PLEA DEAL REACHED - 4 Univ of Idaho Students Murdered, Bryan Kohberger Arrested, Moscow, Nov 2022 #110

[QB2022]

Thrown into the water

 

[Shadowtrix]

Attempts by BK to delete/alter his purchase history on Amazon.

 

[Miss Poovy]

Happens all the time.

Indeed, most strictly doctoral programs award the master's after the completion of a master's thesis during the first 2-3 years. My program was 7-8 years on average. I got my master's at the end of 2 years and entered with only a bachelor's. Indeed, the one person who already had a master's had gotten hers while in a doctoral program and we all believed that it was somewhat held against her (too many other profs had already influenced her? no idea why we thought that - but she said she knew it was a liability and felt lucky to get into a second doctoral program.

Nearly everyone I know with a master's was once enrolled in a doctoral program. In super competitive fields with little funding, students are often encouraged to take the master's as a consolation prize and go do something else.

The university I went to is large and respected. You will have heard of it. It routinely awarded master's to doctoral students who stopped out. We even had one antisocial person expelled (the first time in the history of graduate work at that university) and he still got his master's and is using it to get jobs as a political consultant for the GOP.

Interesting distinction between "bench" and "soft." I usually hear "hard" vs "soft." I took classes on both sides. Definitely was better on the soft side, alking to the mentally ill patients whom we were studying genetically and with fMRI/getting their kinship charts and family history. My job in part was to recruit paranoid and atypical schizophrenics (and I was supposed to draw their blood during or after the interview - yeah, that didn't happen; we went to cheek swabs and saliva tubes).

Atypical (negative) schizophrenics or so-called "walking schizophrenics" did not talk at all. We never got a single one to sign a consent for research form. You had to walk alongside them to even be near them. They became agitated when seated, although if they were put in a nice desk chair opposite a man in a nice desk chair, they would smile sometimes. Otherwise, flat aspect. And then, they'd get up and start walking. We gave them bus tickets to get back to DTLA's skid row, where they lived homeless. I offered to drive them (once, a man accepted the ride!) Most of them preferred to walk. I'd keep on the look-out for them because I was in DTLA recruiting homeless schizophrenics for our study - and they usually showed up again after a couple of days. Many would accept food or coffee from a stranger (without a word) and just walk off. They had no care about their belongings, they would leave their duffle or backpack or shopping cart where ever and just walk off. They were all exceedingly tan and weathered and were aged about 30-50, most of them. They are thought to be suffering from derealizaton and depersonalization, rather than paranoid delusions. But truthfully, I am skeptical that we know much about their minds - so, same problem as with Bryan Kohberger. Almost impossible for a "normal" to imagine.

At any rate, when I see a person I think to be a walking schizophrenic these days, I have a whole different perspective than I did before I was hired for that research. I went on to study hospitalized (both medicated and non-) which was so much easier.

The university I worked for did not award the Masters degree if the student entered the PhD program with a Bachelor’s degree. Yes, the student could enter the master’s program and be awarded a Master’s Degree and continue with a PhD program at the University, attend another university to complete a PhD or, of course, not continue the path to a PhD. The PhD programs (entering with a bachelor’s degree), I’m referencing are hard sciences and mostly scientific, interdisciplinary bench laboratory sciences. The usual committee, dissertation, etc and the students were expected to publish in a peer reviewed publication. The student may not be the first author, but it was not unusual if they were.

 

[Leilei]

The thumbs up photo...
Just chilling.
IMO.

 

[justtrish]

July 9th - November 7th phone connected between 11pm-4am approximately 23 times.

No evidence of direct contact.

August 22nd traffic stop at 11pm on west side of Moscow

I really wish he would be required to say why them. Clearly he had his eyes on them if he was in that area 23 times at that time of night. Why that house and why them? I would want to know that because it's really baffling that these things can be 100% random. Did he see one of them somewhere that first time and follow them to the house and then a sick idea festered?

 

[mickey2942]

Attempts by BK to delete/alter his purchase history on Amazon.

It would probably be easier to work on a plan to change your DNA.

 

[QB2022]

I really wish he would be required to say why them. Clearly he had his eyes on them if he was in that area 23 times at that time of night. Why that house and why them? I would want to know that because it's really baffling that these things can be 100% random. Did he see one of them somewhere that first time and follow them to the house and then a sick idea festered?

It could be as something as simple as MM served him at her restaurant. He knew exactly where he was going.

 

[pittsburghgirl]

He almost sounds a bit excitable in his responses

Remember that many Cluster B personalities want any attention, however negative.

 

[NoeticSoul]

KBar knife has not been recovered.

 

[Diddian]

It appeared to me that BK slightly nodded his head when Bill Thompson described that Ethan was killed while asleep in bed.

 

[INfisherman]

That is one evil, soulless, sick ****.

…and that’s putting it mildly.

JMO

 

[Peppery]

Knife has not been recovered.

 

[girlhasnoname]

Knife hasn't been recovered.

 

[QB2022]

That knife is clearly in the bottom of a river.

His car was meticulously cleaned.

 

[Peppery]

car was spotless, meticulously cleaned inside as part of BKs plan

 

[DizzyB]

BK probably loving Thompson’s characterization of the meticulously cleaned car.

 

[QB2022]

I also find it horrifying that he was looking for a new kbar and sheath so soon. He was a serial killer in the making.

 

[Megnut]

I detect a tremble in BT's voice. This is his job but he is showing genuine emotion...

While BK sits there, like he's a student in class. Zero feeling.

JMO

 

[Slamalam]

BT seemed very emotional at the end of that statement

 

[Shadowtrix]

BT very emotional while finishing reading off victims' names.