Bluejake

It is really too bad that Truman Capote is dead, because this whole case is shaping up to be In Cold Blood, Part II. If you haven't read that book, it features two ex-cons who kill a whole family in the midwest in a failed robbery attempt, and their subsequent attempt to flee the juristiction. Sure, there are differences between that case and the sniper situation: those guys were white, and they killed five people all at once and then fled, and it was 1959. But there are also similarities: the strong personality-weak personality combination, the lack of clear motive, the obvious and strange sexual overtones on the relationship between the men. About this last item, I'm surprised nobody in the media has given it more play. Two guys unrelated by blood roaming the country for months at a time and sleeping together in the same car? I'm nominating these guys as the first gay black serial killers in U.S. history.

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