Ah, the usual FReeper “blame the victim” approach. This killing reminds me entirely of the Gainesville, FL student killings in the early 90s, done by a psychotic drifter with no connection to the students except that he had staked out their student-housing apartment buildings because he was after young women, particularly small, dark-haired women. So he had a type of victim, although in reality he would kill anybody and was later tied to earlier sadistic knife killings in Louisiana.
He had been living (“urban campers,”as the Gainesville liberals called people like him) in the woods around Gainesville and supported himself by occasional robberies.
There were no leads for months until a woman in Louisiana, who had known some of his earlier victims, just had a hunch that the cases might be connected and called Florida police. It turned out that he had just been arrested for an attempted robbery in some other part of the state, and the police then found lots of evidence connecting him to the killings, to which he confessed, also naming the other killings in Louisiana.
He was executed by the State of FLorida in 2006.
I would suspect the Idaho killer was the same and will also be found by accident, possibly through earlier murders committed by him. There are many psychos who hang out near college housing, usually content with rape but often going to to killing the girls. Remember the killings of all those student nurses in Chicago back in the 80s? Those were also done with a knife, btw.
“Ah, the usual FReeper “blame the victim” approach. “
Every time without fail.