Boren Redux

[jjmcgr]

The Far West magazine article on the case is an interesting reread because, with its date of publication, May 1978, it gives us some insight into contemporary thought on the case.
Here's how it refers to the February 3, 1977 arrest of
William Boren for a January 31, 1977, rape in Orangevale:

"In early February, the sheriff's department proudly displayed-like a trophy from the Great Hunt- a man they suspected as being the EAR. And the East Area slept better than it had for several months only to wake up on February 7 and learn the EAR had struck again."

Really if they thought Boren was their man and only eliminated him because he was in custody, what kind of criteria were they using to determine who was the EAR?

ND has mentioned this point before and he is right!

For them to then represent a DNA link between 3 CCC rapes and six murders as definitively linking over 40 rapes and 10 murders is very misrepresentative in my opinion.

I wonder how many of the other "EAR" attacks before Feb 77 Boren might have committed?

[jjmcgr]

more from the contemporary Far West article:

I've considered the first couples attack, the 4/2/77 Orangevale attack to be the first EAR-A attack. Aside from commenting on the shift to couples, the Far West writer comments:

"New twist to MO: He shined a flashlight into the faces of the sleeping couple, or used some other abrupt means to wake them up."

Was this a new twist or a new attacker?

[dengas]

Jj

I'm not sure to which topic to this belongs...

If I'm reading the chart correctly, were there strange knots/weapons used in only three attacks?

[jjmcgr]

dengas

the strange knot was only used in the Ventura attack.

the bindings were taken from the other DNA murders but were present at two of the Goleta attacks and all the EAR crimes where the vicitms were tied up, without the knot being present.

strange bindings and weapons were used in three EAR attacks (as they were presented in news reports at the time)- an ice pick in one case, ripped cloth for binding in another and an axe taken from the victim's garage in a third. Supposedly in one of the CCC cases the attacker took shoe laces from the male vicitm's shoes to tie him up.