How many of you are thinking right now that this case against Brian Kohberger, the alleged murderer of the four Idaho students, is incomplete?
There are a lot of questions to be asked.
Putting aside DNA evidence for the time being, why would Kohberger target these four Idaho students?
In the seven weeks since the murder, not one person has come forward to state that Kohberger knew any of these four students.
So how did he meet them?
How would he know where they lived?
How does he know anything about the house?
For all he knew a burly cop with a gun might have lived in that house.
So how does he develop the guts to go into that house not knowing that a person with a gun might be living there?
He could have known that if he had been in that house numerous times.
Yet no one has come forward to put him in that house in anyway.
Isn’t that strange?
Maybe it was an inside job. Maybe Kohberger was a murderer for hire.
I am concerned with how this case was handled.
If the police suspected him when he was living in Pullman, why didn’t they bring him down to the station and ask him questions?
That’s the traditional way.
Many suspects incriminate themselves during the interview process.
Wouldn’t it have been better for them to bring him down to the station, ask him questions, get a DNA sample there, if he so agreed, and listen to his side of the story.
How many times have we seen suspects brought down to the station to be asked questions?
A lot of times.
Perhaps he has an alibi that is rocksolid.
My concern is that by not bringing him down to the station, by not giving him the opportunity to clear himself, the police fostered and encouraged a bias toward convicting him.
It almost seems as if they didn’t want to know that he could be potentially cleared.
Perhaps there was too much pressure upon the police to solve this case.
The white Hyundai ELANTRA is hardly evidence enough in itself.
The Hyundai ELANTRA is a very popular car. Looking at the production numbers there were easily 100,000 of these vehicles sold per year for the last 10 years
That makes approximately 1 million of these vehicles on the road in America.
Assuming that one and every five of these is white colored (White is a popular color. Just look on the road the next time you are driving.), that yields, given a population of 325 million, approximately one white ELANTRA for every 1625 people
Given that there are approximately 50,000 people between Pullman and Moscow, plus another 25,000 in the surrounding area, that would make for approximately 50 white ELANTRA’s.
Factor in that the ELANTRA is a car more likely to be owned by college students, and you can estimate that they’re probably 60 to 70 white ELANTRA’s in the area.
So, having a white ELANTRA is hardly enough to convict Kohberger.
Let’s not also forget that the police were looking for an ELANTRA of model year between 2011 and 2013
Kohberger’s white ELANTRA is a 2015 model.
As far as the cell phone records are concerned, a cell phone tower usually handles a radius of a mile or two before handing off to another cell tower.
Even though Kohberger’s cell was found around where the four students lived, there are a lot of eating and shopping establishments within that radius
Now, to the DNA evidence. From what we know so far, they did not have prior to the arrest a direct sample of DNA from Brian Kohberger.
They used genetic genealogy to arrive at Brian Kohberger as a suspect. Well, genetic genealogy is not foolproof. Wrong accusations have been made in the past.
The DNA they retrieved came from the sheath of the knife that allegedly was used to kill the four Idaho students. It was left behind.
What!
Why would such a careful killer leave behind the sheath of a knife. And if he did, why would one of the students on the bottom floor not see him carrying a knife on his way out the door?
And why would this student having viewed the perpetrator, allegedly Kohberger, at around 4:30 in the morning, not call the police right away?
If you’re that scared, why would you not call?
Does anybody think this is strange?
It is strange.
In the field of medicine, we build a diagnosis from the bottom up. We take a history first, then we do a physical exam. Then we order tests after that.
The test results generally should fall within the context of the history and physical. If they do not, then we begin to question the validity of the tests.
The same should apply to the investigation of a murder.
This is why law-enforcement is encouraged to build a case from the bottom up, the traditional way.
This does not seem to be done in this case.
From my perspective it appears that the police relied too heavily on the DNA evidence and built this case from the top down.
This is not to say that Kohberger didn’t do it.
But maybe he was a murderer for hire. Maybe there are other people involved. Maybe
How many of you are thinking right now that this case against Brian Kohberger, the alleged murder of the four Idaho students, is incomplete?
There are a lot of questions to be asked.
