It is often the case that we wonder where the time goes.
Would you believe it is three years to the day that Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were murdered in the rental home the three young women had in Moscow, Idaho?
While a Washington State University graduate assistant was arrested and ultimately pleaded guilty, many questions remain to this day.
Among those questions:
Did he act alone?
How could he have killed four young and healthy adults in less than 20 minutes?
Why did two housemates survive?
Where is the murder weapon?
Would a trial have proved the killer innocent?
Why was the house at 1122 King Road torn down barely a year after the murders and supposedly buried in a secret locale?
Are former and even some current University of Idaho and Washington State students walking around with knowledge of the events of Nov. 13, 2022, and not sharing with authorities?
While those and other valid questions remain, today is a day to look back on the lives of the four victims.
By all accounts, all four victims were your typical young adults. Going to school, some working part-time jobs, and most of all, having fun before they entered the real world.
I visited Moscow twice in 2023 (May and September), going to the home to see it for myself from the outside. It still amazes me to this day how such a horrific crime could have happened within the walls of the now demolished home at 1122 King Road.
Take a moment today to say a prayer for the families of the four victims.
No matter what one may think about certain family members, they all lost something precious to them on that November morning three years ago today.
From busy days at work to trying to stay on top of all the big national news of late, I had scaled back watching some of the Bryan Kohberger case.
With Kohberger not challenging his sentence, where he admitted to killing four University of Idaho students in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022, things have been rather quiet on the case as of late. That is until ABC recently aired its 20/20 episode of Idaho Justice.
I recorded the show the other week and got around to watching it the other night after a long workday. to say I had a few observations would be an understatement.
I’ve all along thought Kohberger was involved in the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. That said, I have never thought he acted alone.
With that in mind, here are but a few thoughts on the two-hour Idaho Justice episode:
ABC’s Kayna Whitworth obviously came into this episode 110 percent convinced Kohberger m*rdered these four students. In her eyes, he was a monster along the lines of Bundy, Rolling, and others. To say she was biased in her reporting would be an understatement. As someone who has been in journalism for 36 years, I always try and go into a story as unbiased as possible. Not doing so makes me feel like I do not give my audience a fair report.
Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke seem to look worse in each news show dedicated to the tragic killings of the Idaho Four. Mortensen especially has no legitimate reason for not having called 911 much earlier. She may not have been able to save any of the victims, but waiting nearly eight hours to call for help is inexcusable, to say the least. To see a strange individual in your home, hear lots of noise, and not be able to reach your four roommates (only Funke survived besides her) for hours on end should have been big red flags.
There has never been footage released clearly showing Kohberger’s white Elantra pulling up to or leaving the scene of the crime at 1122 King Road. Yes, there is a vehicle seen circling the area and then speeding away from the area. Not once has there been camera footage showing it is HIS vehicle with a Pennsylvania rear plate.
Kohberger took a bunch of selfies and that is portrayed as strange. How many of us have taken selfies over time? Taking selfies may seem to strange to some, but I don’t think his personal pictures makes him a serial killer. His earlier substance usage was noted. I have said all along I thought that what went down on Nov. 13, 2022 involved drugs to some degree.
Kohberger went to the same community college in Pennsylvania that I did, simply many years apart. That is yet another reason I became wrapped up in this case from day one.
I actually came away with a better impression of the Chapin Family. I know they have taken some heat over the last nearly three years. I know I was critical of none of them attending Kohberger’s sentencing so they could speak up for their son and brother. That said, I thought the interviews with them in this episode made them seem more likable.
Why was the home demolished and taken to a secret location? Where is a photo of the actual knife sheath? Why did Moscow Police Department members go into the house initially without guns drawn? How would they know there was no threat in the home? Finally, Hunter Johnson is the one who reportedly found Xana and Ethan in her bedroom. You mean to tell me, given the horror there, that no one went to check on Kaylee and Maddie on the third floor? I’m sorry, but I have a really hard time believing that.
While Kohberger is seemingly in prison for the rest of his life, the questions involving this case are not going away anytime soon.
Four of your roommates and supposed “friends” were just killed and the first thing you want to know when talking to police is if you can go back to Nevada for Thanksgiving with the family. Not exactly the thing many people would ask someone in law enforcement.
Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke.
That said, that is what in fact University of Idaho student Bethany Funke asked members of the Moscow Police Department on Nov. 13, 2022. Police had been called to the student rental home at 1122 King Road around noonish or early afternoon. Inside, four students lay dead.
Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were killed sometime earlier that morning. Police reports suggest the latter two were found in Kernodle’s bedroom, with Goncalves and Mogen discovered in Mogen’s third-floor bedroom.
While the murders are by far the most disturbing thing here, another disturbing thing is what the two surviving roommates have had to say over the last two and a half years.
Funke from Nevada and Dylan Mortensen from Boise, Idaho, have been the center of much attention from the true crime world on the Internet.
I have been consistent from early on in this case that I did not think Mortensen and Funke had a hand in the killings. While I still believe that, they are certainly not going to win any Roommate of the Year awards anytime soon.
Recently released body cam footage from the Moscow Police Department shows both survivors outside on a chilly and overcast Moscow day talking to authorities.
Among some of the things that stood out to me in the body cam footage:
Dylan claims Kaylee ran down the stairs (to the second floor) and yelled someone is here. That is presumably someone who should not be in the home. Goncalves supposedly was never seen again. Meantime, Mortensen went back in her bedroom and reportedly locked the door. Despite hearing Goncalves reportedly scream and a male voice say that they were there to “help” someone, Mortensen never called 911. If Goncalves ran downstairs to the second floor screaming, how did she supposedly end up dead in bed with Mogen on the third floor? Did the perp/s drag her back upstairs? I don’t care if she’s young, drunk, or just plain stupid, the irresponsibility of Mortensen when at least one of her roommates was in trouble is inexcusable.
When Bethany is first interviewed by MPD, she asks if she’ll be able to go home (Nevada) for Thanksgiving. Really?? I don’t have the words to describe that. Four of your “friends” were just slaughtered and you are concerned about Thanksgiving with the family.
My late uncle was a cop. I have worked with cops over 36 years in journalism. The majority of them are good men and women. That said, the department here made its share of mistakes. Most notably, they let a number of students congregate outside unsupervised while they were inspecting the home. Minutes later, the cops do come out and ultimately begin talking to the students. You never let potential suspects and/or witnesses alone like that.
If Kernodle was in fact stabbed some 50 times, how would Mortensen assume she was just passed out from drinking or drugs? Are you telling me there was NO noticeable blood around some 50 stab wounds? Sorry, I’m not buying that.
Mortensen notes the stranger she saw looked at her as he passed through the second floor. Rule 101 of such acts like that taking place in the home is never to leave a witness behind. So, the perp just let Mortensen live and decided to take their chances she wouldn’t be able to make a sketch of them to the police department etc.?
More to come as I get through the second half of the body cam interviews and investigation.
It is hard to believe that this Nov. 13 will mark three years since the grisly deaths of four University of Idaho students at their off-campus rental home.
Photo courtesy of Moscow Police Department.
By now, most of us thought we would have a definitive idea on what took place in that three-story home in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022. Sadly, we are no closer today to knowing exactly what happened.
Sure, many people believe Bryan Kohberger, through his admission, went into the home in the early morning hours and stabbed to death Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.
For other people, they believe Kohberger was never even in the residence and had zero to do with the deaths of the four students.
Honestly, I fall into the middle category here.
While I feel Kohberger was involved, my gut has told me for a while now that Kohberger had help or helped others kill these four young adults.
Yes, like a thief in the night, Ted Bundy notoriously killed young women in a very short amount of time. That said, those instances are not the norm. The majority of killings minus a gun, especially when taking out four lives, take some time.
MPD photo drop opens up door of questions
Over the last week or so, the Moscow Police Department had begun dropping photos online from the crime scene. While certain imagery was blurred out (presumably bodies or pictures on walls of people still living), much of the released photos left many of us scratching our heads. Given police had described this as one of the bloodiest scenes they had ever encountered, where in fact was the majority of the blood?
One photo appears to show the bed on the third floor where Goncalves and Mogen died. A bloody pillow presumably being used by the former has ample blood on it. There were reports Goncalves’ face was beaten so severely that she was unrecognizable to police when they arrived. Whether true or not, we can tell just by this image alone it was bad in that bedroom.
