"Well," Dr. Jessop begins after looking over my high-level outline of important details I have written up for the strangler, "I think that your reporter friend looks to be more or less correct. I would guess that although there is respect for the original killer, there is also competition. A deep desire to one-up the original. What would that show you, Genvieve?"
I keep my eyes toggling back and forth between a photo of the original strangler's victims versus the newer version. "Possibly, an unstable home life in early adolescence?"
I look up to meet the professor's eyes and he's nodding at me. "Probably. Serial killers do have some camaraderie with one another. We've seen it in the past with other copycats."
"Like the Zodiac's, for instance," I interject.
