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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And the killer is in a Ph.D. program and decides to drive home for winter break and has his father fly to Washington so they could drive across country together. But they take the long way home because there are news reports to be on the lookout for that type of car.

It might be understandable for summer break but it makes no sense for winter break when he has to drive back to school. It would make more sense for him to fly home. And what do they do with the car. They put the college kid's car in the garage to hide it.

It is despicable the NYT article that is sympathetic. The family knows more and isn't saying anything to help the grieving families. [/quote]

I would really like to know what some of you weirdos think his family owes the victims' families?  There is nothing they can say or do to bring those kids back. The victim's parents probably want on the guy's family as well as all you weirdo strangers on the internet to shut their mouths and leave it alone.    [/quote]

They owe the family answers to why he called his mother the day of the murders and spoke for hours. What did they speak about?

Or they owe the family silence. If they aren’t going to say anything helpful to the families then say nothing about the case.

But to try to get sympathy about their situation when their family member killed 4 people in cold blood? Absolutely despicable.[/quote]

Absolutely not.  You condemning the family members for the actions of another person is [b]despicable[/b].  They didn't kill anyone.  They didn't hurt anyone. The way the public [b]crucifies[/b] the families in these situations in despicable.  The world in the age of social media has gone mad. Check yourself, you [b]psycho[/b].[/quote]

Why on earth are you so worked up?  We’re discussing a NYT article. “Despicable”?  “Psycho”?  For giving an opinion on the article and family on an Internet forum?

What vocabulary words would you use to describe what Kohberger did?

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The way internet sleuths treat all the families, the families of the victims and the families of the perpetrators, as some sort of entertainment for themselves is perverse.  No one owes any of you a single thing, not one iota of information to satisfy your sick curiosity.  You don't get to convict the family of the perpetrator based on your gut feelings. You don't get to speak for the families of the victims.  Unless you are directly tied to these people in some way, these people are none of your business.

If all you weirdos with your page long dissertations on this case would leave the perpetrators family be, they would never feel the need to give an interview like this.

The guy is in jail for the rest of his life as he should be.  That's it.  Leave the families on both sides to their grief.

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The sister actually touched on this in her interview, where she said she used to like “true crime” but now realizes how the true crime genre dehumanizes the people involved.

I agree with you as far as, say, calling her place of work and getting her terminated. That’s too far. People have too much time on their hands. (I do think she should re-think her career, as no one is going to trust the sibling of a depraved murderer with blue hair to give out quality mental counseling).

I disagree with you that the general public has a “sick curiosity”. It’s human nature to want to understand why he did this and what sort of family life / personality could lead to this.

I also disagree with you that you can lump the families of victims and perpetrators together in terms of suffering. My stepbrother was murdered at 16 in a school shooting.  That was nearly 20 years ago.  My stepmother will suffer for the rest of her life. She will never ever recover from it. This guy’s family can visit him in jail, keep up a relationship. It’s not the same. [/quote]

Different people will feel comfortable with different therapists. If you don't follow normal conventions, the sister's appearance and background might give you comfort that she's not one to judge.

Admittedly, I find it a little off-putting, but I don't think everyone would.[/quote]

I can’t imagine what help she could provide when she couldn’t recognize trouble in her own family.[/quote]

She wasn't her brother's therapist and in fact therapists are not supposed to treat family members specifically because it is accepted that your personal connection and history with them would cloud your ability to help them in a professional capacity.

Also it is not the job of a therapist to "recognize trouble." No one knows why Brian did what he did. He might not even know. It is natural for people to want to impose some kind of order on a crime like this that will make you feel like it could never happen to you or someone you love. You want to believe that if you were in the sister's shoes, that you would have known what her brother was going to do and could have prevented it, or would have seen his guilt and figured it out and turned him in. But the truth is you probably wouldn't have. And that freaks you out.[/quote]

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