ID. Deaths, Other Stabbings. Can LE Agree? Reporter: Dismissed?
@BeginnerSleuther Thanks for your response w link.
My post responded to this one by
@RTC:
"Now that they have a suspect BK, can they agree he is not a suspect on the other two stabbing cases in the vicinity and on the 13th??"
Re-reading my post, I see it could have been clearer, so thanks for providing link. My post could and should have said, re
@RTC ’s post:
Assuming "they" are Moscow PD & ID st. police, w whom would they AGREE that BCK is not a suspect in WA. & OR. cases?
AFAIK, no LE agency in those two other cases have said publicly, we have eliminated BCK as a suspect (but I could have missed such a stmt).
How could Moscow PD & ID st. police agree w something WA & OR LE did NOT SAY.
Another point: use of word “DISMISSED”.
In pre-arrest Nov. 28 linked story, reporter used the word “dismissed” but quoted ID st. police PIO Snell & a Moscow PD press release (in full in footnote, and snipped here):
---“we don’t believe at this point in time … are actually linked” and
--- “there does not appear to be any evidence to support the cases are related.”
OP noted "...police dismissed the connection" but I read these ^ phrases differently, short of dismissing a connection between the cases. Imo, the PIO & Moscow press release said, there could be a link, but we just don’t know now.
Not saying it’s relevant to BCK’s case, but a reminder to analyze phrasing in MSM. Imo jmo moo
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Police dismiss rumors that Idaho student stabbings connected to unsolved Oregon case
Headline: “Police dismiss rumors that Idaho student stabbings connected to unsolved Oregon case."
Story:
”The idea that the quadruple homicide was connected to other unsolved stabbings in the states of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon was later dismissed by Snell.”
“We don’t believe at this point in time that … these murders are actually linked to two other knife murders that have occurred both in Pullman [Washington], as well as Oregon,” Snell said.’
BTW, Snell, PIO w. ID st. police Snell, is referring to two other crimes in two OTHER states.
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There have been numerous media inquiries about a 1999 double stabbing in Pullman, Washington, and the 2021 double stabbing (with one death) in Salem, Oregon,” Moscow police said Friday in a press release. “While these cases share similarities with the King Street homicides, there does not appear to be any evidence to support the cases are related.”