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Should Peter Sutcliffe be released?

We can't know for sure that Dando's killer didn't attempt to interact with her, because of course nobody witnessed it. However it happened pretty much on the street, if I'm remembering the reconstructions correctly. The longer any conversation continued, the more chance of a passerby seeing something.

Also, the killer seems to have grabbed her by the arm and twisted it behind her back, thus forcing her face down on the path or the step, before shooting her in the head point blank. I could be wrong, but that suggests training.

If we knew it was a stalker, then obviously that would be different, but combine that with no trace of a stalker having emerged during the investigation, and I think it can reasonably be ruled out. I'm no expert on stalkers, but it seems to me it would be very unusual indeed for the stalker to be completely private in his obsession so that the victim didn't know and there to be no trace of his making any attempt to contact her.

It's these "strike once out of the blue and get clean away" killings that seem to be the hardest to solve. If there's no apparent motive, and no known connection to the victim, where do you start?

Rolfe.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/8583782.stm

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Ms Kirkbride, who represents Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire, said her constituent wanted reassurance that Sutcliffe "will never be let out of prison for his heinous crimes".

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Mr Straw answered: "I would like to provide that reassurance... ultimately that decision would be a matter for the parole board and the courts and maybe for mental health tribunals.

"But I say to you, and through you to your constituent, that all the evidence that I have seen on this case, and it's a great deal, suggests to me that there are no circumstances in which this man will be released."

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"But I say to you, and through you to your constituent, that all the evidence that I have seen on this case, and it's a great deal, suggests to me that there are no circumstances in which this man will be released."
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Looks good to me.

Rolfe.
 
Oh yes. The utterly motiveless shooting with no leads and no suspect. One stage more mysterious than the Dando killing.

Bizarre.

Rolfe.
 
Well- there are always "general" motives;- Sex/ jealousy/money.
Dando was a pretty public figure, with a very friendly manner, about to get married. Many people felt she was almost a personal friend. I did, and I rarely watch TV. She just had that effect on people. And some folk can't tell where harmless fantasy stops and reality starts. Even if no stalker is evident, I'd be unsurprised to learn the motive was sexual jealousy.
Wilson was a banker. The killing predates the recent banking catastrophes and bonus scandals, but I bet money was at the root of it. Frankly, I've been surprised there have been no serious attempts on the lives of some of the more public figures in the banking failures. Sir Fred's windows hardly count. The recent kidnapping of a financial consultant in Germany is interesting in this context. Look at the people charged. Not your typical kidnappers.


The other possibility with "unrelated" killing is that the killer got the wrong person in the first place.
 
I did read that the cops had traced everyone else in the country called Alistair Wilson, and didn't find anyone that seemed to be a likely alternative target.

The Dando stalker thing is odd in that no evidence seems to have been found that she had an obsessive stalker. I think it would be very unusual to go straight from not contacting the object of your affections at all to shooting her. Also, the way the shooting was done was quite suggestive of a prop hit-man.

Rolfe.
 
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