Tall weeds help to conceal the suspect during his crimes. He goes back to the area he feels most comfortable with. Linda S. Yalem in 1990, the suspect apparently waited four years, then returned to Riverside to attack. Authorities say this is a pattern typical of someone returning to an area of security. He goes back to the area he feels most comfortable with.
Train tracks pass quite close to Delaware Park, the scene of the suspect's first attack.
It is less than a mile down the tracks to the Riverside area. Police believe the suspect does not park a vehicle, but walks to the Riverside location, possibly from the home of a relative or friend, or even from his own home. So the Amherst rape and murder investigation has seen a major focus in the Black Rock-Riverside area in Buffalo. Police believe he spent time there in his younger years. He may have grown up there or lived with a relative for a summer.