This is really the motive that the prosecution was going with???
I am reading When The Night Comes Falling by Howard Blum and while I am not done with it yet, I have to share something. So, everyone is curious about a motive since they haven't seemed to be able to find a strong connection, if any, from BK to the girls. Well, I just read something that made me go....WHAT???????
Part V, Chapter 29, Page 175 to 176:
"The prosecution had even put together a semblance of a motive. It was a neat, two step argument. First, there was Kohberger's nature: his equilibrium, as revealed by his teenage Internet posts, had always been a balancing act, and a problematic one to boot. "I feel like an organic sack of meat with no self-worth...I am starting to view everyone as this." Or: "Now I look in the mirror and I see this sickly, tired, useless, and stupid man in the mirror. He is a complete disgrace. He doesn't deserve to live."
"Next, there were a series of shocks that rained down on this fragile stability: the incriminating timeline of his escalating confrontations with his supervising professors in the criminal justice department at WSU. On November 2--eleven days before the King Road Murders--he had been hauled before the department bigwigs and informed that he'd better shape up or else. And it was a pretty formidable "or else." If Kohberger couldn't get his act together, behave more professionally in and out of the classroom, then he'd lose his teaching assistant fellowship. Which would also, more consequently, signal the end of everything to which he had aspired. It would send him sliding back down the ladder he'd been so determinedly climbing since he lost one hundred pounds, kicked heroin, and made up his mind to get a doctorate. He'd be ruined. And if you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. Or at least, that was one narrative the prosecutors believed they could convincingly spin."
"And then there was the clincher. Cop after cop promised that it would be the single unshakable reason Kohberger would be sent by the state to his richly deserved death: Bill Thompson, the county prosecutor."
Ok, so here's my thing.... How could that even equal a motive? That has absolutely nothing at all to do with the murders. That doesn't give a single connection to the King Road house or the victims. Nothing. Not even a little. Secondly, all of these reasons do not equal a murderer. None of these things happening to a person leads me straight to believing that they would kill. Be upset and angry and break things and yell? Yes, of course. Murder four young college co-eds that the person doesn't even know in a manner as personal as that? No, of course not.
They had so much riding on this case and it was such a high profile case and that was all the motive they could come up with? That was the motive that was ultimately supposed to convince a jury that BK committed these horrific acts? Well, I can tell you that I don't believe any of that motive for one second. More importantly, mental health issues DOES NOT mean that the person is going to commit murder. In fact, a lot of people will say, openly, that they would hurt themselves before they would hurt others. NOT the other way around. Yes, I am aware that there are others that do, in fact, hurt others but that isn't the given.
And, the clincher? How in the world was that even part of it? Like, really? He's the lead prosecutor that doesn't have a weapon or a clear motive and he's going to be the clencher for that case? It's not a slam dunk by any means.
Thank you for listening to my rant and my thoughts.