I don't go for the black-and-white thinking I've seen in the MSM and on social media that if he did it, then everything must be true and all his actions are suspect.
I consider nuance in pretty much everything. People, in general, are rarely "black and white." ! I also wonder why so many people are determined to believe that
BK is the murderer. He may be, but why the insistence to "convict" on partial evidence or on the increasingly common assurance that, "LE has more that we'll see at the hearing..."
I enjoy the discussions and deep dives into what we know, but I don't feel the need to declare BK guilty or not guilty based on incomplete information.
Apparently there are multiple videos, including the one of the three-point turn, so seems like with all those angles and all that technology, it seems like they'd be able to zero in. IDK and ICBW. I still find it a point of interest.
Yes. How are there so many videos of this white car, but visuals of the license plate?
I agree. The only other real difference I saw was the color of the grill and I don't know how many versions of that car were available. Some vehicles have all kinds of trim options so, at this point, I don't know if that was simply a different trim option or an actual difference between the model years.
I realize that the FBI has cool tools to help them clean up pictures and videos, and I'm sure they do a lot more than Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop, but I don't think even the FBI can fix everything. Headlights create glare on the cameras, bad angles as the car comes through, speeding car creates blur, a car passing the other way blocks the view, bushes or trees between the car and camera, etc.
Very true, but I think the question some are raising is that the person who identified the car is a 35-yr vet, not your garden variety web sleuth. @
Montecore1 was able to point out several differences between the models the FBI agent told LE to look for and the 2015 model BK owns, yet the FBI agent did not make the distinction. IMO, that seems less like a mistake by a LE veteran and more a matter of unclear videos.
I'm amazed and intrigued that there does not seem to be video or photo evidence of the car's back plate. I am making the assumption that no such evidence exists (1.) because LE requested info on the driver of a white Elantra rather than using license plate info to identify the owner of the car.
MOO the traffic stop won't be the only data of his route that night.
There will be pings amd probably satellite location.
Given BKs penchant for speeding i would think he got stopped, warned and as a courtesy only ticketed for his seatbelt.
My opinions are based on
what know now and
what we have court documentation to support (as much as we can around seals and redactions), not what LE might have later.
It only shows that his DNA was on an object that would have been carried into the crime scene.
This is so important. BK's DNA on the knife sheath found at the murder scene does not automatically = BK was at the murder scene.
They hoped to flush BK out. They were trying to entice him to do the thing that was best for him - and for Justice, which is go talk to police. He of course knew Criminal Procedure (at least a little, given that he might have taken it online and not have had to actually visit courtrooms). A guilty person should never go talk to police, is likely what he learned on Reddit and in his CJ classes (let's not forget he was active on various SM and not just as a commenter - he clearly knows how to read).
The jury will understand that the year difference is not a big deal (and if it is, then the State's case is fairly weak).
I find that hard to believe LE would attempt to flush out a known person of interest suspected of committing a mass homicide. And certainly not with purposely incorrect information. If they really thought he was the killer, unless they were tailing him 24/7, allowing him to come to them would have put potentially put other people in danger.
'The mistaken model year will likely be of little to no consequence if other pieces of evidence tie BK to the murders. However, as a juror,
if his car was the chain that linked BK to that house on the night of 11/13, the year difference would absolutely be a big deal.
Yep. You may be right, and ICBW, but 'pending student conduct charges' probably related to the reasons he was fired from his position, and we already know the basic reasons for that
That letter makes me, once again, question if BK was actually fired. The supposed firing was a little over a week before the "you've been trespassed" notice. The notice coincides with the PCA and BK's arrest. At that point, WSU does not know if he will be released on bond, so they want to make sure he does not return to campus if released. They do know that he has an apartment on campus. There is mention of an incident, but there is no date attached or specific reference to anything that happened prior to his arrest, no, "as stated previously in our ----- meeting on ...etc."
It doesn't appear, from reading the LE documents, including BK's office warrant, that WSU notified LE that BK no longer worked there. Of course, they did not have to do that, but I'd think they would have under the circumstances. LE may have searched it anyway, but perhaps not considering that they didn't bother searching the storage unit due to its apparent lack of use. If WSU
did fire him, would they have cleared his space of any personal or proprietary items
and told LE when they asked for the keys?
'All JMO, of course.
