Originally posted by Michael W Richards
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Thanks for your contribution.
What theory are you referring to when you postulate that the killer was "out of control"?
Do you mean that he was "disorganized"?
Research has shown that the dichotomy of an organized / disorganized serial killer has low validity if you want to use this as a classification.
See for instance Hunting Serial Predators. A Multivariate Classification Approach to Profiling Violent Behavior by Grover Maurice Godwin (CRC Press 1999).
Another question.
You write: "Heres a thought...Liz Stride was killed because her killer wanted her dead. Not in pieces."
But could you not just as well hypothesize that the killer was in control, since he abstained from mutilating the first victim, knowing that he was going to look for another one to perform mutilations on her instead?
I am really interested to hear what you think about these two questions.
Kind regards, Pierre
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