4 Univ of Idaho Students Murdered, Bryan Kohberger Arrested, Moscow, Nov 2022 #95

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I could agree with you, if I didn't live in Moscow. It's been very challenging since the murders and a change of venue would be great for morale, not to mention my own perspective. People don't believe that they are biased, but I believe that I am and it would be very difficult to be impartial knowing what we experienced as a community.

Others might assert they can be unbiased. However, when I have seen change of venue situations elsewhere, I always have figured that the judge knows the impacts and it was the best decision for the situation and to avoid appeals. I can look at it from the reverse side of the situation, but it takes more work mentally to be comfortable. JMOO.

I thought the change of venue would be more for logistics, this is why the prosecution filed the Motion to have the trial in the summer. First it was summer 2024, now it is summer 2025...Logistics still a problem but better when school is out.
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MOO, between this and the other info we are privy to at this point, I am almost convinced there was at least one other besides BK involved. How many others and the extent of involvement I’m not sure, but I just have a nagging suspicion that this was not a one man job.
I have to respectfully disagree with this.

1. Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
2. IMO BK is a lone wolf. I can't fathom his personality type to trust anyone, or to take anyone into his confidence.
3.DM only saw 1 man in the hallway as he was leaving.
4. Again, IMO, but the scenario I can most envision is BK going upstairs to MM's room first with the intention of perhaps SA but definitely killing, and surprised at finding KG there, stabs both. Then on his way down he somehow encounters XK who is entering her room, wakes up EC by saying "There's someone here" loud enough to bother DM. EC goes to defend XK, has his jugular slashed. BK then fights XK til she's incapacitated. I just don't see 1 killer going to MM room and another one going to XK room. Nor 1 following the other up that narrow staircase.
5. Locard's exchange principle. It's difficult enough for 1 person to try not to leave any evidence behind or take anything with you, but 2 people compounds the issue.
 
I have to respectfully disagree with this.

1. Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
2. IMO BK is a lone wolf. I can't fathom his personality type to trust anyone, or to take anyone into his confidence.
3.DM only saw 1 man in the hallway as he was leaving.
4. Again, IMO, but the scenario I can most envision is BK going upstairs to MM's room first with the intention of perhaps SA but definitely killing, and surprised at finding KG there, stabs both. Then on his way down he somehow encounters XK who is entering her room, wakes up EC by saying "There's someone here" loud enough to bother DM. EC goes to defend XK, has his jugular slashed. BK then fights XK til she's incapacitated. I just don't see 1 killer going to MM room and another one going to XK room. Nor 1 following the other up that narrow staircase.
5. Locard's exchange principle. It's difficult enough for 1 person to try not to leave any evidence behind or take anything with you, but 2 people compounds the issue.
Totally agree with your post - BK did this all by himself- Thank goodness he left the sheath behind or he may have gotten away with this crime.
 
BK's attempt at an alibi is weak, but it's likely the best AT can do. He removed hos phone from his apartment so she can't put him to bed. She obviously doesn't have a place where B,K was or even Could Have Been. IMO, that's why she wants, not just the full CAST discovery, but all the data that the CAST analysis drew from.

IMO this is what her hired gun is for, to find the blackholes, the areas where there is no video coverage so she can attempt to layer cellphone coverage atop it in order to locate somewhere, anywhere where she can say BK was.

She's in essence and IMO asking for something that doesn't exist. The absence of data. Just exactly how would the State honor that? Attempt to construct an alibi for her client? Because there WILL be gaps. No cctv coverage, poor cellular coverage, tower roaming, overwritten CCTV, motion triggered CCTV that did or didn't trip. Grainy cctv and no license plate or an unreadable one. Could thst be his car? Could it not be his car? Can you be sure?

The State seems to be accommodating her wherever they can. Like the recent website nonsense -- site archives live DOT images -- but didn't capture anything relevant. Whole lotta nothing.

Did BK's vehicle take that route? Maybe. Unrecorded. But maybe he took another route. The State was careful not to commit because it's not critical to their case, how he hot there, just that he did.

We're seeing what we're seeing because BK didn't leave AT a workable defense.

JMO

The jury will want to know where he was at 4 to 4:30 am.

All they will get are a jumble of possibilities and maybes. If he was here he couldn't have been on King Rd at 4 to 4:30 am....etc....

BK himself is bolstering the prosecution's case even better than the prosecution could, he put himself in a position where it is reasonable to conclude he was in Moscow.

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I have to respectfully disagree with this.

1. Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
2. IMO BK is a lone wolf. I can't fathom his personality type to trust anyone, or to take anyone into his confidence.
3.DM only saw 1 man in the hallway as he was leaving.
4. Again, IMO, but the scenario I can most envision is BK going upstairs to MM's room first with the intention of perhaps SA but definitely killing, and surprised at finding KG there, stabs both. Then on his way down he somehow encounters XK who is entering her room, wakes up EC by saying "There's someone here" loud enough to bother DM. EC goes to defend XK, has his jugular slashed. BK then fights XK til she's incapacitated. I just don't see 1 killer going to MM room and another one going to XK room. Nor 1 following the other up that narrow staircase.
5. Locard's exchange principle. It's difficult enough for 1 person to try not to leave any evidence behind or take anything with you, but 2 people compounds the issue.

Yes.

And cops say BK is the only perp. AT would have a field day if she could pin this on someone else.

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Hopefully, there will be more DNA evidence or other proof of BK's presence inside 1122 King Rd. It is unfortunate that we have to wait until the trial to find out if there is or isn't. The small amount of evidence we know about thus far, IMO, is not enough for a conviction.

Small amount of evidence? I have never heard anyone say that about this case. There is so much evidence that AT had mentioned having someone help her organize it. This is a 3 month trial because of all the evidence and hundreds of witnesses, AT mentioned 400 witnesses but then lowered that amount.

Latah County Deputy Prosecutor Ashley Jennings said prosecution has given the defense a 50-terabyte hard drive, more than 13,000 photographs, more than 15,000 video clips from businesses and more than 8,000 video clips from residences. She claimed that the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office have not given prosecution all of the evidence the defense is requesting.

Moscow Police Det. Brett Payne was called to the witness stand by the defense. He testified that thousands of hours of surveillance footage were collected during the investigation into Kohberger. The videos came from 79 businesses and residences.

Anne Taylor asked for documents pertaining to Kohberger’s cellphone location data,
the determinations a forensic analyst made about the make and model of the suspect’s vehicle,
training schedules for three Idaho State Police officers involved in the investigation,
body and dashcam footage related to the search warrant at Kohberger's Pennsylvania residence,
lab testing results,
notes and recordings from the Moscow Police Department,
all police reports and audio/video evidence related to Kohberger's arrest and detainment in Pennsylvania.

Hundreds of pages of redacted warrants and warrant returns,
Latah County prosecutor case filings,
records from some of the biggest companies in social media,
shopping store records,
banking records,
telecommunications records.

Search warrants to AT&T,
Verizon Wireless,
T-Mobile,
Inland Cellular — a regional carrier that operates in north-central Idaho and southeastern Washington,
history of all the devices that pinged cell towers within a half-mile radius of the Moscow home and
defense received the bulk of the data within just a couple of days and began to pore over the GPS coordinates of cellphones and other devices on the nearby networks,
Taylor questioned a Moscow police detective about the preparation of visual cell phone logs and methods for searching for certain videos.

Cell phone tower and radio frequency experts to partially corroborate his proposed alibi that he was out driving west of Moscow.

The judge allowed surveys conducted with potential jurors to continue “without modification” after temporarily pausing them,
timeline of how police began to focus on Kohberger,
the judge ruled to allow unnamed “defense investigators” to view the genetic genealogy evidence.

PCA...Potential witnesses.....

Assistant Chief - Washington State University Police Department
Idaho State Police (ISP)
Idaho State Police Forensics Services
Idaho State Police Detectives
Idaho State Crime Lab
Moscow Police Department Officers (MPD)
WSU Police
FBI Forensic Examiner - 35 years with LE and 12 years with the FBI
Moscow Police Department Sergeant - 22 years with previous homicide investigations
Latah County Sheriff's Deputy Corporal (CPL)
Technical Specialist in digital devices
Technical Specialist in digital media
Cell Site Location Information (CSLI)
Cellular Analysis Survey Team (CAST)
Othram (Genetics)
CODIS

 
MOO, between this and the other info we are privy to at this point, I am almost convinced there was at least one other besides BK involved. How many others and the extent of involvement I’m not sure, but I just have a nagging suspicion that this was not a one man job.
It looks like the work of more than one but knowing what we know, it just seems he wouldn't be able to connect with someone for a coffee let alone working a quadruple homicide together.

I wonder if he fancied himself a serial killer? Normal life by day, killer by night and make a life of it.
 
It's both startling and chilling that it happened so fast, bookended by the door dash delivery and X's TikTok on the inside edge and DM seeing him leave. A matter of very few minutes.

IMO it was not a coordinated crime, neither with multiple perps nor one organized perp. For a student of criminology, his planning was choppy. Hence, the mountain of evidence despite his deliberate attempt at countermeasures.

