Men with BK's eyebrow configuration (it's mostly the silhouette of his actual bone structure that's being noticed - with slightly bushier than average eyebrows) constitute about 10-12% of the European-descended North American population. IMO, based on studying variations in skull bones. Still too many to look at, of course. They may have had a footprint - still not going to narrow it down much. It's a so-called
White Elantra was sought in various ways - the public was asked to call in cars of a certain model year, but long before that, the WSU PD had already contacted Pullman police, because they looked at BK's records and knew he was a criminal justice student. Frankly, I think most LE have a kind of instinctive "let's pay attention" when a person is of about the right age to commit such crimes (based on FBI profiling), is driving a car nearly identical to what they thought they saw in grainy videos, LEO officers know to pay attention to similar looking cars - but MPD didn't want BK to know at that point (and were probably had very good reasons).
In short, many things outside the written words could have been spoken about; more might have been known - but the Judge knows that the PCA must conform to the minimum legal requirement, because the defense has the right to hear all the evidence prior to the Prelim - it doesn't belong in the PCA. The public has no right to the information until the Prelim. And even then, the Court will modulate what becomes known. There will be phone and in chambers discussions to discuss the rules of evidence. As they exist in Idaho.
The whole point is that the liver is large and even I could hit it with one slash. Practicing a martial art would of course help.
At any rate, I do not believe he had to slash more than one time. Any decent knife user, with a stationary target, could get it done in two (liver and lungs first slash; other lung second slash) Again, this is how people are taught to use knives as offensive weapons in militaries all over the world.
it's not rocket science. The whole Psycho Slasher making multiple stabs (when in this case, the coroner even said "not stabs, slashes" is not the way every knife killing is done.
If a person doesn't want blood all over themselves and their clothes and their car, they do not make stabbing motions; they do go for "gouge" wounds - maybe as few as one per victim. We may not know until trial. These are just my views.
It took me about 10 minutes to look up how to use a Ka-Bar style knife in this manner and to find multiple training videos.
So my point is that he didn't run around for 20 minutes wildly slashing. He didn't wildly stab at all. He had a plan, and it involved rapid, silent death for the victims (a style that also included less energy expenditure so that he could have killed more).
Simply my opinion. When all the autopsy results are known, I may have to eat my words.
IMO.
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I was linking to legal terms, not suggesting yours was incorrect.isc.idaho.gov