On the second floor, the bodies of Kernodle (on the floor) and Chapin (in her bed) were discovered by a friend known as Hunter. Kernodle appeared to have put up quite a struggle with the perp/s. Chapin was apparently rendered incapacitated before he could put up much of a fight.
As with any such big crime investigation like this one, questions are expected and downright necessary.
I continue to have questions about this case and will not shy away from asking them. Among some of them are:
Why apparently did neither surviving roommate (Dylan Mortensen or Bethany Funke) go up to the third floor over some eight hours to check on Mogen or Goncalves? This is especially worth asking after Mortensen reported seeing a masked intruder in the home in the very early morning hours that Sunday.
With all the photos (around 200 or so were reportedly being released) MPD was putting out there, where is a photo of the sheath that Kohberger supposedly left behind? Police would have it in their possession. So, why hasn’t the public seen it yet?
Where are police body cams from that day at the house? MPD had video of at least two prior visits to the home for noise complaints. Would they not have the cams rolling upon coming to a situation at the home they were not clearly able to define ahead of time? What if the killer or killers had still been in the home? Would police not want to document their initial arrival to the home and walking around it inside? Could the time stamps on the body cams not match up with the 911 call?
While the mattresses appeared to have soaked up a fair amount of the blood from all four victims, the type of knife used and the many dozens of stab wounds should have meant notable blood on the floors, walls etc. Yet, we don’t see that in most of the images. We think that might be a pool of blood next to Kernodle on the floor, though one poster on X said it could be a rug. Given the image is blurred out almost in its entirety, hard to say what we are looking at.
Why don’t we know where the remains of the home when demolished in December of 2023 were taken? Yes, one report said authorities were worried about thieves trying to get their hands on this or that piece of the home and put it on eBay etc. I would assume the home’s remains would be taken to a secure location. Yet, media for most part has never asked what happened here. I wonder about it. Were the remains buried in a landfill and no one is saying? Were the remains burned somewhere?
Finally, where is video of Kohberger’s white vehicle CLEARLY shown either driving up to/leaving the home or driving back to Pullman (Washington) in the early morning hours? You would think somewhere there would be a camera that CLEARLY caught his vehicle and its Pennsylvania plate (rear only in the Commonwealth). Yet, more than two and a half years later, we do not see it.
While this case is over for many people, many others like myself still have questions.
Yes, the questions will continue to come until the answers make sense.
Last week’s photo dump by the Moscow Police Department in the killings of four University of Idaho students nearly three years ago left many of us with more questions than answers.
I’ve maintained all along that I thought Bryan Kohberger was involved in the deaths of Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. That said, I’ve also maintained that more than one person was involved. To this day I still feel that way.
Sure, we know the terror Ted Bundy did last century. We also know about Danny Rolling and countless other killers. It is possible for one person to commit such a heinous act or acts on their own. In this case, however, my gut has said multiple people were doing the killing inside the home at 1122 King Road in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022.
I certainly see where the Kohberger acted alone group gets their thinking from.
He offered a guilty plea to the four murders. He never said he had help carrying them out. He also to this day has never named any other people possibly involved in the murders.
It would be easy to agree with people thinking this and bury the case, moving on to another high-profile true crime story.
Not so fast.
While possible to carry out such a reprehensible act in under 15 minutes, a timeline the Moscow PD has pretty much stuck by from day one, would require several things. Among them:
Using a gun and not a knife
Having a very strong idea of the home’s unusual layout
Navigating in relatively dark conditions on two separate floors
Getting zero resistance from any of the four victims
Avoiding leaving a massive blood trail out of the home
Not having your vehicle CLEARLY identified as leaving the scene right after the murders happened
We know after all this time the following:
The defendant did not use a gun. Using a gun would have certainly made the timeline much more likely
There is zero evidence to note Kohberger had ever been in the home before. Looking up the home on Zillow and being in it are two entirely different things. Even if you peered through the windows on the parking lot area above the home, you’d not see clearly into most of the rooms.
There was no evidence put forth by MPD that Kohberger used a helmet or flashlight. There is also no evidence to show all the lights were on in the home in the 4 ish a.m. – 4:15 ish a.m. time period.
