Idaho murder suspect arrested

[Azrael]

What's really weird to me is that by all accounts it was a grisly crime scene, and yet the surviving roommates reported that they had trouble waking someone up? Like, you thought the person amid this blood-splattered crime scene was just not waking up for some reason?

Yeah, things aren't completely adding up when it comes to the two surviving roommates.

Not impossible they were drugged.

 

[CD Boogie]

Not impossible they were drugged.

Not sure I follow. Drugged by the accused murderer? At what point? Seems odd to kill some, drug others. Why would you leave some alive as witnesses?

 

[Azrael]

Not sure I follow. Drugged by the accused murderer? At what point? Seems odd to kill some, drug others. Why would you leave some alive as witnesses?

If you had a(n insane) reason to kill some but not others, you might still drug them all to keep them quiet.

Drug a bottle of wine you know they'll share. Or vodka. Not impossible.

Again, we don't know nearly enough about the crime or the murderer to speculate.

But the range of possibilities in these sorts of killings is pretty near infinite.

 

[sgreenwell]

Not sure I follow. Drugged by the accused murderer? At what point? Seems odd to kill some, drug others. Why would you leave some alive as witnesses?

I would think "drugged stupor," not necessarily by this guy. I would also attribute the strange behavior of the roommate to that. If you're forked up at 3 or 4 a.m., and you see some guy walk out of the apartment, you might think you're hallucinating, and/or your normal, logical thought processes are interrupted. I remember one time there was a loud car crash outside of our five-bedroom house in college late one Friday night into Saturday morning, around 1:30 a.m., and only three of us responded to it.

 

[Azrael]

I would think "drugged stupor," not necessarily by this guy. I would also attribute the strange behavior of the roommate to that. If you're forked up at 3 or 4 a.m., and you see some guy walk out of the apartment, you might think you're hallucinating, and/or your normal, logical thought processes are interrupted. I remember one time there was a loud car crash outside of our five-bedroom house in college late one Friday night into Saturday morning, around 1:30 a.m., and only three of us responded to it.

Absolutely.

Could be as simple as high and/or hungover.

 

[kickoff-time]

All of those questions and more have been asked since this happened. There have been more than 20,000 tips, 6000 emails and 300 people interviewed. The biggest thing was tracking down his Elantra and matching the DNA evidence from the knife sheath.
This seemed like tremendous work from all authorities from local police and colleges to the FBI.

 

[DanOregon]

Further up the thread, I posted that I wouldn't be surprised if the culprit was someone the police had already cleared. Stunned that this seemed to be a random killer after all.

 

[Neutral Corner]

What's really weird to me is that by all accounts it was a grisly crime scene, and yet the surviving roommates reported that they had trouble waking someone up? Like, you thought the person amid this blood-splattered crime scene was just not waking up for some reason?

Yeah, things aren't completely adding up when it comes to the two surviving roommates.

Might be as simple as they beat on the closed bedroom door and yelled, "Hey, it's 11 o'clock, don't you have to work?" then headed down the hall.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Heard today the suspect is a vegan. Two of the victims worked at a vegan place in Moscow. So maybe he came in contact with them there.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Heard today the suspect is a vegan. Two of the victims worked at a vegan place in Moscow. So maybe he came in contact with them there.

Do Vegetarians and Vegans Think They Are Better Than Everyone Else?

 

[kickoff-time]

From NYT. This sounds like something out of CSI

"Agents there recovered trash from the home of Kohberger's family and shipped it to Idaho. Investigators said they worked to match a DNA profile found in the trash to a DNA sample collected from the knife sheath found at the crime scene. The analysis, police said, indicated that the elder Kohberger was the father of whoever left DNA on the knife sheath."

 

[I Should Coco]

From NYT. This sounds like something out of CSI

"Agents there recovered trash from the home of Kohberger's family and shipped it to Idaho. Investigators said they worked to match a DNA profile found in the trash to a DNA sample collected from the knife sheath found at the crime scene. The analysis, police said, indicated that the elder Kohberger was the father of whoever left DNA on the knife sheath."

Don't want to know what they found in the trash with a DNA sample on it …