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CYBER HIGH FIVE!!! I'll ping ya in the future...you want to also get in some other of my observations?

The sniper is using an ONLINE mapping service...Mapquest or YahooMaps whatever...he does his homework in advance...he may go to parks acting as tho he is "bird watching" with binoculars or a scope. He will appear "normal". He may even walk a dog or throw a frisbee and "scout" the parks.

He is MORE interested in the "Cat and mouse" game...in order of the events and the actions...

He enjoys "spying" through the scope MORE than the shooting

Shooting is the "final calling card" the activities UP to the shooting are ritualistic...MORE important to him than the actually killing/maiming of the people.

He is watching and listening to the news with the vim and vigor of a s^&t eating dog.

The activities LEADING to the actual shooting will RULE out fingerprints on a casing...he is very "ritualistic"...his preparations prior very very calculated...there will be NO prints and IF there are...they will NOT be his...could be a family members'...

Excellent thought. The mapping thing intrigues me. Here's why:

Yesterday, looking at the locations, #7 was far away, and then 8 was closer in, but still further out from the first ones. I thought that he had decided to expand his base of operations, both to widen the terror and to get out from under the most intense scrutiny. I speculated that when he did #7, something spooked him, something happened as a result of him being so far from his most familiar area. Maybe he got lost, maybe traffic was worse than expected, something.

So for the next one, he moved back into more familiar territory.

Now, if I lived in the area, if would run Yahoo driving directions from a site near the first shootings, assuming that this is close to his base of operations, to the site of #7. Then I would drive it, and see if the directions matched up, or whether the average person might have gotten lost trying to use them (you know how sometimes they are not exactly accurate- street name's been changed or something).

It seems incomprehensible to me that he would not drive it first to make sure he knew it, but as you know these guys can feel very superior, maybe he thought he was getting so good he would be ok. And then he ended up the wrong way on a one way street or something. Enough to scare him back closer to home.

Another thought: have they definitively linked that September shooting to this yet? If not, that may explain why so many shootings in such a short period of time. That was what was most baffling to me, normally I wouldn't expect such an organized killer to risk so many attacks in such a short period of time, without taking time to enjoy his work.

But if the earlier attack was his first, maybe he was disappointed in his coverage. Maybe he even left a note that was never found. That would mean that in his quest to make a big publicity splash, he knew he would have to do something "special", and this is why so many shooting in such a short period.

I think we will see a lull eventually, and then see it start up. These guys truly enjoy what they do, and I think he is going to want to take some time to enjoy it, watch the coverage, discuss it with people on the street, call in some tips, maybe even send some letters.

Then, just when things seem to be calming down and he's off the top page, he will start again. I bet it will be less frequent, I think he has made his initial splash, and now he will just want to do enough to keep himself top of mind. A killing every other week would more than do that.