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I'm glad that you have some peace of mind, EW, knowing that the guy has been put away! :huggles;

....and the world is that little bit safer once again.

Erk EW ... Glad to hear they got him!

That is really creepy EW. Glad he was caught and convicted....

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Eek, EW! This is truly shocking, and goes to show that you can never really now who are the people living close to you.

I think you are very lucky; we do not have interesting people like that in this country...or at least very seldom.

I'm sad to say that it's common for people to believe that their country/location/whatever doesn't have monsters like this, that only other places do ... ultimately it just blinds folks to what's going on around them or keeps the authorities from looking for patterns, etc. At least, that's my understanding.

Awful, but glad the nightmare is over. Hugs!!

The news must be of such a relief for you and all your neighborhood, EW! These things are so disturbing!

That kind of monster deserves the death penalty. Some people have absolutely no right to be in society with actions like that, nor should tax payers have to pay for them to live out their lives in prison with the possibility of them managing to escape. I'm glad that nightmare is over for you, EW, but with two more trials to go, there are still some families out their looking for justice. I'll get off my soapbox now.

Eh, I'm the kind of vengeful b*tch that would rather see people like that have to live the rest of their lives in a miserable little cell. Death is a quick escape. (Hmm I might be in a mood today ...)

Originally posted by Becky Rock I'm glad that nightmare is over for you, EW, but with two more trials to go, there are still some families out their looking for justice.

The sad thing is that there are surely other families who will never know what happened to their loved ones -- there's a 10-year gap between his first victim and the second. There's no explanation for this other than there being victims that nobody's discovered...he didn't go to jail at any point, he didn't get seriously ill, and didn't spend any time out of this area. And I don't know of any serial killer who kills once, stops cold turkey for a decade, and then starts up again.

Ick, EW. Maybe somewhere along the way he'll be persuaded to give closure to more families.

So far, all he's done is send the police on wild goose chases. He quit talking, though, after he implied that a body was buried in a place he lived a few years before he killed the first known victim. After the entire property was torn apart and dug up -- and no trace of any bodies were found whatsoever -- the owner of the property went on the local news stations to man up and give some poor families some closure.

Youch. Did the owner move the bodies, then? I think what prosecutors hope for is after a few official life sentences with no possibility for parole (or at the end of death row appeals), there's less incentive for the guy to hold back. Things can't really get worse (for the killer) at that point.

What you said is true, CW, but I also think this guy got off on jerking the prosecutors around...this guy killed his first known victim on his 45th birthday and then got a tattoo commemorating the event!

Oh I'm sure he did. Their cruelty aims not just at their victims. What I mean is that they hope that later in the process, when there's multiple convictions, some of these guys will reveal more of their victims so those families can have closure. It's less likely when they think they have a chance of going free. Bleh.

I got ya. I'm just not sure that guy's mind is working in that way... To be honest, I'm not sure I want to know exactly how his mind works!

I admit I'm fascinated by those kinds of minds. However, I have the feeling that I'm fascinated at a _distance_. A very safe distance. Finding out the guy lived on my street would not fascinate me. It'd make me want to move.

Originally posted by ElectricWhite What you said is true, CW, but I also think this guy got off on jerking the prosecutors around...this guy killed his first known victim on his 45th birthday and then got a tattoo commemorating the event!

That is so sick. Sometimes I think they ought to let the families of the victims have them.

Well, the serial killer's lawyers have filed an appeal to get the verdict overturned. (That's normal, if not expected.) And then the lawyers filed a request to have the other murder trials delayed until the appeals process has been completed -- something that could take years ! The court promptly denied the delay request. (Yay.)

Woohoo.

Finally, a judge with some sense.