The Googled definition of diabolical is: characteristic of the Devil, or so evil as to be suggestive of the Devil. That's a fair assessment, but not necessarily involving any Devil. There are two sides of every human being. A good side and an evil side. We all choose to use one or the other at times. We may choose one to be our main life force, but no one is 100% good and no one is 100% evil. That's how a diabolical mind goes undetected for years.
Most criminals are stupid. It's apparent with the number that are in prison. Yes. There are innocent people convicted and placed in prison by dishonest and/or overzealous police and prosecutors. But for the majority, they're in there because they did the crime and now they're doing the time.
There are a few. A minority that escapes detection. These are the ones with the diabolical mind. That is, they know how to control a situation where they can commit crimes undetected for years. They hide in plain sight. They're good when it suits them. They're beyond careful when they're in their evil mode. They're meticulous with their lives especially when it comes to their crimes. One example is the GSK (Golden State Killer). This criminal is psychopathic and sociopathic and would have remained undetected had he worn a condom. Seriously.
Eventually, many of these people undo themselves. They get cocky, make a mistake and get caught. For others, their luck runs out. It took 44 years to capture GSK, who was also known in the media, as the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker, as well as the Visalia Ransacker. DNA was his Achilles' heel. His alias was given to him in 2013 by writer Michelle McNamara, who was researching and writing a book about the killer. She passed before it was finished. However, it was finished by other writers and released in 2018 titled, I'll Be Gone in the Dark.
On April 24, 2018, authorities charged 72-year-old United States Navy veteran and former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo (I won't post a picture because I don't want to give this human piece of garbage anymore notoriety) with eight counts of first-degree murder, based upon DNA evidence. [Blankstein, Andrew; Dienst, Jonathan; Siemaszko, Corky, NBC News] The DNA he left behind and thankfully had been obtained and preserved from crimes committed 40 years prior. Why it took so long is still an unanswered question. Cold cases don't receive enough attention because the lack of manpower and that there are so many current crimes that stand a better chance to be solved. Though people demand results on these old crimes, they scream a whole lot louder when it's happening now and in their neighborhoods.
GSK terrorized several California towns and neighborhoods for 12 years between 1974 and 1986. The Golden State Killer is a serial killer, serial rapist, and burglar who committed at least 13 murders, more than 50 rapes, and over 100 burglaries in California during that time span. Being a former police officer, many of these crimes committed while in that position, he was able to go about his crimes undetected. We put so much faith in our police force. Yet, a small percentage of them are worse than the criminals they arrest. Placed in a position of trust, you would hope they wouldn't go bad. But some do.
Most of DeAngelo's crimes were against women. The sad thing here is he has three adult daughters. I feel for the victims but I also have to consider his family as victims too. They did not drive this man to be a monster. Yet, they'll reap some form of punishment due to association. Their lives will never be the same or as good as it may have been knowing that this horribleness was committed while they were living with him. He was arrested at one of his daughter's home where he was living. That unfortunate woman.
It has to be believed he was not just lucky. He played the system because they lacked the tools to take him down until many years after his rampage ceased. He was meticulous and his crimes were well planned. He had a few close calls, but nothing that would undo him. A DNA database similar to Ancestory.com was his downfall.
The State of California was seeking the death penalty. DeAngelo would submit a plea of guilty provided the death penalty was not pursued. Once we get through this Coronavirus pandemic, we will know more. He's due back in court this summer. However, I'll wage he will spend the rest of his life in prison. A long chapter nearly a half century in the California crime history will soon be closed forever.
We may never understand or completely know DeAngelo's motivation. Everyone can examine his life, speculate and draw conclusions but unless the man speaks his mind from his heart, we're all just guessing.
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Another man who spent years on the surface as a law abiding citizen, Dennis Rader, better known as the BTK killer or just BTK (bind, torture, kill), was apprehended in 2005. For nearly a 20 year span, he murdered 10 people by restraining, torturing and lastly, killing them, mostly by strangulation. All this occurred in the heart of the bible belt, Kansas. His motivation? Sexual sadism. A very sick, sick fetish. He also liked to cross-dress going as far as photographing himself in women's clothing.
He attended church regularly. He was a cub scout leader. He was living a double life, just like DeAngelo. His wife, daughter and son had absolutely no idea he was this cruel, strange, sadistic monster. The majority of his victims were women too, another common thread between most serial killers.
What was his undoing? He got cocky. After 13 years going unnoticed and not in the spotlight since his last kill in 1991, he decided to poke the bear. He started to write to the media. He left clues in the public library. He left an empty box in the back of a stranger's pick-up truck to harass and thumb his nose at the police. He sent a picture and other evidence to the local TV station taking credit for one of the murdered women. The murders alone was no longer getting him "off." However, this would ultimately be his undoing. That victim during their struggle managed to get his DNA under her nails.
