i would wonder how much COVID has limited his possibility.
Imagine he has a house, somewhere in IN/northern IL/MN. And travels on weekends to some exhibitions.
Once I tracked, annually, certain exhibitions that would cover the whole country. In my state alone, it would happen 3x per year. My favorite company lived in CA, but they are more like gypsies. They had a website, too, but mostly sold on West Coast shows + certain central states.
I doubt that that me was into serial crimes, but if the owner said to his employees “I need to meet an old friend” and disappeared for the whole day, no one would pay attention to it, they’d just take over.
So i noticed fairs next to Delphi. What were they selling there? Farm equipment? Farm animals? Guns? Knives? What about jewelry, it attracts lots of women?
If someone has a successful expo-related business that allows him to travel on weekends, and a team, he can disappear for a few hours, and none the wiser. He can even take the “weapon” that has been just touched by several people at the exposition (a knife?), so god knows whose DNA is there.
I wonder if this is the case of the Delphi killer. He could be a very SK, but the reason they, as Rob Ives has said, never zoomed on any specific person, is that the person is traveling. He may be local, but I doubt, I think he is coming to the area with his expos. If they think that Delphi and IA murders have a similarity, maybe we should check if the same expo was running around at the time. If they think TX case is similar, same. I have zero ideas about farm life, was surprised that they had shows, even, but maybe someone does?
Or perhaps he, indeed, reasonably local and returned that Monday. Look at what other places he travels to for shows, and if someone disappeared in the vicinity. I am remembering that murder of a mom and a daughter in IN, also unsolved.
And it is COVID now. All shows are closed. So things are more difficult.
I also see a flip side to that part. One, with a mask being required in most places he is less likely to recognized by those who don't know him. Two, while many of the above have been closed, individual outdoor activities have drastically increased. When it isn't raining I've seen walkers out on the streets and sidewalks at a time of the day when I normally wouldn't see them. Folks who are working via internet from home and walking during a meal break? Don't know but they're there. The sport I love and participate in, cycling, has taken a DRASTIC change! I see more folks riding bikes in the first 2-3 miles of one of my 20-40 mile rides in one day than I would usually see in an entire ride or even a week. I know of at least two bike shops last spring and summer that had to stop taking repairs/overhauls of old bikes for a month to six weeks because a massive repair backlog and one bike shop franchise that had to close one location due to lack of inventory. Three, with folks working from home they are not showing up in a workplace, so does this lengthen the amount of time between when a person is being abducted/murdered and when they are reported missing?
I can see with more people out on trails and roads walking or jogging there might be more witnesses, but it also might mean there are more opportunities and at times we wouldn't have pre-Covid.
What Covid has taken away in some respects, might have given this killer opportunity where he didn't have it before. Which leads me to my final thought on the matter. If this guy has killed again, have the changes imposed by Covid caused him to radically evolve? Change his MO? Change his choice of victims? Change the places where he goes after his victims - i.e., in an isolated home instead of a trail? If that has happened it is harder for LE to make the connection.
First sorry for a mistake in my post. I wanted to say that the company I bought from, I am positive, did not harvest SKs ))).
But the more I think, the more I doubt he'd live in Delphi, because with the shows, it would make no sense. However, shows happen on weekends, so do lots of hikings, so it should be sort of a weekend killer. They would arrive to the place on Thursday evening, and leave on Sunday evening.
Not enough time to get familiar with the place during one show, but if they happen regularly, then, of course, he'd know everything around, including the terrain.
I wonder if there are several show killers in the country. I read that TB worked at suicide hotlines because some desperate women would call, so he'd search for potential victims there.
I wonder if "city shows" attracting many women would be one type, and "farm shows", something different.
This type of a killer would be married, probably, twice, a professional with a reputation in his area, a big-time drinker, and with the reputation of a "... hunter". Sort of, if he hits on a woman, it would be unsurprising. (And no one would think of him, because he has women, has affairs, is not an incel).
He could say, "Guys, I take off, I met a friend in the city", and no one would ask.
Now about your post,
@JnRyan. I think that with COVID-19, lots of people are sitting at their computers and daydreaming, and what about, God knows. With the relaxation of the conditions, one might see a certain change.
Thx