We know at least Kernodle fought back. It may well be that Goncalves did too. Doing so increase the time period the killer must spend in the home.
While some of the pictures released by MPD do show notable blood in the home, there is no massive trail of it leaving from Kernodle’s room or that of Mogen’s that we have seen. So, did the perp stop and mop everything up on the way out of the home? That of course would add more time to the reported timeframe.
We have never seen evidence from MPD that Kohberger’s Pennsylvania license plate was caught on film leaving the roads out of the neighborhood. You would think at some point along the trail one would have caught the rear plate (Pennsylvania where Kohberger’s car was registered in does not have front plates).
While I will never convince the guilters that Kohberger had help, they will never convince me he did not.
In the meantime, we continue to look over the photos released to date. While some are rather disturbing, I have a few questions:
Where are the police body cams from that afternoon when MPD came to the home after the 911 call?
Why haven’t we seen a photo of the sheath reportedly found on Mogen’s bed?
For what police themselves described as a really bloody scene, why no trail of blood out of the home?
How in the world did surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke not see Kernodle on the floor of her bedroom? Dylan we know was awake enough to spot a masked intruder in the home sometime between 4 and 4:20ish a.m. One would think once safe to do so she would have physically checked on her roommates to make sure all were safe. And please spare me the line of she was a drunk kid. She was sober enough to note the masked intruder had bushy eyebrows and was tall while wearing black. She was also living away from home and paying rent, something kids do not typically do.
Safe to say that this case may be over legally, but the questions are not going anywhere anytime soon.
Ever since the document dump began the other day after quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger accepted his fate in a Boise courtroom, there has been much chatter online.
For many people, Idaho got the right guy and the case is in essence over. For many others, dissecting the case is only just beginning.
That said, the unveiling of only a few of many documents has left me with more questions than answers.
While I have maintained from early on that I think Kohberger was involved, the latest document dump leads me to think even more so that others were too.
Yes, Kohberger confessed. No, others haven’t been arrested. That said, it does not mean authorities have given us all the information. It also doesn’t mean they have gotten all the details right.
After these latest tidbits came out in the last two days, I am focusing on the following:
Kaylee’s injuries – According to documents and her own father’s words, Kaylee Goncalves had several dozen stab wounds. She also had a broken nose and teeth knocked out. All of that tells me rage. It could also be payback or jealousy. Perhaps another female student had an issue with Kaylee. I find it hard to believe a stranger would beat the $hit out of Kaylee for no good reason. While it could have been Kohberger upset that Kaylee was an obstacle to him possibly being interested in harming only Maddie Mogen, Kaylee could have diverted his attention. In doing so, he went off on her. Then again, could a female or male student have done this in wanting to get back at her for some reason?
Xana’s injuries – Much like Kaylee, Xana was heavily abused, leading to some 50 stab wounds. She apparently fought back or at least tried to protect herself. In doing so, the killer went after her hard. While Xana likely ran into the perp either on the second or first floor stairs, she had time to get back to her bedroom. She was likely wounded at that point. I have to think she was screaming for her life. With Maddie and Kaylee already wounded and perhaps fatally, that left boyfriend Ethan Chapin, along with roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, to try and help her. Most thoughts are Ethan was passed out in Xana’s bed and probably did not put up a great deal of resistance if any. Still, this struggle could well have taken 10 or more minutes. With Moscow Police Department’s estimated timeline of the killings, could one person have done all this in that time frame and apparently left the home with little or no blood trail? Multiple people could have cleaned things up much more quickly.
Dylan and Bethany’s morning schedule – If you followed this case from early on, you know that Dylan and Bethany, the two surviving roommates at 1122 King Road, were on separate floors. Dylan supposedly saw a figure in black with a mask on walking past her second floor bedroom after she had partially opened her door several times. While she was not harmed, she reportedly went into a frozen state of shock and stayed in her bedroom to go back to sleep. Then we later heard that once the coast was clear, she bolted down to the first floor and Bethany’s room. We later discovered the two were texting their roommates, calling at least one parent, and even job hunting at one point of the morning online. All this time, their four slain roommates were on the two floors above them. One of the first things I wondered was did neither of them ever go upstairs to the second floor kitchen for food or drink? What about Kaylee’s dog Murphy on the third floor? Wouldn’t he have been periodically barking to go outside? Finally, close to noon, the two reached out to a fellow student or two for help. After they came to the house, it was then discovered by the male student (Hunter) that Xana and Ethan were dead. I still wonder, no one went up to the third floor to check on Maddie or Kaylee until the police arrived? While I again do not think Dylan and Bethany were in on the murders, their version of events that morning stinks to high heaven.
