To: John Jamieson
"release everything"
I don't think releasing all the handwriting samples would do any good. At best, people might recognize the printing of their husband or wife, and if the killer is living with a wife - which seems very doubtful - she would have to be an idiot not to have suspicions by now.
To: Steve_Seattle
It's the mind game that counts. This guy is going to keep killing anyway, throw him off, make him mad, make him make a mistake. Get it over with, and make it very unattractive for someone to try and repeat it.
To: Steve_Seattle
If the killer/killers are home grown, they had a lot of teachers who just might recognize the hand writting.
An old cop trick when they got a hand written note from some whacko was to get that note to the teachers and retired teachers in the area. Often it worked. The teachers were not identified to protect them. Once the bad guys were identified, the rest of the cop work was easy.
This is utter PC Bravo Sierra that nothing has been released. All we really know is that x amount of people have been killed and x wounded.
Redact some of the info to weed out the professional confessors and get this stuff on tv and in the newspapers. Even if it drives the killer/killers underground, they are killing anyone. Also, just one person may say, I know who that A$$hole is.
I feel like I am in that movie Ground Hog day with the lack of news except the body count.
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