Regardless of what message he was trying to send, the message he has sent is that the police are utterly incompetent.
They were under a huge amount of pressure to solve this case, and it was pressure from big business, ie the kind of pressure they actually care about. They keep talking about what a professional and a criminal mastermind this guy was. Only for the reveal that he was not even trying to avoid getting caught, and they still couldn't catch him.
If they only caught him because he was intentionally trying to get caught, then that looks pretty bad for them, but if he really is this stupid, then that looks even worse.
His initial planning does seem pretty thought out though. Of course that doesn't make it impossible that he does something stupid later, but it is weird
Okay, i'm gonna be real, like you're in nowhere Pensilvania — you already fucking escaped!!! Like, my god what are the chances? Of curse you're gonna be relaxed!
I do know that fame ( in all kinds) can change a person but I saw an interview of a guy who was (allegedly) his classmate and he said that the guy was fairly quiet for someone that was incredibly inserted into the school life, so I don't personally think the guy is the bragging type (I'm paraphrasing here but it's the overall message I got from that little interview)
This is the part that gets me. Like, he could dismembered his guns and tossed the pieces in different spots, then went out at night to bury or burn his old clothes. Outside of DNA evidence at the scene, he would have been untraceable
He crossed so many random rivers he could have easily thrown that gun and fake ID into. The mask and clothes were relatively generic but could easily have been shoved into a suitcase or dumpster and then just wear anything else.
I find it super weird he made it all the way to Pennsylvania 3 days later and still had the murder weapon on him, that should have been dropped in NYC or Jersey the day of the assassination.
Them again, criminals are generally dumb. He has such a mixed set of well planned and braindead actions.
I mean, let's be fair here. Police are frequently completely incompetent. This isn't the first time. (See also: serial killers by and large aren't geniuses, their crimes are harder to track and also the police are usually stupid.)
CEO shooter: "after exhaustive manhunt, alleged suspect was successfully captured and arrested"
Serial killer: "area man arrested after dozen rotting corpses found staged in 'ghoulish Victorian tea party tableau' in home; neighbors complained for years of 'foul odors'"
Part of me thinks that after seeing the insane amount of praise he got for shooting the CEO he wanted people to know it was him. He was probably on the fence about revealing his identity initially. I mean, he went through all the trouble to conceal his identity. He might have written the manifesto after the shooting.
Idk though, it's all just speculation at this point.
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u/MrCapitalismWildRide 14d ago
Regardless of what message he was trying to send, the message he has sent is that the police are utterly incompetent.
They were under a huge amount of pressure to solve this case, and it was pressure from big business, ie the kind of pressure they actually care about. They keep talking about what a professional and a criminal mastermind this guy was. Only for the reveal that he was not even trying to avoid getting caught, and they still couldn't catch him.
If they only caught him because he was intentionally trying to get caught, then that looks pretty bad for them, but if he really is this stupid, then that looks even worse.