I consider nuance in pretty much everything. People, in general, are rarely "black and white." ! I also wonder why so many people are determined to believe that
BK is the murderer. He may be, but why the insistence to "convict" on partial evidence or on the increasingly common assurance that, "LE has more that we'll see at the hearing..."
I enjoy the discussions and deep dives into what we know, but I don't feel the need to declare BK guilty or not guilty based on incomplete information.
Yes. How are there so many videos of this white car, but visuals of the license plate?
Very true, but I think the question some are raising is that the person who identified the car is a 35-yr vet, not your garden variety web sleuth. @
Montecore1 was able to point out several differences between the models the FBI agent told LE to look for and the 2015 model BK owns, yet the FBI agent did not make the distinction. IMO, that seems less like a mistake by a LE veteran and more a matter of unclear videos.
I'm amazed and intrigued that there does not seem to be video or photo evidence of the car's back plate. I am making the assumption that no such evidence exists (1.) because LE requested info on the driver of a white Elantra rather than using license plate info to identify the owner of the car.
My opinions are based on
what know now and
what we have court documentation to support (as much as we can around seals and redactions), not what LE might have later.
This is so important. BK's DNA on the knife sheath found at the murder scene does not automatically = BK was at the murder scene.
I find that hard to believe LE would attempt to flush out a known person of interest suspected of committing a mass homicide. And certainly not with purposely incorrect information. If they really thought he was the killer, unless they were tailing him 24/7, allowing him to come to them would have put potentially put other people in danger.
'The mistaken model year will likely be of little to no consequence if other pieces of evidence tie BK to the murders. However, as a juror,
if his car was the chain that linked BK to that house on the night of 11/13, the year difference would absolutely be a big deal.
That letter makes me, once again, question if BK was actually fired. The supposed firing was a little over a week before the "you've been trespassed" notice. The notice coincides with the PCA and BK's arrest. At that point, WSU does not know if he will be released on bond, so they want to make sure he does not return to campus if released. They do know that he has an apartment on campus. There is mention of an incident, but there is no date attached or specific reference to anything that happened prior to his arrest, no, "as stated previously in our ----- meeting on ...etc."
It doesn't appear, from reading the LE documents, including BK's office warrant, that WSU notified LE that BK no longer worked there. Of course, they did not have to do that, but I'd think they would have under the circumstances. LE may have searched it anyway, but perhaps not considering that they didn't bother searching the storage unit due to its apparent lack of use. If WSU
did fire him, would they have cleared his space of any personal or proprietary items
and told LE when they asked for the keys?
'All JMO, of course.
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