With a demolition date less than two weeks away, Kohberger’s defense team was granted access to the home where those four University of Idaho students were killed last year.
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It's rare that a crime scene would be preserved for a criminal case. They, prosecution and defense, had all the time they need to gather evidence and map out the house.
It's absurd to tear the house down now. It's sensible to retain it and plan to walk jurors through the scene, which includes the immediate neighbourhood and geography, the community. Complex crime scenes like this are never merely 'visual'… they are also and critically SPATIAL, which involves sensing in ways no tech can emulate – like actual 'living' experience.
This is a death penalty case – if we go by the publicized evidence to-date [and there will be much else revealed during a trial], the accused more-likely-than-not committed these murders. Driving along his roads, stopping to spy where he stopped, how he studied the house over time [perhaps even entered under some pretext]., how he waited, gained entrance that night, the paths he took once in the house, how he sought and he found his victims [and the one witness]. To see and hear and feel the speed and focus of his movements becomes an actual in-body-experience – which tech-simulations, tabletop 3D-models, simulated walk-thru-videos etc cannot fully replicate. To 'BE' where the victims and killer were has an enormous sensory impact, far deeper than to merely 'see'… soooo many experiential factors for a walk-in-his-shoes. Actors could also be retained, to role-play how it all went down.
FYI: I am a graphic designer, videographer and animator, with 40-yrs experience – similar in concept to the hi-tech skillsets used to produce simulations – so I understand the limitations of such tech – no matter how dazzling it may look.. No matter how well they fake it, it's never 'the real thing.'
While people understandably want this horrific building-memory erased 'now'… that is an 'emotional reaction' – not the 'reason' required for justice, There cannot be left even one juror who does not quite 100% understand one aspect of what a lawyer is presenting. This is a very serious death-penalty case – and that defendant does not really want jurors walking through that building – why would that be? It would be for all the above reasons. Offering the jurors the fullest-possible experience is mandatory for both the victims and the accused, and for justice. And to avoid appeals based on offering less.
They should keep it up until trial is over
I wonder who the real k*llers are.
The Grim Reaper
PCA: "To the extent that information exists regarding an informant …not going to be as a witness.. the State asserts informant privilege," – Crimes of Passion or SK need informant privilege?
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When is this trial??
Imagine how it feels to be a student living around it
If it was dark how could the woman see the man she described?
The house will help a jury see what the defendant saw as far as his easy ability to see directly into Maddie's bedroom from that dark secluded parking area right behind and above that house. He could be the peeping tom that he was, and he could see when the lights went off that night in both Maddie's room and the rooms in front of the house on one or several of his passes by the house that night. The house has been altered so much from what it was like when the kids lived there so outside of the visual impact and seeing how Kohberger could have parked behind the house and how close that was to the back sliding door there is no acoustic value. The house needs to be up until the trial. And the trial needs to get going. I can see why the defense wants it gone but the prosecution should be fighting to keep it up. Also, the psychological impact of the night and day difference between before and after the murders. Show what Kohberger did to ruin the lives of those 4 people. The house has a ghostly feeling about it and the jury needs to feel this. think the University also should be very focused on convicting Kohberger because technically if Kohberger is acquitted then that means there is a 4 X brutal killer on the loose in the university community and everyone should be fearful just like they were prior to Kohberger being arrested. I’m not even talking about Kohberger but if he is acquitted that means it was someone else and they are still out there (technically). If the prosecution, I would fight for the house to stay up.
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It seems to me that the president of U of I has something to do with this crime.
Bryan didn’t commit these murders.
They should wait until the trial is over then tear the house down but once torned down 4 students killed their spirits will still be there visiting during the anniversary of when the crime was committed by Brian ♥️🥲♥️🕊♥️
The killer mom n dad 😮
i'm sorry, you are telling me it is the ego of the university president that is driving this demolition? that is messed up.
you should fix your headline. the murders are not alleged. the victims were, in fact, murdered. who did it is what is alleged. do better.
You only destroy evidence when you're trying to hide something. Why destroy the evidence before the trial is over? What is the university hiding?
I think they're going to regret demolishing the house before the trial
They shouldn’t demolish that house until after the trial! Who’s putting the pressure? Must be the defense and the university.
When is the trial happening ?
Sad
The public may never be satisfactorially appraised of the complete interior-but this home is a albatross for the area and respected interaction with other schools in the west.
How can you demolish the crime scene before the case is settled? Who is being protected?
Why did the Defense wait this late to get over there?
those.were "murders" NOT "alleged murders"
he is the "alleged murderer" or put another he "allegedly murdered" them
the murders happened they are NOT "alleged" to have happened
the writers of this headline shouldn't be paid for such misuse of the English language
all evidence shows 2 roommates are txting each other, killed and cleaned up for 8 hours after the murder. its sick the innocent Kohberger is dragged into this. he deserves $ million after he gets out next year
The house should remain until after the trial. That is just common sense.
A Jury would find all sorts of inconsistencies if they did a walkthrough of that house! That's why they can't wait until after trial they want it gone so a Jury can't walk through it! The Chris Watts house for example was just as tragic and a new family lives there now after the house set empty for years! The Idaho 4 House is Not on Campus btw and numerous other recent cases similar to this one have new people living in the homes, another example is the recent incident in Oklahoma the house cleaned and sold to new people and I think there was 7 people lost in that one.
You send your children away to college so that they might have a better future.. learn about themselves, other cultures.. help find their passion. Horrible and unimaginable. Whomever did this? If it’s Bryan or not.. not all there and shouldn’t be planet anymore.
They don't want a Jury walking in that house because it Echoes like you wouldn't believe and a mouse walking around can be heard at night so how did 2 roommates barely hear anything? Then they leave town after the incident with one moving all the way to Tahoe Nevada and got a lawyer trying to keep from having to testify!
The guy is guilty.Throw him in jail n lock the keys away,that devil cannot walk free
This creep was studying to be a serial killer.
Probably in there disposing of evidence