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The way I'm seeing it now, X is up and about, BK enters the house and steps into the living room area; X sees him, backs up toward the bedroom and tries to arouse E. By this time, though, he's right on her, and stabs her before she can do anything else. He then enters the bedroom, stabs E (who...

She might not even have been in bed, or have just begun to go to bed. He stabbed her before she could make any significant noise, by which time Ethan was probably aroused and before he could react was stabbed too, all in a terrific fury. (My perspective, of course.)

Your opinion, and also the opinion of many others. There's a popular expression, too vulgar to repeat here, but which can be paraphrased as "situations transpire."

If the sheath doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Consider the possibility that the food she ordered was for a late breakfast.

And some of the best lawyers are masters at jury selection.

I think so too. After all, what other male person was there who could have said it?

I really don't think 15 minutes is that long a time to stab four people lying in bed. A strong man with a sharp, sturdy knife can stab a person to death in ten to fifteen seconds if he's not resisting. And it doesn't take much time at all to enter a house, walk up a short flight of stairs, do...

A great study in that kind of thinking can be found in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. As a master criminal you think you have it all planned out, and then something happens to throw you a curve. No matter how the criminal may flatter himself otherwise, he simply can't control all the...

It makes me think that whatever was driving him was stronger than any discretion he might have exercised.

Well, what we know of this was given to the police well after the fact, when it was known that the murder had been committed. At the time, she didn't have a clue, and it was probably the last thing on her mind. When you've got four or five college students living together in a rooming house...

That, and/or he got bumped or hit in the struggle and his nose bled.

If the evidence against him is as strong as it's made out to be, the only things that will do him any good are an expert in jury selection and a stupid judge.

I'll tell you what: if he actually did this, he ought to die for it. I think it would be severely remiss of the authorities to let him plea bargain if they've got the evidence for a death penalty trial. Life imprisonment might be more severe, but he'd still be breathing everybody else's air.

He looks like one of that type who isn't overly tall, but is angular and very strong. I've got a son who's the same type. Six feet, two hundred pounds, with the strength of an ox and the stamina of a mule. But not imposing, by any means.

Suspects have been known to lie.

That's assuming the reason for the crime was to make some sort of statement about how clever a criminal he is. The more information that comes out, the more I'm convinced that it was a calculated crime of rage, in which emotion won out over reason.

Maybe they stopped so they could clandestinely switch planes and let the original fly on to Idaho, just to throw off people who are tracking it.

Only him? The way people do it nowadays, it seems as if it's taught in driver's education.

It's like discussing the Super Bowl two weeks before the game is actually played. People do it, though. I think it's human nature.