While we wait for new things to be undisclosed, been rethinking some things. Phones and cameras present a big conundrum for criminals/murderers these days and
I’m back to thinking about why BK didn’t just leave his phone at home in ‘on’ mode. Can’t remember if BK’s apartment complex in Pullman had outside surveillance cameras or not.
Anyhoo, I think he didn’t leave his phone at home cuz if complex had cameras, he might’ve thought the cameras could pick him up/show him departing. Or if no cameras there, maybe thought a neighbor potentially up/awake at that hour might see him leaving. Both of those things would blow ‘I was at home/home sleeping the whole time’ alibi out of the water. Guess he must’ve chose the lesser of 2 evils (pardon the pun), decided to take the phone and shut it off was the better option thinking they wouldn’t be able to prove he was at crime scene because he thought shutting off phone couldn’t track/trace back to him??? Or that cell tower ping/triangulation couldn’t place him at the scene (I was out driving around just not over there).
But drives his own vehicle to do the murders??? I mean he had to know there were some outdoor cameras around 1122 King as he’d driven by there a dozen times in the months prior. Idk maybe he thought the cameras near 1122 King Road would be too grainy or something.
He really had no other way to get there though unless he rode a bike, stole or rented a vehicle, walked lol, well all those things are traceable too because……cameras. I guess if he rented a vehicle a day or two before (ala stepmonster Leticia Stauch). Of course, a rented vehicle would be picked up on cameras around 1122 King but might? have taken a little longer for LE to trace a rented vehicle back to him.
I tell yah, digital footprints trip these guys up so bad. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad because they’re getting caught faster with more frequency these days thanks to ever improving digital forensics technology which is a good thing for everyone/society.
Unless you live under a rock, you know there are cameras just about everywhere today. So unless you want to live out in the middle of nowhere or on some deserted island with no cameras around and don’t own a phone, don’t expect to get away with murder too easily. Even if you commit murder inside your home with no cameras around, you still need to travel outside to get rid of body unless you bury body under your basement, well eventually cops will come calling when people notice victim is missing and/or the corpse’s smell becomes so bad, your visitors or neighbors will report it. Can’t bury body in your backyard because your neighbors might have surveillance or ring cameras.
Even the best made and executed plans will likely come back to haunt/bite you in some form or fashion via digital forensics.
I guess in this case I’ve just been a little more perplexed than usual knowing BK’s a Criminology graduate and PhD candidate showing interest in working in LE at one point
should know better than most of his ilk, or was it just utter arrogance, or for the notoriety???
I’m going with a combo of the latter 2.
Another thing I wonder about BK,
after watching a killer in prison interviewed recently that said he’d had homicidal urges for awhile and intrusive obsessive thoughts that were driving him crazy is how he described it. He said once he gave in to his urge and murdered his girlfriend, he felt healed because the obsessive thoughts finally stopped. He needed those thoughts out of his head.
Made me stop and think of BK given his OCD r/t if he had some of these/similar type urges/compulsions and obsessive thoughts. Can’t remember the killer interviewed’s name but I watched it on ID channel, Interview with a Psychopath I believe is what the show’s called, something like that. FBI profiler Brad Garret is a contributor on the show.
I’ve watched a few killers interviewed on this particular show. It is mind numbing to see some of these perps speak about and describe the killing(s) without a shred of sorrow, emotion or remorse, like it was just another routine day in the life of…
Absolutely chilling.
IMHOO