re: Kohberger Admits to Murders- Like Anyone Had Any Doubts Looking At That Freak

Hopefully, Kohberger won’t be beaten to death while incarcerated. That would be a shame.

His attorneys had filed some motions regarding evidence that were denied. One was about evidence of his autism and another was about evidence of 4 other possible people who could have committed the crime. I don't recall what the third was.

His attorneys requested the plea deal. At that point, I don't think they had any real defense of any evidence. The best they could do was try to avoid the death penalty and that's what they did.

This guy is still cold and emotionless. He shows no remorse.

Here's the selfie he took hours after the murders. He must not have realized he left the sheath when he took that photo. It also appears that he has since trimmed the "bushy" eyebrows described by one of the residents in the house who saw him. They are lighter and thinner in pictures from court.

I think he thought he could beat the charges, but they ran out of motions and the ones they filed were denied. Those were his best chances. One of the motions was to suppress evidence of the trash pull at his parents’ house where they found the q tip that showed that the DNA was from the father of the person whose DNA was on the sheath. They were already focused on BK before they got DNA confirmation.

The defense was sunk. They were going to lose the case, so their focus had to shift to only the death penalty.

I’m curious as to when he admitted guilt to his attorney. Ethically, they can’t present certain evidence if they know he’s guilty from his admission. I don’t know if trying to introduce the possibility of 4 other perps is covered by that if he’d admitted guilt to them. I’ve heard criminal attorneys say you never ask if they committed whatever crime they’re defending.

If you haven’t listened to the prosecutor’s recitation of how he did it and the timeline of the investigation and evidence, it’s worth a listen. In this case, the police did their job and swiftly. Turning off his phone didn’t keep him off surveillance cameras as hard as he tried to avoid them on his route there and back to his apartment.

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Why did he go into the apartment/home to kill that one girl? Why was she the primary target?

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I haven't seen anything indicating why he picked that house or if there was one girl who was the target. There was speculation he only intended to kill one girl, but I don't know on what that was based.

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How did he know which bedroom was her bedroom?

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Starting in July, I believe, he was watching that house. Who knows what else or who he was watching. It seems he was around the house enough to observe comings and goings. It's possible he could see in the house if curtains were opened. He seemed to know where he was going once he got in. This was a rental, so it was probably advertised and it's possible there were pictures of the inside of the house, so he'd know the layout, but that doesn't tell him who was in what rooms.

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If he doesn’t drop the knife cover and doesn’t do these repeated drive bys in his vehicle, chances he is ever caught?

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I think, initially, his vehicle was on surveillance videos in that area the night of the murders. I assume they could see his license plate to get his name. They knew it was a Pennsylvania plate and they knew who he was. That was before they matched his DNA to the sheath. Law enforcement then found out he was at his parents' home and they did the trash pull there getting the father's DNA from a Q-tip. Obviously, the DNA was direct evidence, but they had plenty of circumstantial evidence without it. They also had the other roommate who saw him as he was leaving the house and noted the bushy eyebrows and they were darn bushy.

There weren't a lot of vehicles in that area at that time of the morning. They focused on him pretty immediately without the DNA. The drive bys scoping out the house and his phone pinging in that area before the murders were icing on the cake.