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Most present-day murder investigations are routinely thorough, especially if they are conducted by state and city law enforcement agencies. This is because state and municipal police agencies are, by and large, routinely independent in their ferreting-out of the facts of each case by scientific crime scene analysis. And, in most cases, they eventually discover and arrest the guilty suspect, who is later tried, ultimately convicted for the crime, and properly sentenced. At one time in early 20th Century U.S. history, federal murder investigations, conducted by the FBI, were also routinely thorough and fundamentally independent of political string-pulling by federal officers, elected and appointed, who had something to lose by the truth being publicly revealed. This was when the FBI functioned as an essentially impartial arm of the federal government, when the U.S. Attorney General, as the chief federal law enforcement officer, acted independently of the White House to truthfully solve federal crimes and to bring the culprits to justice. For, needless to say, when a standing U.S. President, or Vice-President, has the unconstitutional power to order an Attorney General, the FBI Director, and, perhaps, the Director of Central Intelligence, not to properly investigate all of the material and relevant evidence in a federal murder investigation, in order to obscure the truth, law, essentially, ceases to function. Another way of saying it is that, when those who are sworn to faithfully execute the law break the law with impunity, there is no more law, and something, more than mere useless rhetoric, needs to be done.

1. Credentials and Interest

It was during my tenure of over 20 years as a homicide Detective and Detective Sergeant with the Miami Police Department that I investigated six serial murder cases. I like to think that the experience I gained in those investigations has given me a most rudimentary glimmer of understanding as to what motivates a serial killer in undertaking his atrocities.

These six serial murder cases, which accounted for the murders of nearly 50 people, all took place in the Miami area. All six offenders were men: two Hispanic/white males, two African-American males, and two white Anglo males. They all had different, although equally macabre, reasons for their acts. Three of the killers confessed their crimes while the others took their reasons to their graves, dying of AIDS while in prison or taking their own lives. The three men who confessed provided us with many, sometimes distressingly vivid, details of how, why, and when they committed their crimes.

As a former county peace officer, my sensibilities were sorely inflamed directly after September 11, 2001, when the 9/11 mass murder investigation was turned over to a group of politicians instead of to seasoned state and city homicide investigators. The nation, after that awful day, was led to believe by the federal Executive Branch, via the media, that the only culprits who masterminded, and consummated, the WTC and Pentagon bombings were crazed Islamic militants belonging to a terrorist organization headed by Osama Bin Laden. The majority of the impressionable public initially saw no reason not to trust the declarations of the federal government. A majority of rank-and-file American citizens, between 25 and 40 years of age, accepted every statement released by the government as gospel truth. The FBI, and the other federal intelligence agencies (CIA, NSA, and DIA) insisted that those particular Muslims acted in an Islamic terrorist conspiracy by, supposedly, hijacking and flying commercial airliners into the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon wall, and that the utter destruction, and death, that followed was caused only by the impacts of the airliners into those structures. Yet, some very important forensic and timeline facts, not disclosed to the American public, weren't properly introduced into evidence prior to the 9/11 Commission Report, which made the quick, and haphazard, determinations of the 9/11 Commission ultimately suspect.

For instance, a typical crime scene in a normal murder investigation is roped-off and protected, for sometimes up to six months, so that all of the evidence may be thoroughly examined to determine, as closely as possible, how the murder(s) occurred and the plausible suspects. Current forensic science investigation methods and techniques are pretty well capable of correctly ascertaining what caused the prevailing conditions which caused the death(s) to occur. Nevertheless, after the efforts to save those numerous people trapped in the collapsed WTC wreckage ceased, a federally-ordered clean-up, instead of a crime scene investigation, began which caused the ground-zero crime-scene to disappear. Essential analyses, by CSI experts, were not made of the collapsed building materials in order to determine whether something, besides the exploding, and burning, aircraft, caused the towers to fall. Strange circumstantial facts, relevant evidence comprising events which transpired days before 9/11, were also not considered by the 9/11 Commission, such as a federally-ordered suspension of police, and bomb-sniffing dog, surveillance of the World Trade Center Towers two-days prior to the bombings, and lucrative insurance policies, held by the wealthy owners of the crime-scene property, and American and United Airlines stock, being substantially increased in value, days before 9/11. The hurried clean-up of ground-zero made it seem like someone, in a high commanding position, desperately wanted to avoid a possibly incriminating investigation of the existing evidence. And the facts clearly indicate that numerous 9/11 victims families emphatically called for a complete scientific investigation of the crime scene, instead of a speedy cleanup of ground-zero.

Although part of my job as a homicide detective is to analyze the motives of killers, my interest goes beyond the requirements of my job. I have acquired and extensively studied a lengthy and well-written dissertation prepared by a convicted and, to me unknown, serial killer, and material from this document is incorporated into this article. Because I do not know his name I cannot give specific credit to its author.

I can, however, vouch for the validity of this document by providing some history about how I obtained it. While working the Rory Conde case, the investigative team was receiving copious leads, but none were panning out. One of the investigators assigned to the Task Force received by mail a letter from a local therapist. The author of this glimpse into a killer's mind prepared it as part of his psychological treatment at the request of his therapist, who chose to protect the identity of his source. The document that we received was a photocopy of what had apparently originally been handwritten on a lined legal pad in a consistent fine point that appeared to have been ink. The letter was perfectly legible and the printing was so nearly perfect that at first glance it appeared almost to have been typewritten. Close inspection revealed, however, the slight variations of human penmanship. The writing was meticulous, a nearly perfect hand that neatly compacted two rows of text between every two lines. Approximately five pages long, the document showed no mistakes and appeared completely free of erasures, strike-outs, even hesitation. If the writer employed such precision and planning in implementing the hideous deeds he described, it seemed nothing short of miraculous that he was ever caught. With hundreds of years of collective investigative experience behind the assembled investigative team, or Serial Killer Task Force as we were called, we harbored no doubt that whoever had written this document was a perverse, sadistic, frighteningly sick individual who was highly likely to have committed the unspeakable acts that he reduced to writing.