"Guilty": Part Two

[H2O Man]

69. Exactly.

The is a relatively small sub-group of violent offenders -- all of whom get off on inflicting terrible pain upon their victims -- who follow that type of cycle. They tend to commit one of two types of crime -- rape and/or murder. And they tend to have ritual behaviors, which often include substance abuse.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that he has killed before. Even from what we have pieced together, for example, he made unexplained trips to the NYC area on a cyclical basis. We know that one one of these, upon his journey back upstate, he dogged a car on Rt 17 (between NYC and Binghamton). He finally forced them off the road, got out of his vehicle, and ran towards them with his gun pointed at the driver. The guy was able to speed away, while his passenger called 911. The police caught up to him, but by that time, he didn't have a gun on him; he showed them his police ID, and told a very different story.

He was charged with harassment, and pleaded guilty. He got a slap on the wrist for that. And there are two other similar cases, in which he was not charged. He had also shot in the direction of two teens who were neighbors; they were riding 4-wheel vehicles on their parents' property, which angered him. When the police responded to the parents' call, he claimed that he had merely been target shooting.

If the authorities had looked closer, he might have been stopped earlier. But that is just one of those "what if's?" that will haunt us forever. At least my nephew will be the last person he murders.