[h3]Rudy Rudeanu[/h3]

"Not so much what we found as what we didn't find Herr Temple." Rudeanu added. "We interviewed cemetery staff, and walked the grounds visiting murder sites. I had expected the first murder site in particular to be open based on details afforded of how the gravedigger came to be there; it was unusual for him to be there that night. I surmised our killer would need a ready way to observe and target the gravedigger, and that by visiting the site and other sites, I might locate the vantage point by which our killer identified his targets. The problem was, in the first site and several others, there was none. There was no way to predict the gravedigger would be there. The grave site is an old, sectioned off portion of the cemetery, well away from public view nor even easily accessible. No one from the street or even most of the rest of the cemetery could have even known Herr Schmidt was there. Unless they were already in the cemetery. I find that interesting, but I believe we might speculate some details of our killer based upon what we already know.

"First: there is the repeated use of the cemetery - both to kill and to leave his bodies, despite knowing this must attract attention. His prior presence in the cemetery before the gravedigger killing suggests some deep connection to the site. Our killer seems very comfortable there, perhaps living or working nearby - it should not be ruled out that our killer may be one of the staff. The seeming randomness of the first attack, combined with the murders that follow suggest the first killing may have been unplanned, but continued use of the cemetery suggests the killer's presence there was no accident: likely he had been frequenting the area a long time before this happened.

"Which leads us to the nature of the crimes. The consumption of human flesh, is an odious prospect, suggesting our killer is in some way deranged, perhaps taking on animalistic delusions, or holding to some occult believe that by consuming flesh he may gain some power either for himself or over his victims. While we may surmise the first victim was unplanned, that he has continued to kill is interesting. Perhaps some of you have read the true story of 'The Man-Eaters of Tsavo', in which two lions appear, having once consumed human flesh, to have developed a preference for it. Our killer may have wandered this cemetery harbouring such thoughts for some time, then having been obliged to protect his secret and having indulged his fantasy set forth to do so again with victims more to his pleasing. I think here of Herr Sigmund Freud's writings of abnormal disorders of the mind and it may be Herr Helmut's is correct, and our killer has some need to consume or denigrate his victims to fulfill some animalistic-sexual fantasy. 

Then, there are some practical considerations. We see no sign of weapons being used. For a man to overpower so many people - presumably fighting for their lives - so frequently over so short a time in hand-to-hand struggle - without taking more extended periods to recover himself - and to do so so confidently is suggestive of a young or particularly vigorous disposition. This leads me to suggest we're likely looking at a young male, age 20-40 years old, who is local to the area. They are likely socially isolated, resentful to women in particular, and I should be surprised if their past does not contain significant violence. I think it quite likely our man has a military service background, and given his fixations, I wouldn't be surprised if his unit had been posted to the eastern front, where starvation issue could sometimes be... acute." There was something in Rudeanu's disposition then that suggested he himself had become unsettled by this particular line of reasoning, falling silent a moment in some contemplation or remembrance of his own.

Finally he continued. "The fixation on the cemetery, the ubiquity of the attacks, suggests a very fixed perhaps even ritualistic aspect to the attacks. While our killer is obviously deranged, it may be they also possess some fascination with the mystical or occult that led them to their presently deluded and unstable state of mind."