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Other Serial Killers -- What Can We Learn From Them?
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Other Serial Killers -- What Can We Learn From Them?
Author: Diana
Friday, 16 February 2001 - 12:03 pm |        | | ALBERT DESALVO AKA THE BOSTON STRANGLER It seems that DeSalvo started with older women. His first few victims were in their fifties or sixties. He then went on to attack younger women. Perhaps in the light of this parallel, Mary Kelly isn't so much of an abberation as she seems. If JTR had had more victims, the rest might have been younger also. Recently the body of DeSalvo's last victim was exhumed with the object of collecting any available DNA evidence left by the killer. It is felt that even after decades of interment this evidence is capable of being analyzed and yielding information. Might this also be true in the case of JTR? |
Author: Jack D. Killian
Friday, 16 February 2001 - 12:35 pm | | Hi Diana,
I have been mulling this over lately also.
I would think yes they could exhume the victims and get DNA samplings.
Then, next they could exhume the suspects, Kosminsky, Cohen, Kaminsky, Twomblet, etc., and collect DNA samplings. Or, we could track down descendant relatives of the suspects and compare samplings from them with extraneous DNA found on the victims bodies.
But, then we may ID the real Jack, and then our Whodunit will become nil...what then? Will we still have the interest level we have now not knowing who Jack is? Will it be exciting figuring out other aspects of the mystery?
Cheers,
JD |
Author: Diana
Wednesday, 20 June 2001 - 04:00 pm | | Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler For those who think Jack could have been two people the Strangler makes a perfect example. The police suspected a pair from the beginning. The bodies had been dumped away from the actual murder scene. It was obvious that there was no evidence of dragging, so the bodies were being carried by two people. Buono and Bianchi were cousins but they were also united by their sick and disgusting ideas about women and their lack of respect for life. Theorists who posit two Jacks usually suggest only one of them being truly psychopathic. The other is portrayed as a follower or one who is paid or manipulated. Buono and Bianchi were both psychopaths and they energized each other. The confessions of Bianchi make it clear that they were motivated by bloodlust/power/sadism/anger/desire for notoriety all rolled up into an unholy rotten little ball.
This makes some discussions on this site about which of the above motives apply to Jack questionable. It is possible to have several of these motives at once. The Strangler(s) were different from Jack in that they were not into post-mortem mutilation, but rather torture, rape, and murder for its own sake. |
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