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'Spree' shooter straying from typical serial killer motivation - main desire is to provoke terror
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| October 12, 2002
| San Francisco Chronicle Staff
Posted on 10/12/2002 6:52:21 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: jgorris
"Well, based on past behavior, I think [al-Qaeda would] be trying to take credit for it." Almost alone among terrorist groups, al-Qaeda has not been ostentatious about claiming credit for their deeds.
The fact that nobody is claiming credit therefore disqualifies groups like Hamas, Hizbollah and other terrorist splinters, but not al-Qaeda.
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posted on
10/12/2002 10:35:51 AM PDT
by
okie01
To: aristeides
Charles Patrick Ewing, a professor of law and psychology at State University of New York at Buffalo, said the sniper, who has used a rifle at distances of more than 100 yards, appears to be more like the anonymous attacker who mailed last year's anthrax-laced letters. Ewing has collected two sets of two in this thought. He has yet to add them and obtain four...
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posted on
10/12/2002 10:38:31 AM PDT
by
okie01
To: fone
Talk about impersonal murder--what about the Tylenol Murders. That was never solved.
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posted on
10/12/2002 10:53:13 AM PDT
by
soozer47
To: Mitchell
I hope it is not ME terror related. But, remember, the WTC incident was not terror suspect until plane 2 struck. A second sniper locale would raise the public spectre of ME terrorists. US Gvm't could not stifle the cries for Arab profiling. At this time, we only have a single locale - let's hope it stays that way, and they catch him/them soon.
To: fone
Duh, and the killer also wants to inflict pain in the police, who so far are unable to round him/her/them up.
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posted on
10/12/2002 11:48:28 AM PDT
by
Hila
To: Sgt_Schultze
I agree 100%. My mind is open right now as to whether these shootings are a crime by an insane person or a military action by Middle Eastern terrorists. We don't have enough information yet to rule out either possibility.
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posted on
10/12/2002 11:55:33 AM PDT
by
Mitchell
To: jgorris
it took time for them to admit that act, as it is still too early to admit this act if it is them. if i were a terror group, i wouldnt admit it. why would i, then have them come down hard on me before more acts are committed. think about it, silince response is this shooters best ally. he knows what he is doing.
To: MeeknMing
"Those comparisons are completely inappropriate," he said. "The reason why everybody is making those comparisons is because they are all talking to the retired profilers who made those kinds of cases in the 1970s." I have a nagging suspicion the FBI is still profiling from the 1970's too. Hope I'm wrong.
To: null and void
Maybe he will disappear like the UFO sightings.
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posted on
10/12/2002 1:18:17 PM PDT
by
Vetnor
To: soozer47
Talk about impersonal murder--what about the Tylenol Murders. That was never solved.She was convicted and is now serving time...
To: null and void
My memory is that a person or two who copycatted the Tylenol killings was/were convicted of some of the crimes, but the original Tylenol killer, who committed the first cluster of murders, has never been caught.
To: Dan(9698)
"It is probably a teenager into Satan stuff. That involves Tarot cards." Satanic teenagers wait around patiently, taking only one victim, with one shot, each time?
No, that's not a profile of the behavior of instant-gratification teenagers...
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posted on
10/12/2002 2:46:02 PM PDT
by
Southack
To: Sgt_Schultze
...It might serve law enforcement if they would investigate the crime scenes with attention to direction of fire. they gotta be-forensics should nail down direction, reasonably-within a small arc from victims-i hope....
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posted on
10/12/2002 4:54:48 PM PDT
by
1234
To: Irene Adler; null and void; soozer47
FWIW:
The Tylenol Murders*snip*
The Tylenol killer has never been caught. Many believe he never will be caught. A somewhat bumbling suspect who attempted to cash in on the unprecedented publicity was arrested and charged with extortion, but not with the murders.
The police concluded he was merely an opportunistic extortionist, and could not be the murderer. Although some believed he should have been tried for the murders, too many details and circumstances suggested he could not be the poisoner. James Lewis was released in 1995, after serving 13 years of a 20 year sentence.
*snip*
Most people believe the Tylenol Killer will never be caught, and that this was an unsolvable crime. But consider the fact that the Unabomber now sits in jail, all because one person in the world recognized him in the published information.
The Tylenol Killer is probably still alive, and as long as he lives there is still hope of solving this crime, because someone, somewhere, knows him personally.
*/end snip*
Snopes has this to say about it. . .
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posted on
10/12/2002 7:27:21 PM PDT
by
fone
To: null and void
You may be thinking about the one in Washington state (Oregon?)where the woman tried to do her hubby in. The Tylenol murders were in Chicago with 7 or 8 dead. That crime has never been solved.
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posted on
10/12/2002 7:48:01 PM PDT
by
soozer47
To: fone
Is there anything FReepers don't know? (Besides why are there no green mammals?)
Super Sized Thanks!
To: soozer47
Exactly correct.
To: null and void
The paraxerus poensis is supossed to be a small green squirrel, but I've never been able to find an actual picture of one (just a few drawings). I believe it lives near Nigeria...
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posted on
10/12/2002 8:19:14 PM PDT
by
fone
To: Southack
not a profile of the behavior of instant-gratification teenagers
Agreed. They usually want to be on teevee and/or commit suicide by LEO.
As I read yesterday here, ALL U.S. sniper teams not deployed should be brought to bear on this "thing". Only they can even begin to understand or possibly figure this out....be an excellent idea to deploy them against this/these subhuman(s). I do believe the "killer" we are seeing is a team(2 or 3) and they are in a "target rich" and "defenseless" area.
To: MeeknMing
There are some folks who just can't handle the anything-goes-as-long-as-no-harm-is-done approach. The only way to disagee left is to do harm.
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