His second major mistake was giving a local TV station a floppy disc that had metadata residing on it from a deleted Word file containing information for his church. Along with the previous film footage obtained from the evidence planting in the pick-up truck by a person with a black Jeep, the police were able to pinpoint Rader as BTK. Rader owned a Jeep. He belonged to the church noted in the file. By obtaining his daughter's DNA from her college medical clinic, it proved to be a familial match to the killer's DNA taken from the victim's fingernails. This was all the evidence they needed for an arrest. They, finally, had BTK.
After his arrest, he confessed to the 10 murders. He was held over for trial, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 175 years. In my opinion, we can only hope he lives the rest of his days in misery.
Why? WTF purpose did Rader have to put himself in play like that. Had he kept quiet, he would probably never would have been apprehended. Now, he'll spend the remainder of his life alone in prison without the possibility for parole. His wife was given a quickie divorce after his arrest. A few years later, his daughter cashed in on his notoriety and for being his daughter by writing a book about her life with him. The hero of this story is the young woman who gave her life but struggled enough to obtain his DNA and again, thankfully, a wise crime scene tech saved the specimen.
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There are many more examples of people who lived double lives surreptitiously fitting into society by day, but by night, they were worse than Stevenson's Mr. Hyde. Why does it often take so long to capture these people? Why do we have to rely so much on luck or a slip-up in both of these cases? It's the diabolical mind.
This is my opinion and may be shared by some of you and may be laughed at by the authorities. I believe it takes a diabolical mind to catch a diabolical mind. Good often triumphs over evil, but often it's evils bravado and machismo that self-destructs evil. The same old policing is just not working well for us. There's a need to think outside the box. Think like a scumbag POS psychopath and sociopath. You might be able to anticipate their next move.
Another case which I won't delve into now, but will in a future BLOG concerns the murder of school teacher, Susan Reinert, and the disappearance (and most likely) murders of her two children in 1979. The convicted perpetrators have all since died. However, there's one that escaped prosecution. I believe there was one involved that got away with the conspiracy. I will go into more detail in the future.
To catch an evil mind, you must think with an evil mind. I know police in the past used methods inhumane and illegal by today's standards and often misused, but it got results. Rubber hoses, thick telephone books (what is that?) or other implements were often used to elicit a confession. Unfortunately, some of those results were not factual. Beating a confession out of a suspect, though sometimes effective, often convicted an innocent person. But there needs to be somewhere in-between where the police can use methods to corral the scum of the Earth.
I don't present any solutions to how to do this. I don't always have answers. Most of the time I have a few brilliant ideas, but no means to bring them to fruition. Someday someone will come up with a means and method to protect the greater good.
Until then, stay safe and Coronavirus free, TTFN.
Most criminals are stupid. It's apparent with the number that are in prison. Yes. There are innocent people convicted and placed in prison by dishonest and/or overzealous police and prosecutors. But for the majority, they're in there because they did the crime and now they're doing the time.
There are a few. A minority that escapes detection. These are the ones with the diabolical mind. That is, they know how to control a situation where they can commit crimes undetected for years. They hide in plain sight. They're good when it suits them. They're beyond careful when they're in their evil mode. They're meticulous with their lives especially when it comes to their crimes. One example is the GSK (Golden State Killer). This criminal is psychopathic and sociopathic and would have remained undetected had he worn a condom. Seriously.
Eventually, many of these people undo themselves. They get cocky, make a mistake and get caught. For others, their luck runs out. It took 44 years to capture GSK, who was also known in the media, as the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker, as well as the Visalia Ransacker. DNA was his Achilles' heel. His alias was given to him in 2013 by writer Michelle McNamara, who was researching and writing a book about the killer. She passed before it was finished. However, it was finished by other writers and released in 2018 titled, I'll Be Gone in the Dark.
On April 24, 2018, authorities charged 72-year-old United States Navy veteran and former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo (I won't post a picture because I don't want to give this human piece of garbage anymore notoriety) with eight counts of first-degree murder, based upon DNA evidence. [Blankstein, Andrew; Dienst, Jonathan; Siemaszko, Corky, NBC News] The DNA he left behind and thankfully had been obtained and preserved from crimes committed 40 years prior. Why it took so long is still an unanswered question. Cold cases don't receive enough attention because the lack of manpower and that there are so many current crimes that stand a better chance to be solved. Though people demand results on these old crimes, they scream a whole lot louder when it's happening now and in their neighborhoods.
GSK terrorized several California towns and neighborhoods for 12 years between 1974 and 1986. The Golden State Killer is a serial killer, serial rapist, and burglar who committed at least 13 murders, more than 50 rapes, and over 100 burglaries in California during that time span. Being a former police officer, many of these crimes committed while in that position, he was able to go about his crimes undetected. We put so much faith in our police force. Yet, a small percentage of them are worse than the criminals they arrest. Placed in a position of trust, you would hope they wouldn't go bad. But some do.
