Criminal Justice George W Russell The Signature Killer
George Walterfield Russell The Signature Killer By: Rachel Pacheco Born in 1958 in Florida, his parents separated when he was six months old. ... One day her husband returned from his job with a funeral parlor to find tiny George home alone and a note on the kitchen table from his wife bidding him farewell. George Russell, Sr. ... The child was shifted back and forth between Grandmother Russell and an array of aunts. Joyce reappeared out of nowhere with a new husband, a dentist named Wonzel Mobley, when Russell was six years old; she took him with them, moving from city to city, eventually settling on Mercer Island, just east of Seattle. ... For a while after her departure, the teenage Russell was on the brink. ... Russell caused his stepfather more headaches than the latter could handle. ... Russell, at 17 years old, found himself on the streets, this time for good, his life shattered one more time by a woman. Tired of his past life, of being harassed by a stepmother and by the police, George Russell left Mercer Island, crossing the East Island Bridge over Lake Washington into Bellevue. ... The best thing that could be said for George Russell is that although he was a thief, he proved to be a good one. ... In these places Russell met some new people to whom he could play the chic and worldly playboy. Russell was also known to have idolized Ted Bundy, he was always researching Bundy and trying to dress and present himself like his idol. George Russells psyche gorged on grudges. ... At the age of consent, when the singles bars opened their doors to him, and when he was able to "blend" with the people whom he realized were symbols of his loathing, George Russell crossed the danger line. ... His curiosity called, as he slowly walked toward the figure, Jimmy realized that this wasn’t a mannequin, it was a human, that had been murdered and positioned into the alleyway, as a mark of the killer. ... Robert Keppels chapter on the Bellevue Yuppie Murders in his clinical study of Signature Killers. ... In fact, it seemed that the killer had taken great pains to leave the body in a state that would be one of two results: 1) to shock whomever found it, and 2) to send a message to the police that said, in its own macabre, silent way, "See what Ive done – come and get me! ... These, the police determined, were rudely stuffed on her feet by her killer after death. ... What the killer had done, taking care to pose her in this fashion, took no little effort. The next victim of George Russell hits a little close to home, as a fellow co-worker of mine, knew Russell’s next victim. ... The police decided to take Russell in for questioning, during a background check, they discovered that Russell was no stranger to the police; he had a very distinctive rap sheet. ... Several members of the nightclub clique presented pieces of jewelry that they had bought at a discounted price from George Russell.