
Because four people were butchered. Clearly a local police department cannot handle this. |
That…doesn’t automatically get the FBI involved. |
Because nothing about the murders add up. They don't appear to be a reactionary murder (which initially made the most sense); no clear motive, no initial clear link to other premeditated murders... everything about it calls for the best analysis there is. |
There is apparently a break in the case that will be announced later today (12/30) |
Suspect in custody, captured in Scranton, PA. Mid-20s college student, but not at the Idaho University |
Arrest made in Scranton, PA (my hometown)
What was the motive? |
Washington Post says he was a PhD student at Washington State (in criminology of all things). |
People are wondering if this is not his first attack
https://www.foxnews.com/us/idaho-murders-third-unsolved-stabbing-attack-resurfaces-amid-college-slaying-mystery |
It’s scary to think of these evil people walking amongst us. |
The suspect they arrested lived in PA at the time of murders in this article, just moved to UW-Pullman this summer. The police have said previously they don’t think the crimes are connected. |
He posted this on Reddit in several places a few months ago |
I'd say this is an adverse event for this study. The IRB is probably frantic. |
Was he a suspect that the web sleuths identified? |