GUILTY PLEA DEAL ACCEPTED - 4 Univ of Idaho Students Murdered, Bryan Kohberger Arrested, Moscow, Nov 2022 #116

[Megnut]

I doubt if he'd wear brass knuckles into Costco.

I'm confused about the timeline here, are they trying to say it was immediately after? Because I also doubt if any stores are open at 4:30 Sunday morning. The next day? Some random date after the murders?

I mean, are those marks consistently with brass knuckles? Not that he was still wearing them. He wouldn't.

This store footage is about 8 hours after the murders, 3 hours after he drove near the crime scene, then returned to his apartment, took the selfie, then drove quite a ways to shop... for something to drink.

All with also logging hours on the phone with Mother.

JMO

 

[Barbb]

I just realized the Idaho murders occurred on Nov 13 (2022) same date as the Amityville/DeFeo murders Nov 13. (1974)

Btw, I'm not saying that means anything, just noticed it. No 'paranormal' theories or anything

 

[Chloegirl]

I doubt if he'd wear brass knuckles into Costco.

I'm confused about the timeline here, are they trying to say it was immediately after? Because I also doubt if any stores are open at 4:30 Sunday morning. The next day? Some random date after the murders?

I think she means bruising from brass knuckles and not on his hands like jewelry while shopping in Costco. JMOO

I have thought this since I first saw those images of knuckles. I see evidence of injury.

He's at Costco at like 12:30pm the afternoon of the murders, so 8 hours later. This is after taking selfies at 9:30am and going back and forth between Moscow and Pullman.

His hyperactivity = ridiculous murderer trying to compensate, cover-up, get out of dodge, "act normal".

 

[realanastasia]

Thanks for the assist! ~ From what I can tell with my limited knowledge, BK may have been about 5 years old when the first American Psycho movie was released. I don't believe streaming at home was a thing yet but renting movies was. I am wondering if he had older siblings, maybe teens, maybe he saw it at an age too young to appropriately process the subject content.

I've never seen it. Is it very explicitly gory?

Not to get too far afield of the central topic of discussion, but I want to point out that the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho was published in 1991, and (probably due to its author’s reputation for chronicling the zeitgeist of youth culture of the 1980s AND the brouhaha/public outrage surrounding its publication) was an international bestseller and was widely available at libraries and bookstores where BK (if he was a pleasure reader, though TBH I don’t get that impression of him AT ALL) could have encountered it. Alternatively, it seems possible that he could’ve encountered it via an an older sibling with an interest in horror films or books (an older sister has a film credit in a horror film, which might suggest that she’s at least not opposed to films with horror content).
The funniest thing to me about this discussion of BK potentially having been “inspired” by Ellis’ book (or the film versions) is that the book, per Ellis’ own description, is satirical. Patrick Bateman (the titular “psycho”) is an utterly ridiculous figure—vain, insecure, navel-gazing, neurotic—in short, superficial to the max (in the parlance of the era). It would just figure that someone like the clueless BK—lacking in empathy, oblivious to social cues, incapable of looking at anything beyond the surface level—would mistake him as a paragon of masculine virtues and seek to emulate him.

 

[OneLove]

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The funniest thing to me about this discussion of BK potentially having been “inspired” by Ellis’ book (or the film versions) is that the book, per Ellis’ own description, is satirical. Patrick Bateman (the titular “psycho”) is an utterly ridiculous figure—vain, insecure, navel-gazing, neurotic—in short, superficial to the max. >>snip<<

Hah; I think this describes BK perfectly: vain, insecure, navel-gazing, neurotic, and superficial to the max. Didnt he also think of himself as too clever to get caught? Yep; I'm more convinced than ever that Bateman was BK's hero and role model.

And thanks for the history. I wasn't aware of the book t all and would much rather read it than watch a version of it on the screen.