Do you think the murder was premeditated or a spur of the moment random attack of violence?
We can only go around the evidence. LM had no way of knowing that Jodi would be out earlier that day, but he did know that only a very select few would/could know of this change. It was learning of the change, contacting him and leaving home shortly after to meet with him. Did he use the change of time as an opportunity to cover from anything he may have had planned? - Only he can know this.
Prepped and ready in mind? It would be foolish to apply that this type of killing was simply a one off reaction to some argument. We can only enter into multiple IMO's here. Not something I am comfortable with, it is one thing relating the actual evidence that convicted him, applying the unknown something entirely different.
What we do know, that without a doubt this type of killing held his interest, within days of the murder he was viewing a DVD which depicted the brutal killing and mutilation of a young female, left naked and displayed in a woodland. That type of viewing does not get much closer to home.
I have before mentioned David Wilson whilst talking of other killers. Peter Manual and how his nature was to control the interviews with the police. Plying them with information only the killer could know, speaking in those 'flat affect' tones. Exactly how LM was, plying the police with information only the killer could know, able to take control easily.
That of 'Jack the Ripper' Talking of his first victim. Of risk and needing to silence their victim rapidly, using the exact method in this case. Going on to de-humanize and de-face their victim. The horrific post mortem injuries in their infancy of a first kill. Limited due to time and risk. Progressing into far worse as he obtained more victims. In short, telling us that such a horrific killing is not necessarily indictive of someone who has killed many times before, it was indictive of someone's first killing that would progress into worse.
This was not a simple reactive act of anger, nor the simple application of a knife being used in a crime. We can't say X,Y or Z were also killed by knives and apply them as being the same. Perfectly described by DW as being in it's infancy. there have been no further killings with this clear type of MO. So this question around being pre-mediated IMO, is certainly that this had been thought through in mind, played over. Initially reactive in lashing out then following through with far worse, and without a doubt limited by time and risk.
Faith has applied the 'rookie mistake' of buying a coat like that he was seen wearing that day, within no time of the murder. This was bought after that initial search, no arrest had been made. LM by this point had two people attempting to give him an alibi. There would be no murder weapon or clothing ever found. Was LM, like that DVD keeping something closer to home, attempting to replace something should the police then begin to ask about it? We do not know, certainly foiled with the FLO waiting on their arrival home from shopping. Letting LM know without a doubt, that his alibi and disposal of evidence was not going to be enough at that point.
So this 'rookie mistake' of a first time killer? Waits until he truly believes he has gotten away with this, managed to outsmart the police, and he buys that replacement knife. I am not making this up, LM was out "celebrating the end of a difficult time" - So, buying this replacement knife, already has that coat as a reminder, it is still around four months until his arrest. IMO LM was very much planning his next victim in that time frame. He had without a doubt by this point believed fully there would be no arrest. - Not because he was innocent, because he knew he had two people with that alibi, no forensic evidence, these were his 'rookie mistake' Being cock sure of himself. IMO.
So it is the simple facts, no further killings anything like what had happened to Jodi Jones that day. Not similar and progressed into something far worse. Without a doubt indictive of the killer being off the streets. There is still so much more to this case that has been hidden, manipulated around. This 'other' case being touted out, is just that, another case entirely. Re-written into something else that has very little bearing upon the actual truth. A psychological approach of deflection, to draw away from the evidence that convicted LM and attempt to show self interest in others - The irony, of a killer who did nothing other than act out of self interest, incessantly lying and winging their way through the aftermath.
