re: Is the serial killer obsolete today?

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Wouldn't be shocked if he had done more previously but probably not. For as smart as he thinks he was, he was still a fricking imbecile.

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IIRC, the initial DNA evidence didn't turn up anything because he wasn't arrested or convicted before. There was no cross match to another crime scene either. So he likely didn't do that before. .

I haven't been following very closely since all this was in the news, but I think he went into the house to target a specific person and ended up killing more people than he wanted to deal with. He bit off more than he can chew and started to panic. He left someone that gave a very good description of him to police.

He also had a fairly normal car with a unique characteristic for the area: the lack of a front license plate. So the cops had a make/model and a list of states where it was probably registered.....which lead them to a few suspects, one of which fit the description a witness provided to cops.

That lead the cops to cell phone records, which were suspicious enough to warrant more surveillance. Then he drove across the country which was more suspicious.