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Post by nick on Jan 16, 2022 19:30:30 GMT -8
Well I mean tactics wise and how a system was set up to track possible suspects and offenders. There were a few bad guys that got caught up in the EAR series while they were committing their own crimes. Which is how I know an IF card was never filled out on JJD and it appears he was never stopped in or around the area and identified. I did see more than one cop who was off duty that had been stopped and an FI card was filled out so I am leaning toward JJD never being stopped. Although the lazy ass cop could shoot holes in that theory who stopped him and let him go since he was an Auburn cop. JJD is the only who can answer that question. |
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Post by nick on Jan 18, 2022 21:03:47 GMT -8
Attack #26 on Saturday, October 29, 1977, was a good example of some of the tactics JJD used. The victims had been out for the evening and returned home around 2200 Hrs this allowed JJD the time he needed to enter the home while the homeowners were away. It is thought sometime between 1930 hrs and 2200 hrs JJD broke into a bedroom window and located the husband's handgun and unloaded it then unlocked the sliding patio door. It is believed JJD was in the backyard when the victims returned home and he waited for them to sleep then he entered the home through the unlocked patio door.
October 26 in the early morning is when a neighbor saw JJD prowling indicating the preplanning of an attack. The tracking dogs (Sac Sheriff's K-9 Prince or Bloodhounds) used after the attack led to 4400 Whitney at the curb line which indicated a vehicle was parked there. It was also one of his playing games with the male victim where he wanted to encourage the victim to try for his handgun since it had already been emptied. This is also the incident where a citizen reported seeing a man take a bicycle out of the back of a parked dump truck at 06:30 hrs. This is important to show that JJD was waiting in the area for daylight to affect his escape. I can see JJD just holding up somewhere waiting for the X-ray units and night patrol to go off duty and then he could go home at his own pace.
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Post by nick on Jan 20, 2022 22:01:30 GMT -8
How JJD used the telephone could be its own thread. I'll just cover what I think about his phone use. JJD liked to hear the victim's voices I think that is undisputed but he used it to find out who else lived in the home and other things. The phone calls mostly hangups would tell you who lives there and maybe more if he says for instance he did not speak and just listened which is what he did. There were still times when he could be obscene or act in a manner to suggest sexual gradivacation.
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Post by nick on Jan 26, 2022 17:02:58 GMT -8
Steelbike reminded me I need to post about this tactic. I met a fellow many years back who had the EAR/ONS bug bad and he was convinced the key to identifying EAR was in the data and he focussed on a very narrow and laser focus. Let's call this fellow Chris, well Chris had somehow gathered the crime stats in the correct years to prove a clear pattern of reported stolen bicycles during the EAR series were recovered nearby and in a pattern. Chris thinks EAR was stealing bikes and placing them in a neighborhood he was working (stalking, Prowling) as a means of escaping an area faster than on foot. Chris continues EAR would ride the bikes he stole place them where he planned to escape to mostly a vehicle or maybe even a vehicle swap in addition to. It makes sense to me just on it being something we know JJD would do and had done during his near captures. Chris had the stats to prove it but it didn't get us any closer to who he is but someday when all of the data is placed together then we would know. Chris passed away before JJD was identified so he never got to know the biggest question in his mind "who is the East Area Rapist?"
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Post by steelbike on Jan 28, 2022 14:09:44 GMT -8
I started a post earlier that I didn’t finish (slow going, one letter poked out with one thumb at a time) but it’s gone.
You all have read it all before. I would like to post here that I believe that encountered JJD behind my home in the Rossmor bar area (I thought of it as ‘the field’) early spring 1979. He was accosting 11 year old male children. He engaged us about “starting a bicycle club”. He looked like a 34 year old cop or military recruit on a schwinn stingray converted to a bmx bike. He was fit looking, wearing jeans, T-shirt and sneakers. What I think pertains to this thread is that he had dark brown hair and a very whispy moustache. That I have always had such a clear memory of his dark brown hair makes me wonder if it had been fake. I wonder now if the reason his hair colour stood out so much was because it was dyed and didn’t have normal highlights. That I remember his moustache makes me wonder if wonky’s fake moustache theory wasn’t correct.
