We all have questions involving the tragic quadruple murders of four University of Idaho students last November. 
Whether you follow the case regularly or check in here and there, odds are you wonder about differing aspects of the case.
To say this is a puzzling case would be an understatement.
Thankfully, it is not everyday that four young and healthy adults are slain in a matter of minutes in their off-campus rental home. What went down that morning at 1122 King Road is still a mystery to many of us following the case.
With that in mind, here are but a few of the questions I have still some eight months later:
- Did Bryan Kohberger do it? – I have gone back and forth on this one for months. Part of me says he’s involved in some manner. Whether there on a drug deal gone sour or part of a bigger plan to take out four young adults, one could argue there are too many coincidences for BK not to have played some role here. On the other side of the coin, he could have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yes, it is a possibility. The touch DNA on the sheath left behind will be argued in court when the defense team brings in its own DNA experts. As for the phone pinging and vehicle reportedly at and around the home, it sure does not look good. Having said such a thing, a good defense attorney can explain away these things. Yes, I believe Anne Taylor is such an attorney. Time will tell if the jurors buy what she and her team are selling.
- Where were the two surviving roommates? – One of the top questions I hear and see from online sleuths would be where were Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke during this tragedy? According to the PCA released a few months back, Mortensen was in a second floor bedroom (down a ways from victim Xana Kernodle and right below the third floor room of victim Maddie Mogen) and opened her door on three different occasions. As such, one can interpret that she was not asleep in the lead up to and the actual killings. If she has been sound asleep, she’d not reported seeing a figure in black and with a mask on pass by her door after opening it the final time. Let me ask you, is it common for masked individuals to be in your home between 4 ish and 4:30 ish a.m.? If you say yes, I question the kind of home and environment you live in. Seeing such a figure should have set off alarm bells in this young woman’s head. If nothing else, go check on your fellow roommates once the coast was clear to do so. If you could not wake any of them after knocking on their bedroom doors several times and texts or calls went unanswered, by all means call 911. Part two, was Funke sleeping through all this terror? There are reports she and Mortensen were in factor texting one another during the time period in question. While police reportedly confiscated both their phones, were burner phones in play by any chance?
- How could none of the neighbors not seen or heard anything? – I went to 1122 King Road back in late May. Walking around the outside of the home and through the immediate neighborhood, it is much more compact than what you may gather from TV or online pics and video. So, how could NO ONE nearby not heard or seen anything? I get it is a college neighborhood and that can mean young adults passed out from a Saturday night of partying etc. Still, you mean to tell me absolutely no one nearby heard any screams, saw people coming and going at the home etc.? Sorry, but I think one or more people know something and are afraid to or purposelhy won’t come forward for any number of reasons.
- Were drugs the motive for these deaths? – Last; one of if not the touchiest subjects along with the two surviving roommates would be the possibility of drugs being in play. We know for a fact that the stepmom of Maddie Mogen and the biological mom of Kernodle have drugs pasts and records. It is also know the defendant has a drug past. So, it is by no means a wild stretch of the mind to think these deaths involved drugs in some manner. Anyone kind enough to read my posts these last few months knows I have harped on the Moscow Police Department narrative of BK stalking one or more of the female victims. Put your commonsense thinking caps on folks. If you are going to stalk one or more college women, why on Earth try and break into a home full of healthy and fit young individuals in the middle of the night? You are playing with fire that there could be multiple people awake in the home, a gun could be there, a dog and more. If you had a fixation on one or more of these young college ladies, would you not try and kidnap them at the perfect opportunity? This could be walking to and from class, out for a jog, going to or from the grocery store etc. It makes little to no sense to try and break in the home at 4 ish in the morning and grab them. And please don’t tell me that BK was trying to emulate Bundy or some other notable killer. Given all the tragic and twisted terror Bundy created decades ago, BK is no TB.
As we await trial down the road, what questions do you have about the case?
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DavidAlanThomas 