It’s still not clear why he chose this poor woman to kidnap and later murder. The article doesn’t mention whether the victim ever had reason to know the murderer. Maybe it was a fully random event, under the presumption that any elderly white woman was probably ‘rich’ or had a family with plenty of ransom money.
I look at the arrest records and mugshots every week. It seems the same repeat offenders cycle through the system and too often they eventually do something heinous. Repeat misdemeanors types should be handcuffed to a cable running down the middle of unused railroad tracks going all across the country. Give them a backpack and sleeping bag. It would tie them up for months going from one end to the next.