A Conversation About the Riverman, 1984, Part 5
Added 2021-09-27 00:20:44 +0000 UTC"Over the years I’ve had an opportunity I’m sure you’ve had, to read about cases where a man accused of mass murders had his belongings examined. Some of them had the effort, you know, newspaper articles on the wall and everything. The Riverman is not flamboyant in the way that the Son of Sam types are. I mean, he’s not trying to be sensational. He’s low-key, not only in the kind of victim he’s going after- and this is my own opinion- but not disposing of them in a way to arouse sensation. He’s not going about looking for victims that would be a particular sensation. He seems to be going to great lengths to avoid detection, and, quite frankly, even may have some mementos or photographs of his victims. I’m sure he’s keeping that to a minimum, if he’s keeping anything at all. I wouldn’t. [pause]
But my guess is the time between when he picks up the girl and the time he kills her is fairly short. Relatively speaking. There may be exceptions. He doesn’t have an opportunity to collect a lot of stuff. He gets their clothing. I think he may or may not have the ability to photograph them or get some other kind of information, which is another idea I have. Looking at some of the victims on your sheet there, I began to wonder if he might be interrogating some of them before he disposes them, to find names of other prostitutes... I would tend to doubt that he would keep much in the way of elaborate things around, because he might get caught..."