IMO his calculus depended on a dark house. Everyone asleep. Not unlike LE ambush arrests. 3 am, the bewitching hour, when everyone is asleep. (LE in PA probably didn't expext their target would be awake, at table, sorting detritus, for their middle of the night raid.) BK, was probably already off his own schedule, with his loops.

IMO he didn't calculate for overnight guests, light sleepers, hungry sleepers.

If everything had gone according to plan (my theory of his mission), he would have been in and out in mere minutes. One target.

It would have been a nearly silent crime, stealth his forte. I still say there was a sexual component to it -- it may have been thwarted by two victims when he expected only one. We can only guess what might have transpired if MM was alone in her bed. (BK is a headcase in deviance -- stabbing as a surrogate for penetration, SA at knifepoint, or something I hadn't considered before, necrophilia. He went to that house, intent on violence, to what extent, we won't know unless LE uncovered a stash of *advertiser censored* which paints the picture.

Targeted, precise, silent.

The job for one.

JMO
 
Small amount of evidence? I have never heard anyone say that about this case. There is so much evidence that AT had mentioned having someone help her organize it. This is a 3 month trial because of all the evidence and hundreds of witnesses, AT mentioned 400 witnesses but then lowered that amount.

Latah County Deputy Prosecutor Ashley Jennings said prosecution has given the defense a 50-terabyte hard drive, more than 13,000 photographs, more than 15,000 video clips from businesses and more than 8,000 video clips from residences. She claimed that the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office have not given prosecution all of the evidence the defense is requesting.

Moscow Police Det. Brett Payne was called to the witness stand by the defense. He testified that thousands of hours of surveillance footage were collected during the investigation into Kohberger. The videos came from 79 businesses and residences.

Anne Taylor asked for documents pertaining to Kohberger’s cellphone location data,
the determinations a forensic analyst made about the make and model of the suspect’s vehicle,
training schedules for three Idaho State Police officers involved in the investigation,
body and dashcam footage related to the search warrant at Kohberger's Pennsylvania residence,
lab testing results,
notes and recordings from the Moscow Police Department,
all police reports and audio/video evidence related to Kohberger's arrest and detainment in Pennsylvania.

Hundreds of pages of redacted warrants and warrant returns,
Latah County prosecutor case filings,
records from some of the biggest companies in social media,
shopping store records,
banking records,
telecommunications records.

Search warrants to AT&T,
Verizon Wireless,
T-Mobile,
Inland Cellular — a regional carrier that operates in north-central Idaho and southeastern Washington,
history of all the devices that pinged cell towers within a half-mile radius of the Moscow home and
defense received the bulk of the data within just a couple of days and began to pore over the GPS coordinates of cellphones and other devices on the nearby networks,
Taylor questioned a Moscow police detective about the preparation of visual cell phone logs and methods for searching for certain videos.

Cell phone tower and radio frequency experts to partially corroborate his proposed alibi that he was out driving west of Moscow.

The judge allowed surveys conducted with potential jurors to continue “without modification” after temporarily pausing them,
timeline of how police began to focus on Kohberger,
the judge ruled to allow unnamed “defense investigators” to view the genetic genealogy evidence.

PCA...Potential witnesses.....

Assistant Chief - Washington State University Police Department
Idaho State Police (ISP)
Idaho State Police Forensics Services
Idaho State Police Detectives
Idaho State Crime Lab
Moscow Police Department Officers (MPD)
WSU Police
FBI Forensic Examiner - 35 years with LE and 12 years with the FBI
Moscow Police Department Sergeant - 22 years with previous homicide investigations
Latah County Sheriff's Deputy Corporal (CPL)
Technical Specialist in digital devices
Technical Specialist in digital media
Cell Site Location Information (CSLI)
Cellular Analysis Survey Team (CAST)
Othram (Genetics)
CODIS

Wow- I am impressed with your knowledge of this case!!!
I am bummed though that this will not go to trial until next year---
 
Yes, agree. If nothing major is able to be disallowed by the defense, this case is pretty straight forward.

That's why many of us wondered why no plea deal. Maybe one wasn't offered or BK is that stubborn.
I don’t think BK has it in his DNA to walk quietly into prison. He wants to be heard and needs to be heard. He needs to prove he’s right about everything.

Can’t imagine he’d plead guilty.

He lives for this attention.

MOO
 
I don’t think BK has it in his DNA to walk quietly into prison. He wants to be heard and needs to be heard. He needs to prove he’s right about everything.

Can’t imagine he’d plead guilty.

He lives for this attention.

