Two weeks ago, Alivea sat down with members of the prosecution team, Moscow PD, and ISP.
A lot of the questions she had were answered, and she was "very satisfied at the end of the meeting."
Based on the CAST data, she doesn't think Kohberger was locked on to a particular victim during his previous trips to the scene. Thinks that maybe it was the location itself, and he settled on that house at some point later. The timing was random, and it's not like a particular person was always present when Kohberger was in the area.
She always knew the "why" would never make sense, so it's not something she has dwelled on.
Asked to see the surveillance footage that tracked Kohberger from just before the murders until just after. Describes it as "extremely comprehensive."
Wanted specific information on that CAST data, and how long he was present in the area on those occasions. "Was he outside for 4 minutes, or was he outside for 4 hours?"
Concerned about crime scene photos being leaked. "If you're confident that these photos are safe I don't need to see anything. But if you think there is a chance that they will be leaked, let me hurt myself with them right here right now so I can continue to function."
Thompson couldn't guarantee that something like that wouldn't happen, so she did wind up viewing one photo of the scene. It was Maddie's bedroom and the image was redacted.
"I have no bad blood with Bill Thompson..." She thinks he did his best and what he thought was right. She says that he believed it was a necessarily evil, and he had to think about all the families, not just theirs. "It wasn't awkward or anything."
Talks about how hard it is to know that some questions will never be answered.
Believes a full confession should have been a condition of the plea agreement. This is something that could have happened and should have happened (totally agree). That ship has sailed though.
Expresses frustration with the gag order, and how it inhibited their ability to get their questions answered during the pretrial process, and the friction it caused between the family the protection. The state had to follow the gag order though.
Talks about how insane it is that Kohberger's behavior at WSU was so "comically bad" that he couldn't even go a month without being able to fake being normal.
There is still quite a bit more information still to come. Talks about how slow the court document release of has been, "it's going to take years."
..."haven't seen anything out of Pennsylvania or the FBI."
Kohberger's sister had knowledge of his knife purchase, but the defense never argued that Kohberger didn't purchase that knife in the first place.
Doesn't think her testimony was necessary because they can prove that he purchased a 120$ gift card and immediately turned around and added the gift card to his parents account. He purchased the knife with sheath, sharpener, and a bunch of supplements. At the time of his arrest, the exact same supplements were in the trunk of his car.
Talks about the disgusting conspiracies online, "I'm so sick of it I could puke."
She engages online because she believes some people are "salvageable conspiracy theorists" who have been fed bad information, and some are lunatics and a lost cause (my characterization).
Overall it is worth watching, although I do wish there were more specifics in regard to what Alivea learned from that sit-down.
