Another WTF Florida Man story. Man tried to jump and kill jogger. Jogger knew martial arts.

[Baitball Blogger]

Jogger prevailed. Neither man knew each other.

Sounds like a potential serial killer was thwarted on his first try.

Man tried to kill jogger, planned to keep victim’s body in closet, Brevard deputies say
Local News

Thomas Mates, Digital storyteller

Published: January 18, 2022, 2:31 PM
Tags: Brevard County, Strange Florida, Cocoa, Crime
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COCOA, Fla. – A man is locked up in Brevard County after deputies say he tried to strangle a jogger with the plan of keeping the victim’s body stored in his bedroom closet.

Deputies arrested Logan Smith, 18, near his home in the 7400 block of Batavia Ave. Monday.

According to investigators, Smith laid out a bedsheet in his driveway and then hid behind a light pole along Batavia Avenue with a waist belt from a robe. Deputies said Smith had also put an aerosol can of Axe body spray and a rubber mallet near the pole.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/01/18/man-tried-to-kill-jogger-planned-to-keep-victims-body-in-closet-brevard-deputies-say/

[Demovictory9]

1. seriously disturbed teen

[Deuxcents]

2. Good grief🙀 wack job

Picked the wrong guy, thankfully and probably got his ass kicked

[Bayard]

3. Crazy eyes......

18 yrs old, and his life is pretty much done.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Good.

Some people are hopeless and a danger to society at large.

[Bayard]

25. Agreed

[dalton99a]

4. Hope he received many lessons

[flying_wahini]

6. He is mentally ill. He needs real help besides just locking him up. Hope they can find someone

To Help him.

[cinematicdiversions]

21. A lot of mentally ill people do need to be institutionalized (Locked Up)

For the good of society as a whole.

This would be a clear cut example of such a person.

[dameatball]

8. Brevard County is getting weirder every day.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. It was aways a bad place.

Many of the strangest ideas came from Brevard. And that's from the lawyers.

[Hortensis]

9. Mentally disordered for sure, and I feel like pinning a medal on that jogger

myself for being able to keep him from killing. Right man in the right place after drawing the right attention (away from whoever else would have). God!

[MagickMuffin]

10. Creepy AF

Deputies said when they questioned Smith, he admitted to trying to strangle the victim. Smith said he had planned to drag the man into the driveway and then use the bed sheet to aid him in getting the jogger into his bedroom, records show.

Investigators said Smith had been watching the jogger for some time, learning his patterns. Smith admitted he wanted to have the victim’s body “all to himself,” the affidavit reads, and that he planned to fulfill sexual fantasies with the body.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Christ, this thread.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. That's what happens when you misread those 4Chan posts. 'Use an axe when performing this crime.'

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"They didn't tell me which axe to use, so I chose Axe Anarchy"



.

[Hortensis]

14. FWIW, Alaska, in the far diagonal corner, has the highest RATE of serial killers.

Lots of seasonal male workers and sex workers to relieve them of their pay, isolation, weather, long dark nights, inadequate or nonexistent policing in a lot of areas may be factors.

AK is followed by LA, then the stats swing into the midwest for the next four.

CA, TX and then FL have the greatest number, but then they're the largest states by population also.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/serial-killers-by-state

Of course this kid, hopefully, isn't a serial or any kind of killer. The FBI's criteria include 2 or more separate murders, and the last wave of serial killings was reportedly in the 1980s into the 1990s. According to the FBI, these days there are roughly 50 active at any one time.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. Good information.

What scares me about this kid, is that he very much wanted a dead body for the purpose of having sex. I don't think there is anything redeemable about this creep.

[Hortensis]

22. Creepy all right. I would not want the responsibility

of even being among those who someday will have to decide if he's become safe to release into society. Apparently a lot of killers aren't at all crazy. They just want and decide to, and this kid already reached those critical points.

[BradAllison]

15. This is how Dahmer started

Life in prison.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. I can definitely see that.

[BradAllison]

18. Dahmer obsessed over who a jogger ran thru his neighborhood daily when he was 16.

He planned to attack him but never found the opportunity, instead going after a hitchhiker on the way to a concert.

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. You can't get much crazier than that. Did no one notice

that this kid was seriously and dangerously mentally ill?

[uponit7771]

23. +1

[LiberatedUSA]

20. Those eyes say a lot.

I want to know about his earlier life. This didn’t just spring up out of the blue; his condition. I want to know all thy signs and red flags throughout his life.

[Wingus Dingus]

24. Jesus Christ, does the crazy ever stop?

[Baitball Blogger]

26. Not in Florida.

They keep getting elected.