MOO
I believe he will never admit he committed this crime, and, as you point out, in addition he loves the attention "all this for me????" -he is no doubt in his glory- probably doesn't even mind being in jail
 
MOO, between this and the other info we are privy to at this point, I am almost convinced there was at least one other besides BK involved. How many others and the extent of involvement I’m not sure, but I just have a nagging suspicion that this was not a one man job.
Disagree. Those "different injuries" are different descriptions of injuries caused by one weapon: the knife. MOO this was a one-man crime.
 
I personally feel like BK has told him family that he did not do it and the guilt of having to admit it stopping him from ever being truthful and/or taking a plea agreement.

He can always claim to his family that he was wrongfully convicted. I think he is that stubborn.
 
I don't think BK does guilt.

He did what he did because he decided he would. He did what he did because it's what he wanted to do.

I don't think he feels bad about much of anything, well, except for how people treat him. I don't think he has much capacity or regard for "other".

I think, insofar as he enjoys anything, he is rather enjoying The Process. Star of his own movie.

Probably all very surreal for him. Jail, for the most part, probably suits him. He controls the level and depth of peopling. No women, no students, no colleagues, no parents. No work, no worries, no pressure.

Almost like a vacation from all the things he disdain.

JMO
 
MOO, between this and the other info we are privy to at this point, I am almost convinced there was at least one other besides BK involved. How many others and the extent of involvement I’m not sure, but I just have a nagging suspicion that this was not a one man job.

MOO, but I agree with you and think it's impossible that BK did it by himself.
 
I don't think BK does guilt.

He did what he did because he decided he would. He did what he did because it's what he wanted to do.

I don't think he feels bad about much of anything, well, except for how people treat him. I don't think he has much capacity or regard for "other".

I think, insofar as he enjoys anything, he is rather enjoying The Process. Star of his own movie.

Probably all very surreal for him. Jail, for the most part, probably suits him. He controls the level and depth of peopling. No women, no students, no colleagues, no parents. No work, no worries, no pressure.

Almost like a vacation from all the things he disdain.

JMO

An inmate said he likes to watch himself on TV - so there's that.

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DailyMail.com spoke with current and former inmates, as well as jail sources. Among the revelations are that Kohberger gets daytime access to a television in his cell and likes to flip on the news to follow coverage of his own case. 'It's really kind of bizarre.'

Separated from other inmates Kohberger meets privately with a local pastor on Sunday. When he is escorted by 2 guards out of his cell and shuffles past other inmates he sometimes faces taunts and shouting.

When one inmate named Tyson hollered 'bit**!' at Kohberger he barely flinched, turning toward him with a menacing stare without breaking stride as he proceeded down the hall, according to one inmate who watched it happen.

'He always has the same expression, or non-expression,' said one inmate, who met with a DailyMail.com reporter in the jail. 'He just looks straight ahead. I've never even seen his eyebrows or mouth move. He never says anything.'

The inmates follow the case intently on the news and discuss it daily, finding it hard to believe they are locked up in the same jail as him. An inmate said he was only 30 feet away from Kohberger.
 
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DailyMail.com spoke with current and former inmates, as well as jail sources. Among the revelations are that Kohberger gets daytime access to a television in his cell and likes to flip on the news to follow coverage of his own case. 'It's really kind of bizarre.'

Separated from other inmates Kohberger meets privately with a local pastor on Sunday. When he is escorted by 2 guards out of his cell and shuffles past other inmates he sometimes faces taunts and shouting.

When one inmate named Tyson hollered 'bit**!' at Kohberger he barely flinched, turning toward him with a menacing stare without breaking stride as he proceeded down the hall, according to one inmate who watched it happen.

'He always has the same expression, or non-expression,' said one inmate, who met with a DailyMail.com reporter in the jail. 'He just looks straight ahead. I've never even seen his eyebrows or mouth move. He never says anything.'

The inmates follow the case intently on the news and discuss it daily, finding it hard to believe they are locked up in the same jail as him. An inmate said he was only 30 feet away from Kohberger.
Yeah, it's got to be unnerving for others incarcerated with him.

A lot of them will be frequent flyers, maybe with violence in their rap sheet, but I doubt there would be many, if any, who are true sociopaths and wannabe serial killers, which is what I believe BK to be.

He doesn't seem to be trying to make nice or hide it. I wonder if it feels like freedom to him, for all that he's in a literal cage.

MOO
 
Yeah, it's got to be unnerving for others incarcerated with him.

A lot of them will be frequent flyers, maybe with violence in their rap sheet, but I doubt there would be many, if any, who are true sociopaths and wannabe serial killers, which is what I believe BK to be.

He doesn't seem to be trying to make nice or hide it. I wonder if it feels like freedom to him, for all that he's in a literal cage.

MOO

It was probably equal parts annoying and exhausting to pose as an adult

JMO
 

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