I wonder the same. Often.
It’s hard to convey the vibe of a neighborhood, but there are probably hundreds of pretty young women in that oddly spread but densely populated just off-campus neighborhood.
Perhaps BK’s circling that awful night was him deciding which out of several felt right?
MOO, as always.
You made me think of Elliot Rodger, actually. Elliot never carried out phase 3 of his written plan, which was to attack a certain sorority. It's hard for me to believe that Kohberger didn't at least go by the sororities in his forays into U of I's territory. Rodger had scoped out the sorority (he says) repeatedly and carefully and thought it was possible to attack and kill women there.
I too have pondered whether Kohberger's circling around in that neighborhood was him thinking about which house was the most vulnerable that night. Or which targets were the most compelling. This could have been a deep need to experience fully the elements of criminal planning and criminal actions. I think my mind goes there mostly because it's so hard to think of any motivation for stabbing to death four people. Four people who are apparently not all well known to the criminal. We don't have a lot of parallel examples to use.
Perhaps he was pondering stranger vs. somewhat known people. IOW, perhaps he had interacted (at parties or elsewhere) with various U of I individuals, and was now centered on this particular neighborhood.
The sororities on campus generally have one main entrance, often locked at night - but sometimes not, depends entirely on the house in question. There are way more than 6 bedrooms in the sororities, perhaps 1122 King seemed like an offshoot of a sorority and it also seemed "easier" to approach.
The pictures I've seen of the two sororities in this case show large buildings with front lawns, few trees and nearby streets that appear to have some lighting. The front steps are quite visible from the street. I would assume there's more traffic, even late at night (foot and vehicular) on campus than in the neighborhood of King Road. It's just hard to believe that these killings developed in his mind just that night. If so, then I expect many more errors. It'll still be very odd to think that someone could go their whole life (with only non-violent drug offenses) and then suddenly do something like this.
IMO.
