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As we are coming up on the sad 10-month anniversary soon of the killing of four University of Idaho students, one can’t help but feel a little overwhelmed with all they have seen and heard on social media.

Sites like YouTube have been full of rumors, theories and more as to what happened to Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in the early hours of Nov. 13, 2022 at 1122 King Road.

One such rumor I saw recently was that three of the four victims were tortured and killed elsewhere, then brought to their final resting place in the home. The allegations said only Mogen was in fact killed in the home.

I’ve also seen reports on YouTube that the four were killed because as part of a drug operation that had gone south. Mogen is alleged to have flushed thousands of drugs down a toilet and thus ticked off those running the operation.

If you spend time on YouTube or Tik Tok, you can also discover that some allege there are underground tunnels all over Moscow, including one at the home where the four were discovered dead. This then leads to allegations that drugs were running through such tunnels and so on.

Honestly, with the gag order in place all these months, it of course fuels speculation of all kinds on social sites.

Some have stated that defendant Bryan Kohberger was an informant and got caught up in a drug case gone really bad. Others will tell you that BK followed all three female victims on social media and was stalking at least one of them. Both claims have never been verified by authorities…. so just more chatter to fuel speculation.

At the end of the day, my theory is drugs were involved but not to the level of some highly organized cartel. No college student is likely going to be taken out by a well-run cartel because they allegedly flushed some drugs down a toilet.

More likely, I think drugs to some degree played a role in the four being killed. If that is true, it of course may well come as a shock to the parents grieving the loss of their loved ones.

Last; when all is said and done, we may find out this senseless tragedy was the result of a fight involving frat boys and it spilled over to 1122 King Road.

While pretty much anything is possible at this point, take time to think things through no matter which side of the guilty/not guilty side you find yourself on involving the defendant.

So, what do you think truly went on in the early morning hours of Nov. 13 that took four young lives?

With no Idaho 4 trial starting Oct. 2 (trial was postponed to a date and time to be announced), it is a good opportunity to look back at the tragic Nov. 13, 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students.

So, how comfortable are you with the narrative from the Moscow Police Department and others in a position of power?

While I bought into the stalker theory early on, I moved away from it months ago.

Why would someone like myself who has three-plus decades of reporter experience and has followed countless high-profile crime cases question the police narrative?

Guys like Ted Bundy, Danny Rolling and other notorious serial killers sadly made their mark by killing young women. Some of those women were killed in college settings. So, isn’t it possible that defendant Bryan Kohberger was trying to be just like them?

Sure, while Kohberger could have been infatuated with one or more of the three victims, such a scenario seems less plausible if you put emotions aside and think things over.

Any of the victims could have been easily kidnapped at a time and choosing of Kohberger’s.

The idea that the Washington State University teaching assistant would just waltz into 1122 King Road in the middle of the night because he was infatuated with Kaylee, Maddie or Xana seems a stretch at this point. Why risk being caught, potentially getting the bleep beaten out of you etc. when kidnapping them while on the way to/from school, walking or jogging, at the store etc. would be so much easier?

Even with a gag order in place. I’ve also got trouble with no full autopsy report being released, no toxicology report on the four victims, no 9-1-1 call let out after nine months and so on. Putting such information out there for the public is not going jeopardize BK’s chance to have a fair trial.

While this may not be a police and/or University of Idaho coverup, something smells fishy here.

Even though Kohberger does not strike me as having the highest IQ in the world, I also do not think he’s a dummy.

So, what might officials be hiding?

Could it be that drugs were involved or even a pay-for-sex scandal involving police or university officials?

That is not to say that any of the women living in the home or those like victim Ethan Chapin visiting were bad people.

Let’s face it; some college students get mixed up in things that may have started out rather innocent. At times, they can get in over their heads. That by no means says what happened to them on Nov. 13 was in any means justified. It was NOT justified and the person/s responsible need to pay a major price.

All four victims should be with us today living some of the best years of their lives.

With that in mind, are you beginning to question the bag of goods we are being sold by MPD and U of I?

Even though it has been some nine months since the slayings of four University of Idaho students in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022, the theories, verbal online attacks and more continue.

More notable are some of the perceived absurdities of this case that has grabbed the attention of not only many people nationwide, but also a fair amount around the globe.

With that in mind, we take a few moments to point out some of the perceived absurdities of the case to date.

