To add to this, the details of what happened to Gerard and how he was killed have been withheld. They talk about it being horrific and indicative of a special kind of psychopath. It is psychopathic enough to murder a child in cold blood, but they talk about another level on top of that. That suggests to me some level of torture while he was alive. I am sure I have read that he was beaten, and the other thing I can come up with is burned. Nothing else fits really with what they have said.It sounds to me from what you posted previously that police believe one of the people involved in Gerard’s abduction and death was incredibly psychopathic. I agree that this doesn’t detract from the possibility that two were involved at the beginning. I also think that potentially the person/people who took Gerard may have been just bold and brazen, but the person he was handed off to was psychopathic. I’m constantly amazed at how brazen paedophiles rings are, and while every single person involved is despicable, I don’t think they are all psychopaths.
Someone who is considered that psychopathic will surely not have only killed one child, once, or have only been an under-the-radar child sex abuser? It just sounds prolific to me. And who have we ever heard about from WA like that. Could it be someone who is actually known interstate?