I like that theory. If this was the case, what I'm curious about is LE's reasoning for excluding from the PCA a camera capture of the suspect vehicle driving east through Moscow. What are your thoughts re the basis for excluding a camera capture in Moscow prior to East Indian Drive capture? My speculations are that for the purposes of the PCA, inclusion might have been deemed unecessary; LE wanted only, at this point, to show how the suspect approached the King ST house prior to alleged entry, ie East Indian Drive at 3.26 to Styner at 3.28, cross Highway then carry on pretty much directly to King to be captured on Queen at 3.29am if that makes sense? ( As an aside, I noticed on a more careful reading of PCA that the author has a number of times confused the offical address of the house- referred to as the "King Street Residence"- with the access street - Queen Street. When suspect vehicle is referenced at driving east and west along "King Street" between 3.29 and 4.04, the author has to actually mean Queen Street - this is an understandable error - the address is a King Street address- but should be corrected if possible IMO).
I looked at routes on Google Maps from East Nevada Street Pullman (@2.53) to East Indian Drive. If LE has not witheld camera capture/s in Moscow between 2.53am and 3.26am owing to relevence to PCA, I speculated that BK/suspect vehicle could have reached East Indian Drive via Johnson/Sand Road to the South of Moscow which is the route LE believe BK used for the last part of his return journey according to the PCA. Sand Road crosses the Highway South of Moscow and from there BK could have connected with East Indian Drive. I'm not sure how to post Google maps here but using directions and just studying the routes myself, this route stood out to me as one BK might take if he wanted to avoid camera capture in Moscow. Still just thinking about his whereabouts between 2.53 and 3.26am. At that time in early morning google directions says c 12-16 mins from East Nevada Street Pullman to Sand Road/Johnson Cut Off Road immediately south of the Aboreal Gardens, Moscow. That would have BK on Sand Road, South of Residential Moscow at 3.05-3.09. From there it's another 5 mins to 700 Block, East Indian Drive.
These are good thoughts! For me, the question would then be why, if he was trying to evade camera capture on the way there, would he drive so far east, only to drive north and then west through a neighborhood before going to King Rd., especially if that isn't the route he took home. And, if he took Sand/Palouse Rd any farther east than the Conestoga Dr. mentioned in the affidavit, he would have passed many places likely to have CCTV, such as a couple businesses, industrial buildings, and storage facilities, before turning to go back west through the neighborhood.
When he was last seen in Pullman, he was on 270, which turns into 8. At one point, LE looked at businesses in Troy and Kendrick for surveillance footage. If BK took HWY 8 through Moscow heading east, and was seen on camera on the east edge of town, still going east, that would lead directly to Troy. Since LE wanted to look for footage there, it makes me wonder if the Elantra was already known about and they were trying to find out where it went. IMO, this didn't need to be included in the PCA because that only raises doubt as to if it was the same vehicle as later seen heading west, if that makes sense.
Here's just a random example. There is a state roads building along Hwy 8 east of Moscow that appears to have a camera. It's 20 minutes from Pullman to that building. That puts him there around 3:13. He then heads south through rural roads and comes out on Indian Hills Dr. Per Google, that would take around 8 minutes, so depending on what roads he takes and/or speed, ending up on 700 block of Indian Hills Road at 3:26 doesn't seem too implausible.
Regarding his exit after the crime, him leaving on Sand Rd, if he stayed on Sand Rd south, then turned east on Snow Rd, it eventually meets up with Hwy 95, just north of Blaine, where his phone was turned back on. That route would also have avoided cameras as it's very rural, imo.
This is probably a huge over-analysis on my part, but I have that tendency with maps.
