Did Kohberger WANT to be caught?
For an individual studying for a doctorate in criminology, Kohberger seems to either have acted out of uncontrollable rage or deliberately made an effort to lead police to him. The crime of breaking into a house occupied by six people in a closely grouped residential area was already risky enough for him, but when LE released the photo of what is apparently his vehicle, the white Hyundai Elantra, Kohberger HAD to have known it was only a matter of time until a SWAT team was breaking down his door and pointing guns at him.
Yet Kohberger simply retreated to his family home and seemingly undertook minimal effort to hide the suspect vehicle (LE apparently found the car right away upon Kohberger's arrest).
Why didn't he run and hide in some obscure location where LE would've had to made a serious effort to find him? Leaving the country was an option too, yet Kohberger choose to stay at a location that would've been the first place LE would've search for him. One could argue that Kohberger was arrogant and overconfident he could successfully elude suspicion, but once LE released information about the suspect vehicle there could be no doubt police were quickly closing in on the suspected killer.
Had this crime been committed by a homeless person with an eighth grade education, one might assume the killer was merely simple-minded and incapable of planning out an complex crime, but someone working toward an advanced graduate degree in the very field of criminology would've normally been much harder to capture.
