I am also glad for her family to at least know, but also it's got to be really hard to know for sure.

Similarly, in a woman's disappearance case in my area, there was also a big breakthrough today, after TEN years of not knowing what happened to a woman, someone was arrested and I hope they locate her body. He turned himself in, but is now trying to recant.
https://komonews.com/news/local/man-arrested-in-2009-cold-case-was-former-coworker-of-victim

It's unbelievable how many women go missing each year, the victims of foul play.

It really is sad and scary out there for especially young people. My daughter messaged me last night because on her way to work, she was outside her apartment getting into her car when a crew of construction workers were leering at her and a friend. They wouldn't stop staring and pointing at them. Made them feel very uncomfortable. My daughter was the same age of Savannah when she disappeared. The news keeps say she was 23 but she never made it to that age. There is another woman in Bardstown that has been missing for a few years now. They've never found her but suspect her boyfriend. Her father was later shot in the woods, which was very strange too. Another sad mystery for that family.

If you look at most of the recent discoveries most of the people were killed by someone they knew. While you still need to be aware of strangers like the construction crew like "Stranger Danger" for younger people the fear of strangers is out of proportion with the real danger which is someone you know.

I volunteered in the search for a missing female college student here at the University of Virginia several years ago, at the time I also started reading a forum related to that missing person case as well as many others around this area and around the country.

Eventually in that case the student was found, dead, and the person responsible was arrested and convicted of that murder. He was also tied to another abduction and murder in this city and a previous rape elsewhere in Virginia by DNA evidence.

He had been a college football player who was quietly expelled from one college for a rape, and he transferred to another college's team where he was quietly kicked off the team for another reported rape. At the second college while he was there, there were several other instances of women going missing that have yet to be solved.

The most recent news I have heard about this case is that the perpetrator has been diagnosed in prison with cancer. I hope it is a protracted, awful, unendurably painful path ahead for him.

Bob, that's awful. I've thought for a long time that rapist will eventually kill because they won't want to get caught. Makes me angry when they give a rapist such a light sentence or a slap on the hand.

Of course, on the other hand, if they know the sentence will be lighter they may be less likely to kill. But perhaps more likely to rape.

Sounds like a bit of a trade-off.

I don't think the thought processes of most rapists are that evolved.

Maybe their thought processes aren't advanced but perhaps when close to getting caught their instinct for survival is turned on to high. Sometimes that's all it takes for them to become a killer I believe.

We have these people in our society. It would be nice to

1. catch them before they start and treat them somehow even though I don't know how.

2. not have the things happen that happen to rapists serial rapists and serial murderers to turn them twisted so badly.

There is a lot of evidence that a rapist will turn to other violent crimes if they are medically castrated so that is no answer either.

Many people stop doing crime as they age but I'm not sure that pedophiles and seriel or otherwise rapists fall into that category.

I also read that highly narcissistic criminals like rapists are not successfully treated in therapy unless it is pointed out that on being caught the punishment won't serve them. They are very self interested and very involved in keeping their freedom. I I think this goes back to survival instinct.

Warning the below link has descriptions of crimes. I skipped that over but that's just me.

In this chapter from a book in 2014 they are saying that serial rapists do not murder as part of their crime in general. Serial murderers do rape but they don't kill to hide their crime. That is not their motivation it's another thing.

They also say that rape is not the motivation for rapists serial or otherwise. I'm not sure I really understand what the motivation is. Maybe they don't either.

The scariest part seems to be that serial rapists do not have really clear profiles. No common thread. Plus the law people are not sharing information well! They are only caught by evidence. Let's hope they are not that smart compared to some of the serial murderers

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/serial-rape

Robert Greene argues on this Google talk that we are all on a sliding scale of narcissism therefore any of us could be totally self-serving and murdering in the right circumstance.

He argues that our parents try to teach us to be angelic but lots of people don't have parents teaching them that or are always belittling them or they miss that memo. He is talking about any mental illness being on the sliding scale. Not sure of his credentials for saying that but that's his argument.

He wants us to see that we are on a sliding scale so that we don't do an us-and-them kind of thing. Not sure how that would help our situations but it's an interesting thought to me.

https://youtu.be/KcaVhMt71qE

I think for many it's an issue of wanting power and control, to force degradation on someone.

ole joyful

Yes, it is said that rape is not about sex, but about power.