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This is a weird change in the profile of a serial killer.  
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They stated tonight on the news that if this case has proven anything, it is the fact that there is no such thing as a specific profile (or a general profile, for that matter) for a serial killer and that it should be determined on a case by case basis.

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Nope. There's was Wayne Williams of the Atlanta Child Murders fame...

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My friend Watt said that there was no such thing as a black serial killer historically, and this was corroborated by Chris Rock's stand-up routine stating that black people weren't crazy.  However, this Wayne Williams guy gives me what I need to prove both of them wrong :)

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How ridiculous do all those "forensic criminologists" must look now.

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I disagree with this statement.  I have read enough crime books to know that forensic criminologists have a lot to do with the eventual capture of perpetrators.  They may not be 100% accurate all the time, but without them most of these cases would probably go unsolved.

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I'm really shocked at the race/ethnicity of the "Sniper".  Usually these kind of psychos are White Anglo men.  Occasinally a Hispanic man may do these things, but I've never heard of a Black man just going on a single minded psycho killing spree, and taunting the police like the Sniper has.
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Maybe he's been sponsored by the racial equality people?  After all, it might take a bit of positive discrimination before we have the same percentage in the field of serial killers as the population as a whole.

I think the sex discrimination people ought to take note, too: there haven't been anything like enough female serial killers - they are seriously underrepresented.

Phil

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Now, if you think about it, gangmembers doing drive-bys are kind of like amateur snipers and you get all the races in that category.
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I think you make a good point, Tarzan Boy.  All the gangbangers that are killing people on a regular basis are, in many cases (I know, not all) technically "serial killers"..I mean they are killing several people for the same "reason"......now I have never studied serial killers, so I don't know if there is some particular background on exactly what or why they do what they do--but I think that gangs have caused just as much pain and discontent as many of the serial killers out there have.  :-/

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The only thing I thought was (ex)military training, not because of his shooting accuracy, but becaues showed familiarity with shooting in hostile environment and could set-up and escape.  
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Only problem RB, is that apparently he was taking these shots from inside a car using a tripod.  Pretty steady, and the average distance was only 100 yds.  Not tremendous range at all (a Brown Bess could hit something pretty accurately at that distance) - altho' maybe he just wanted to ensure his shots if he could help it.  And he DID also apparently get awarded for being a good shot as a "regular soldier".

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Only problem RB, is that apparently he was taking these shots from inside a car using a tripod.  Pretty steady, and the average distance was only 100 yds.  Not tremendous range at all (a Brown Bess could hit something pretty accurately at that distance) - altho' maybe he just wanted to ensure his shots if he could help it.  And he DID also apparently get awarded for being a good shot as a "regular soldier".
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So, does this mean we don't have to worry about thirty year old white men in box trucks anymore?
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Well, I'm confident they got the guy(s) directly responsible for these shootings.  But I said directly.  I DO think it's strange on the 1 hand that police seemed to muffle word about a Caprice and "dark-skinned" perps that occasionally popped up, but on the other hand, it's still strange that so many white/Hispanic/Arab and light-colored SUV/box truck/minivan reports came up.  I'm either thinking there's more to this and it's not over, or coincidentally these (very common for business) vehicles esp. kept being seen.  Maybe Muhammed had either decoys or dupes.  Did he have other guys in cahoots deliberatly drawing attention away (and who may pick up where he left off), or did he largely wait for such business vehicles to appear while he waited, so maybe people would confuse that?

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Marc Sappington, who thought he was a vampire and killed several people in Kansas City;
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...and guess what his defence must have been ;-)

Phil

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...and guess what his defence must have been ;-)

Phil
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...and guess what his defence must have been ;-)

Phil
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Voices... voices told him to do it. Or else he'd die.

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Hahahahaahahahhahaa<Bonk!>
ROFLMAO

Phil