People might expect not only high standards for the burden of proof.
People sometimes doubt that the alibis were as well-checked, and some recent cases give them ample reason to doubt.
Personally, I do feel upset about some cases, too, like Suzanne Morphew’s one. When will justice be done there?
Looking at it from the opposite side, though, one badly patched up case in a different state automatically increases requirements to all subsequent ones.
About BK. What gives me uneasy feeling about him is the reaction of these women in a restaurant in PA. Remember, when he was asked to leave because he gave them creeps? Such nonverbal signals I tend to trust.
Yet the problem with the murders in Idaho lies, it seems, in the house that has been known as a “party” one long before the victims moved in there. It also seems that the house had a very poor protection. Add to it no firm evidence of stalking or obsession by BK who is a total outsider plus the fact that the four victims were vibrant, social, active and well-known in town, and the dire need to prove that it was him becomes obvious. JMO.
We know what they did here from details shared at these hearings, and from court filings. They started in, and then they worked out. They looked at people the victims knew, people they interacted with, and even people in other states. They had that sheath DNA, but at the time, had no idea who it belonged to. We even heard that they collected a discarded cigarette to compare to the sample they had.
They seem to have done what they should have done with the other DNA that they found, but it was apparently not of the quality that would allow for a CODIS upload.
They also communicated with nearby law enforcement agencies that they were looking for a white Hyundai, and scoured surveillance footage in an effort to trace its movements. They obtained geofence data to locate any cellphones in the vicinity of the crime scene around the time of the murders.
That's exactly what they should have done.
Simultaneously, they sent a DNA sample to Othram, in an effort to perform genetic genealogy, a step we rarely see at that stage of an investigation. This was no ordinary case though, as they were dealing with an almost unprecedented crime, and a very dangerous quadruple murderer who was on the loose.
Finally, they got a tip from the FBI based on their genetic research, and had a name to work with. I've said this before, but there's never been an easier time in history to prove or disprove an alibi. Once they obtained phone records, and surveillance footage, they were more confident than ever that Kohberger's DNA would match what was on the knife sheath.
It did, and the rest is history.
No investigation is perfect, but all indications to me are that this was off the charts solid.
Every case is different, and you've got people looking at other high profile investigations where mistakes were made, and now view every single one through the same lens.
That's not how it works.
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