Also, there is a certain point where if you think you are smart, you will make a lot of stupid mistakes thinking you are smarter than the people coming after you. It has been the doom of a ton of "smart" killers in history.
The problem is that most of those mistakes happen due to overconfidence in thinking one's self clever and capable of continuing to stay ahead. This guy was caught putting in literally zero effort to hiding not even a week later in an almost comical sense.
If he had been caught like this the next day, that might be the case. But the prep and escape he demonstrated are completely inconsistent with this lack of any effort after.
He could have systematically dismantled the weapon and tossed bits and pieces of it into random trash bins around the city while making his escape. There would be no way for anyone to link it back to him if it was wrapped in random trash wrappers or rubbish.
He could have stayed in a rundown motel living off of microwave food for a week until the media circus died down, and then easily skipped down any number of different ways and hid out in some rickety no-name, middle-of-nowhere bed and breakfast in midwest America until a few months pass and then leave the country.
Even with all of the surveillance, there are still easy ways to stay hidden, and he didn't seem bothered to make any effort to stay hidden at all, assuming this is all above board information.
There are a million easy things he could have done, because he had given them the complete slip and the last they had on him was a bus with 6-7 stops to narrow from. And that was day one, which means by now he could have been anywhere in the country, burying evidence under random trees hundreds of miles from each other as he just started over in any random town. Because all they had to recognize him was a poor image of a smile from under a hood at a bad angle.
As the day has progressed, I've become more and more certain that in the event this isn't a complete patsy from the FBI (which its almost too good to be true to not be) that he absolutely intended to get caught to spread his message.
Guy, how do you get a computer science degree and not learn about operational security?
I know actual, real, working computer engineers who only do transactions in cash, because they know very well about "customer loyalty programs" and what they are for, and how often they "leak".
Did this guy do his "How to murder" research on the open web? Is he mentally ill?
He was supposedly booksmart. It doesn't guarantee smartness and competence in every domain. Or at least under pressure, anyways.
Edit: as Bandolier suggests, it could be part of his plan (or instruction).
Also, there is a certain point where if you think you are smart, you will make a lot of stupid mistakes thinking you are smarter than the people coming after you. It has been the doom of a ton of "smart" killers in history.
The problem is that most of those mistakes happen due to overconfidence in thinking one's self clever and capable of continuing to stay ahead. This guy was caught putting in literally zero effort to hiding not even a week later in an almost comical sense.
If he had been caught like this the next day, that might be the case. But the prep and escape he demonstrated are completely inconsistent with this lack of any effort after.
This times a thousand.
He could have systematically dismantled the weapon and tossed bits and pieces of it into random trash bins around the city while making his escape. There would be no way for anyone to link it back to him if it was wrapped in random trash wrappers or rubbish.
He could have stayed in a rundown motel living off of microwave food for a week until the media circus died down, and then easily skipped down any number of different ways and hid out in some rickety no-name, middle-of-nowhere bed and breakfast in midwest America until a few months pass and then leave the country.
Even with all of the surveillance, there are still easy ways to stay hidden, and he didn't seem bothered to make any effort to stay hidden at all, assuming this is all above board information.
There are a million easy things he could have done, because he had given them the complete slip and the last they had on him was a bus with 6-7 stops to narrow from. And that was day one, which means by now he could have been anywhere in the country, burying evidence under random trees hundreds of miles from each other as he just started over in any random town. Because all they had to recognize him was a poor image of a smile from under a hood at a bad angle.
As the day has progressed, I've become more and more certain that in the event this isn't a complete patsy from the FBI (which its almost too good to be true to not be) that he absolutely intended to get caught to spread his message.
Everything you figured out is something a professional investigator would figure out too.
anyone with a goodreads account and logs (brag) about what books they've read is an idiot.
Guy, how do you get a computer science degree and not learn about operational security?
I know actual, real, working computer engineers who only do transactions in cash, because they know very well about "customer loyalty programs" and what they are for, and how often they "leak".
Did this guy do his "How to murder" research on the open web? Is he mentally ill?