Posted on 10/10/2002 2:15:12 AM PDT by Peach
To avoid multiple vanity threads regarding any news that comes from press conferences, let's keep a live commentary thread going again today.
Last night, the Prince William County Police spokesman was asked about the white van, She replied that the BOTL for the white van was put out by the Virginia State Police and she didn't seem too interested in it. She gave the description as a minivan, looking like a Dodge Caravan, but instead of windows on the side, it's solid.
The Prince William County, Manassas City and Virginia State Police spent last night looking for white vans/trucks/box trucks/minivan/panel van in the area.
It is not uncommon to see vehicles speeding by that gas station. The highway entrance is right there and you have to get up to cruising speed.
The hunting of humans has fascinated people over the years...he is caught up in PLAYING G-d and "seeing all"...his ritual leading up to the shooting is what he get's off to...and the climax is the "taunting" the police and what he perceives as being smarter that the police and "getting away with it"...the climax to his actions isn't the bullet killing the person ONLY hitting it...the calling card in these attacks is that the "bullet" which is his calling card...some serial killers take souvenirs (ears, nipples, jewelry, pieces of clothes, shoes etc.) , leave notes, engrave "marks" on the victims, use a particular method to kill...rope, hammers, etc.
He is a plain and simple serial killer and his actions are totally predictable EXCEPT his next "targeted location"...history has shown us up to this date he seems to like Gas Stations near major intersections with immediate access to a highway...he also likes shopping center parking lots too...and has ONE school under his belt. Patterns - patterns - patterns are the key...symbolism and patterns are part of the ritual...he wants to see IF the police can tie it all together.
Think of this. If there is more than one, and they find one of them, put them in jail, and the shootings continue, why then they just might let him go. "Hey, how can I be the killer, you've had shootings since I've been in lockdown."
They didn't need to leave one. I think the card was the first.
They may already have that, with the one guy at the mental facility from yesterday. The one that shot up the inside of his house.
For what it's worth, here's what I posted last night after the latest shooting:
"If it is indeed related, then the driver-shooter team switched again tonight. The best shooter, the one who shoots from inside the van, never misses and always kills his victim with a shot to the head, is back... The less skilled one who was driving tonight is the one who goes outside the van to shoot and whose victims survive."
I didn't keep up so there could be new details that would make this assumption irrelevant.
ROTFLOL!
Any way we can have a separate "MD Sniper GRAPHICS Thread", and have this one remain graphics free and FAST??
That was the Boulder PD. Different county, different jurisdiction.
That's not to say the DPD would have solved the case had it happened there.
Therefore, if they are not local, they will need to be in some form of accomodation. So hotels, motels, Bed and Breakfast, cheap room only accomodations need to be checked.
Otherwise they could be deliverymen, who continually go around this entire area, so if stopped they would have a perfect excuse for being there like; showing the policeman the meat in the back, having delivery notes of exactly where they are going too etc.
If they do live in the area and it is two people, then someone must know them, no two people are that crazy and stick together that much that somone would not know them.
My last possible is that they just got out of prison and want to take revenge on anyone in that area for something that happened to them or their family or maybe the reason why they were in Prison. This way the two would have spent a long time together in jail or maybe one is from jail and the other is the younger brother who is doing the driving.
Other wise next time their is a shooting, have the national guard ready and lock it down, or at least 20 square miles, nobody gets in nobody gets out and if necessary a curfew, for a couple of days.
Gotta Catch them and Gotta do it Now.
But they could get the HIT by hitting the leg, arm, shoulder. A hit is a hit, if killing isn't necessary, and its just fun.
No, but I pass through one of Wellington Webb's municipal revenue enhancement zones (speed traps) on Pena Blvd daily.
They were waiting for representatives of all partners in the task force to arrive on scene.
If he is a pro, changing MOs would have an advantage.
I didn't keep up so there could be new details that would make this assumption irrelevant.
So far that holds!
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