Quite a few in daughter’s PhD program worked outside jobs. Her stipend was in the mid- to upper 30s (major metro on East coast, but not an ivy). Housing was not included. She made extra $ working in a comms lab, but it wasn’t a lot—I still sent her what I could every month.
I hope you’re wrong. I see a lot of empathy towards them on this site.
Actually $94.37 on Amazon. 26% price reduction, must be less popular now.
I totally agree. IMO BCK wanted the experience of killing, and he was willing to gamble his freedom and life to get it. One of my longtime friends was a Force Recon Marine sniper in Viet Nam. He left the military and became one of the best (IMO, and many of his colleagues agree)... one of the best clinical psychologists on the East Coast. I've never known anyone with more personal insight and transparency, so I asked him what it was like to take a human life with absolute premeditation. His words were, "It's a dangerous, potent and potentially addicting aphrodisiac. There's no other experience like it." And believe me he had a lot of experience in many unusual arenas during his long life. BCK initially took aim to obtain this experience through being an Army Ranger and then a police officer... and failed. Then he crossed the line into crime. The bottom line is he did it because he wanted to. MOO
Or even less money. Amazon sells the Ka-Bar sheath for $15 and you can buy the almost identical Ontario 498 knife for $50.
I agree. I believe whoever committed the murders is either tricky and has a plan to throw LE a curveball. Or totally forgot the sheath was left behind because of the fact they lack basic reasoning & logic.
There’s a lot missing now, such as non-communication orders with victim families.
Many people expressed that opinion online.
He could just as easily have carried it safely wrapped in a towel, could he not?
IMO the motivation doesn't matter. It's going to be irrational anyway.
There is a difference, I think, with being obsessed about murder, having thoughts of what to do and how to do it, and "planning carefully." And as I said on another thread another day, whatever plans he made could never have survived his first encounter with murdering 4 actual people in the span of minutes.
I agree. I saw where LE took the PC tower from the apt in Washington but how much digital evidence was on it is unknown to us right now. What I'm really curious about is if he packed anything incriminating such as a journal containing his thoughts, lists, plans, etc. (electronic or handwritten) and took it with him to Pennsylvania intending to get rid of it there. I saw in a couple of photos of his family home what looked to be a chimney of some sort (perhaps for a wood burning stove) on the side of the house by the garage. Could he have burned anything in that? Did LE take the ashes if there were signs of a recent fire? IMO it would have been pretty easy to conceal something like that in a bag and stash it in the trunk of the car away from the eyes of his father.
There seems to be time unaccounted for both before and after... Doodling around on my own map, it appears he came from the east with no obvious reason for doing so.Okay, I see what your saying about the Johnson Rd at 5:20 now. He was southbound on 95 near Blaine at 4:48. And I agree, likely no camera footage of him after Queen St. If he did indeed scout out a route he thought was camera free, he might have done a fair job aside from the very few cameras that captured him. And you're right, the premise of this whole thing might be far-reaching.Even I'll admit that. But, like you, I'm very curious about what he was doing for that extra half-hour, and why he went east before going back west...
Agree that is a real possibility.
Do you not think eBay purchases can be tracked?
These maps are very useful, thank you so much for making them and posting here. Very clear.
My guess is that BK kept the knife in the sheath sitting on the passenger seat until he parked and got out. He then slipped the knife/sheath into his back waist band and took the combo out at the beginning of his attack.
Maybe? I don't know much about eBay. I've never used them. JMO.
