Surely there would have been signs of this in work. If his line manager/colleagues suspected something or noticed unusual behaviour then it would have been dealt with immediately given his access to firearms?
Seems he exposed himself in a fast food restaurant three days prior to the murder, on film, but the incident wasn't 'escalated to command' or some such dumb bureaucratic
rit, so he was able to continue work instead of being suspended. Apparently he'd been behaving 'erratically' in the past few days. I think it's possible he knew the incident in the eaterie would effectively end his big old police career and get him a criminal record and place on the sex offender registry and decided to escalate to something far far worse as a last hurrah. People who crave control pathologically and then lose it often unravel very fast.
I also share the belief that this
tit is not his first rodeo. Obviously there was the indecent exposure just before but I will bet you he's done some dark
tit before and got away with it or has a history of domestic violence, controlling behavior or other forms of abuse within the household or past relationships, which is where the vast bulk of male on female violence and murder actually occurs. Nobody that age suddenly blossoms into a smooth kidnapper and murderer first time out. Usually they've escalated from more minor sexual and violent offences. The guy who murdered the female student in Hull had a history of offences going back to when he was still living in Poland, and was already in prison for a string of other sexual offences starting with masturbating while spying on women through their windows, and escalating to breaking into student houses and stealing women's underwear and sex toys, then standing in the street openly masturbating, when he came to trial for Libbie Squire's murder. That night he was driving around specifically looking for a woman vulnerable enough to be able to get in his car and
grape. I'll note this weirdo was also another with a wife and two kids, a 'respectable' Mr. Normal with a proper job and family, blah blah. I don't know why people think these things make you less likely to be a fuckhead.
I saw someone question his wife's possible role in it all. I suspect it'll be the usual helping dispose of a body or other evidence such as the victim's clothing, trying to mislead police by lying for him when questioned, or something of that nature. I don't want to think there's another Rose West or Karla Homolka around. I think it's most likely this epic shitbag did it alone, then panicked and confessed to his wife, and demanded help etc etc. Probably cried like a
bleeping weasel too. I never understand why anyone would help a guy who killed a woman. I'd turn on my own family or a partner in a heartbeat if they confessed to this kind of
tit.
I think the head injury was him banging his head against the cell wall to try to off himself. He will know where he's going, and for how long, and as a former police officer and sex offender, he knows how hard his life will be inside. No-one likes a rozzer turned bad outside or inside.
I know these kind of offences are rare, in fact rarer than they used to be (70s and 80s were much worse in terms of stranger murders and sex crimes). What freaks me out in this case is the fact it was a copper and it is highly likely that status was what enabled him to get close enough to Sarah to hurt her. That is utterly chilling. I'll note the Garden State Killer (13 known murders, 50 rapes and 100+ home invasions involving
grape and violence)over the course of 10 years) in the USA was actually a former police officer who committed some of his crimes during his short police career and many more after he was kicked out the force for shoplifting. He also had a very dark past involving animal abuse and burglary as a teenage juvenile alongside a history of witnessing and experiencing childhood sexual abuse and should never have been given a position of authority to begin with.