With there being no trial, with Kohberger not offering up any answers to that night/morning, we may never get the truth.
In the meantime, many of us will continue to have and ask questions.
For many of us, cases like this and things that do not add up lead to theories that some may even label conspiracies….
Today’s sentencing hearing in a Boise courtroom for quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger left me with more questions than answers. Yes, I already had many questions going into the hearing.
Sitting in a orange prison suit and viewing the proceedings quite stoically, Kohberger watched and listened as multiple family and friends of the deceased spoke out on the physical and mental impact the killings had on them.
The Nov. 13, 2022 deaths of Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin captured not only much of the nation’s attention, but also parts of the world. No matter how any of us feel about the case, the victims can never be brought back to life.
Kohberger chose not to speak today when given the chance by the judge. Honestly, did we really think he would open up to the family and friends of the victims now?
I have made it known that while I think Kohberger was involved, I do not think he acted alone.
After hearing today’s Latah County press conference following the sentencing, I must admit I further question if we are getting all the facts.
I will just say for now that I think it would have been a 50-50 chance at best if the state would have gotten a guilty conviction at trial.
Today’s presser noting no known motive, no direct connection to Mogen or anyone else in the home for that matter, no murder weapon, no clear video or photos of Kohberger entering or leaving the home etc. leads me to believe the state got a gift. That is Kohberger willingly pleading guilty. The state must have felt as if it had been served a gift on a silver platter.
There is much more to say in upcoming blog posts.
Most notably what we saw and heard from family and friends today with their victim impact statements. I will save that for my next post.
Until then, more questions than answers on if the real killer is in fact behind bars or others walk freely among us….
For those like myself following the University of Idaho student murders the last two and a half years, it has been a long and windy road.
Bryan Kohberger, who recently offered a guilty plea to the quadruple murders to get the death penalty off the table, is slated to be sentenced this Wednesday (July 23) in an Idaho courtroom. When he is, it may be the last we see of him for a long time to come.
While I will not say he wasn’t involved in the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin on Nov. 13, 2022, I won’t with 100 percent conviction say he acted alone.
Sure, no one else has been arrested and charged in the case. Yes, Kohberger admitted to the crimes and did not name any co-conspirators. That said, my gut tells me we are not getting the full story.
In a couple of previous posts, I noted that I had a number of questions still to this day. Honestly, the questions grow month after month.
Among the latest to cross my mind:
Why would Kohberger reportedly make a carving with a knife on the body of Chapin? That sounds like something quite personal. Kohberger likely had no known prior interaction with Chapin. As such, why such a personal act if in fact it is true?
If Kohberger had been staking out the house as many seem to think, would he have missed noticing that Chapin was spending much time there? Rumor is Chapin moved in with Kernodle. We believe some of his belongings (including golf clubs seen in a video inside a first floor room) were in the home at the time of the m*rders. So, wouldn’t Kohberger be concerned there was at least one sizable male in the home if he had planned to enter in the middle of the night? That is not to mention at least four vehicles out front in the driveway the early morning hours of the killings.
Why would you risk allegedly s*xually a$$aulting Mogen in her bedroom with numerous other people at home? The risk-reward factor there is way out of balance.
Why were roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke spared? The first rule of committing such a heinous act of murder is never leaving witnesses behind who can finger you. As such, someone supposedly scoping out the home would know four women lived there regularly (Goncalves was back in town that weekend visiting after moving most of her belongings out in getting ready to graduate).
Will we get the full autopsy results with the gag order being lifted? While such a report may not pinpoint the exact time and cause of death for the four victims, it should provide some important clues. From the start, the law enforcement timeline of the deaths has been up for debate.
Why have we never scene pictures or videos of the removal of the bodies or leaked photos from the scene etc.? I know police reportedly kept the press off in the distance, but there were plenty of people in that neighborhood. I have never once seen body bags etc. going into or leaving that home.
