DownUnderNZer
The Counterfeit Serial Killer I think is: James Mitchell DeBARDELEBEN II.
His IQ was 130 not 160. Highly intelligent.
Discovery:
Lots of torture photos in the hundreds and audio tapes were found when they were busting him for fraud and counterfeiting etc. They have put together some of them with known victims, but not all.
Seems through his earlier victims that did survive (they came forward after his capture) he posed as a "police officer" with some of them.
Other than that - he is dead now and never really spoke of what he did. Not a bragger or a confessor. In fact, he said that it was a set up by secret agents.
So, it seems he sometimes passed himself off as a police officer, but other times he just outright kidnapped his victims especially if they were alone.
A Love - Hate relationship with his mother would have been a contributing factor as well as possibly the failure of 5 marriages.
What female or male would not trust a police officer?
DND
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His IQ was 130 not 160. Highly intelligent.
Discovery:
Lots of torture photos in the hundreds and audio tapes were found when they were busting him for fraud and counterfeiting etc. They have put together some of them with known victims, but not all.
Seems through his earlier victims that did survive (they came forward after his capture) he posed as a "police officer" with some of them.
Other than that - he is dead now and never really spoke of what he did. Not a bragger or a confessor. In fact, he said that it was a set up by secret agents.
So, it seems he sometimes passed himself off as a police officer, but other times he just outright kidnapped his victims especially if they were alone.
A Love - Hate relationship with his mother would have been a contributing factor as well as possibly the failure of 5 marriages.
What female or male would not trust a police officer?
DND
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Israel Keyes would have to be one of the most fascinating serial killers, to me, as he had his own serial killing kits buried in different locations throughout the USA and some times for up to about 3 years untouched. Organised and meticulous to a fault even in his day job as a Carpenter. His victims were absolutely random and both male and female - his only rule was no children.
Then there is the "Counterfeit Serial Killer" that likely killed over 200 women and was only found out through being busted for counterfeiting. He had an IQ of 160 and became bored with serial killing, so was counterfeiting on the side.
Now for him to have got away with so many murders over many years makes me wonder about the level of deception he used to do it and cover his tracks from the law.
I would like to know more about what made him tick etc and why the FBI failed all those girls and their families by not putting some kind of pattern together.
One girl being dragged into a car and not seen by a witness is plausible, but at least once it was possibly two at the same time. Was hitch hiking involved or pulling a gun on them?
As far as I know he has never talked about it.
DND