Yeah. Glasses being left behind in the death house might be explained away – “I got stoned at the party and walked home blind.” – but an empty knife sheath?
That’s up to a jury in the end, but most people would consider it substantial enough to justify the decisions made by the authorities up to now, including the very narrow focus on this particular individual.
Link to affidavit (PDF):
Chilling:
I wonder why the hell ‘D.M’ didn’t immediately call 911 after seeing some Ninja-fucker creeping around her house at 4:30 in the morning???
From the article:
Could he have returned to the vicinity to search for the knife sheath?
Because she was traumatized and confused?
Very strange.
From Wikipedia:
On the other hand I wonder why she didn’t check with the other roommates: 1. to find out if that person was a guest and 2. To make sure they were OK?
[While I haven’t following the case closely my impression is the the two survivors had probably been drunk–and in any event had slept through the whole thing.]
The other thing was that I had the impression from previous discussion that the police submitted the DNA to one or more of the genealogy sites and found a relative. But this document clearly says no–that they identified the guy from the car he drove and later identified the DNA as his from comparison with something from his parent’s trash.
I’m not inclined to blame potential victims.
Maybe they could have acted smarter and called the cops but plenty of college aged kids don’t make the best choices at 4:30 in the morning. It’s easy to monday morning QB their decisions or lack thereof
No blame. Just curiosity. 'Cause you know that goddamn phone was in their hand.
…I mean, people are predictably unpredictable. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had called the cops. But I’m equally unsurprised that they didn’t. Saying things like “Cause you know that goddamn phone was in their hand” will always read as condemnation, not curiosity, no matter what your intent.
Nope. Just an observation on people and their devices these days. And let’s make no mistake. Calling 911 at that point would have done nothing for the victims. Only allowed discovery of the crime scene earlier.
…you can’t control how others will read it.
True. Don’t have to care, either.
If I saw a stranger in my house in the middle of the night, I would certainly call the police. But that’s because no one lives in my house except me and my wife. I was in plenty of living situations in college where if I saw a stranger in the house, I’d just go back to bed, assuming they were a friend or guest of one of my other housemates, some of whom I didn’t even know very well themselves.
This is the first I’ve heard of dogs in the house. What became of them? Also killed? Any evidence that the dogs attempted to fight the killer?
The dog survived. A surviving flatmate was awoken by dog barking at around 4 a.m., saying in the affidavit that she thought it was playing with flatmates, and the dog was recorded barking on a security camera at 4:17 a.m. The suspect vehicle was seen entering the area at 4:04 a.m. and speeding away at 4:20 a.m., so I’d guess the dog was barking at the intruder.
Here is the dog, named Murphy:
The dog was co-owned by victim Kaylee Goncalves and her on/off-boyfriend, who is now in custody of it.
I suspect you are underestimating the number of law school grads every year, which greatly exceeds the number of openings. Many of them are desperate for ANY legal job and, as our Northern neighbor says, PD is a great way to get immediate litigation experience.
15 years back or so, when my wife was looking to get back into full-time law work, the number of applicants for legal aide jobs paying well under $20k was amazing. You can make decent coin if you are at the top of your class, especially from a decent school. But finish in the middle of the pack at a lower tier school, and your options are few.