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This is partly my point. He doesn't choose victims, he chooses opportunities. He isn't going after anybody in particular (race, sex, age, profession), he is looking for the situation where he is in control, where he can get a good shot off, where he may not be observed, where he can get away.

He takes one shot. He has been successfull 80% of the time, but if he is not, he doesn't wait around to find out, or take another shot that might give him away. Just one good shot. That is his objective.

He is so divorced from his actions that he is like a machine. Find an opportunity, get off one shot, make your getaway. Very dispassionate. If he keeps it up, he most certainly will screw up and get caught. But he adheres to his formula despite a massive manhunt. To me, this seems to indicate an experienced professional who can control the rush of adrenilin coursing through his veins.

The gas station thing is making me think... I wonder if he isn't just sighting his weapon on a single point, like the area next to a particular pump, and then just holding still until someone walks into his crosshairs and stands still. Since he is, as you say, looking for opportunities, this method would give him the best probability of a one-shot one-kill outcome. He doesn't care who he kills.

This is horrible. FWIW I rate the ME terrorist theory at 50-50, and I am no conspiracy nut.

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you are kind of stating what Mark Furman(sp) was saying on the Sean Hannity show today. He equated it to that boyfriend\girl slaying randomly I believe decades ago in the midwest. I think he was mentioned here in the list. Also, that this person is cold and calculated in the victims, like a sport, whereas, a mental killer knows the targets that set him or her off. The perp is getting off in all the publicity and news.

Long ago, I saw this sci fi flick where the killer invites people, and then makes them become the Safari type sport in hunting them down. Animal kingdom of who survives, the hunter or the hunted. Naturally in the flick, the hunted outwits the hunter.. ;o)

A good tip Mark stated is that this person is targeting victims at gas stations, and sooner or later, this vehicle has to refuel somewhere, so that is where some focus should be in seeking the perp.

What was the talk on some female companion seen in the vehicle today?

You're right, sooner as each attempt to commit another murderous act, mistakes are going to be made. They are now, and evidence is being collected and compiled to profile this nut further.
My opinion, when he becomes in focus of LEO's gunshots, bang.... taken out!