I don't think so. I just think that instead of one vulnerable victim, he found two.
And I think there are probably other similarities that we don't yet know, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if this perp is also a local and probably lived within a couple of miles of that lake trail.
Could be but I think two could also be the goal. For a few reasons and some of them pretty sick. Or as I said just for the sheer notoriety of always killing two if this was his aim for fame It is true in A & L's case he could have hoped to meet only one but the two came together or not true I don't mean so much as I mean possible. In this case, it is entirely possible he was looking for any untended minor females he could find alone with no adult. It's really hard to say. He (or they, different cases) may have gotten a very sick satisfaction of both girls being scared to death but also over the top in watching what was done to the other girl before themselves, etc. I mean these are monsters we can't almost comprehend to even do what they do in the first place. Maybe just one lone child wouldn't give the killer/s the thrill two did. You take a lone vulnerable child, do your sick thing and that's it. With two, well you do but then your fantasy is not done and kaput you have the other yet. I HATE these thoughts but just trying to explain what I mean. They say most SK fantasies do not live up to their expectations... And I also consider the fame/notoriety/almost SK competition of one that kills two. And not so young defenseless children in the sense of five year olds. But teens or preteens or around there. That's pretty brazen. Stupid in a day of cell phones and video etc. but brazen.
But yeah it could have just been happenstance that there were two. But I'm not convinced these girls were not seen in town, etc. first. OR even who knows, lured out somehow. I know both cases but I know Delphi better. I was longer before these two were found was it not?
But anyhow I'm also not convinced he was someone who was local or lived near the lake trail.
But then we do not know as you say what investigators know.
I do know this. I'd be hard put to believe this or Delphi was their only crime or each (if different perp's) only crime. And again TWO. It is possible but a bit of a one off and hard to believe if so...
It's very different but I think of Jacob Wetterling. Was there not THREE boys and the other two were younger and the perp (he was local as found years later) did not try to take all three, he only took Jacob. Again, two is imo very unusual. I as you probably have have followed tons of cases for years and these are the only two I can think of like this. Don't get me wrong, I know Dylan and Shast Groene were both taken. But that's a boy and a girl and I am talking here the same kind of looks of these girls, general age range the same, these two a bit younger than A & L etc. It's just hard to ignore and again with neighboring states... Is it five years apart...?
But who knows. Impossible to know the type or mindset of someone so sick.
This one is unsolved. It is also possible it could be family or family friend and that was often wondered in Delphi too. A & L were friends, these two were family/cousins. It seems in both cases some care was taken in expecting both sets of girls to check in, stay together, etc. as to safety am I wrong on that?
That's the other thing on these murders is children and even young adults are taught the buddy system. You go nowhere alone, you stay together, you have someone with you. Parents follow that or believe in it too. Well that didn't stop this perp/s. It is so brazen, again. How could he know one wouldn't get away, go screaming, someone hear, etc. For this reason too I think he may have looked for two for the sheer challenge, thrill, getting away with double and being able to control and take down two.
Let's say it is the same killer... These two were first and younger and likely easier sorry to say. Went off without much a hitch and he's never been caught or even looked at and it was outside his home territory maybe but somewhere he knew possibly. And he decides to go a bit older and for more of a challenge and right at home territory. Hence A & L. This time though he is seen by others on the trail before the murders. The thrill goes up from that. And even after goes in and confesses to being there which maddeningly the significance of is lost on some DNR guy who isn't even an investigator. He goes without apprehension again. But then video of him comes out and that strikes fear. But then nothing happens... He changes appearance, watches how often he speaks or how, etc. The boldness grows. He poses in front of killer sketches in a pic.
I don't have a point, I'm just thinking out loud as I write this. I am not convinced these murders are the same perp but I'm not convinced they are not either. We don't know enough.
I am checking my memory here, is it not true in both cases, they did not say whether the girls were or were not s xually ass lted?
And in this one these girls were taken elsewhere were they not? Wasn't where they disappeared from different than where found and the bikes? In A & L it is rumored too where they laid is not where they were killed,, staging, posing, etc. I don't know that in this case here there was any staging though was there?
Either way we have one sick F that was running around for years and is now incarcerated or there were two and one is still out there. And that's unacceptable.
Many made a lot of the similar looks of the two sets of girls. Even initials and names, not so sure about that but A and L in one and E & L in another but depending on niickname or full name That though would take planning and stalking, etc. I do think Abby and Libby were a plan. Not as sure on this one but I wouldn't exclude it.
