(was balanced, not balances)

Seeing the murderer again is emotional, but not quite amped up. There is still a distance, a watcher’s point of view that keeps the moment from being a fight-or-flight action scene. I mean, he can’t kill the victim again, so there is no need to feel frightened. But you want to. You expect something to happen.
The description of the man is great, how he has aged, how he hides his aging. :) It makes him more sinister for lying.
The small twist that it was a homosexual encounter is clever. It’s more common for a man to overpower a young girl, so it is a twist, but it’s not as shocking a reveal.. I dunno, maybe I’m jaded.

Interesting though Elsha. Not sure I was meaning for a twist so much as, at least in my mind, what reason my killer would have to be psychotic, what would be his motivation to kill. I think the easiest is to characterize him as a serial killer to preys on young homosexual males as a way to deny his own homosexual leanings.