WLPD’s Unapprehended Serial Killers File

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WLPD's Unapprehended Serial Killers File

Item description: A copy of the Westland Police Department's internal file with annotations written all over the edges of the pages, in a woman's handwriting (underlined).

This file is for the internal use of the Westland Police Department only, and the excerpt, reproduction, quotation, and disclosure of the contents of this file are governed by law.

File T144-0736: "The Sunday Gardener"

A serial killer who began committing a series of murders in and around Westland City in 2006 at the latest was named after the flowers decorated on the bodies of his victims, and also the fact that all bodies were placed in public places on Sunday.

The perpetrator's modus operandi suggests that he is a psychopath with a high degree of counter-surveillance skills. The perpetrator does not deliberately torture the victims during the crime, but rather tends to display the victim's remains after killing them, usually in a manner that displays an obvious theme, often related to the victim's personal experiences. The perpetrator lacked empathy for the victim and saw it only as a necessary means to an end: killing the victim was not the purpose, but the final display of the victim's remains in a public place was.

The perpetrator's criminal signature is not very prominent, and a large number of copycat offenders have emerged in response to the series of murders. As such, there may be discrepancies in conclusions about the murders that this offender may have committed.

In chronological order, the list of victims and murders that may have been murdered by this individual is as follows:

1. The case of Benjamin Moran (File No. X041-2348): On Sunday, October 8, 2006, Benjamin Moran was found dead in his private car outside his apartment. The officers who first arrived at the scene believed that he died of exhaust gas poisoning until the scene investigators found a large number of oleander petals in his mouth and nasal passages. Mr. Moran had visible restraint wounds to his limbs and ultimately died of mechanical asphyxiation. This is generally considered to be the first homicide that can be identified by "the Sunday Gardener".

Note: This case has a very special significance. As the first case of the Sunday Gardener, his method of operation is still infantile. The imagery of "water" is not prominent enough, and the scene treatment is also relatively crude. Moreover, this is the only time he did not show the dead body in public.

I am inclined to believe that this is his "first" killing – specifically, I predict that he has no previous criminal record. This is his first crime in every sense.

2. The case of Ophelia (File No. S135-0349): On Sunday, September 23, 2007, an unidentified woman was found dead in a lake in Fernand Park, wearing a white dress and holding a wreath made of buttercups, nettles, daisies and long-necked orchids. It is generally believed that the "Sunday Gardener" in this case is trying to recreate the scene of Ophelia drowning in the water in Hamlet. The exact identity of the victim has not been determined, but it is suspected to be a prostitute or woman who solicited near Fernand Park.

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33. The case of the Mogel Street Couple (file number A113-7247): on Sunday, February 14, 2016, a couple from Mogel Street: Misha Tamir and Thomas Monroe were found dead and placed on the iced surface of the river on the north side of Mogel Street. The two were arranged in a face-to-face embrace, their hands holding each other's hearts, with their opened chests stuffed with red roses and snow. This is the only case of the "Sunday Gardener" that resulted in the death of two victims. Therefore, it is suspected to be a possible copycat killer.

The WLPD told reporters at a press conference that they believe the case was a copycat, but it is unlikely. The reason I suspect that the number of victims in his cases – most of the time even just part of the victim's body – tends to be one is because multiple victims can be a hindrance to his work.

It should be noted that the forensic reports never indicate that he would have used any preservation measures, so perhaps this was one of the Gardener's own principles. As such, if he had to deal with multiple victims by himself, perhaps he would be overwhelmed.

34. The case of the "Bride's Boat" (File No. D374-2284): On Sunday, June 26, 2016, a wooden boat appeared in the river outside the Westland Church of the Holy Child in with a human skeleton in a bride's wedding dress, filled with white roses evenly colored red by blood under the ribs, and the entire boat covered with undyed white roses. Because there was no excess soft tissue left on the human skeleton and the skeleton was bleached in a special way, the exact time of death of the victim could not be determined, and the identity of the deceased was never confirmed after a failed DNA match.

The perpetrator should be between twenty-eight and thirty-eight years old, white male; from the latent blood trail left at the scene of the twenty-first case, it is inferred that the perpetrator should be between 180-185 cm in height. From the fifteenth, seventeenth, twenty-third, twenty-ninth, thirty-second, thirty-third cases, the perpetrator dissected out the victim's internal organs. It can be seen that the perpetrator has a strong mentality, a very clear understanding of human structure, and may have some surgical knowledge.

