Idaho murder suspect arrested

[Starman]

Bigger shock for 1977 - its chart placement, or that it somehow wasn't about cocaine?

Well, "Welcome Back, Kotter" was riding pretty high at the time. Actually I would have guessed it made the Top 40.

 

[Starman]

I once wrote a blog post about One on One -- pointing out some flaws with the tale while also noting how much I always enjoyed it, going back to childhood -- and the world's biggest Robby Benson fan responded with a 500-word comment. I did have to push back on her claim that Robby was the first person to expose college sports' corruption. But her passionate defense ended with a warning to me to not trash his ball-handling talent. It was truly a delightful reply.

I've gone on at times on the similarities between "Western State" in "One on One"
and "Western University" in "Blue Chips,"
and speculating on a shared-universe situation in which WU is the same school 18 years later, after a name change (promotion from state college to university), new arena and a coaching change in which the Woodenesque Moreland Smith (GD Spradlin) is succeeded by the Bobby Knightish Pete Bell (Nolte).
I've even carried it far enough to propose that the burly bull necked assistant Coach Smith brings in to rough up Henry Steele (and presumably run him off the team) is actually none other than a much younger Pete Bell.

If only they'd had the cheek to give Robby Benson a walk-through cameo role as alumni big deal Henry Steele in "Blue Chips."

heck, they could have cast Annette O'Toole in the Mary McDonnell role (Pete Bell's ex-wife) -- they're the same age.

 

[poindexter]

Saw a masked intruder, locked herself in her room, didn't call the police, didn't check on others in the house. That's a shirtty roomie.

Didn't call 911 until 11:58 am.
What in the absolute fork???

 

[Slacker]

I was thinking more American Psycho

Dead solid perfect.

 

[Slacker]

Real Dennis Reynolds vibes. But the actual thing.

Ted Bundy vibes. ... Danny Rolling vibes.

Got to wonder: PhD student in criminal justice and criminology.
Somehow got seriously twisted, and then ... was he challenging himself to pull off a perfect killing spree?

Virtually impossible in today's tech world. Besides phone tracing, cameras everywhere mean smart cops – and these cops showed it – can identify a suspect vehicle off a camera grab and then, with skills and a little luck, track it all the way back to its driveway, street or neighborhood.

How could this Brainiac/Danny Rolling wannabe not know he was posting his own trails?

 

[micropolitan guy]

To crossthread with the DNA thread and technological terror... The 12 times can be somewhat explained away, if there's something else in the area he can blame, and because sometimes the cell phone tower data can be unreliable. However, he's going to be more forked if he forgot to go deep in his Google Maps or Apple Maps settings, to turn off the Timeline function where it tracks everywhere you go at all times. Plus, *12* times is a pretty large amount, and now they can try to pull video from the surrounding homes at those times, too.

Being somewhat familiar with the area, there is no freaking reason for a graduate student at WSU to be in that neighborhood, nine miles away on the backside of UI, for a dozen times in that short a span unless he's stalking someone or casing the place.

 

[DanOregon]

Didn't call 911 until 11:58 am.
What in the absolute fork???

I don't know what type of residence it was - I know college towns have a lot of "townhouse" type of rentals that renters have their own rooms and bathrooms and shared living spaces, that are rented per room - so you may not even really know your roommates. Might have been like that - not sure.

 

[FileNotFound]

In my early 20s, I lived in a house where it was thoroughly plausible that 1/you would on occasion see somebody you didn't know and 2/you might or might not have been really, really forked up in the wee hours of Sunday morning and were in little position to take any action toward anything and might think you didn't see something you saw, or vice versa and 3/when you did in fact sober up enough to find yourself in a situation which required law enforcement intervention, it might or might not have been necessary to do some cleaning up before inviting them into the house.

 

[poindexter]

I don't know what type of residence it was - I know college towns have a lot of "townhouse" type of rentals that renters have their own rooms and bathrooms and shared living spaces, that are rented per room - so you may not even really know your roommates. Might have been like that - not sure.

She saw the killer at 4:30 am. Wearing a mask and walked past her.

 

[FileNotFound]

She saw the killer at 4:30 am. Wearing a mask and walked past her.

But that's another thing: Wearing a mask in 2022 is way less weird than it once was (depending, of course, on what type of mask it was.)

 

[poindexter]

But that's another thing: Wearing a mask in 2022 is way less weird than it once was (depending, of course, on what type of mask it was.)

He was in their place at 4:30 am and goes out a sliding glass door in the back.

Am I taking crazy pills?

 

[FileNotFound]

He was in their place at 4:30 am and goes out a sliding glass door in the back.

Am I taking crazy pills?

You're not, and I think in a rational world your observations are spot-on. People in their early 20s, however, live in a different reality. (At least I did, and my adult children do.) Things that seem odd to most adults are regular occurrences in early-20s life.