I wish I was good enough that that was intentional. I did rejigger the sentence a time or two and missed that. I can’t blame autocorrect since I have that turned off. Maybe autocomplete did it.
The suspect was on Reddit last summer wanting to get questionnaires from former criminals. Why they committed crimes, how they felt etc.
It may have been legit research for his thesis or something to feed his own interests.
I agree that the suspect may have tried to pull off a unsolvable crime.
interesting. I’m surprised that DNA was left at the scene.
I’m not surprised he left DNA behind. I think you’d have to be really careful not to leave something behind.
From what I’ve read: unless you really know what you’re doing, it’s kinda hard to not leave DNA evidence.
gloves and a silencer would make quick work of things if death was the only goal.
The use of a knife is something I would expect out of someone who wants it to be up close and personal.
If you’re under arrest, are you still a person of interest? At that point aren’t you a suspect?
Reddit has a sub devoted to finding the killer. They have made a number of accusations. I wonder if they even had this guy on their radar.
Hm, that self proclaimed psychic who accused the professor probably had her lawsuit defense get slightly more difficult…
I just popped over there briefly. One suspect was the police chief. Crowdsourcing criminal investigations does not seem to be an entirely good idea.
Kohberger certainly achieved a lot academically. I haven’t seen any formal police training. He didn’t have hands on knowledge that a forensics tech uses every day.
What profession would a PHD pursue? Maybe a profiler for the FBI? Or just another University Professor?
Anne Rule worked withTed Bundy and wrote books
about him.
Katherine Ramsland will probably profile Kohberger in a book.
If you look hard enough, you’ll find people who call every common type of evidence, including fingerprints, “junk science.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/reversing-legacy-junk-science-courtroom
Or, if he was her student, perhaps that’s a signal she and others like her should stop writing books that raise the profile of murderers? Stick to peer-reviewed journals, maybe? Keep it boring.
It does rather damage her credibility if she worked this closely with him and wasn’t able to detect him.
It’s interesting that Katherine Ramsland writes about psychopath using their trusted position to commit crimes. I’ve always found the use of misplaced trust to commit crimes very disturbing.
Kohberger appears to be a textbook example of a psychopath that suppressed his urge to kill. Hidden in the world of academia until he finally acted out. It’s surprising that he started with a quadruple murder.
The concept of FBI-profiler-has-issues-goes-bad-and-commits-multiple-murders has been exploited in at least two novels I know of.
For instance, The Poet and The Narrows by Michael Connelly.
Objection! Not supported by facts in evidence!
We don’t know what he started with yet. He could have been doing this for years, just undetected until now. Time will tell.
Do we know that this is where he started, or is this just the first time he got caught?
ETA: ninja’d
That’s a good point. There could be more crimes we don’t know about.
He hasn’t been convicted of anything yet so the horse is far from the cart.
For all practical purposes this was a frat house with all manner of people floating in and out along with their DNA.
This just in, college student goes to party.