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"...Habitus? Probably Klinefelters or marginally so in his appearance. Tall, thin, somewhat female in his physical appearance. Long legs. If so, this would most likely render him having very little muscular development and very little strength in what muscles he did have. ... "

This is pure speculation virtually unsupported by evidence from the crime scene, however, I think the low testosterone is common in sex offenders anyway. Consider his garotte use: while fashioning it and employing it may have been pleasurable for him, he may actually have needed to employ one because of low grip strenght. Low grip strength means poor forearm muscular development, usually a sign of low testosterone. I used the example of a man who actually has a "husband" in his kitchen cabinets. Women keep those things in their kitchen cabinets, men don't.

If I were to ask you to name the constiutent organs of the endocrine system, I'm sure you could name several but would be hard put to ever name 'adipose tissue' as an element of the endocrine system. Yet clearly it is. Men like David Westerfield carry alot of fat that converts their testosterone to estrogen. Higher levels of testosterone decrease the levels of ghrellin which decreases appetite. So someone like DW would be converting a great deal of his testosterone to estrogen in an inescapable spiral. On-edit: I would love to get data on DW's E1 and E2 levels, I'm sure his estradiol levels are off the charts. I think you could take a sample of photos of convicted sex offenders and compare them to photos of people sitting in an endocrinologist's waiting room and see distinct similarities.

Sex offenders often have problems relating to others and often might prefer an adult female but are unable to obtain them. This too is a behavior trait that easily be linked to serum testosterone levels. Lack of any assertiveness leads to poor job performance and poor ability to obtain normal social relations. Recall, perhaps the rumor that a firm of trial lawyers in one state actually tested their applicants salivary testosterone levels.

So I would admit that all this is indeed speculation, but there are plausible circumstances for it. Tall, thin, lacking muscles and needing, not choosing, a garotte is a possibility. Corpulent is a less likely possibility. Either way, his acts that night were perhaps an extreme, but they are consistent with his normal state of being. He lives in a fantasy world because he has no "real world" in which to live. He probably has the social skills to eat lunch with coworkers but he doesn't have the social skills to date any of them and if he did ask them for a date, they would all say no to him anyway. He probably has sufficient strength to open a door for a woman, but not for strangling even a child. On-edit: I know I've often felt the garotte was for pure enjoyment, not necessity, but I am speculating on the possibility he just might be in the lowest ten percent of grip strength and needed a garotte.

So based on all this I would say he is probably tall, thin, lacks muscles and would probably prefer adult females for sex and adult males for combat or cameraderie, but must actually choose young girls for sex and must avoid combat with his real opponent that night: John Ramsey.