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I know. It seems that is what many pyromaniacs do.

They set the fire and then mingle with the crowd enjoying the show.

well i had heard it theorized that he may be mingling afterwards, but that he would CALL IN is REALLY creepy. but i guess, not surprising, since he is craving the notoriety. i feel like we are living in a made for tv movie.

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.