Well said.

I gotta admit, this whole serial killer "modus operandi" is getting kinda old. Its the same old way of thinking, "I'm a sexually deprived, dysfunctional, socially disconnected excuse for a human being - I think I might go kill some prostitutes to make myself feel like a real man". Its all been done before...Jack the Ripper, Peter Sutcliff....What a cowardly thing to do - prey on the sad products of society who already have it hard as it is.
If you're planning to become a serial killer because you can't get over the fact that you got dumped in high school, why not pick on a more challenging target like the Al Qaeda?

Seriously, these types of serial killers (attention seekers) get their thrills by having their 15 minutes of fame by making the newspaper and TV headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Well have they caught the guy whose done them?

For me they most likely haven't. Firstly they cannot unless they know something we don't pin point them to being conneced other than you know the prostitutes, for me that will never hold water in a court, unless they have hard evidence that he killed them even the next man who they arrest thy have no case....

And didn't two prostitutes come out saying that the first man is not capable and that they know him, maybe the guy just wants sex and well thats the place he goes to get it. But thats his downfall, plus he knows the area but for me if these killings stop that maybe the defining moment they have him but maybe that will just be the killer playing it safe well they got a guy and looks like he'll go down i'll give it a break then start elsewere....

Update: Cross-dresser charged with killings

AFTER the biggest manhunt for a serial killer in 25 years, British police have charged a 48-year-old truckdriver who allegedly dresses in drag with the murder of five prostitutes in Ipswich - and released another suspect they had brought in for questioning.

Steve Wright appeared in court yesterday after being charged with five counts of murder. He was arrested on Tuesday after a three-week hunt that began when the body of 25-year-old sex worker Gemma Adams was found in a creek at Hintlesham, outside Ipswich in Suffolk.

Wright is the second man to be detained over the five murders. Tom Stephens, a supermarket worker in a nearby town, was arrested on Monday, but has been released on bail.

Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull said: "We have made the decision there is sufficient evidence, and authorised that Steven Wright ... should be charged with murder."

The case of the Suffolk Strangler has passed into grisly folklore as the five women's bodies were discovered within 10 days of each other in woodland areas outside the town.

The first woman to be reported missing, Tania Nicol, 19, disappeared on October 30. While police were still searching for her, the body of fellow sex worker Adams was found on December 2. Nicol's body was found on December 8. The body of Anneli Alderton, 24, was discovered soon after. And on December 12, the bodies of Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29, were found on land near Ipswich.

All five women had been strangled or asphyxiated but showed no signs of sexual assault. They were all addicted to heroin or crack cocaine.

Operation Sumac, a taskforce of 500 police, began the largest inquiry of its kind since Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, was arrested in 1981.

On Monday, police arrested Mr Stephens, who had given media interviews in which he said he knew all five women as a client and had no alibi, but denied being the killer.

Mr Wright was arrested at his home on the edge of Ipswich's red-light district. Following a brief court appearance yesterday, he was remanded in custody.

British newspapers reported that Mr Wright would also be questioned about the murders of prostitutes in nearby Norwich and two more in Ipswich.

Two former prostitutes from Norwich have told British media that Mr Wright was a regular client in the 1990s.

Tracey Kennett, 32, said she recognised newspaper photographs of Mr Wright - a former steward on the QE2 liner. "He wore wigs and was into cross-dressing," she said. "I've seen him dressed as a woman with a black wig."

Another prostitute said Mr Wright visited her dressed in drag. "He wore a wig. He had a PVC skirt and high heels."

The Sun newspaper has been criticised for running a front-page picture of Mr Wright with his hands around the throat of his second wife.

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Hmm... Interesting arrest. Hopefully it's the right guy.

Probably because the most vulnerable make the easiest target who have the greatest 'asking for it' stigma attached to them, just as other mammal predators look for any sign of injury or weakness amongst the prey packs they follow.

Ironically, the worst of the worst can end up being immortalised. I was reading a book on serial killers just today, published at the same time that Hannibal Lecter was becoming a cinema hit. It quotes one critic who asked, 'since when is a mass murderer a lovable rogue.' We can have a fascination for such criminals because they are so far outside majority behaviour. Although there are still a lot of odd bods that don't kill. It also suggests there could be up to 100 serial killers operating at any one time in the US alone. That's disturbing.

The Sun running a pic of the arrested with his hands around his second wife's throat hardly helps a fair trial.
If the accused was dressing up as a woman, they are possibly confused about their gender identity and hating themselves for it?

This man is not the sort who would go for blood tests down the local clinic, Bella.