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In my experience, someone committing crimes like this has a fundamental issue with their emotional self regulatory ability. Money enables coping mechanisms (well, clearly just sometimes like in this case!) that otherwise wouldn’t be available. It is also a general motivator, as you note, for folks to do all sorts of things for someone besides general emotional coping type stuff. Like get a house, or whatever.

Chances are his social dysfunction really stems from something deep he’s refusing to look at and acknowledge; and it’s feeding all these behaviors maladaptively. He probably had one particular person he wanted the validation he saw as coming from sex with, and that’s why the suitcase.

Especially since, quite frankly, if he just wanted to get laid and had cash, it’s not like it would take that much looking to find someone to help him with that and it wouldn’t involve more than a small handful of bills. If he could get his act somewhat together, anyway.