Go to a party. Go upstairs, to use the bathroom or something. Ask someone “Hey, whose room is this?”. Or say “Maddie asked me to get something from her room; which one is hers?”.
Recently released records show that Kohberger had a reputation for being creepy and sexist at Washington State.
His behavior was so problematic that one Washington State University faculty member told co-workers that if he ever became a professor, he would probably stalk or sexually abuse his future students, according to the documents. She urged her co-workers to cut Kohberger’s funding to remove him from the program.
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The WSU faculty member told investigators that Kohberger would sometimes go into an office where several female grad students worked, physically blocking the door. Sometimes, she would hear one of the women say, “I really need to get out of here,” so she would intercede by going into the office to allow the student to leave.
It’s almost like Kohberger was two different people. He seemed to fit in at Northampton Community College and Desales. Ferraro was his lab partner for a semester. They worked closely on projects. Ferraro graduated with a Criminal Justice degree and had no clue his study partner was dangerous.
Kohberger was only at Washington State for a few months and freaked the other classmates out.
It’s strange how he hid his true personality for many years. He fooled his professors at DeSales too.
It’s the right timing for young men who develop a psychotic disorder.
This
isn’t quite in alignment with this bit
The guy was weird back at Lehigh. He wasn’t yet murderer-level weird but he was on that road. Was he growing a tumor or a psychosis while everybody else around him was just going along as normies, slowly noticing more, and more severe, oddities?
The jury votes unanimously he is really creepy.
One can explain all the phone GPS records as circumstantial. He left physical evidence at the crime scene. I feel bad for his parents whom I heard had to mortgage their house to pay for the lawyers.
Spending hundred (s?) of thousands of dollars to obtain a guilty plea seems a poor use of money.
The parents probably couldn’t believe their son was guilty.
From the BBC link above:
“Kohberger would be awake almost all night and would only take a nap during the day,” police said, noting he would video chat with his mother “for hours each day”.
I’m getting a bit of a Norman Bates vibe off of this guy. I think his relationship with his parents needs to be investigated more closely.
That would certainly be interesting from a forensic science POV, but I’m not sure it rises to the level of “needs” for the criminal justice system.
Or are you suggesting the parents have culpability for at least some aspect of the crimes? I’m not disagreeing with that premise, just asking if that is your premise. There is certainly plenty of US legal history of parents being found at least partly on the hook for the crimes of minor children. As well, darn near any crime can have folks found guilty of being co-conspirators regardless of any personal relationship they have or don’t.
If Kohberger ever becomes forthcoming, I can see somebody writing a pretty good book about this guy which might sell pretty well. Not as well as the famous Charles Manson book by the prosecutor Bugliosi - Helter Skelter (book) - Wikipedia, but a tidy little earner.
By “needs”, I meant mainly to satisfy my curiosity. I don’t know in the parents are culpable, and it would be wrong to presume they are, but some investigation - journalistic, not criminal - into their relationship is warranted, IMHO.
I’ve read Helter Skelter, BTW, and I don’t remember Manson himself giving any interviews. Bugliosi put the story together without his assistance, which probably made it a better book.
Gotcha. Thank you. I think likewise.
Katherine Ramsland sounds like she’d love to write a book about him.
You hire the lawyers, in part, to advise you whether you should go to trial or plead guilty. That takes more effort and time than just obtaining a guilty plea. If you knew on day 1 you were going to take a guilty plea, then yes, you could save a lot of money.
It’s my understanding that he had a public defender. Well actually a whole team.
I would hope so. When I was a public defender, we always had at least two lawyers assigned to First Degree Murder cases.
Did you also have an investigator assigned or available?
Yes. We had some on staff
Good, you’d need them for doing discovery, especially in defending a murder charge.
Or, you know, maybe misogynistic red-pilled incel losers can be like that? Passably sane around “the guys” (the operative word in your final sentence above being “his”), but a creeptastic woman-hating perv around women, especially women he may have some measure of power over.