I'm bringing this forward from
@TeaTime who posted a well thought out list (which is not in line with my thinking right now, so it interests me all the more) I attempted to attach a link, but it kept attaching something random. Sorry for the long post.
Circumstantial evidence:
He resides in Pullman, 10 miles from Moscow and is a PhD candidate in criminal psychology at WSU.
His telephone pinged in the area of the house 12 times starting on August 23 - all late night or early morning hours.
He tried unsuccessfully to connect with KG on IG on several occasions prior to 11/13.
He took a long route to Moscow from his home at about 2:45am on 11/13 (as captured by WSU cameras), turning off his cell phone minutes after leaving Pullman.
His car was captured on videos driving around Moscow in the wee hours of 11/13.
His car was captured on video driving around the house in the wee hours of 11/13, the last capture being at 4:04 am in the 500 block of Queen, the only side street off of King.
A witness in the house heard sounds, whimpers and voices "around 4 am".
A witness in the house described him as tall, athletic build with bushy eyebrows. Fits BK.
His DNA is on a knife sheath left beside one of the stabbing victims.
A surveillance camera on the house next to the scene picked up the sound of a "thud", voices and a dog barking at 4:17am
His car was captured on surveillance cameras speeding away at 4:20am.
His vehicle and cell phone depict the same way home as his trip to Moscow and the phone was turned on only after leaving Moscow.
His cell phone pinged in front of the house at 9:20-ish am on 11/13.
There is no defense but "someone else" who fits his description used: his phone and maybe car on those 12 drive-bys since August 23; his telephone to IG message KG; his car and phone on 11/13; his knife sheath; his car and phone on the 9:20-ish drive by of 1122 King Rd. on 11/13; and, none of this was known to him.
Such a defense is not reasonable and does not create reasonable doubt.
Moscow PD has the right man and he will be convicted. Surely, his attorney will advise him to accept a plea for his life rather than face the death penalty at trial.
Your list is very well put together and I've bookmarked it, so thank you.
I agree with you that there is a lot of circumstantial evidence here and the hope is that they can tie it to the murder, but there is only one piece in here that is something that ties identifies him and only him as the most likely killer and that is the DNA. My issue with the DNA is that the newest forensic science is calling it into cautious question.
I'm also curious about the messages he is said to have sent. Was that confirmed or was that still "an investigative source" via People magazine?
Tiny amounts of touch-transferred DNA have placed people at locations they had never visited and implicated people for crimes they did not commit.
www.forbes.com