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.
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.
DavidAlanThomas 