Even
if he wasn’t a person of interest in a quadruple murder, with his cellular location around the area of the crime on numerous occasions, his phone off on the night of, his DNA inside of the house AKA at the scene, on a murder knife sheath, and he didn’t drive the almost the same exact car as the murderer……
Sure.
Pretending, at this very moment, that those things aren’t true… I’ll concede that the trash thing and the gloves thing in the middle of the night could be innocuous. Christmas.
MOO
You know, back in 1985 or before, if there had been cell phones...and records of a car similar to the car seen on the surveillance video that was then traced to a criminology student, who was also a recent arrival to the region, it's likely that LE would have put BK on a short list of POI's. You're absolutely right - he's seen near the house, is driving around the house, matches DM's description - it's enough.
Today, though, folks want to see DNA before an arrest is even made. And even then, it's apparently not enough. (Scratching my head). I guess I just don't get it.
The phone turning off for the window of the murders (once that data was obtained) would have been enough for a PCA. His returning to the scene of the crime the next morning, even without turning the phone off, would probably be enough.
Sometimes I think BK had, as his intention, setting the legal bar for prosecuting serial killers and mass murderers ever higher.
If there was an alibi/exonerating evidence, BK's attorneys would have produced that at an early hearing (back in those days). He might have been, for example, allowed out on bail (if the evidence was weak).
It's not weak evidence now though. The sheath DNA is quite damning. I believe the GPS data will be even more problematic for the defense (and note they haven't challenged that).
Maybe I'm too anti-crime/anti-murder, but I think due process has been followed intensely and with some new pro-defendant twists in this case. In a DP, that's as it should be.
IMO