Wtf, that’s the first I heard that some people thought Ethan’s siblings (he’s a triplet) were involved. Where is that even coming from? I do agree that the incel motive is possible. I also agree that either both Maddy and Kaylee were targeted or at least one of them.
Now that we have Dracula locked up forever I feel like venting a minor quibble. I’ve lived here in Moscow for 20 years, about a mile from the murder scene, and find it irritating to keep read about our “traumatized” town having lived in a constant state of quaking fear until the arrest was announced.
Yes Moscow is a small city of about 25,000 people, but it isn’t Mayberry RFD. I’m sure some UI students were nervous but my experience of the overall mood
here was more along the lines of “Hope they catch the guy soon.” It wasn’t as if everybody was huddled around their fireplaces with boards nailed across their windows.
The “One Night In Idaho” documentary really played it up too. It didn’t impress us much for other reasons as well, and made us uninterested in seeing the other one.
Just an inference here, but a CNN article I read indicates that “someone” (possibly him) may have been stalking them for weeks at least, possibly even hanging out behind their house watching them. Some real Red Dragon vibes, honestly.
It’s also not like it was a big secret whose room was whose. The residents of the house knew people, they threw parties sometimes, people at parties sometimes go into bedrooms for various reasons, etc. It wouldn’t take much asking around to find out. It might take some finesse to ask around without looking like a creep in the process, but it looks like “not looking like a creep” wasn’t high on Kohberger’s list of priorities.
Pretty darn easy to stake out the house on a night you know your target is out, then await their return, then see which bedroom light turns on. Doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to carry that deduction to a conclusion.
I’m pretty sure that’s not a question anyone would answer, though. Never mind looking like a creep.
More plausibly—and this is also something that is implied in the article I read—he entered the house while everyone was gone and just went and found the bedrooms, possibly using context clues (like family pictures or names on items) to figure out whose was who’s. It was noted that one door was a combination lock that lots of people knew the combination to (and at times did not properly lock regardless) and there was also a sliding glass door that they didn’t always lock.