't.
