[yukong]

IMHO, he doesn't stay there and mingle. Too good of a chance that some investigator will recognize that this same guy is at several of the scenes in different areas, without some plausible explanation. I believe that he takes his shot, gets up, drives away like nothing happened, and is sitting at Dennys a few blocks away having a nice cup of coffee, some eggs and bacon, waiting for the roads to re-open and the car to car search to stop. Then he drives back to whatever rock he crawled out from under and crawls back in and watches the talking heads on the cable new channels talk about the "sniper", and what he does, how he does it, blah, blah, blah, and plans his next shoot. After a few hours, he may even go back our and recon the next shoot. This guy is good enough. IMO, he is not so much getting his rush from the killing, he is getting his rush from the control he has over the LEAs, and the public. Hey, when you can get the lead investigator, the public LEA figure to say whatever makes you comfortable or somesuch. The killing is not the rush. It is just the means to an end. I have believed from the outset that the killing was not the objective. It was just the means to the objective. The objective is (from what we know now) money, and/or just jerking people around/terror. Thus said, he doesn't need to mingle around the scene for jollies sake. He isn't getting his jollies from the killing. It is business to him. It is work. Not for fun. People that hang around scenes are people that commit the crime itself because they get off on the crime. And those types, in murder cases, kill up-close and personal. A guy that kills from a distance, who kills long-range, is normally not one that is really getting off on the killing itself. This is just business. He is long gone within moments of the shot. Long gone even before the call is made to the LEAs.

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Too good of a chance that some investigator will recognize that this same guy is at several of the scenes in different areas, without some plausible explanation.

That was my first thought when this was brought up several days ago. Maybe the shooter doesn't stick around for all? With so many shootings in different cities, different cops....

[katnip]

I agree that the shooter is all-business, not in it for jollies.

I hope you get to hear this if it's replayed again. He sounded very professional and matter of fact.

[Snerfling]

The objective is (from what we know now) money, and/or just jerking people around/terror.

Two problems with this theory. 1st and foremost, if it is a domestic whack-job, it's a new and disturbing manifestation of a serial killer. The FBI will have to re-write their profiling manuals to incorporate this loon.

2nd, even if it is a loon, any terrorist group is certainly taking notes. As a previous poster mentioned, since central cities have now embraced PC hiring policies, there is now an inherent weakness in the ability to protect citizens from well thought out and planned attacks of this nature.

[Darlin']

I agree with you. If killing was his only objective or provided the thrill he would not kill them from a distance. I don't really think it is just about money either. I've been comvinced he was a Middle Easterner but after reading the language he reportedly used when he made the calls he sounds more like a homegrown control freak. Maybe a ME sympathizer.