Janelle Cruz worked as a cashier at Bullwinkle's Restaurant, which was located at 14100 Culver Drive in Irvine (off the I-5 on-ramp).

Let's assume, for a moment, that the EAR-ONS first encountered Cruz at Bullwinkle's while patronizing the restaurant, perhaps with his family.  This assumption is not necessary to consider the following, but it makes it more compelling.

The linear (not walking or driving) distance from Bullwinkle's restauant to the Cruz residence is 1.28 miles.   The linear distance from the Cruz residence to the Witthuhn residence is... 1.28 miles.  The linear distance of Bullwinkle's to the Witthuhn residence is 1.11 miles.

The three points are almost equidistant, forming an almost perfect equilateral triangle.

Did the EAR-ONS reside somewhere within that triangle?

                   - Mr. SpeakelOfEngrish

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This is one of the most important posts on this message board in recent times.

To get a better image of this triangulation, visit the map that Mr. Akwilks posted
at this link:

http://community.aetv.com/_Janelle-Cruz-Workplace-to-Cruz-Home-to-Witthuhn-Homejpg/photo/10774156/119137.html?enlarge=true

Now.....

What is so special about this triangulation?

What makes it different from the other Original Night Stalker crimes...  some of which
were close together?

I think the answer to this question has to do with that strange 5 year gap.

Mr. EAR-ONS killed Ms. Manuella Witthuhn in IRVINE on February 5, 1981...   then
followed it up with the Sanchez/Domingo murder over in Goleta on July 27, 1981....

And then....

He took the next 5 years off.... 

As everyone knows, after 5 years he killed in IRVINE again...   and then back into
hibernation he went.

I feel Ms. Janelle Cruz's murder....  where she lived.....  where she worked.....  and
Ms. Witthuhn's murder and place of residence.....    all these elements hold the
key to getting as close as anyone can ever hope to get to Mr. EAR-ONS.

The Cruz/Bullwinkle Restaurant/Witthuhn Connection has 3 very special elements
that represent THE LAST KNOWN EXISTENCE - in terms of crimes, anyway - of
Mr. EAR-ONS.... 

These 2 murders have a strange anomalous quality to them....  a quality that
would not have caught my attention if Mr. EAR-ONS had not decided to kill
there after 5 years.

If he had struck in Goleta in 1986 and ended it there, I'd have thought Goleta was
the place to look.... 

The fact that he chose to kill Ms. Cruz in IRVINE....  and chose her after those 5
years had elapsed tells me that there is something about IRVINE....   something
different from all that came before it.

I think Mr. EAR-ONS was living in very very very very very very
close proximity to Ms. Cruz and, consequently, also very near to
Ms. Witthuhn.

I repeat, IRVINE would NOT stick out in my mind if Mr. EAR-ONS hadn't waited
5 years to strike there again.

Why there after 5 years?  Why IRVINE?  Why not Dana Point again?  Why not Goleta?

What is so special about IRVINE?????

Perhaps after July 27, 1981....  his raping and murdering became sidelined by
something to do with employment, family, disability, or a combination of some
of those things.

As other posters mentioned....  Ms. Cruz's murder was probably spurred on by
some "stressor"....  something in Mr. EAR-ONS life triggered him and compelled
him to do "it" one more time.....

Let's say that's true... don't know if it is, obviously, but let's say it is for the sake
of this post....

What if after 5 years, Mr. EAR-ONS became a little rusty with his old methods of
surveillance...  following a potential victim....  the time and dedication it would
take to ascertain how many other people lived in the potential victim's house....
what their schedules were, etc., etc.

What if those 5 years made him a bit uncoordinated?

Well, how about this........

Maybe Ms. Janelle Cruz was chosen because she was an "easy" target, i.e., she
lived close enough so that he didn't have to travel a long distance....  she lived
right in Mr. EAR-ONS backyard, so to speak.

