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  They ID'd his car November 29 at WSU.
context: While innocent until proven and all that, this is a damning collection of evidence. Plus this dexter of criminology made an enormous number of ‘rookie’ mistakes that anyone who has ever watched a crime show would know better than to make:
  Surveilling the residence multiple times prior using his white Elantra and with his cell phone active. Driving his Elantra to and from the residence on the morning of the murder. Turning off his cell phone specifically around the time of the murders but otherwise leaving it on, even while driving home that morning. Leaving a witness at the crime scene to identify his build and bushy eyebrows. Leaving his knife sheath at the crime scene, with chunks of his own DNA stuck to it. Returning to the scene of the murders later that morning. Soliciting Redditors to describe their emotional euphorias while committing crimes.
  This affidavit really is a fine piece of writing on a criminal investigation connecting all the dots (literally). The attorney can claim all he wants that his client will be fully exonerated, in the performative style of a trump lawyer. But this guy is toast. >
  
  Sorry, did you say he returned to the scene that morning? What the actual fuck? >
  
  Yep. He drove home immediately after the murders but then couldn’t help himself, had to go back:
  “Specifically, the 8458 Phone utilized cellular resources that would provide coverage to the King Road Residence between 9.12am and 9.21am”
  Then drove back home again:  
  “The 8458 Phone next utilized cellular resources that are consistent with the 8458 Phone traveling back to the area of the Kohberger Residence and arriving to the area at approximately 9.32am.” >
  
  Good lord. What an absolute moron. >
  
  Lmao, leaves cellphone on him while he stalks the house before the crime.
  A criminal mastermind! >
  
  The idiot was smart enough to take a roundabout way home but dumb enough to turn on his phone on halfway home. That’s how they can confirm the Elantra in the surveillance videos the night of the murder is his. Once he turned on his phone the tracking data of the phone pings match the final movements of the car that night. 
  Oh and he left the knife sheath behind with his dna on it. >
  
  Why even bring the phone? Having your phone shut off coincidentally at the same time as the murders and for long enough to commit them and get home is going to look really bad for him. Meanwhile, leaving the phone at home would be able to be used as evidence in his defense. Thank God he's an idiot. >
  
  He also returned to the scene of the murder.
  These are all mistakes “amateurs” make of course. But what’s shocking is he’s got a masters in criminology and he most likely planned this for some time. So even with all the planning and the knowledge of how crimes are solved, he made extremely dumb mistakes.
  It’s dumb enough to leave your knife sheath behind, but what I find even dumber is he brought a “dirty” weapon with his DNA on it to a crime he planned in advance. He didn’t even think to clean it before committing the crime just in case he dropped it or lost it in a struggle and had to flee.
  Even though his training was only in theory, I would’ve expected something more like the scene where Mark Wahlberg kills Matt Damon in the end of the Departed. A guy in basically a bunny suit covering his footprints (he didn’t do that either), with a weapon wiped of prints and dna. Not a guy bringing a weapon with his dna all over it to a murder and leaving footprints behind.
  Add on to that bringing his phone and not knowing that these businesses and streets had cameras everywhere to track him and I’m impressed by how much of an idiot he was. 
  I’m glad he’s a fucking dumbass. >
  
  Yeah it’s pretty simply at the end of the day. Regardless of the guys education, he just so happens to be profoundly dumb.
  Proof that you can memorize shit from a book to score well in a class, but maybe can’t take that knowledge and apply it in the real world. >
  
  Turning it off during the crime is a huge mistake. He has his phone on all the time, except when this crime was committed.?  Well…,that isn’t suspicious! He should have left the phone on and at home! >
  
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  Hey,  even Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Sollecito were able to eventually get off after having the done the same thing (turned cell phone off during time of crime). >
  
  The poor girl is gonna get a lot of shit about her not calling the cops until hours later. >
  
  There was already a ton of criticism of her in the other post we had on here today. My guess is that she was drunk or otherwise impaired and wasn't totally thinking clearly. >
  
  Why did the roommate who saw him NOT CALL COPS??? It's possible some of them might have survived if they'd gotten help quickly. >
  
  I guess that’s why they say fight, flight or freeze. Given the partying that night she was most likely also inebriated.
  Hard to imagine because no one thinks they will be the one to freeze, but people still do all the time. I guess you can’t know till you’re in the moment. >
  
  No one can know how they will react in a life and death situation until they're in one, and anyone who says they know how they'd react is fooling themselves. I nearly got kidnapped when in my mid 20s when I got pulled out of a hostel in the middle of the night. I was absolutely frozen for an unknown amount of time and basically just did whatever I was told. I was 100% convinced I was going to die (he even told me how he was going to do it). Looking back, there was a thousand things I could have done to stop it, but none of them crossed my mind at the time. I only survived because at some point a switch completely flipped in my head and I talked my way out of the situation. To this day, I have no idea how I did it. >
  
  I agree. A man tried to grab me once in the street and we were alone on a major street (rainy evening so everyone was indoors).
  My very first reaction was to freeze as I noticed him approaching. Then when he tried to grab me I retreated until he kept coming and all the sudden I was screaming at him.
  Literally not one action was a result of conscious thought in the span of about 10 seconds. It was all lizard brain. I still look back and wonder why I didn’t just take off and run the moment he made a bee line towards me.
  If he’d had a weapon it’d be a very different story.