aggiehawg said:
Diet Cokehead said:
Even if not OF, we know they had Facebook, Instagram and TicTok accounts and you can bet your ass they have gotten warrants to see his browsing history on those sites to see whose profiles he was looking at and how much.
Why I was asking about geotagging yesterday. He didn't leave his Pullman apartment until 2:44 AM. Except for one, his other forays into that neighborhood were in the night and mostly very late into the night.
So something was prompting those surveillance visits and the times for them. What was it?
Question not directed at you, Diet, just a general question.
I'll go you one better and ask what prompted his very first visit (according to affidavit) on August 21, 2022 from 10:30pm-11:30 pm??
That was the night before classes started for both schools. A big party night for a lot of kids.
But what exactly was the impetus? We have been told he was not a customer of the vegan restaurant and apparently that visit was without having come during "normal hours" for shopping or any other purpose like eating at that restaurant. He apparently came to stalk. But was he already focused on them? Or did he find one or more of them that night. That we do not know.
He could have simply decided to scope out the neighboring college town for victims. It might be that simple.
Or what if he was already focused on them due to social media or some online contact (chatting). As it was the night before classes he would expect them to all be back for classes. Or maybe they posted something to that effect.
And what really strikes me as odd is - he went to HS, tech school, juco, and undergrad all within an hour of where he grew up in PA. Then he suddenly moves to eastern Washington and within days (or weeks?) he is already scoping out the college town 8 miles way. He cannot have run out of people to meet or things to do in Pullman it is even a bigger college town than Moscow.
Was his move to WSU intentional in that he was already following one or more of them and chose a nearby university from which he could stalk her/them. I do not discount the possibility that he was already obsessed with one or more of them and planning some master crime that he could observe from nearby as the aftermath unfolded.
But the problem with that theory is if it was some well planned thing he just made so many mistakes, almost brazenly. I mean at least Leopold and Loeb rented a car in a fake name and they did not have cameras or cell phone tracking to worry about.
Anyway not suggesting I know anything but just that first visit so soon after even arriving and on the night before classes start just hits me wrong, like it was not random.