Sounds like this trial is going to be a circus. They have strong circumstantial evidence (that wouldn't be hard to fake), but as far as we know have no motive and no direct evidence he was even there. Top that with witness testimony that doesn't add up, and a media thats already running hits against him (the jailhouse story).....and it's a tough case to convict.
Don’t they have his DNA on the button of the ka-bar sheath left in the house?
They have his dna in the bed with the girls on a knife sheath and video footage/cell pings in the area of the murders. He’s toast.
He'll need to provide a reason for being in the area (assuming the cell data is even permissible). I think they only see his model car in security video, not the plate, but could be wrong. Don't know if the cell data correlates with the video.
They’re already working on the Wrongful Conviction Podcast series.
The dubmass left the knife sheath on the third floor with his DNA linked with > 99.99% certainty on it. Two dead bodies are found next to said knife sheath. They have his cellphone records that put him at the crime scene numerous times staking out the victims. They have his digital footprints leaving WSU towards Moscow, ID before the time of the murders. He turns his cell phone off prior to the quadruple homicide. The murders occur and his cell phone comes back minutes later on the drive back from Idaho. Yet somehow he is not guilty of the quadruple homicide?
That is truly for whom I feel the most remorse. The alleged suspect‘s dad flew from Pennslytucky to Pullman for a cross country ride with his PhD student son for some daddy and son time right before the Christmas Holidays. Not knowing this was the last few free hours he will ever get to spend with his son.
I believe they ran his DNA against Ancestry and other website and found a partial hit (his sister). The FBI then apparently took a bag of trash from the house and matched the Dad’s DNA to the sister’s and to the crime scene.
I think he rolled back through to see if he could get his sheath he left behind after he went to dump the knife and realized he left it. Crazy thing is, he probably could have slipped in and gotten it.
I don’t know man. I think I feel the most remorse for the parents and siblings of the people he murdered and not the parents that raised a killer
I don’t disagree. However, if this suspect is found guilty in Idaho, he is just as dead as the other four. Now, you not only have a dead child, but that child also committed a quadruple homicide that have to live with and will be associated with.
She said she saw a masked man dressed in all black and she froze then locked herself in her room.
I read the affidavit as soon as it was available and immediately wondered the same thing... You see a stranger in your house, and you're in such a ‘frozen shock phase' that you can't pick up the cell phone and call the cops until about 5 hours later? WTF??
How much media coverage did the trials of the others on the Idaho Death Row receive compare to this? I think the outcry will force the execution.