Most of DeAngelo's crimes were against women. The sad thing here is he has three adult daughters. I feel for the victims but I also have to consider his family as victims too. They did not drive this man to be a monster. Yet, they'll reap some form of punishment due to association. Their lives will never be the same or as good as it may have been knowing that this horribleness was committed while they were living with him. He was arrested at one of his daughter's home where he was living. That unfortunate woman.
It has to be believed he was not just lucky. He played the system because they lacked the tools to take him down until many years after his rampage ceased. He was meticulous and his crimes were well planned. He had a few close calls, but nothing that would undo him. A DNA database similar to Ancestory.com was his downfall.
The State of California was seeking the death penalty. DeAngelo would submit a plea of guilty provided the death penalty was not pursued. Once we get through this Coronavirus pandemic, we will know more. He's due back in court this summer. However, I'll wage he will spend the rest of his life in prison. A long chapter nearly a half century in the California crime history will soon be closed forever.
We may never understand or completely know DeAngelo's motivation. Everyone can examine his life, speculate and draw conclusions but unless the man speaks his mind from his heart, we're all just guessing.
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Another man who spent years on the surface as a law abiding citizen, Dennis Rader, better known as the BTK killer or just BTK (bind, torture, kill), was apprehended in 2005. For nearly a 20 year span, he murdered 10 people by restraining, torturing and lastly, killing them, mostly by strangulation. All this occurred in the heart of the bible belt, Kansas. His motivation? Sexual sadism. A very sick, sick fetish. He also liked to cross-dress going as far as photographing himself in women's clothing.
He attended church regularly. He was a cub scout leader. He was living a double life, just like DeAngelo. His wife, daughter and son had absolutely no idea he was this cruel, strange, sadistic monster. The majority of his victims were women too, another common thread between most serial killers.
What was his undoing? He got cocky. After 13 years going unnoticed and not in the spotlight since his last kill in 1991, he decided to poke the bear. He started to write to the media. He left clues in the public library. He left an empty box in the back of a stranger's pick-up truck to harass and thumb his nose at the police. He sent a picture and other evidence to the local TV station taking credit for one of the murdered women. The murders alone was no longer getting him "off." However, this would ultimately be his undoing. That victim during their struggle managed to get his DNA under her nails.
His second major mistake was giving a local TV station a floppy disc that had metadata residing on it from a deleted Word file containing information for his church. Along with the previous film footage obtained from the evidence planting in the pick-up truck by a person with a black Jeep, the police were able to pinpoint Rader as BTK. Rader owned a Jeep. He belonged to the church noted in the file. By obtaining his daughter's DNA from her college medical clinic, it proved to be a familial match to the killer's DNA taken from the victim's fingernails. This was all the evidence they needed for an arrest. They, finally, had BTK.
After his arrest, he confessed to the 10 murders. He was held over for trial, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 175 years. In my opinion, we can only hope he lives the rest of his days in misery.
Why? WTF purpose did Rader have to put himself in play like that. Had he kept quiet, he would probably never would have been apprehended. Now, he'll spend the remainder of his life alone in prison without the possibility for parole. His wife was given a quickie divorce after his arrest. A few years later, his daughter cashed in on his notoriety and for being his daughter by writing a book about her life with him. The hero of this story is the young woman who gave her life but struggled enough to obtain his DNA and again, thankfully, a wise crime scene tech saved the specimen.
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| Vicki Lynn Wegerle, victim and hero |
There are many more examples of people who lived double lives surreptitiously fitting into society by day, but by night, they were worse than Stevenson's Mr. Hyde. Why does it often take so long to capture these people? Why do we have to rely so much on luck or a slip-up in both of these cases? It's the diabolical mind.
This is my opinion and may be shared by some of you and may be laughed at by the authorities. I believe it takes a diabolical mind to catch a diabolical mind. Good often triumphs over evil, but often it's evils bravado and machismo that self-destructs evil. The same old policing is just not working well for us. There's a need to think outside the box. Think like a scumbag POS psychopath and sociopath. You might be able to anticipate their next move.
Another case which I won't delve into now, but will in a future BLOG concerns the murder of school teacher, Susan Reinert, and the disappearance (and most likely) murders of her two children in 1979. The convicted perpetrators have all since died. However, there's one that escaped prosecution. I believe there was one involved that got away with the conspiracy. I will go into more detail in the future.
To catch an evil mind, you must think with an evil mind. I know police in the past used methods inhumane and illegal by today's standards and often misused, but it got results. Rubber hoses, thick telephone books (what is that?) or other implements were often used to elicit a confession. Unfortunately, some of those results were not factual. Beating a confession out of a suspect, though sometimes effective, often convicted an innocent person. But there needs to be somewhere in-between where the police can use methods to corral the scum of the Earth.
I don't present any solutions to how to do this. I don't always have answers. Most of the time I have a few brilliant ideas, but no means to bring them to fruition. Someday someone will come up with a means and method to protect the greater good.
Until then, stay safe and Coronavirus free, TTFN.
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