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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a weird and kind of aloof brother who has never been violent and I would never jump  to the conclusion that he had committed a mass murder in a neighboring town, even if the police were looking for someone who also drove a blue rav-4. [/quote]

If that brother had a history of mental health problems and called you early in the morning after the murder occurred, and then later suddenly wanted to get his car out of the state, you wouldn't have gotten suspicious?

Well, on a different note, I've got a beautiful bridge you might be interested in...[/quote]

He didn't call the sister early in the morning. He called his mom. And for his mom, it was not "the morning after the murder occurred." It was just... a morning. She lived on the other side of the country and knew nothing about the murders at the time. He'd called at odd hours before. She had no reason to believe his reason for calling this time was related to a news event she had not even heard about.

And he didn't "suddenly" want to get his car out of state. He had told them previously he wanted to get some things out of their house and drive them to his new place in Idaho, and his dad had offered to fly out and do the drive with him because it was so long. His dad had already bought a ticket when the murders occurred and, again, the family was not thinking about any of this in the context of the murders because to them, the murders were a separate news event that had nothing to do with their family.

A white Hyundai Elantra is a very, very common car. It is likely you know a person who drives that car. White is the most common car color. Elantras are affordable and have good resale value, so there are a lot of them on the road. If I heard about a horrific crime involving a Subaru Forester or a Nissan Sentra, I would not immediately assume that one of the people I know with those cars committed the crime. I would think "huh that car is very popular, it's going to be really hard for them to find the killer." Like it wouldn't even cross my mind.

You are making the common error of thinking that a piece of information you have already learned (that Brian Kohlberger killed four people) should always have been obvious to everyone even before literally ANYONE knew, including his family. In fact the only reason the police honed in on Brian is because his DNA was found on the knife, something it took weeks to learn because of how long DNA analysis takes. Before that, no one was looking at him and the fact that he drove a white Elantra and lived near the murder scene was not viewed as relevant by anyone.[/quote]

You're being far too quick to dismiss the significance of the car. This isn't a highly populated area, there are only about 90,000 people in the census area that covers the two towns and surrounding area. The number of white 2011-2015 Elantras there is probably very roughly on the order of 50 or so cars (and some are probably fleet vehicles). That puts him in a very small set of suspects before even factoring in the other things.

There were lots of reasons to be suspicious, if someone was open to considering them. But the family probably wasn't.[/quote]

I was writing from the family's point of view. Of course the car made him a suspect earlier on in the investigation by the police. I am certain they had a list of everyone owning a white Hyundai Elantra and were cross referencing it against all other evidence from very early on. Which means it's likely Brian's name was known to the investigation from early on.

What I'm saying is that the family wouldn't be privy to any of that at all, and the car connection would likely not have seemed like a huge deal to them because it's not like it's an unusual car, and other than a passing thought of "oh Brian drives a car like that," and absent any other reason to believe he had done this, they would be unlikely to jump to the conclusion that he might have done it.

And yes, there might be some willful ignorance happening here. But no more than anyone would have. Especially living as far away as they did. Unlike people who lived in the area, they were not hearing about this case daily in local news. It would have been an occasional reference on national news they might come across. And probably no one they knew was talking about it, because their friends and neighbors wouldn't even have the connection of having a son/brother who lived near where the crime happened. So it's not like they were going to work and people were saying "oh have you about the car in that murder?" They were not thinking about the murder. It was very peripheral to their lives.[/quote]

This case was big news everywhere and we got the usual complaints that if they weren’t pretty white girls we woldn’t be hearing about it so much. I think you are misremebering a lot.[/quote]

I live in the DC area, remember hearing about it right after it happened, and then vaguely remember hearing about Brian's arrest. It was the holidays, it was an awful story, I have kids and was busy with end of year work stuff. I knew nothing about the investigation until I listened to a podcast on it later and I don't even remember hearing about the car (again, other side of the country, I'm not going to go out of my way to take note of something like that because I assume it has nothing to do with me). No one I worked with mentioned this case to me even one time, none of my chat groups were talking about it. It was a sad headline in the newspaper one day and then out of my mind.

I think people who obsess over these cases don't understand that most people don't. [/quote]

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