This case is driving me crazy! I'm sure that we all have cases that we latch onto for whatever reason, and this is one of those cases for me. I am obsessed with finding out the basics of HOW this happened and WHY.
I wish that we could get a verified insider to tell us two or three simple things--HOW did he get into her apartment? Did she KNOW he would be there that day? Why did he feel the need to KILL her? Did she realize he was obsessed with her?
So sad. And for him to use a knife and not strangulation seems especially sadistic and cruel. You'd think that the mess alone would deter him since he had a very limited time frame in which to commit the murder, but no.
To me, the most perplexing elements about this case are as follows:
1) the long term working relationship they had with no obvious signs that he was, literally, a sadistic psycho-killer fixated on HER. (Had he shown any violent tendencies or obsessions, surely he would have been let go). And if he had been genuinely psychotic and hallucinating, he wouldn't have been able to hold down a professional job for so many years. I get that there are evil, sadistic thrill killers out there, but this guy wasn't a loser like Dahmer or Manson, always on the fringes or in and out of prison. He was a professional at CBs company for three long years, day in, day out, dressed in business casual, doing his job well enough to not get fired. And then one day, for one hour, he's Norman Bates. It boggles the mind.
2). the LACK of a mutual, romantic relationship between the two (an assumption, yes, but I'm all in!) that could explain this enormously risky and vicious, frenzied attack. Yes, unrequited love hurts badly, but what's even worse is the destruction of requited love. This is usually what drives relatively "sane" people to lose their minds, lose control, and slash their ex-lover to death--things like infidelity, the loss of a shared family life, the bond that comes from having children together, looming financial disintegration, and the destruction of sexual/emotional bonds. I can understand (barely), a shooting from afar due to rage and rejection, but this closeup attack is so personal and a million times more risky--why was it WORTH it to him?
Because it's not as if KS had nothing to lose or no one to love. He was married with a baby. Yes, his wife may not have been his ultimate dream girl, but still--he wasn't an unemployed incel in his parents' basement. He had a job and a profession and friends and family. So what the heck happened?!?! And WHY?
Thanks for listening!