10ofRods
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Ah, I see. Thanks @10ofRods . This shows he went to an Albertsons between 12:46 and 1:04 pm on the 13th, which is unrelated to committing a quadruple homicide nine hours prior.
Which brings me to something else.
I'm sorry because it's going to be a long post, but I want to comment on what @Boxer says earlier (thank you @Boxer , that list really got me thinking!).
I'm not sure we've seen any solid evidence he returned to the scene of the crime the next morning. The cell phone pings aren't precise enough to guarantee that ever happened. The white sedans captured behind the house by MSM cameras on the 13th were in the afternoon, and were never claimed as being BK's car by LE.
In fact, that afternoon is when we have the weirdest of his pings, with LE saying he pinged but they don't think he actually was in the area, which is something I am sure the defense will jump on to cast doubt about the previous pings.
That's why I really hope there is GPS data. Even accelerometer data could be useful to corroborate the alleged route.
The same goes for the Elantra footage, and this ties back to what @Megnut says. Do all the images along his alleged route show plate detail, or a missing plate, or the driver? We don't know. If they don't, the defense will use that to say that's just an elantra and all the footage is not necessarily of his, and as we know there are thousands of elantras in the area.
IMO, the problem with all the points listed by @Boxer is that (based on what little we know now), although at first, the totality seems solid, each one can and will be taken apart by the defense, and I don't know how much will remain after that.
DNA would be the biggest hurdle, but they don't seem to be shying away from trying to deconstruct that at all.
I hope this all doesn't come across as pro-BK. I just think a lot of what we've been told is not as solid as I'd like, especially if he's guilty.
The media has played a huge part in overstating what is certain and downplaying what isn't, just so they could get some "breaking news", and in the process I'm afraid we may have gained an overly confident impression of how strong the case against him is.
Remember when the talking heads assured us his car would be a treasure trove of evidence, but there was nothing there? Or that whole debacle around the ID cards in a glove in a box, which a mainstream media "source" claimed belonged to the victims' when there was absolutely nothing to back that up? And let's not forget the "Pappa Rodgers" nonsense... Much ado about nothing.
So now, the media is telling us an Amazon search warrant for sure means he bought the knife on Amazon, and a Dickies tag is definitely for a Michael Myers outfit, but perhaps it's more of the same.
Again, to clarify, I think BK's probably guilty, what I am questioning is whether the evidence will stand up to the defense's counterpoints. I really hope the prosecution has a big reveal we just haven't been privy to.
MOO, JMO, etc.
No, it's related. Here's the problem it solves:
There could be a claim that someone else drove BK's car (both during the time of the murders and later, when he returns to the scene of the crime).
I'm sure that if you don't want to be convinced that this second trip through Moscow, Lewiston, Clarkston, etc, right after visiting 1122 King Road, isn't related to the murders, you won't be. But the video at Albertson's shows that it was indeed BK who arrives at the store and goes inside, where he is shopping. His phone travels with him - so he can't claim that someone else was using his phone (and car).
At any rate, the white car is seen on video turning into 1122 King Road at around 4 am, and then is back around 9 am (probably with video as well, it wouldn't make much sense if there weren't - but at least the car leaves Steptoe Apts, where BK lives, travels to 1122 King Road at 9 am, five hours after the crime, BEFORE LE is notified or anyone knew the murders had occurred). This is highly incriminating - but he could claim it wasn't him.
Except that whoever is driving the car has their phone with them, and they drive to an Albertson's about 30 minutes away, where BK is then on camera (and seen by an eyewitness) in Clarkston, confirming that man, car and phone traveled together.
If you don't think this is related to the murders, then we can agree to disagree about reasonable explanations for these two events (BK's car traveling from Steptoe to Moscow to the neighborhood of the crimes then south of Moscow to Clarkston and then back to Steptoe, his phone on for most of both trips; his phone off only during the time he spent driving around the neighborhood (caught on camera so turning off the phone didn't really help) and then turning back on when he gets about 20 miles south of Moscow, in Blaine, ID (a quite rural area of Idaho, off route to get him home to Steptoe - so I figure he had to turn his phone back on to check a map).
IMO. I think the movements of suspect vehicle 1 (the Elantra) are very relevant to the crime, as that's the car seen near the crime scene at the time of the murders.