obviously very morally different cases, but i'm thinking about how the DC sniper in 2002 (maybe) intended to kill his ex wife, but was also mentally ill enough to cook up a scheme where he would cover up the motive by killing strangers too, and the reason they caught him was because he wanted to act like a TV serial killer and kept leaving calling cards and making calls from payphones and intentionally lead them to investigate a previous crime in alabama that they connected to him through fingerprint evidence and he and his teenage accomplice that he groomed still killed 17 people like I understand it was a different technological era but this guy was doing everything he could to be caught and the cops and the FBI were still mostly just pulling their dicks and getting nowhere, so how in the fuck are they ever going to catch someone who simply gets his target and leaves?