Not just the suffering and the killing

He was changing from a crazed butcher into a cool, calculating surgeon.

None of which, of course, made the process any less terrible for his victims. In some cases, some of the most horrible 'surgery' was done on the victims while they were still alive. In other cases it was once they were dead, or even some hours after - a piece of evidence which gave the investigators one more piece of information about the man that they were seeking: namely that he often hung around at the scene of the crime. It was all part of the ritual that he had followed, almost religiously, for each murder. It was not just the suffering and the killing which gave him the pleasure. It was what he did with the bodies afterwards. Even the act of ripping off the victims' clothes and taking them from one place to another seemed to give him pleasure. There was a special way in which he had to do it.

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