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Thank you for stating that, I say it all the time and people think it's just wishful thinking. The State purposely holds back incriminating information that leaves us all shocked when the case does go to trial. That Pike case was one for the record books.
Holding back evidence really does make sense, otherwise the prosecution released could pollute the jury pool themselves. Plus, certain things lose their impact with repetition. Ideally, IMO, the evidence should nearly all be fresh information to the jury.
I enlarged the image for myself after I saw others on the internet had done the same. I'm aware photos on the internet can be messed with. IMO, it does show a hiking shoe or hiking boot print (deep tread, oval around the front of the shoe with a different center tread, deep tread on heel around the outside edge with different center tread. This is a classic hiking shoe/boot print.) IMO, based on appearance, it is a fairly large men's size hiking shoe or boot print. And, seeming to confirm what this was, we know from the list of evidence collected at BK's parent's home in Pennsylvania, boots were taken into evidence along with shoes with a diamond pattern on the soles from his apartment, so IMO, LE was trying to find a match to this print as well as a match to the latent print found inside the house near DM's bedroom which the PCA said had a diamond pattern similar to Vans. LE were clearly looking for shoes with a diamond pattern sole at BK's apartment, but by the time BK was in Pennsylvania, they had begun looking at hiking boots/shoes and work boots, as well. You can see the 12/29/22 search warrant for BK's apartment here:
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Snipped by me--when the video captured around 3:30am on Indian Hills Dr shows a white vehicle matching his, without a front license plate, it's going to be an almost impossible sell to the jury that the other cars captured in the natural progression of travel and the appropriate times are not all his car too. If the defense wants to convince a jury it's not his car, they MUST start with the footage of the one without a front license plate a mile from the crime scene.The above leads me to this inevitable question: IF BK left Pullman BEFORE midnight on the 12th and did not return home until the next morning on the 13th, then whose car was LE watching at 2:44am in Pullman per the PCA page 7?
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yes actually I read PA doesn't require front license plates and that's why he didn't have one. A few days after the murders he got WA plates. A coincidence? I don't think so Only my opinion of course I will try and find my source
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Ice fog that night. No star gazing.I found this interesting and probably relevant :
"The South Taurids run from about September 10 until November 20, peaking around November 4/5. The North Taurids overlap them, running from around October 20 to December 10, peaking around November 12/13." (BBM)
"Those viewing after 2 a.m. should face west."
"The last time the Earth encountered a concentration or swarm of Taurid meteors was in 2015"[...]"The next predicted Taurid swarm is in 2025 and will most likely be weaker than 2022 [...]Beyond that, 2032 appears to be an exceptional year, as the moon will be new and Earth will pass very close to the center of the swarm."
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MOO:
If BK can show that he went out to view the South Taurids on Nov 4/5, his claim of being out to watch the sky on the night the North ones peaked might seem more plausible.
We really don't know anything about BK's hobbies, other than running. Maybe he really is into stargazing. For someone who was known to be a night owl and a loner, stargazing honestly doesn't strike me as an unlikely hobby.
2022 appears to have been a special year to watch the Taurids. I suppose, if you're really into it, or have nothing better to do, maybe you hang around and look, even if there's fog/clouds, hoping it'll clear or maybe you'll still be able to see a few fireballs. They can be as bright as the moon.
Remember how just a few weeks ago, lots of people watched the eclipse, in spite of not being in the path of totality and having overcast skies? They were just hoping to experience something anyway.
I still lean towards guilty, out of faith in the FBI's work on this case, but this "Moon & Stars alibi" might turn out to be no laughing matter after all. The phone data will be the key for sure.
JMO!
Is there a reson to think that front license plates are more subject to observation and photography? If not, I see no real criminal benefit to not having one. Maybe he figured he was cutting the viewable identifiers in half, but like you said this creates a visual identifier all it's own.
If I ever get charged with anything in ID, I’d want AT as my attorney. She’s not going to get BK off as the evidence is to strong, but she is doing her job to ensure he gets a fair trial, very well.
It will be interesting when we finally see that footage.
