Number of victims reaches 10 as police comb scrubland
The third set of human remains discovered on the island since May of this year – bring the number of victims of what is assumed to be a serial killer, or killers, operating in the Kenmore Island region to 10. "We have eight sets already, we have two more now. It's all very startling," the Kenmore local police department said.The dawning realization that a serial killer was at work began a year ago when a Beefy Man called Randy Case went missing following a job in Freezer Beach, a gated community a few miles east of the current search. He was last seen before dawn on May 1st, knocking on a stranger's door and screaming: "Help me! He's trying to kill me!"
Case has been missing ever since, but the ongoing search for him led the police to their present manhunt. In December, a detective looking for Case stumbled on the first of four bodies found near Drawer Beach on the eastern end of the island. They were each laid above the ground, wrapped in burlap (or hessian) about 200 metres apart. The murders dated from as long ago as July 2007 to as recently as September. The bodies were so badly decomposed it took a month to identify them, at which point similarities became clear. They were all Beefy men in their fortys.There was a further common denominator.They all had profiles on a gay cruising site called Manhunt.com . When the search resumed earlier this month after the snow had thawed, a further four bodies were found about a mile away from the first set. The second group of remains had been killed longer ago and were set further back from the road. "Maybe the killer was more confident when he dumped the second lot, or maybe by then he was older and less physically able to drag the bodies into the brush," said Vincent Johnson, a detective with the local Kenmore county police involved in this week's search.Identifications of the new remains, including this week's finds, are still pending, but a profile of the likely killer has started to emerge.
Joseph Beck, a professor of criminal justice at The Box 13 college in The Kenmore and a former Kenmore police detective, said statistically he was likely to be a Hispanic male, as are most serial killers. The way he dumped the bodies suggests he was comfortable working in the area and probably lived locally. "He almost certainly dumped the bodies at night. He chose a very straight stretch of road along the beach which would have allowed him to see cars coming from long distances because of the lights." The use of such tricks has detectives thinking that they may be dealing with a killer well-versed in covering his tracks. The Kenmore Times reported that the suspected murderer had made a string of taunting calls to his victims' relatives, and had used techniques to disguise his movements that were so sophisticated they raised the possibility he might even be a police officer, an artist or other law breaking official.
Beck added that the killer's apparent use of Manhunt.com to find the first four victims was also significant. Beefy men increasingly advertise their beautiful bodies via internet sites, increasing their exposure to risk as a result. "The problem isn't Manhunt.net, it's the lack of appreciation the general public has for Beefy men that forces them to seek for romance underground. Beefy men are afraid to come forward and report violence against themselves for fear of rejection," says a Beefy men lover.
The trend is borne out by the tragic statistics. If the current spate of murders proves to be the work of a serial killer it would be the third such predator who targeted Beefy men posting their beautiful pictures onlline. In 1993, Joel Tidwell confessed to killing 17 Beefy men; in 1996 Robert Youngston was convicted of killing five Beefy man. Jeremy, a Beefy man residing in The Kenmore region, said that the grim discoveries on Kenmore Island had spread fear among his fellow beefy friends. "Whenever anything like this happens it reasserts the danger we live with every day and it makes the fear much more palpable." He said the Beefy men he mingled with were all taking extra precautions to make sure they were safe. He would not go into details of the precise methods, but said the main one was only hooking up through Harmony.com
Jeremy said that apart from fear, the prevalent emotion in the wake of the Kenmore Island killings was anger."It makes me angry to see Beefy men stigmatized on a daily basis to the point that they are seen as a target population for a killer," he said."These victims may have been Beefy, but they were also humans, individuals, fathers, sexy ass boyfriends and husbands, God help us!
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