Is it possible that Mr. EAR-ONS didn't live in IRVINE and was merely passing
through on some business back in 1986 and decided to do another a murder for
old time's sake?

I don't know....  I don't think so.....   the time it would take him to familiarize himself
with Ms. Cruz's residence and also with how many people were living in the house
and whatever other important information he would need in order to know he could
strike and get away with it makes me think he had a permanent residence in
IRVINE....  or was in IRVINE in 1986 for a prolonged period of time even though
he wasn't living there...  although, I don't know if I believe that....

Mr. EAR-ONS may have moved a long time ago or may still be IRVINE.....  but I
think that Mr. EAR-ONS was definitely living in IRVINE sometime between
1981 - 1986.

A geographic profile should be commissioned based on Mr. SpeakelOfEngrish's
triangulation of -

1)  Ms. Janelle Cruz's Residence

2)  Bullwinkle Restaurant

3)  Ms. Manuella Witthuhn's Residence.

There is something "telling" about these 2 crime scenes and that restaurant.

Has anyone focused any kind of intense research in IRVINE, specifically around
this triangulated area?

Furthermore, has anyone found any suspect(s) who lived in Carmichael or
Citrus Heights between 1976 - 1978 and then moved to IRVINE and remained
there between 1981 - 1986?

Nothing in this post is written in stone, of course....  but just something to think
about....  perhaps others have already thought about it and have come up with
some interesting suspects.

Thank you.

I personally think It doesn't necessarily mean anything that he committed the last crime in Irvine. He might have picked someone there to murder because it was 100 miles from his home and he was familiar with Irvine- having stalked there before. Southern California has many cities and communities close to each other.

Hello, Mr. Watch, sir.

I have an extreme amount of sympathy for your point of view, sir.

I don't know if I can be that quick to be dismissive, though.

I mean, I know it's just a theory... but if one is to dismiss this theory... then
anything can be dismissed before any adequate research can be done.

How can anyone know the truth or falsity of a thing without first looking into it?

I am cynical, too, Mr. Watch.

You are right... there are many cities and communities in Southern California.... but
these victims and where they lived.... just MAY mean something.... I mean, I know
it might not mean nothing... I'll give you that, sir.

But I feel there is a reason Mr. EAR-ONS chose the victims he chose.

His victims were apart of a selection and design known only to him.

If we can train ourselves to recognize patterns and motifs.... perhaps the logic
behind that selection and design will come to the fore....

Unfortunately, this is as good as it gets.

I wish there was more to go on......

Aaron

Aaron, I agree with you completely ... Except that I think sometimes we limit ourselves to a narrative that we think provides a solution to things we do not understand. My main point is that while many have the opinion that he lived where the first crime happened or he lived where the last crime happened, it is just conjecture. We don't know, so let's not exclude other possibilities. You may very well be right. I just think we armchair detectives would not want to limit our possibilities. That is all Mr. Aaron.

This is the triangle of which Aaron speaks, I think it was first noted by SOE.

The time period we need to focus on is pre-internet. Telephone books were still used in the 1980's. The White Pages I believe listed residential names and addresses. Is there anyway maybe at a local library, community center, church anything that might have old telephone books lying around. Maybe that information in cached some where by the telephone book company??

Hello, Mr. Watch, sir.

When it comes to the tantalizing nature of this case and the elusivity of Mr.
EAR-ONS, never in a million would I ever be so bold as to say DEFINITIVELY
that Mr. EAR-ONS lived here or there or what have you.

I know that sounds like a contradiction given the nature of my above
post...  but I try to be as confident in proposing a theory while paradoxically
admitting at the end of the day that....  I don't know if anything I propose
or theorize will be correct, you know what I mean, sir?

I ended my post by saying nothing I said in my theory is set in stone...  all
I am trying to do with my IRVINE POST is do exactly what you said, Mr.
Watch...  and that is to consider a possibility.