Among them:

• Alleged murderer Bryan Kohberger was stalking one or more of the victims – If you take a few moments to put aside the negative feelings you might have towards the defendant, stop for a minute and think about the stalking allegation. Would someone who was supposedly stalking one or more young women take a chance on spending time with them, kidnapping them or even harming them with multiple people in a home? Yet, that is what the individual would have faced if he indeed was at 1122 King Road in the early morning hours of Nov. 13. We know of at least four people in the home and possibly six if you count the two surviving roommates both in fact being there. We believe according to the PCA that Dylan Mortensen was there. Not so much is known about Bethany Funke’s whereabouts early that morning. Now, would you take your chances grabbing or killing one of the young women inside the home with all those people and a dog there in the middle of the night? Odds are most would say no. They’d wait to get the victim when most vulnerable. Kidnapping her going to or from class, out on a jog, going to or from a store etc. makes much more sense.
• The killer wore a mask due to COVID – This has to be one of the more absurd claims I have heard for months. Hello! Do y’all remember the videos taken last summer when Moscow Police Department sent officers to the home related to noise complaints from neighbors? The videos are quite accessible on You Tube. With that in mind, watch one or both videos and tell me how many of the students wore masks due to COVID. If too busy to watch the videos, let me inform you that ZERO students on the videos wore masks. So, the killer is going to wear a mask at 4 ish in the morning while moving about because they’re scared of COVID? C’mon people…. use commonsense.
• Drugs are totally out of the question – While many of the Kohberger haters live and breathe the stalker theory, other people think differently. One common thought is that drugs played a role in the tragic deaths of the Idaho 4. That by no means says that 1122 King Road was a big drug distribution center or was taking in a lot of drugs for the tenants there. What it does say is that drug usage or selling them is a possibility. Many people will tell you the residence was known as the party house to various neighbors and others on campus. Hey, many of us had our fun times in college and did not do drugs. That may in fact be the case here. Having said that, one would be naive to think that drugs are not at least a possibility here. Newsflash! Some college students buy and sell drugs. When you have family members with rap sheets due to drugs, one must explore the possibility that drugs were in play. If so, it by no means is an excuse to kill four young adults with their worlds ahead of them.
• All Facebook discussion groups are legit – If you do a search of Facebook groups devoting their pages to the Idaho 4 murders, you will find a number of them. While most talk exclusively about the case at hand, some go off script more than occasionally. One in particular, University of Idaho Murders – Case Discussion, has turned into the local bullying and comedy store for all intents and purposes. The group admin AKA Alina Smith appears to turn a blind eye to anyone saying or demonstrating a lot of hatred towards Mr. Kohberger. Given surviving roommates Mortensen and Funke are key figures in this case, you’d think it would be okay to discuss them. Try doing that with any regularity on the site and you will be shown the door more times than not. Meantime, posting what are supposedly funny memes of BK, wishing him death etc. are perfectly fine. Hell, you can be a Realtor posing as a “legal expert” and talk about urinary issues. While there are some quality people in that particular group you can in fact have a healthy and adult debate with, they are few and far between. And if they have 222k members as they claim to, I have oceanfront property in Nebraska to sell you. Many are more than likely bots and countless duplicate accounts, many of which belong to the head honchos.

As we inch closer to a scheduled Oct. 2 trial date in Moscow, things will undoubtedly get a little more absurd in the process.

Much of the last week or so involving the Idaho 4 case has been centered around whether defendant Bryan Kohberger would be able to produce an airtight alibi. That is for his whereabouts during the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022.

Of course it was during that time period that four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered in their off-campus home at 1122 King Road.

As it turns out this week, Kohberger and his defense team did not give a clear-cut alibi as to where the defendant was during the time period in question.

Instead, Kohberger’s defense team put out a response in a two-page court document that their client has evidence to corroborate he in fact was at a location other than where the murders took place. Lead attorney Anne Taylor and her team concluded by noting that such details will at a later date (assuming they mean the trial) be provided pursuant to discovery and evidentiary rules along with the necessary statutory requirements.

So, this begs the question of could you produce an alibi in the middle of the night if asked to by a court of law, the police and so on?

Given authorities think the murders took place somewhere in the 4 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. time period of Nov. 13, many want to know where the former Washington State University teaching assistant was at that time and in the hours leading up to then and immediately after.

Face it; most people are either home in bed or at least home during that time period, coming or going to work, at work, or perhaps coming in from a very late night out.

Being able to produce an alibi, especially in the event you do not live with anyone, could be a tricky proposition. As such, some may suspect you in fact did do something that you should not have done.

While four students were murdered in the home on Nov. 13, two others survived.

Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke were lucky enough to live and tell their stories. Well, tell a portion of their stories or more apt story.

It was Mortensen in a PCA to authorities who said she was awoken no less than three times during the night to noise in the home. She ultimately reported that she saw a figure clad in dark clothing and wearing a mask walk right by her second floor bedroom door as she looked out one final time.

As for Funke, we’ve not been given much in the way of what she might have seen or heard. It stands to reason such details will come out at trial.

Online rumors have speculated that Funke may in fact have exculpatory information that could help Kohberger back up his reported innocence. Once again, such details if true will have to wait until the trial.

In the meantime, ask yourself if you would have no problem whatsoever producing a firm alibi during that time of the day if asked to do so.

Odds are many people would not find it quite as easy as they might think.