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A surviving roommate home at the time of the murders said she saw a figure clad in black clothing and a mask covering his mouth, a document released Thursday states.
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"OFC Smith and I entered the King Road Residence through the bottom floor door on the north side of the building. OFC Smith and I then walked upstairs to the second floor. OFC Smith directed me
down the hallway to the west bedroom on the second floor, which I later learned (through Xana's driver's license and other personal belongings found in the room) was Xana Kernodle's, hereafter "Kernodle" room. Just before this room there was a bathroom door on the south wall of the hallway.
As I approached the room, I could see a body, later identified as Kernodle's, laying on the floor. Kernodle was deceased with wounds which appeared to have been caused by an edged weapon.
Also in the room was a male, later identified as Ethan Chapin, hereafter, "Chapin".
Chapin was also deceased with wounds later determined..."
So, Ethan is described as being in a room. He's not in a hallway (the one outside Xana's), nor is he in the space outside DM's room. If we ignore the word "also" and he's not in Xana's room, the only rooms we have left are the kitchen and the living room. I've seen nothing anywhere that would hint at him being in the kitchen. If he fell in the living room, DM would have walked past/seen him while on the way to the stairs to go down to the 1st floor where BF was.
And if he was attacked outside DM's door but crawled back to Xana's somehow--where is the blood trail? Did the murderer stop, grab a towel, and wipe up the trail behind Ethan after he collapsed? That doesn't fit with the timeline. We also don't have DM reporting hearing 185 lb Ethan crashing to the floor near her door. And clearly--if she looked out the door and saw the killer, wouldn't she have seen Ethan on the floor there?
Officer Payne talks about seeing Xana's body first as he walks down the hall to her room, then he mentions seeing Ethan in the room second. Pretty sure if Ethan was anywhere in that hall up to Xana's room, he would have mentioned Ethan as the body he sees first.
Incorrect facts in the PCA are along the lines of typos of road names/misattributing them to ID vs WA. Not putting a body in a completely wrong room. There are no word games here that can be worked around later, unlike the Dylan "originally went to sleep in her bedroom"....that if matched with police statements from the time could also be inferred to have another meaning of "and then she later went and slept in BF's room." Ethan is described as being in the same room as Xana.