Details emerge in arrest of accused Idaho quadruple murderer (familial DNA from genealogy database used to identify him)

Just the News ^ | Updated: December 31, 2022 - 1:56pm | Just the News staff

[steve86]

Isn’t that driving you nuts?

[gloryblaze]

... Why did he 'overkill' the one girl....

We don't know, of course, but if one woke up and fought back, that would explain it.

[larrytown]

but not related to the murders.

Well, maybe not THESE murders. Willing to bet a few bucks that weirdo will pop up again.

[bigfootbob]

I was thinking maybe FBI Special Agent attached to Bobbie Ferguson’s office?

[Fledermaus]

He should have watched more Columbo.

[njslim]

Re Philip Markoff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Markoff

Medical student, engaged to be married, would set up dates with escorts for erotic massage on Craigslist

Would then rob them - killed one girl who resisted

Was caught - committed suicide in jail waiting trial

Parallels with Ted bundy too ..........

[TheDon]

Been wondering about the family.
Can’t imagine having your kid arrested for this crime. Horrifying.

[TexasGator]

“As someone suggested, he could have easily driven home through Canada and made himself more difficult to track.”

They were waiting for him at his parents’ house.

[DoodleBob]

News reports revealed that Kohberger, a criminology PhD student at the University of Washington, was allegedly linked to the crime scene via a DNA sample fed into a genetic genealogy database.

49 posts and not ONE comment about this!?!??

[End Times Sentinel]

Washington State University, which is about eight mile away from the crime scene, not the University of Washington, which is in Seattle.

I wondered if anyone else noticed that.

Usually, justthenews is a good source.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I referenced it in the headline.

[Vermont Lt]

No doubt.

Every rural college town attracts weirdos. Our school had a guy who shot at trains. My brother went to school in rural Maine. They skinned animals in the dorm bathrooms.

The world is full of lost souls.

[DoodleBob]

Oh, I know you got it.

This development should make anyone think twice before sending their DNA into a genetic genealogy database.

If bad guys can be rightly found, good guys can be wrongly accused. Or framed.

[jjotto]

Rural, heck!

A few decades ago, a University of Minnesota (in downtown Minneapolis) ran a trapline and was skinning muskrats in his dorm room.

[Vermont Lt]

Wow. That’s some hillbilly stuff right there. Lol.

[jjotto]

I have to dig the story up, but I think the player’s father was an NFL player.

[PAR35]

You drive across the USA-Canada border in either direction today, and both governments have a permanent electronic record of all kinds of things (license plate, vehicle registration information, Social Security number, facial photograph, etc.)

Take I-10 east or north out of El Paso, you'll get the treatment. No international borders needed.

[JCM]

Check post #28

[shotgun]

C’mon just because he’s an Incel murderer, doesn’t mean he’s a necrophiliac. /s

[chopperk]

Maybe Mom and Dad ID’ed this killer and made the appropriate phone call. They had first hand knowledge about this nut and did the right thing.