The only thing that matters is the dna on the sheath. You could swab that house and find dozens of male samples, we know this from all the cases we’ve followed.
Just wait until the car results come back. We already know he’s a sick creep from his behavior at his school, but this will confirm just how evil he is.
He bought the exact knife. It is indisputable that he has an issue with women.
His phone shows him being somewhere where he had no business being, including the morning of the killings.
Dumping trash in the neighbor’s yard. Wearing latex gloves.
I’m stunned that anyone thinks this is remotely complicated.
I like your post MassGuy which girlhasnoname expanded on. I hope you both don't mind if I use your posts as a springboard to draw in other facts and make a complete chronological list of facts adverse to BK. The DNA smeared sheath is arguably a 'smoking gun' but I think all of the circumstances put together (and being only what we know at this time) lead to an irresistible inference of guilt.
If I have missed anything material let's add it to the list and if any of these have not yet been verified (or at sufficiently corroborated to permit their inclusion) I apologise and will edit the post. In fairness, perhaps a list of facts/evidence which objectively would tend to indicate innocence could be drawn up and compared!
1. BK's phone was in the King Road residence area on 12 occasions during the 5 months before the murders, 11 of which were in the late evening or early morning
2. BK bought a KABAR knife and sheath a few months before murders
3. A car matching BK's car left WSU and travelled towards Moscow about an hour before the murders
4. BK's phone left WSU and travelled towards Moscow about an hour before the murders
5. BK's phone was switched off or put in airplane mode about an hour before the murders
6. A car matching BK's car entered Moscow just before the murders
7. All 4 victims were killed with a knife believed to be a KABAR knife
8. BK's DNA was found on a KABAR knife sheath located underneath a victim
9. Eyewitness saw intruder consistent with BK's physical description leave King Road residence just after murders
10. Shoe print matching BK's show size (size 13) found at intruder exit point
11. A car matching BK's car was in King Road just before and just after the murders
12. The car referred to in 11. had no front licence plate and neither at that time did BK's
13. BK's phone resumed reporting to cellular network 20 minutes after the murders travelling away from Moscow
14. A car matching BK's car returned to WSU about 1 hour after the murders
15. BK's phone was in the area of the King Road residence about 4 hours after the murders
16. Since the day of the murders BK's phone has never again been detected in the area of the King Road residence
17. At 5:30pm on the day of the murders BK's phone returned to the same area it was in immediately after the murders (Johnson, Idaho) and then stopped reporting to the network for 3 hours until 8:30pm
18. BK dumped his trash in neighbour property/bins
19. BK wore latex gloves following murders
20. BK's contrasting behaviour & mood reported by his students before vs immediately after murders
21. BK's 'alibi' puts him 'driving around' at the relevant time the murders were committed
This is just what we know at the time of the PCA and pre-gag. As to what's not on the list: there is some less compelling but still relevant evidence (eg. BK's internet posts predating murders about how it feels to commit crimes & victim selection, BK's creepy behaviour towards women). There are also reports in the media of some other incriminating facts some of which if proven are even more damaging: ID cards found during search of parents' home; the instagram messaging; BK's owns sister queried whether he was the murderer.
One thing I am confused about: we know that LE conducted video canvassing of relevant CCTV/cameras in Moscow (crime scene) and near WSU (BK residence) from the early morning of the murders which shows a white Hyundai Elantra leaving WSU --> a matching vehicle entering Moscow --> a white Hyundai Elantra returning to WSU (suspected to be BK's on each occasion) . This is all referred to in the PCA. LE corroborates this video evidence with BK's cell data which closely tracks the Elantra's movements in this video and therefore allows/supports the inference that the white Hyundai Elantra appearing in all of this footage is the one and the same and is BK's car.
However while the PCA then goes on at p.14 to refer to additional cell data which indicates BK's phone travelled from WSU to Moscow at 9am just 4 hours after the murders, there is no mention of any associated video footage of a white Hyundai Elantra which marries up with the cell data as was performed by LE for the original travel to/from Moscow.
"Further review indicated that the 8458 Phone utilized cellular resources on November 13, 2022 that are consistent with the 8458 Phone leaving the area of the Kohberger Residence at approximately 9:00 a.m. and traveling to Moscow, ID. Specifically, the 8458 Phone utilized cellular resources that would provide coverage to the King Road Residence between 9: 12 a,m. and 9:21 am. The 8458 Phone next utilized cellular resources that are consistent with the 8458 Phone traveling back to the area of the Kohberger Residence and arriving to the area at approximately 9:32 a.m."
Surely if LE was able to obtain video footage from only 4 hours earlier, LE would also have obtained video footage (in clear daylight no less, affording far better clarity) of a white Hyundai Elantra leaving WSU and making the trip back to Moscow around 9am that morning? As at the date of the PCA, LE would have had ample opportunity to have collected and reviewed this further video evidence, including from the very same cameras it had obtained the earlier footage. Does anyone have any theories about this 'gap' in the evidence - even at the PCA stage?
Edit: I'm guessing that in the days and maybe even weeks after the murders LE was focussing on the critical time before/after the murders and didn't search/or obtain video footage of much later that morning (9am) because they didn't know BK had apparently returned to the scene until much later (December 2022) and only once they had reviewed his cell phone data and discovered his phone had pinged at/around the King Road residence at 9am that same morning. Perhaps by that time it was too late to get video footage of that time period (between say 830am and 1030am)? Or perhaps they have since obtained that footage after the PCA - assuming (which I do) he drove the Elantra.