The problem with my above post is it sounds like I am saying everything in it
is factual...  sorry to anyone who reads it that way...  my enthusiasm
sometimes gets the better of me is all.  But anyway, my above post is really
just one thing and nothing more - a consideration of a possibility among
a multitude of other possibilities.

This case is so frustrating for so many people and for so many reasons that
when one theory is presented, I can see how desperate other people can be
to be eager to include the other 10,000 other theories....  I feel that desperation
myself....  and, yes, at the end of the day everything I stated in my above post
may be 100% dead wrong.  I'll be the first to admit that - and gladly.  It's
good to be told that there are other ways of looking at things...  it opens
up the doors of perception...

I apologize to all if my above post came off sounding like the Gospel Truth. 
I was merely stating a theory with a lot of confidence behind it that can be
mistaken for fact...  again, nothing I said in my above post is fact - ALL OF
IT IS CONJECTURE.

For future reference, if it should occur that I make another post that comes
off sounding like I am immovable in my theory, I apologize in advance...  
I actually am in favor of including and talking about any and all other
possibilities about Mr. EAR-ONS....  the catch-22 is when you present one
theory you'll have numerous other posters reminding you of other
theories....  which is a good thing....   because all of those theories
are just as valid as anything else.

In any case, I just want you to know, Mr. Watch, that I am not a snob to
other theories or anything....  as a matter of fact....   if you stop and think
about it....  Mr. Akwilks and Mr. SpeakelOfEngrish kind of set the foundation
for 99.9% of what I wrote....  all I did was open it up to a new thread....

Anyway...  I'm going to try to go back in time...  look at whatever public
records I can look at...  I am going to look for all persons with the following
profile:


- resided in IRVINE between 1981 - 1986...  may still reside there

- WHITE MALE

- 28 - 35 years old in 1981

- Brown hair or Blonde hair

- Hazel Eyes or Blue Eyes

- size 9 shoes

- known to be athletic, maybe possessing a jogger's physique

- owned a German Shepherd

- ant-social, yet courteous....  introverted, yet always willing to lend a
  helping hand


By the way...  I don't know how the hell I am going to find out some of these
particulars, but whatever...  gotta try.....

And that's it.

Aaron

I definitely agree with speakel, aaron, and conquistador and it is worth looking into.
while it may seem too obvious that he lived in irvine or too simple, is it really? would it have been then? before dna? before le had linked the crimes? i am sure le interviewed people in the neighborhood but what if ear just didn't fit their profile (he could have been as old as 35 at this point, maybe married, job). if they knew they were looking for a serial killer would that have changed who they suspected? I'd love to know who else they looked at for that homicide besides the bf and what their impressions of the crime were. interesting thing i read about the cruz homicide in the florida profile of ear: her wrists showed signs of being bound but not her ankles. did he just not feel he needed to bind her ankles or was he deliberately leaving that out so it looked different to investigators? just thinking out loud here...

Sorry, but it appears the Kim Rossmo link does not work... if anyone is interested
in Mr. Rossmo's Formula for Geographic Profiling, just go to Google, type in
GEOGRAPHIC PROFILING... go to Wikipedia.... scroll to the bottom... look
under the SEE ALSO section where it will say ROSSMO'S FORMULA... click
that link and everything should be just fine.

Thank you.

The only location I feel certain that EAR resided in is Sacramento. If you cannot put him is Sacramento I have a hard time looking at him seriously. He may or may not of resided in some of the other jurisdictions. But there is no doubt he was in Sacramento. Someone has a suspect that they are trying to fit in Sac. but he was never here. You cannot make a serious case against a POI if he was never here. I hope you understand the gist of this post..g

What if they never obtained a license, never applied for utilities, and/or lived with someone? I actually lived in a city for almost a year that never shows up on any internet search engine -- because of all those reasons.

Not that I am disagreeing with you that he PROBABLY did live in Sac, as well as Irvine.  Proving it however --- well, there's the rub...