Moving away from the stalking premise

For much of these last eight months, the narrative behind the tragic murders of four University of Idaho students on Nov. 13, 2022 has been one or more of the women killed were targeted. The specific premise was that stalking was in play, notably with victim Kaylee Goncalves.

Move ahead to late June, much of the narrative from the police, prosecution, mainstream media and even many of the social media sleuths is that suspect Bryan Kohberger targeted one or more of the women in the home at 1122 King Road.

Along with the idea that Goncalves was being stalked, there have been suggestions that both Maddie Mogen and Xana Kernodle could have been the targets from their days working as servers at the Mad Greek restaurant in Moscow.

While it is certainly plausible that the end game when a trial finishes is we learn in fact Kohberger stalked one or more of these college students, I’ve moved away from that.

If you stop and think about things for a minute, why on Earth would someone take all the risk involved of entering a strange home in the middle of the night (technically early morning hours)? To satisfy some kind of sexual desire with a woman or women he could never date?

Emotions aside, think about the amount of risk involved, not knowing what is waiting for you on the other side of the door and armed with only a knife.

We know one of the victims, Ethan Chapin, was spending the night with his girlfriend (Kernodle) at the residence. Mogen also had a boyfriend who was not visiting this particular evening. What if he would have in fact been there? Goncalves could have had her on again/off again boyfriend there that night also. The two surviving roommates (Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke) might have had male guests there too. That is potentially a lot of males to go through for a single killer.

With that in mind, why not kidnap your object of desire when she is most vulnerable and not in a home full of others? That seems a much more plausible idea than going into a home with four vehicles out front and God knows how many people inside.

One of the other theories out there that I’ve swung more to in recent months is these killings involved drugs.

It makes more sense to think this could have been a drug hit, a drug sale gone bad etc. What may have been the idea of a single kill or sending a message got out of hand and before you know it you’ve got four dead bodies.

If you visit any number of the chat pages online devoted to the Idaho 4 murders, even remotely suggesting drugs were in play will draw the anger of many. In the eyes of many, college kids may drink a little here and there and get rowdy at times, but they NEVER do drugs. I’ve got news for you, drug use on college campuses and off-campus homes and apartments is a hell of a lot more prevalent than you may think. If you think it is not, you are naive.

No, I’m not saying all the residents in that home at 1122 King Road were heavy into drugs. For all we know, none of them may have done drugs at all. Then again, let’s not rule such a thing out because it is a dirty topic to talk about.

As we move closer to a trial, we will undoubtedly hear many continuing the theme that the suspect was a stalker and this was all about killing one or more people he could not have.

While that may ring true at the end of the day, at least keep an open mind to the possibility that this tragedy involved a lot more than that.