One of the required courses for KG's major was indeed such a course - so if that's all she had to take, she was good to do it almost anywhere (probably had to meet up with the supervising prof 1-2 times). There was also a senior year capstone course (one for each semester - she could well have taken the spring offering last spring, but I am wondering how she planned to complete that one requirement - it was not offered as a DL course, but she could have special arrangements).
So that then begs the question: if you can do your work anywhere, and you're taking out student loans (as claimed by her parents) to afford your on campus lifestyle, why pay rent? And it sure sounds like she did not have a full time job in Moscow that would have offset her expenses.
She could have used her "internship" money (her parents are a bit confused about what the term "intern" usually means in a college - it means "unpaid work experience," but of course companies can do whatever they want about actually paying someone; I am not sure her parents are the best source on this).
If she got enough internship money to pay for the Range Rover, her rent and utilities, gasoline, medical and vet bills, food and clothing in one summer's work, then it makes sense. But that's one unusual internship, from my experience.
Just some interesting ways of looking at KG, who by all accounts was a good student and ambitious.
No. I have suggested that one motive for such killings could be that someone, somewhere, had a secret.
Then I also suggested that if people are going to theorize that there was more than one person involved in this crime, I will bet all my lunch money that this will rope in fraternities and sororities - it's not a cartel, it's not a motorcycle gang, it's not the local service workers' union members, it's not a group of neighbors, etc.
I have at least another 50 articles on hazing to read when I get time, but after spending half a day on it (and this isn't my first pass through this information), I do think it sounds like a form of gang initiation (and its intentions are the same - to create a secret code and a bound-together-by-misadventure crew of...pranksters? Sadly, alcohol itself can be fatal to inexperienced young people).
All it would take, though, is one person with a secret and a mission - and a psychopathic mind (which, IMO, goes without saying in this crime - this was the crime of a person who harbors enormous aggression, fantasizes aggression, likes thinking about weapons, is either prone to rage or hate - and is hidden in plain sight, most likely). That's why the police want the Elantra. They believe that someone knew or saw this person that night. They know who the person is. They have found "patterns" in the results of their talks with many, many witnesses - they are still stuck on the Elantra that was on campus/near campus that night. They are not telling the public that there's a rando psychopath at large.
Could one person in a frat be that person? Of course - and in that case, would all his brothers immediately turn him in? Maybe. But if, as Chief Fry said on Friday (I think it was Friday), "we don't know where the individual is." Something like that. Very scary for the town of Moscow - and especially, for LE. If, however, the frat people do not turn him in - but simply tell the truth about not knowing his whereabouts that night, that would make him highly suspicious to LE. POI's are not generally named these days, in any case.
What LE needs is for the witnesses in the Elantra to place this person at or near 1122 King Road or vicinity that night. They may have a good idea that this person left his dwelling and was out and about, but so far, haven't got him on a neighbor's camera. If it's the other scenario, in which the occupants of the Elantra are involved somehow - then yes, we do get an example of a group of people, most likely young people and university-related, being involved in a quadruple murder. In my mind, it's possible that the Elantra driver and occupant (if any) might know this person and might have seen him in the area of the house (and may even have told others this already - but are unwilling to tell LE).
There's a secret. Somewhere. IMO. The dynamics of this situation could be applied to other possible suspects, but it makes sense that it would be a student (probably not undergrad) who has known anger issues and has been mentioned to LE, and the Elantra people are crucial to confirming that they saw him that night, outside of his dwelling and in the neighborhood of 1122 King. Could be non-fraternity related, but my intuition (MOO) says that there are students who know more than we do.
Me too. Something like that. Surprising to look through instagrams of some of the frats and see a few ski masks, too. I was thinking that a person with a big self protection knife would want opportunities to display it and practice with it, too. But I bet there are quite a few people who meet that description out of the 10-11,000 students in Moscow (and some locals could fit the description as well).
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