My thoughts on conspiracies:
What happened seems impossible, but it's also seemingly impossible that the hotel would withhold footage of someone going back there other than KJ. It's impossible to believe that the coroner would withhold injuries or a rape to benefit anyone.
If we were allowed to talk about the conspiracies here or in a KJ conspiracy thread, it would be good. I'm not sure I can talk about them in this thread, even if I am just anyalyzing them. If I can't, I'm assuming the moderator wil remove what I'm about to say.
A lot of reasons that conspiracies start are:
1. Laziness. People don't verify what they hear or read in another source. They take facebook, etc, for real news and won't go look any further.
2. Ignorance. They don't know procedures and they make accusations based on what they think, without know the procedures or understanding them. Then they are lazy because they won't go look how something "should" work.
3. Group think. People love to be a group that thinks they have the real story. They love praise from that group because they "Solved" it.
4. Common fear. Conspiracists unite due to common suspcions and fears. They feed off each other.
5. Create a common enemy. They also create a common enemy or person or entity not to trust and they feed off that.
6. Conspiracy makers. Then you have those who come along and alter evidence, facts, etc to make the conspiracy more real.I do not know why they do this. In this case, they altered video and then claimed to have discovered "artifacts" in the video only seen if you enhance the footage.
I hate to bring politics into this, but it's how Russia was able to infiltrate America through social media, and people to this day still believe the conspiracies the Russians put out. They would rather also trust their conspiracies than trust the government who is telling them exactly how Russia tricked them. It's sad.
In this case, what is most said is that the release of all this information made it worse. It gave them MORE to conspire about. And in some cases, even with the truth, they STILL say things like KJ was raped and beat up. We see plainly that she was not beat up. It doesn't matter. They still say she was. The autopsy says she was not raped. Whereas you can be raped without vaginal bruising and semen present, we see she is fully dressed, including her underwear. What rapist/murderert takes the time he could be escaping with to redress her? It's just common sense. It's possible, but not probable.
One example of a misconception in this case that keeps being brought up and makes my skin burn is about the guy who goes into the upper kitchen at 830pm. Because the video keeps skipping from KJ going toward the freezer directly to the next movement in the room --which happens to be 830pm on 9/10, people are saying that he followed KJ in there, looked at what was happening to her around the corner and just decided that he wasn't going to get involved. They say he just left her there with her attacker.
The truth?
He was near the end of his shift. According to his interview, he checks the temperatures on the freezers as part of his duties. I can't remember if he was supposed to specifically check the ones she was in, and he might not have been because they'd rented those to someone else. But the reason he went back there is because he noticed,while in that area, that those wooden construction doors were pushed open wider than normal and he was curious as to why. He thought someone might be in there, so he went into the upper kitchen. As he looked down the aisle toward freezer 894, he got an alert that someone had defecated in the pool.
He left to take care of clearing people out of the pool, and after that, his shift was over, so he didn't come back. I'm gonna guess he knew people were searching for KJ and that might be why he paid more attention to that door. I don't know. But there is his simple explanation for what he was doing.
Why don't people believe him? Well, first, they probably didn't bother to read his interview. They just want to be lazy and just look at video and pictures. Next, they already decided that the video is altered and the times are wrong and tampered with. When people think that, you can't convince them of the truth.
A lot of people in this case deserve to be apologized to by conspiracy theorists because they have messed up some people's lives. I understand being suspicious, but we are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law and should not have our reputations harmed and get death threats based on wild, unproven theories.
ETA
Here is the file of his interiew under the narratives folder in the KJ evidence website: RPSP201700024677ADM106_Redacted.pdf
Notice when you read it how I just recounted this information but even my account is different than what his interview accually says. Imagine, then, that this is a summation of the actual interview, and the officer also could have interpreted the facts differently. Just an interesting observation I made after rereading the document after I made this post.