Putting aside DNA evidence for the time being, why would Kohberger target these four Idaho students?
In the seven weeks since the murder, not one person has come forward to state that Kohberger knew any of these four students.
So how did he meet them?
How would he know where they lived?
How does he know anything about the house?
For all he knew a burly cop with a gun might have lived in that house.
So how does he develop the guts to go into that house not knowing that a person with a gun might be living there?
He could have known that if he had been in that house numerous times.
Yet no one has come forward to put him in that house in anyway.
Isn’t that strange?
Maybe it was an inside job. Maybe Kohberger was a murder for hire.
I am concerned with how this case was handled.
If the police suspected him when he was living in Pullman, why didn’t they bring him down to the station and ask him questions?
That’s the traditional way.
Many suspects incriminate themselves during the interview process.
Wouldn’t it have been better for them to bring him down to the station, ask him questions, get a DNA sample there, if he so agreed, and listen to his side of the story.
How many times have we seen suspects brought down to the station to be asked questions?
A lot of times.
Perhaps he has an alibi that is rocksolid.
My concern is that by not bringing him down to the station, by not giving him the opportunity to clear himself, the police fostered and encouraged a bias toward convicting him.
It almost seems as if they didn’t want to know that he could be potentially cleared.
Perhaps there was too much pressure upon them to solve this case.
The white Hyundai ELANTRA is hardly evidence enough in itself.
The Hyundai ELANTRA is a very popular car. Looking at the production numbers there were easily 100,000 of these vehicles sold per year for the last 10 years
That makes approximately 1 million of these vehicles on the road.
Assuming that one and every five of these is white colored (White is a popular color. Just look on the road the next time you are driving.), that makes approximately, given a population of 325 million, approximately one white ELANTRA for every 1625 people
Given that there are approximately 50,000 people between Pullman and Moscow, plus another 25,000 in the surrounding area, that would make for approximately 50 white ELANTRA’s.
Factor in that the ELANTRA is a car more likely to be owned by college students, and you can estimate that they’re probably 60 to 70 white ELANTRA’s in the area.
So, having a white ELANTRA is hardly enough to convict Kohberger.
Let’s not also forget that the police were looking for an ELANTRA of model year between 2011 and 2013
Kohberger’s white ELANTRA is a 2015 model.
As far as the cell phone records are concerned, a cell phone tower usually handles a radius of a mile or two before handing off to another cell tower.
Even though Kohberger’s cell was found around where the four students lived, there are a lot of other eating, and shopping establishments within that radius
Now, to the DNA evidence. From what we know so far, they did not have prior to the arrest a direct sample of DNA from Brian Kohberger.
They used genetic genealogy to arrive at Brian Kohberger. Well, genetic genealogy is not foolproof. Wrong accusations have been made in the past.
The DNA they retrieved came from the sheath of the knife that allegedly was used to kill the four Idaho students.
What!
Why would such a careful killer leave behind the sheath of a knife. And if he did, why would one of the students on the bottom floor not see him carrying a knife on his way out the door?
And why would this student having viewed the perpetrator, allegedly Kohberger, at around 4:30 in the morning, not call the police right away?
If you’re that scared, why would you not call?
Does anybody think this is strange?
It is strange.
In the field of medicine, we build a diagnosis from the bottom up. We take a history first, then we do a physical exam. Then we ordered tests after that.
The test results generally should fall within the context of the history and physical. If they do not, then we begin to question the validity of the tests.
The same should apply to investigation of a murder.
This is why law-enforcement is encouraged to build a case from the bottom up, the traditional way.
This does not seem to be done in this case.
From my perspective now it appears that the police relied too heavily on the DNA evidence and build the case from the top down.
This is not to say that Kohberger didn’t do it.
But maybe he was a murderer for hire. Maybe there are other people involved. Maybe Kohberger knew people who had it in for the four Idaho students.
A better way to solve this case might be to compare all the people who own a white ELANTRA in the area with all the people who knew or who came in contact with the four Idaho students. Then compare those lists with all the people who had contact with Kohberger.
It might be fruitful.
Sincerely,
Archer Crosley
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