Because of the level of detail in his first case, Benjamin Moran, it can be inferred that the offender was probably an adult when he committed it; Because of the shortening interval and escalation of the homicides, it is believed that the offender had an unidentified juvenile record as a juvenile.

I'm skeptical of the WLPD's view. The police department conducted a comprehensive search of the city's profiled suspects around 2010, focusing on surgeons, but there were apparently no suspicious characters among those with prior criminal records. So either the WLPD made a mistake (still skeptical of this, since WLPD officer in charge of the case is very cautious), or the perpetrator has no juvenile record at all.

The Sunday Gardener is a very special serial killer. From the current situation, he is not in line with the other profiles of psychopathic murderers in the past. I suggest that, in his case, to treat his special problems with special methods.

According to the crime scene investigation results and forensic reports, the series of killings were all done by one person. Considering the tediousness of handling some of the bodies, and the fact that some of the bodies have not been recovered so far, there is a high probability that the perpetrator is a single male living in the suburbs.

The specific meaning of the victims' bodies being displayed in public places on fixed dates remains uncertain, but the large number of victims' bodies in this series that were displayed with the imagery of drowning, or were displayed around rivers and lakes. It is considered to be related to some psychological trauma of the perpetrator.

Judging from the criminal portrait of the Sunday Gardener, this imagery is not necessarily related to psychological trauma. However, there is no doubt that both the water imagery and the time of Sunday definitely contain some kind of memorial significance.

The WLPD approached with the trauma angle, looking for people with experiences related to water, from those they circled out as suspects, and I think they are very wrong. If they must consider the problem from that perspective, I would suggest instead that they look for the kind of person whose loved ones or friends died in the water – the imagery has remained constant since the Gardener started to commit crime, so it is a reasonable speculation that it was either a childhood friend or an older relative in the family, and as far as the general theory goes, it is more likely to be an older relative in the family.

File T209-1948: "The Westland Pianist"

A serial killer who operated in Westland City after 2010, named because he would strangle his victims with piano strings.

The perpetrator was an extremely dangerous sadistic killer who targeted men in Westland who had a history of extremely bad crimes, predominantly tall, blond men. After attacking his victims, the perpetrator would take them to various secluded locations and torture them (usually by repeatedly stabbing, skinning, cutting or removing internal organs) before strangling them to death with piano strings. After the victim's death, the perpetrator displays the remains in a specific manner, usually in a way that is directly related to the crime committed by the victim. Because murder scenes are often remote and difficult to detect, the perpetrator informs police of the location of the crime by sending an anonymous letter to the Westland Police Department after the crime is committed.

Because the victims of this series of murders had prior criminal records, the possible murders committed by this perpetrator could easily be confused with gang-related killings. Considering that the modus operandi may have been formed gradually, or that the Westland Police Department may not have received provocative letters from the perpetrators for various reasons, this file includes cases in which the perpetrator did not acknowledge the crime by letter, but the signature of the crime is very similar to that of the series.

The list of murders in chronological order is as follows.

1. The case of Tom Green (File No. U384-0399): On Thursday, February 18, 2010, Tom Green, who was accused of killing his ex-wife and three children with his ex-wife (see File No. R239-7539) but was acquitted, was found dead in an abandoned factory in the southern suburbs of Westland. The victim was found lying in a large target pattern drawn with his own blood, with his facial skin cut open and removed (read a parody of Green's stabbing of his ex-wife in the face), and with a total of 107 stab wounds throughout his body.

2. The case of Edward Tasmir (File No. I028-2927): On Saturday, July 10, 2010, Tasmir, who was suspected of masterminding three bank robberies (see File No. S973-4245) that resulted in the deaths of four people, was found dead at a shuttered construction site in lower Westland with blunt force trauma to his major joints and three Byzantine gold coins stuffed down his throat. The deceased was found hanging from the scaffolding of the main body of the building by a piano string, in the same position as the angel pattern on the back of the Byzantine gold coins in his throat.

