Oh boy, lot's of interesting info on this guy. Obviously speculating isn't entirely fair, but you read some of that stuff about him, and combine that with a couple of traits that are often present in killers, and you start thinking.....
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Police charged Douglas Garland in connection with the operation, but he disappeared soon after and evaded authorities for seven years.
Douglas Garland was living in B.C.’s Lower Mainland and working as a chemical mixer at the B.C. Institute of Technology when police found him. He managed to evade detection by stealing the identity of Matthew Kemper Hartley, a 14-year-old Cardston boy killed in a car crash in 1980.
At Douglas Garland’s trial, court heard he was a genius who studied science at the University of Alberta
A written decision by Justice Campbell J. Miller in 2005 said Douglas Garland was a “troubled man,” who had attention deficit disorder and whose exit from university was precipitated by a mental breakdown.
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I don't know, maybe it isn't entirely true, but when I hear "genius" and "troubled" I feel like those are two traits you often hear are present in killers/serial killers.