Skigirl
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"I hate to just keep saying the same thing but ..... And so she said she left the door unlocked, when in fact the killer left the door unlocked." - Skigirl
Except everything you've said there would only explain why Karena would say she remembered something she didn't actually remember. It doesn't explain why she wouldn't have locked the door in the first place. And I do not buy your previous explanations as to why a pretty college girl would leave her apartment door unlocked, especially when a violent ex-boyfriend whom she had a restraining order for lived in the same apartment complex.
This is somewhat beside the point, though, for as strange as I find the fact that she left the door unlocked, I'm now of the view that the forensic evidence is too strong to suspect Karena (given that it points to a male killer).
Unless somehow this unknown male is connected to Karena in some way. I have seen people argue that Karena has a brother and that this brother resembles the phenotype image, but I don't know what to make of that.
My explanation actually does account for why she could have a false memory of leaving the door unlocked, but it does not seem worth defending since the only thing that's a fact is that she could have misremembered -- and how likely that is to have happened is a matter of opinion.
Still, I tend to agree with CADWrest that the way we have heard she reported it -- not that she "might" or "could" have left the door unlocked, but that she did leave the door unlocked -- would suggest that she actually knew because that was her habit and/or she did it on purpose.
Unlocked or not, I still have trouble buying the idea that she left it unlocked so that a confederate could commit murder and mayhem. It seems to me like she would have tried to cover her tracks and say that she DID remember leaving the door locked instead of potentially implicating herself. If she was going to join forces with someone to murder Faith, wouldn't she just let whoever it was knock the door in or if that were too loud, why not unscrew some of the hinges just enough that it would be quiet and easy to kick the door in, or leave a window unlocked, or say that she just had no idea why there was no sign of forced entry and that the door was locked when she left?