A poetic murder it would be indeed. 'Twould be possible the motive was created to elicit a response from particular groups — to create some sort of cultish symmetry.

[ good job rhys you aren't completely useless ]

If we refer back to the profile cards, several of the suspected are much older than they appear to be; perhaps they murdered due to the shackles of time weighing on them too heavily, gone mad from the ebbs in time's flow.