JJD tactics used during EAR series

This is the stuff I want to know. I want to know how he did his crimes and avoided being stopped by law enforcement all that time.

I wanted to talk about some of the techniques JJD used to disable outdoor phone lines. We all remember in the #1 attack how the birdbath was damaged when it was believed the offender used it to stand on and cut the outside phone line or something along those lines. There is the debate JJD was trying to make it look less professional or at least a newish offender-type activity. I have spoken to someone who was working as a Deputy assigned to patrol in the 1970s and 1980s and he believed at that time whenever EAR attempted to or succeeded in disabling the phone lines from the outside of the home he would throw the garden hose from the yard over the phone line and pull it down. Sometimes the phone line would break from being pulled down with the hose other times it would stretch enough and would be low enough for a cutting tool to be used to sever the line. In simple terms, you take the garden hose that is already in the yard and throw it over the line and pull it down. The line breaks or it will stretch down to ground level and a cutting tool would finish the job. Most of the time the line breaks. The phones were not always disturbed on every attack and some even being disabled from inside the home but it is interesting to hear this information.

I can tell you this I had never encountered an offender with this MO. But I can also say I never checked the hose for marks or I never saw the hose out of place or in a place where I suspected it was used to pull down lines. 

One tactic used by JJD was to enter the home and set it up for later by unlocking a window in a young child's room or an extra bedroom. Sometimes he would combine two tactics such as setting the house up with the window trick and then enter the home in the early evening and do the lay in wait tactic. We know from many examples of people coming home and seeing a man inside their home through the window and this in JJD laying and waiting for the family to return home. The man would also get into the home and then spend his time going through the homeowner's possessions while he waited. There is also compelling evidence of him being inside the home for hours while the victims were going about evening activities while he waited for them to go to sleep.

We know he spent many hours in the backyards and he could wait just as well indoors and I am certain adding to his excitement. We know the excitement level is what was driving him and any time he could push it further he would.

After all that I have gathered over the years, I have come to the conclusion JJD was an Adrenaline junkie” the definition is a term used to describe a person who feels a compulsion to take part in exciting, dangerous, or intense activities. JJD engaged in risky behavior in and around puberty setting the stage as this need for excitement fused with a sexual component. He needs to raise the bar each time but is still be able to return to a portion of his life before he was first killed. This was the reason LE did not connect all of the different series of crimes to a single person. I know a lot of people with the same drive both male and female but most would never act on the fantasy because they are missing the incidents that JJD had in a sexual manner. JJD had to be a prolific peeper and sexual burglar there is no doubt and I see evidence of this in reports in areas he lived in.

We need to try to understand what these types of offenders mean by the tingle they get when committing crimes. Its something sent by the brain and is a rush for them as they do the unthinkable.

They way it has been told to me by more than one offender it has to be more than adrenaline because they could get that fix in other ways. I believe there is more to it when there is a sexual component involved. In the JJD case imagine the drive that consumed his daily life and how he seemed to never sleep. JJD was able to work fulltime in LE and yet seemed to be prowling in both day and night that is a huge drive at work here. I'm not sure if science can explain all of the reasons for that tingle that offenders get.