This dude was creeping around behind my house in early afternoon with dyed hair. Where was he on his way to?
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Post by johnnyhands1 on Jan 30, 2022 3:01:33 GMT -8
Do you remember if the creeping around your house was the same day as the "starting the bicycle club" - and are those the only two times you remember seeing this guy?
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Post by steelbike on Jan 30, 2022 4:30:01 GMT -8
Do you remember if the creeping around your house was the same day as the "starting the bicycle club" - and are those the only two times you remember seeing this guy? Same day. ”Creeping around behind my house” isn’t super accurate — my friend and I initially observed him several hundred yards away heading towards us on his bike. We were behind my house (using google street view one can see an alley to the east of 10717 Ambassador drive that leads to the river area which we had passed through) and we observed him traveling towards us along the trail that leads from the end of the alley to El Manto trail and the recreation area parking lot beyond which is the bike trail and then the river (clay banks). I felt uneasy as he approached. I don’t know if seeing us had attracted him or if we had just been along the way that he was heading anyway. Some months later, my mother and I were walking our family’s dog and ended up off trail around the northern apex of the Rossmor bar area and the same guy came out of the bush a scurried across our path. I hadn’t told my mother about the child molester that my friend and I had encountered. Those are the two times that I ran across ‘bicycle club guy’. |
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Post by nick on Feb 1, 2022 22:19:37 GMT -8
There is strong evidence JJD used payphones along with other types of landlines. I think that is also why EAR was known to take change from victims and that in turn would fund his payphone calls. There is also some evidence he used a phone linemen's handset at neighborhood boxes to call and listen in on phone calls.
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Post by nick on Feb 9, 2022 17:18:09 GMT -8
The loosing of light bulbs and sometimes even damaging the light was something JJD did along with many other criminals. JJD liked to be prepared for the victim ensuring he always had the advantage. The unusual thing JJD did is the preparing factor prior to an attack. The setting up of the house like unlocking windows and doors and disabling the phone prior to the actual attack.
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Post by johnnyhands1 on Feb 10, 2022 23:47:47 GMT -8
There is strong evidence JJD used payphones along with other types of landlines. I think that is also why EAR was known to take change from victims and that in turn would fund his payphone calls. There is also some evidence he used a phone linemen's handset at neighborhood boxes to call and listen in on phone calls. Do you have any evidence of the linemen's handset use by JJD, other than his brother-in-law being a phone company employee (and as an aside, do we know for sure the brother-in-law had hands-on experience with the phone technology of the day?) |
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Post by johnnyhands1 on Feb 10, 2022 23:51:10 GMT -8
The loosing of light bulbs and sometimes even damaging the light was something JJD did along with many other criminals. JJD liked to be prepared for the victim ensuring he always had the advantage. The unusual thing JJD did is the preparing factor prior to an attack. The setting up of the house like unlocking windows and doors and disabling the phone prior to the actual attack. Do we know how many attacks involved a separate break-in for setup? He may have done some or most of the house-setup attacks as a cat burglar, just before waking up his victims. |
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Post by nick on Feb 24, 2022 15:19:24 GMT -8
The loosing of light bulbs and sometimes even damaging the light was something JJD did along with many other criminals. JJD liked to be prepared for the victim ensuring he always had the advantage. The unusual thing JJD did is the preparing factor prior to an attack. The setting up of the house like unlocking windows and doors and disabling the phone prior to the actual attack. Do we know how many attacks involved a separate break-in for setup? He may have done some or most of the house-setup attacks as a cat burglar, just before waking up his victims. There are quite a few of the attacks before he moved to the bay area where the victims reported incidents of break ins or doors and windows that should have been locked were found unlocked. I would have to sit and get the exact number. |
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Post by nick on Feb 24, 2022 15:24:35 GMT -8
This is a little-known tactic used by JJD. There were a few reported instances where the kitchen telephone was taken off the hook and wrapped with a dishtowel. By taking the phone off the hook it made the other phones in the house nonfunctioning because the phone was off the hook in the kitchen. After a few minutes of being off the hook, there is an attention-getting beeping or more of an alarm sound that goes off for less than 30 seconds alerting you to the phone being off the hook, and then it is silenced. The dishtowel or bath towel would mute that attention-getting tone. The phone of the hook disables the phone system.