Finally, can we say without a single doubt there is no drug connection to these tragic deaths? I will never buy the idea BK stalked Mogen for a number of reasons. So, what else could be the reason or reasons for these four being brutally slain?
Although the case may end to a degree with this week’s sentencing, I guarantee you the questions are not going anywhere….
Today’s quadruple guilty pleas in a Boise courtroom by Bryan Kohberger have brought on so many questions in my mind.
Yes, some of these questions have been with me for some two and a half years.
The tragic deaths of Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022 in a Moscow, Idaho rental home captured the attention of many people. That is both here at home and across the world.
That said, Kohberger will be sentenced on July 23 for the crimes he admitted to.
In the meantime, here are but a few of the questions I have:
If Maddie was in fact the target, why did Steve Goncalves say way back in the case that he (BK) did not need to go up to the third floor? Was Xana or Ethan on second floor the target. And how would BK know or not know Ethan was spending the night?
If Maddie was his goal, why not kidnap her at your time and choosing? Going into a home in the middle of the night and not knowing what is waiting for you is much more of a risk.
Given police had an approximate timeline of 15 minutes or less for all four m*rders, how did BK do it without a gun? A knife takes much more effort, especially in darker conditions. There should have been blood spray all over BK. Did he clean up real fast? And if you think BK did all this with only a knife in such a short time, why do you think that? Please don’t say because Ted Bundy could kill multiple people in a short amount of time.
If BK supposedly staked out the home, he would have known two more females lived there. Why take a chance on leaving any witnesses?
Why drive across the border into a death penalty state when you have double the student population at Washington State University. You could also blend in easier on the Wazzu campus and neighborhoods. It never quite made sense to me other than a possible drug sale or buy to go to a home in Moscow in the middle of the night.
Where is the knife? Where are the bloody clothes? While that part of the country is rather rural, you could still try and bury something or toss away and it ends up being discovered.
Will we ever discover why Dylan and Bethany f*cked around for nearly 8 hours before calling for help? And why was there never a mention of blood in the call? Surely someone had to see it if the m*rders were as bad as we were told.
Why the rush to tear down the home? Did one or more folks already know back in late 2023 there ultimately would not be a trial? If so, that is a problem
Why not go to trial? At worst, a guilty conviction and possible death sentence. At least you have chance of a mistrial, conviction but no death sentence, endless appeals etc. I do not get taking a plea deal here and essentially being a caged animal for however many years you go on to live.
Was Anne Taylor his best option? Obviously BK and his family did not have OJ type money to hire the best and the brightest. While I was impressed with Taylor early on, she did a disservice to her client at the end of the day while making lots of $$$.
While I have more questions, those are it for now.
If all the reports from yesterday in fact play out in an Idaho courtroom Wednesday local time, accused quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger will plead guilty in the murders of four University of Idaho students on Nov. 13, 2022. He is also facing a count of burglary.
Kohberger, a former Washington State University grad assistant, is accused in the murders of Kaylee Goncalves (21), Maddie Mogen (21), Xana Kernodle (20) and Ethan Chapin (20). The four were killed in a Moscow rental home at 1122 King Road in the early morning hours that Sunday in November.
While I have always thought that Kohberger had some involvement in the crime, I to this day do not 100 percent believe one individual caused all this carnage.
Kohberger, who was scheduled to go to trial later this summer in Boise, reportedly agreed to a plea deal to avoid the death penalty should he have been convicted and sentenced to death. With the death penalty now reportedly removed, Kohberger is expected to plead guilty and face life in prison without any possible parole or ability to appeal his case.
I know if I were in those shoes, I would max out this case until my last appeal was denied.
We know from recent cases the last few decades that some on trial do walk. Think of O.J. Simpson and Casey Anthony among such well-known cases. Most people think both were guilty of their respective murder charges, yet both ultimately went free.
While there is a fair amount of circumstantial evidence against Kohberger, there are also a number of questions in the state’s case against him.
If you were him tomorrow in a Boise courtroom, would you change your mind and reject the plea deal if not all was signed, sealed and delivered?
I would much rather take my chances with a jury of 12 of my peers than throw in the towel.
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