A Conversation About the Riverman, 1984, Part 10
Added 2022-07-18 01:22:40 +0000 UTC“Over the years when I receive newspapers or clippings from the Pacific Northwest, I read of the bodies of young women turning up with relative frequency. And I don’t know what it is, I don’t know if it’s just because I’m paying so much attention to the Pacific Northwest or if there’s something about the Pacific Northwest that seems to... uh, encourage this kind of activity, because I know it doesn’t seem to be as frequent down in this part of Florida as it is up in Seattle-Tacoma. And yet like you said, there are 58 in the past few years that you know about. The mountains of Washington offer some excellent terrain for hiding bodies. So you’re not finding, and even in your case, you're not finding a large number of the bodies.
That statement of mine about there being other serial murders is just something intuitive. I just sense it. Just from what I know about how difficult it is sometimes to detect serial murder. And how some serial murderers tend to be very... um, aware of how to cover their tracks, change their M.O. They’re studying things all the time. So you might find one victim in one-- like [Henry Lee] Lucas, and I don't think he did it intentionally-- but you might find one victim one way in one place and another victim in another kind and another way in another place. By varying an M.O., a highly controlled, intelligent, and alert serial murderer can go on for years and years. And he might only get two or three a year. Or there are others, like the Riverman, who just go hog wild. You cannot go for long doing four or five-- or even two or three a month without drawing attention. It’s just a sense of the whole problem of serial murder or multiple murders, that there are a whole mass of serial murderers out there who are undetected because the way they go about it is so low-key, and they’re not frequent.
And you've found, even in your case, a number of anomalies, a number of exceptions, people who were clearly killed by other individuals. Some of them you know and some of them you don’t know who the perpetrator was. I just made that statement from my own... just off the top, because I feel like you’ve got more up there than just this one guy."
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"Is he athletic?" "Well, that could explain his ability to, uh-- one explanation of his ability to overpower or otherwise subdue these girls. I’d imagine that he has to have something more than just physical strength, because if somebody thinks they’re fighting for their lives, then they're going to respond to him-- they will produce a kind of strength that he might not be able to handle. I almost think he has to have some kind of weapon to throw down on them with... And at some point in time [the victims] knew they were right there, they were in the hot seat. They were going to fight for their lives, and yet they didn’t get away. So there's a good chance, even though he may not be killing them with a weapon, he’s got to use something to intimidate them pretty effectively. Or has some kind of vehicle that they can’t get out of, you know. It might be interesting to check that out someday. Any guy whose passenger door does not unlock from the inside, you might want to check that. [laughs]”
Tiffany J.
2022-07-18 05:42:28 +0000 UTC
