Mark Small

When he’d started 15 yrs B4, such places were hard 2 find. Now? Almost impossible. Some trips he made on 1 tank, round-trip. He’d paid cash at out-of-state stores - again w/o surveillance cams - 4 burners to make the calls. 1 burner per call. 4/19 c. 2020 by mark small.

He’d used an app 2 scramble his voice. A target had little chance to record the call but, if so, no one could chart similarities betw his voice & the muffled, machine-generated Voice in the call. 5/19 c. 2020 by mark small.

He’d researched, mostly, in public libraries. He took care how he held/touched a volume of the old-fashioned hard copies of books/journals, & afterward wiped any of his prints as best he could. He stored his research off-line. 6/19 c. 2020 by mark small.

Travel 2 cities relevant 2 targets: marginally > complicated. Real pain? Place fr which 2 the info. White vans w/o rear windows were cliche, but cliches usu R true. Plus: targets lived far outside his home state. 7/19 c. 2020 by mark small.

1st thing he’d learned in his research: 1st vic usu lived close 2 perpetrator of serial crime. He chuckled: “research” was fr movie “Silence of the Lambs.” 1st target: 2,000, mi away. He distanced himself in other ways. 8/19 c. 2020 by mark small.

His employer was in same bldg as home office of big car rental company. To every1 he played techno-stupid. Reality? Under fake name he took boot camp in cyber security. He’d easily slipped into car rental company’s offices & hacked system. 9/19 c. 2020 by mark small.

He used car rental records 2 pick targets. Surveillance cams outside the type of business targets frequented? Numerous. He needed 2 cams in place - 1 for license plates & 1 for targets’ faces. 10/19 c. 2020 by mark small.

Problems: placement & later removal + possible discovery of the cams. At ✓-out @ Target 1 day was display of mini-drones size of a quarter. > research & he fd places w/mini-drones w/cams. He’d practiced flying them inside his house. 11/19 c. 2020 by mark small.