I respect people's willingness to keep an open mind on all matters of this, or any, case. It's at the core of "innocent until proven guilty."
However, when we have a suspect who has been formally charged, and we have court documents to show probable cause, then at some point I have to ask myself...how much benefit of doubt do I give this person? He's still "innocent until proven guilty," of course, and that doesn't change until a plea or conviction. This must be kept at the forefront, imo, along with the fact that we only know a small fraction of the evidence. But, it can also go too far the other way.
Either way we need to consider all possibilities.
In order for BK to truly be innocent, we have to accept a lot of assumptions the other way. We would have to accept the likelihood of either LE misconduct, genetics laboratory mistakes, or otherwise ineptness or underhandedness on some level. We would have to accept that the DNA on the sheath was placed there by someone else, or misidentified by the lab, and it was done so before any Kohberger sample was even taken.
Yes, any of this is possible. His lawyer is having to fight hard to discover the entire process used. She has already described it as a "bizarre experiment" in a court document. I don't think she would make that allegation unless something is very wrong.
We'd have to accept that the person whose DNA swab (BK) mistakenly matched to the sheath DNA, also drove the same kind of car seen coming and going from the crime scene.
With some 33,000 white Elantras in the area, this is NOT impossible AND there is ZERO evidence that the Elantra in Pullman was the same Elantra in Moscow on the night of the murders nor that the occupant of the Elantra ever went inside 1122 King Rd. And why the circling? Because that makes no sense at all, especially with a criminology student who would know he didn't want his car to be noticed if he were to commit such a crime. Whoever was in the white car was circling for some reason. That vehicle may have had nothing at all to do with the murders.
We would then have to accept that this same person and car just happened to belong to someone who likes to drive around within a relatively short cell tower range of King rd., in the wee early morning hours, and did so at least twelve other times prior to the murders, with no known explanation.
The cell tower that 1122 King Rd uses is on Paradise Creek St. This is also the cell tower that is used by the UofI library which is .8 mile from 1122 King Rd AND just so happens to be open until 2am. There is reciprocity between WSU and UofI. You can see it listed here - WSU students enjoy library privileges at UofI:
libanswers.uidaho.edu
BK is a PhD candidate. PhD candidates have to do research. IMO, it is much more likely that those 12 times he was in range of the cell tower, he was actually at the UofI library than that he was at 1122 King Rd. When I was in grad school, I went to the library at another school that had a medical library because my university library didn't have the materials I needed. I went about a dozen times and then never again because I had exhausted my options for research for that specific project and was deep into the writing stage of my paper. I didn't need the medical library again because the project was in the completion stages. It is more likely, IMO, that a PhD student was doing late night research at the nearby UofI library than murdering 4 people he didn't even know, especially when there is zero DNA evidence in his car, apartment, office and family home linking him to any of the victims. He didn't know the victims and apparently didn't know of the victims. That's just common sense. But, IMO, the person who wrote the PCA doesn't understand what PhD students do, so, IMO, he didn't realize that there could be a simple and innocent explanation for BK being in the area.
Then we have to accept that since he wore gloves and was putting his garbage in ziplock bags and distributing them in neighbor's trash cans, again in the wee early morning hours, that he must have OCD and not be trying to hide anything related to the crime that happened at the King rd. house.
Wearing gloves and sorting trash are both OCD behaviors. There is a real fear of contamination by people with OCD. I don't think BK's parents and sisters were vegan and he is so sensitive about this his aunt said he wouldn't accept vegetables cooked in pans that had previously ever had meat cooked in them. People with OCD wear gloves to try to prevent germs from touching their skin.
Contamination OCD is a subset of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in which a person experiences intense fears about being contaminated by germs or diseases.
www.madeofmillions.com
List of common OCD rituals/compulsions related to germs|contamination|disease: handwashing, cleaning, showering, disinfecting, sanitizing, & toileting.
www.steveseay.com
There may be no illness more self-diagnosed than obsessive compulsive disorder. In fact, it’s commonplace to hear people exclaim that they’re “so OCD” because they prefer a tidy house or they wash their hands before sitting down at the dinner table.
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Let me point out, that LE apparently didn't find anything of interest in his sorted trash or I'm pretty sure that would have been leaked to the media as Ohio is not under the gag order. BK would have had anxiety as he knew things were going wrong at school and he had been fired from this TA job. He clearly had not told his father of his troubles at school on the drive home and also I'm pretty sure he knew his parents could not pay for him to take these classes, so he was going to have to find another job to continue at WSU or not go back and apply to a different school. That is enough to cause anyone anxiety. So these unusual behaviors of wearing gloves and sorting trash don't surprise me.
There is a LOT we don't know yet, but I don't feel like a laboratory mistake or LE misconduct can explain BK's before and after behaviors. If I took them apart and looked at each behavior one at a time, okay, maybe they are unrelated to the crime. But as a whole, I'm having a hard time fighting for his innocence, especially considering the number of factors involved, including DNA. JMO.
The ONLY evidence is his DNA allegedly on the sheath. But it is touch DNA which could have gotten on the sheath without BK ever being in the presence of the sheath. Again, I think his attorney knows something is very wrong with the DNA and is fighting for him.
Everything in the PCA and in regards to BK's behavior can be explained using common sense and reasoning. I really hope that the prosecution has a lot more evidence because, if not, this looks more likely to be a case of false arrest than not. Still, I want to hear the prosecution's case before deciding for myself, but so far, it seems to me that their case is quite weak.
All JMOO.
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