"Profilers: Montgomery County Shooters are Likely From Area"

WUSA 9 News, Associated Press ^ | October 4, 2002 | The Associated Press

[Hail Caesar]

Profilers: Montgomery County Shooters are Likely From Area

Whoever killed five people with single shots in Montgomery County is probably a white man in his 20s or early 30s who lives nearby, two former FBI profilers said Thursday.

The shooter and an accomplice likely dumped the white truck police were looking for Thursday night, the experts said. "That vehicle will be in a garage or a lake," said Clinton Van Zandt, a former FBI agent.

Both Van Zandt and another former profiler, Robert K. Ressler, said it's unlikely that one person carried out the killings. They said one person was probably the shooter, while the other drove the truck.

The two suspects are "giving themselves high-fives" as they shoot victims in a Columbine-like spree that Van Zandt said won't end until they're caught.

"They're moving - they like it," he said. "This is emotional heroin for them."

Ressler likened the spree to that of Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of fashion designer Gianni Versace and four other people. Cunanan died in an apparent suicide as police cornered him on a Florida houseboat in 1997.

"You're dealing with not a serial killer, not a mass murderer, but a spree killer," Ressler said.

Serial killers go though "emotional cooling-off periods" that could span days or even months. In this case, the killings were only hours apart.

The pair could be fugitives in their mid-to-late 20s or early 30s, with nothing to lose, Van Zandt said.

"One or both of these guys feel they've been ditched by the world," he said. "This is 'get-even,' this is 'level the playing field,' this is 'sharp stick in the eye."'

He said the suspects are also probably from the Montgomery County area, either living there, working there or with family connections to the area.

Both experts said crimes like this are generally solved by eyewitnesses or friends who notice that the suspects have disappeared.

"There are people out there right now who have suspicions," Van Zandt said.

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[Hail Caesar]

TRT bump!

[Fred Mertz]

Isn't Van Zandt the standard obfuscator for the bureau?

[Hail Caesar]

Maryland bump!

[Hail Caesar]

Maybe he used to be, but, now he is in private practice.

Regardless, he is probably the best and most accurate "profiler" law enforcement has ever used.

[sheik yerbouty]

Sounds like a hot steaming load!

[Ciexyz]

Let's pray that a concerned relative turns the bastards in.

[Redbob]

"'There are people out there right now who have suspicions,' Van Zandt said."

But this being Maryland, there aren't many out there with the wherewithall to defend themselves, are there?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

People's Socialist Meddling-in-other-people's-business Republik of Maryland bump!

[relee]

Great news. Very informative. Now they can put out an APB for Sergio!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

BANG! BANG!

Uzi's and AK-47's don't belong in our neighborhoods...they belong IN OUR HOMES to stop tyranny and foreign invasions!

[Hail Caesar]

Unfortunately, Montgomery County is a victim rich environment, especially due to restrictive gun control laws.

[Hail Caesar]

The shooter(s) used .223 caliber bullets, therefore extremely unlikely to have come from an AK-47 or Uzi !!

[Hatteras]

You know Sergio?! Short, fat, tall, skinny guy with dark blackish, brownish, blonde hair?

EVERYONE KNOWS SERGIO!!!

[Capriole]

But this being Maryland, there aren't many out there with the wherewithall to defend themselves, are there?

Some of us in the People's Republic of Montgomery are quite well-armed, thank you. Even some of us ladies.

[ET(end tyranny)]

How come these people always seem to disagree? Another thread has the FBI saying that this is not spree killing but terrorism.

This article says it is spree killing.

[Vidalia]

" Whoever killed five people with single shots in Montgomery County is probably a white man in his 20s or early 30s who lives nearby, two former FBI profilers said Thursday. "

More Einsteinian thought from FBI profilers who were just graduated from the agency's Kindergartenland Sandbox of Stupendous Revelation...

[Dog Gone]

I suspect the FBI is right about this. I also suspect that these guys use "recreational" drugs, which might cause them to drop out of sight for a couple of days at a time. But they're getting a rush out of this, and I doubt they are suddenly going to get remorse and lead clean lives from now on.

They are over the edge, and there's nothing to do now but get loaded and keep on doing it. They're beyond the point of no return. The problem is that they're not completely stupid.

[kinghorse]

Another Islamic and Arab Radical League (Al Qaeda/Hussein/Hiz-whoever) probe to see the amount of terror, uncertainty and fear this kind of attack can generate. They will probably use a combination of this, plane bombings, anthrax mailing and other nastiness when the time is right. Seeing as no one knows (and that's probably the way they want it right now) who or what is doing this, it allows them to operate in a laboratory environment. Nothing sucks like uncertainty. Just ask the average investor.