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24. The case of Telep Kaloan (file number: F283-4320): on Friday, April 29, 2016, Kaloan, who was suspected of raping/killing four women (see file: M239-0374), but was released due to lack of evidence, was found dead in his own bed in his own home; his apartment was also the scene of rape previously suspected by the police. The victim had his genitals cut off, his limbs cut along his wrists and ankles, and his abdomen opened. The killer inserted the victim's limbs and genitals into his abdominal cavity after removing most of his abdominal organs. According to the autopsy, the killer was still alive when he removed most of the deceased's organs.

This shows that the perpetrator's methods are more mature, except for some very obvious murder intention on the rape related cases. Consider the psychological trauma he suffered in relation to the rape cases.

This series of homicides was committed with maturity and high frequency, and it is suspected that the perpetrator had a criminal record in other states before coming to Westland around 2006. The perpetrator should be a white male, between the ages of 35-50. According to the results of the trace examination, the torture and killing of the victim was done by one person, and the perpetrator should be a tall, strong person with certain fighting skills.

It can be inferred from this that the case in Westland was not the first murder committed by this perpetrator. A first-time murderer could not have been as skilful as the Tom Green case.

But the Pianist's criminal methods are highly characteristic and no similar cases have been found in other states. Perhaps the greatest possibility is that he did not commit his crimes in other states or cities by the present means – I don't think he would have abandoned the strangulation of the victim with the piano strings. Perhaps, he just chose not to contact the police, or dispose of the body in another way or something, so that the murders did not come into view.

The crime scenes in this series are mostly in sparsely populated areas, and it is more likely that the killer attacked the victims and then took them to the location previously selected. It is likely that the killer had a vehicle, probably an SUV with a more spacious interior.

All of the victims were eventually strangled to death by piano strings. From the perspective of obtaining the murder weapon, it is possible that the perpetrator was engaged in a profession related to the sale of musical instruments, a piano teacher, or has a piano at home. Based on the above inferences and the expensive props used by the murderer in the second, fifth, and thirteenth cases in setting up the scene, it is possible that the perpetrator was well-off and well-educated.

I think it is less likely that the murderer was in a piano-related business, and WLPD always makes strange mistakes in such details. In the preliminary search, no suspect matching any of the above criteria was found. I will address the perpetrator's anti-detection abilities below: I believe that since he had the piano strings as the most important murder weapon, he would never have placed the piano within his visual reach.

The victims selected by the perpetrator were all male victims with previous or suspected criminal convictions, and the details in the third, tenth, twelfth, fifteenth, and twenty-second cases indicated that the perpetrator had access to information not yet publicly available within the police, or that the perpetrator may have been a police worker, or had family and friends who were police workers.

The victims of this serial killer share some common characteristics: strong, male with a criminal record, mostly blond hair. The perpetrator's tendency to choose his victims is likely to be related to his past experiences, with the possibility that he was a victim of some kind of violence as a teenager. And his choice of victims is likely to be based on the characteristics of the older men who had inflicted violence on him.

The perpetrator has a history of frequent provocation of the police: whether by killing an offender who has not been convicted or who has not been convicted to the extent he should have been, or by writing to the police afterwards to inform them of the location of the murder, those are provocative actions. The perpetrator is extremely dangerous with his strong counter-surveillance skills and his own inflated self-confidence.

If the Westland Pianist did commit a crime in another state, and if it was obvious that he did not inform the police after the crime, contacting the police and protesting would not have been a necessary way for the killer to get his high. Therefore, it is not possible to speak of "inflated self-confidence" or "provocation of the police". This distinctive way of committing the crime only serves to distinguish him from certain murders in other states, so that people do not suspect him.

From this point of view, he is not "confident" – but extremely cautious, bold and decisive, and indeed very good at counter-surveillance. The Westland Pianist may have tried to disguise himself as a different type of killer to hinder WLPD's investigation. From what we can see so far, this technique does work remarkably well.

Some people think that the Westland Pianist is a more dangerous criminal than the Sunday Gardener, but I do not think so. The Sunday Gardener's starting point is more bizarre, untouchable, and inscrutable than the Westland Pianist.

What I am more curious about is what these two serial killers think of each other when they have lived in the same city for so long. If given that chance, would they become each other's prey?

I sincerely hope that one day I can see such a scene. It would be very interesting.