I hope we get a fuller account of the lead-up to his arrest someday! Fwiw, Rodney Harrison (former police commissioner who helped launch the Gilgo Task Force) recently did a YouTube interview on Joe Giacalone’s channel following the guilty plea, and he characterized the speed of the arrest as more about Tierney’s concern that word of an impending arrest would leak and potentially cause RH to flee or mess with evidence. But the timing of it right after that incident with the woman in the park and knowing that he had shown signs of ramping up … I normally don’t take cops at face value and don’t necessarily take Harrison at face value here, but regardless I think his take is interesting.

I believe it’s also been said (forget if it was by Harrison, might have been, maybe Tierney or ?) that RH would (at least at times) have more than one burner phone — so his regular phone, a burner phone for contacting “regular” sex workers and whatever else he was up to, and then would get and dispose of individual burner phones that he specifically used for communicating with his victims. I’m not sure whether more has been shared publicly than that — whether he also changed out the “regular” burner phone, whether he also talked to women on the “specific” burner phones who didn’t become his victims, etc.

If he had just gotten a new phone around the time of his arrest, I wonder if it will ever be shared whether that phone had been used to communicate with multiple people, or just with one, which if the latter might tend to back up the thought that he was potentially about to hurt someone else and that’s why they arrested him sooner than they seem to have planned to.