Davis police are hunting a monster. And it’s extremely likely the suspect is a serial killer, experts say. The person behind three stabbings in the normally quiet college town is likely full of rage and has targeted his victims with no clear connection to one another, criminal experts told The Sacramento Bee. Given Davis’ relative isolation, 15 miles west of Sacramento and surrounded by farmland, the suspect probably lives in the city. It’s also possible the person responsible is battling mental illness. “The chances that these cases are not linked is very small,” said Mark Safarik, a former Davis police detective and investigator with the FBI’s behavioral analysis unit. “One of the things here is we don’t really have a motive, Davis is a relatively small community, and it’s very likely these cases are linked.” By definition, Sararnik said, two or more homicides separated by time are serial killings.
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