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[quote=Anonymous]The murders happened a few weeks before Thanksgiving (Nov 13). He was arrested Dec 30, 7 weeks later. I don't know how often he called his mom early morning (once a week? once every 3 months?).

People just aren't processing this how it all happened in real time. Brian calls and talks to mom about the usual stuff (what's your recipe for mashed potatoes, how is Aunt Fran, is it going to snow in PA, I'm feeling a little depressed but it will be good to see Dad and ride home with him for Christmas).

The sister heard about the murder shortly afterward, but we don't know that the mom did. And even if she did hear, she certainly wouldn't think, hmm didn't Brian call me 3 days ago to ask about Aunt Fran - I wonder if he was involved in that murder out west?

The Elantra wasn't mentioned to the public until December. I know this case was off my radar by then and I never heard it was a white Elantra until after his arrest when I read more about it.

Again, even if on Dec 10, the mother happened to hear they were looking for a 2011-2013 white Elantra, by then she had probably had 3 or 4 weeks of normal (whatever that is for them) phone calls with Brian and why would she think, hmm, his white Elantra is 2015, but maybe the police are wrong, and Brian did this crime!

Info is coming in bits and pieces, mixed in with "normal" family plans, such as Dad was already going to fly out to help with the long drive, won't it be nice to have all the kids home for Christmas, what should I put on the menu.

My family puts the newer cars and the ones we plan to drive in winter weather in the garage, a PP said they keep the car they are going to drive in the driveway for easy access in the winter. Different families do different things with cars using the garage vs the driveway and neither makes anyone think "obvious murder suspect".

Putting Brian's car in the garage isn't going to make me think back 2 or 5 phone calls ago in mid November and then check my phone records and look up the crime date and say, hmmm, sure is suspicious Brian called me 5 weeks ago on the same date as that murder to ask for a recipe.

You are planning Christmas, your son with a challenging past just finished a successful semester in the PhD program, life is good.

And it wasn't like local police identified Brian as a suspect, laid out the reasons why he might be guilty and the parents and family were processing it. I'll bet by the time they arrived in PA from the *planned* road trip, this murder was a distant memory for the family.

And if I saw Brian doing any quirky behaviors I would write it off as ASD, but be thankful he's functional enough to be doing well in a grad program.

Now if Brian had been accused as a teenager of stalking women or been arrested for pulling a knife on a cashier, or had broken into people's houses, maybe it would have crossed my mind?

But just an overweight ASD kid who was bullied, got addicted to drugs, beat the addiction, successfully graduated from nearby DeSales University, as his mom, I'm thinking we supported him through some hard years, but it's time for him to take the next step to independence. I am not going to be tying 3 unrelated clues and concluding - my son is a suspect.

While he was at DeSales, his criminology professor recommended him for the PhD program and said in 10 years, she had only recommended 2 students for PhD, and Brian was brilliant and one of her best students ever.

Also while at DeSales, he studied under Katherine Ramsland, an expert on serial killers and a big name in the crime world who helped the BTK killer write his autobiography.

Both these women knew Brian and knew he was at WSU next to the university where the students were killed and neither of them honed in on Brian.

But the mom is supposed to take unrelated facts (to her at the time) and not only conclude her son was the murderer, but that the police were wrong on the year of the car.

I feel bad for parents and families who will forever be looked at by the public as "they must have known and they helped cover it up". I feel worse for the victim's families, but I wouldn't want to be in either of their places.
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