What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

What we've got here is a sexually sadistic pathological serial killer. And he is the scariest of them all, the Hollywood type that we see in the movies and don't really think is going to strike in our neighborhood. But he's out there.

It has all the earmarks of a serial-killer abduction. Barring that she's one of the few people who run away and play games, if she's an abducted girl, it's really, really bad.

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.