Hey KAYTOM,
Yes I found that also on my Google search of REMY'S ANGEL. It turned out to be a dead end. There is alot of Remy's Angel stuff out there. But it must mean something to the killer to just remove the name. Maybe it was a mistake, could be Ronny's Angel or something like that. Who knows.
The mistake idea is certainly possible. Maybe he's more of a linguistic learner than visual one, hence is focus on removing the name to make identification harder and overlooking the rest of the image. Or maybe something distracted him in the process.
I am guessing that recovering DNA from the victim's hands of an attacker is extremely difficult if not impossible after 8 years.