I'm still reading through this thread and the thread on another forum which was linked on page 1.
There are so many things that don't seem to fit together.
If this was a hate crime, I'd assume it was the meticulously calculated, personal grudge type. The difference between a guy killing a random woman in a fit of rage or killing women because of a grudge he passes off as political, and a guy who meticulously seeks out and kills women due to a personal problem with his mother. All of these stem from the same place but the shape they take is different. I don't think this was someone from an anti-semitic group trying to send a message or they wouldn't have left room for doubt and I don't think it was a random drunk
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On one hand I'm inclined to think it was someone who was familiar with the school in some way because they seemed to just find one of the two boys in the whole school who had a single room. It seems very coincidental - finding the door with the broken lock, going up the staircase than staying on the ground floor, finding Chaim's room. If it was a complete outsider he was very 'lucky' to have found his way so quickly with minimal mistakes or to have gone unnoticed when wandering around trying all the outside doors and rooms. In that other thread, Chaim's classmate who chimed in said that more than one student on his floor beyond the one we've already heard about claimed they thought they'd heard the door in their room - which to me rules out being someone from the school, at least someone who would be familiar with that floor and known exactly where Chaim's room was.
I hope all of this makes sense as I'm rather tired.
My theory is that it was someone who had been keeping an eye on the school for some time or someone connected to the school or Chaim in some way but who wouldn't know the layout of the dorm. Perhaps someone who had an obsession with the idea of killing one of the students would have been watching closely though obviously not closely enough to know exactly where Chaim's room was. It could have been a way to get back at Chaim's family for some reason or perhaps a local who appeared outwardly friendly. I've read somewhere (either here or on the thread linked on the first page) that there were similar murders in the area - to me this suggests it was perhaps not an obsessive grudge-holder, as more psychopathic types would probably have specific 'type' and killing older people in their homes is different from a teenage boy at a school, unless the other victims were also Jewish or had links to the school.
I feel like whoever did it was probably either very experienced or a very keen amateur. I say this because the more amateurish marks - the possibility that the killer would have gone back to fetch an item left behind, the additional stab wounds that suggest something a bit more personal - could have been planted. Or they could have been genuine but with the killer also trying very hard to be very careful, so as to not leave any clues behind.
I also think the perp was an adult and not a student. The 'heavier' blade used to deliver the fatal blow would probably be too heavy (and hard to get, unless it had been stolen from a school tool shed, in which case it would have been noticed) for someone of Chaim's age and the older students were all away. IMO even one of the older students would have simply walked in using the electronic key pads as that would have seemed less suspicious and left less traces. I also think that a student who had been in the school would have had a harder time getting up in the middle of the night, disposing of the weapons and blood-stained clothes and all that and not wake up anyone else. Even the other student who had a single room would have been questioned by LE in this scenario as he was the only one who didn't have a roommate and as far as I know he wasn't considered a suspect. Students would also know where his room was located IMO.
I have a question - in the other forum Chaim's classmate said the administration didn't know the lock on that door was broken. Did it seem 'naturally' broken (like rust or decay from age for example) or could it have been forcibly broken? The latter could make the lock seem broken and would explain why none of the staff had noticed it. Has anyone read any details about this?
As usual, :twocents:, :moo:, etc. and I'm sorry if any of this sounds too graphic, I'm just trying to analyse the facts. All of this sounds very odd to me.