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Post by johnnyhands1 on Feb 24, 2022 17:58:13 GMT -8
Speaking of phones in the 1970's, someone in another forum brought up JJD needing quarters for all his phone calls, most of which were probably made from pay phones (as we all know, that's all they had for away-from-home calls for the most part back then.) But I just found an 1981 Washington Post article about the Bell company wanting to raise all phone booth calls to $.25. It also said the rate from the 1970's up to that point was either $.10, $.15, or $.20, depending if that jurisdiction had approved the rate rise from $.10 to the $.20 the Bell company wanted (and some compromised at $.15): www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/12/14/bell-pushes-25-cents-as-nationwide-pay-phone-rate/4f7219ce-b1be-415f-a88f-0f219f3d23e8/So nickels, dimes, and quarters from a piggy bank all would have been useful to JJD - and that explains, in part, anyway, his stealing of piggy banks (I'm sure someone has brought that up before, but I hadn't thought about it yet.) I'll take a guess and estimate that a very low percentage of the phone calls he made, hang-up or speaking calls, were ever reported to authorities, so he made hundreds of phone booth calls, if not thousands. And I'll guess many were made out of the local area and were charged as long distance calls - so even more coins were needed. He used a lot of coinage for calls during his crime spree - as well as the vending machines down at the Auburn PD station ("Junk Food Joe.") And similar to the towel-covering-the-phone method you brought up in your last post, Nick, he may have covered the phone booth receiver so the victim called wouldn't hear much of the outside noise from his end. |
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Post by nick on Feb 28, 2022 18:01:09 GMT -8
Speaking of phones in the 1970's, someone in another forum brought up JJD needing quarters for all his phone calls, most of which were probably made from pay phones (as we all know, that's all they had for away-from-home calls for the most part back then.) But I just found an 1981 Washington Post article about the Bell company wanting to raise all phone booth calls to $.25. It also said the rate from the 1970's up to that point was either $.10, $.15, or $.20, depending if that jurisdiction had approved the rate rise from $.10 to the $.20 the Bell company wanted (and some compromised at $.15): www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/12/14/bell-pushes-25-cents-as-nationwide-pay-phone-rate/4f7219ce-b1be-415f-a88f-0f219f3d23e8/So nickels, dimes, and quarters from a piggy bank all would have been useful to JJD - and that explains, in part, anyway, his stealing of piggy banks (I'm sure someone has brought that up before, but I hadn't thought about it yet.) I'll take a guess and estimate that a very low percentage of the phone calls he made, hang-up or speaking calls, were ever reported to authorities, so he made hundreds of phone booth calls, if not thousands. And I'll guess many were made out of the local area and were charged as long distance calls - so even more coins were needed. He used a lot of coinage for calls during his crime spree - as well as the vending machines down at the Auburn PD station ("Junk Food Joe.") And similar to the towel-covering-the-phone method you brought up in your last post, Nick, he may have covered the phone booth receiver so the victim called wouldn't hear much of the outside noise from his end. I agree with you. I also think JJD was calling potential victims from inside the homes of other victims during his daytime scouting burglaries. We also know he was taking phone numbers from address books and lists near phones to gain more information on the victims and their neighbors. Think back to those days we all had phone number lists near the kitchen phone listing every phone number including neighbors, friends and work numbers. |
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