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I think we're all here with the same questions. People spend time in school for lots of reasons, that's for sure (I teach college). He started by studying psychology (AA and BA) then got an MA in Criminal Justice (not quite the same thing as criminology but is a good gateway to getting a doctorate in criminology). Most of his classes were online. He himself likes Rational Choice Theory (so good question about his own reasoning) and Script Theory (according to Prof B, a young professor who considered him brilliant and recommended him to WSU). He was in his first semester there, but was fired from his TA job along about Dec 9 after "altercations" with a professor and some other reasons.
The idea that he had fantasies about killing and was therefore drawn to criminology is definitely near the top of my own list of theories.
No one knows his motive. He might not even know. I suspect he did have some kind of weird connection to one or more of the housemates, though.
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I was just wondering about the schooling because even just starting out, you can get an Associate’s in Criminal Justice, then move from there, but like you said he started with Psychology, which in my opinion leads me to believe that maybe he wasn’t always thinking about murder. Maybe as a child he was suffering from his own mental health illness such as the “white snow” mentioned. He was heading for a journey to understand himself.
Then something may have changed in him, maybe he was mocked one too many times, ignored, let’s down or failing to find the answers he was looking for. Then after obtaining the BA it wasn’t enough. He turned, he then switched to the criminal justice degree. Started publishing online forums from DeSales wanting criminals to answer these kinds of questions, that maybe a potential murderer would want to know. The thought of that is scary. Can there be a theory or link made just from looking at his schooling? Do you all think this has a relation and can show us a pattern or even when he changed towards a path of no return.
I’ve opened my mind to different theories and possibilities because there aren’t any answers.
Let me just say when Kaylees father mentioned thet in the weeks before, Kaylee thought she had a stalker - Could it have been BK? What if it was? Would that gives us an MO? Did he want Kaylee? Did she turn him down? Could this be a reason he murders these poor students.
Or was it just the right house, with the right students, at the right time for a man that had a sick fantasy of murder.
If it was Kaylee he was after, why did he kill Ethan and Xana? While Maddie was simply in the bed with her so he couldn’t leave her behind. It had to be done. He left survivors, particularly one survivor that seen him, he continues out the door not even trying to harm her.
As you can see my mind races when thinking about this case. So many questions with little information.
When the probable cause affidavit came out, I listened and read it over and over and man if I just can’t make sense of it. Why kill 4 of them and leave 2 alive if it was mass murder he was after. The survivor seen him and he left her alive. But Ethan and Xana died as a result of finding the wrong room? Did he believe that Kaylee was in that room.
The crazy thing is, Kaylee didn’t even live there anymore. She just happened to be visiting her best friend to show her that she got a brand new car. Was he stalking her and knew that she was going to be there that weekend and just attacked because of convenience? The first room he entered was the wrong room, so on the the next one he goes. Therefor leaving the other survivors because the deed was done?
All of this is just me thinking out loud, or well typing to you guys in hopes that maybe I can make a bit more sense of the awful tragedy.
So yes this is all my own opinions, thoughts, and questions. Thanks for your response.
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