I'm wondering about something, and I don't quite know how to phrase it, so this is likely to ramble a bit. On the wikipedia page about LB it mentions the unsolved case of Patsy Morris, whose father got a phone call from a local young man making a death threat, after the murder. As if they hated the father as much as the daughter. It doesn't necessarily mean anything, lots of cranks contact the family of the deceased, but it made me wonder.
This is a bit random, but apart from a deep seated hatred of women, can there also be a real hatred of the type of respectable man who tries to be a good husband and father, that also plays a part in motivating him to commit crimes like this? Often vulnerable women with other problems become victims of murder, but LB's victims seem to have often been young women who were students, or at school, who seemed to come from fairly happy homes, he seems to have attacked them at a moment of vulnerability, like when crossing the road, or at a bus stop. It makes me wonder if he took pleasure not just in the murder, but in destroying the families.
It's just my view obviously, and not even a half formed theory, but that might help to explain the attack on the Russell family. Could this sort of hatred of other men actually manifest itself in this way?