{"id":53272,"date":"2024-08-14T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=53272"},"modified":"2024-08-07T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T18:46:33","slug":"while-idaho-slept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/while-idaho-slept\/","title":{"rendered":"While Idaho Slept"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It was your typical bucolic Sunday off the rural small town campus as local police stretched caution tape around a crime scene so sinister it would captivate global attention — a grisly and senseless crime of rage still lacking in reasonable motive.\u00a0 Police arrested serial killer fanboy Bryan Kohberger six weeks later at his parents’ home on the other side of the country.\u00a0 Investigators linked Kohberger to the crime scene with surveillance videos, cellphone data, and damning DNA evidence.\u00a0 \u00a0A couple years later, there is still no logical motive or psychological workup on the alleged killer.\u00a0 As such, the vast majority of While Idaho Slept<\/a> is the lives of the victims and their families.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for new insights about this case before it undoubtedly becomes a Netflix series starring Glenn Howerton from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, this is not the book for you.\u00a0 However, there are a few revelations to impart before we portray Bryan Kohberger as a bargain-basement Hannibal Lecter.\u00a0 In stark contrast to his beanpole mugshot, Kohberger’s weight topped 300 pounds in high school.\u00a0 That is, before he took a few gap years to become a heroin addict.\u00a0 He was still profoundly frustrated with women, no doubt due in part to his social detachment.<\/p>\n

Pseudo-authority as a doctoral student in Criminology didn’t assuage those feelings of inadequacy.\u00a0 In fact, Washington State University was in the process of terminating Bryan from his graduate assistant position for repeated raging at his faculty advisor.\u00a0 Maybe hamhandedly committing a crime at a different University against the brand of pretty girls who wouldn’t speak to him would provide needed self-validation?\u00a0 At least then one could inject oneself into the web discussion<\/a> surrounding the case and play know-it-all.<\/p>\n

At the time of his 1:30am arrest, authorities discovered Kohberger wearing latex gloves in the kitchen and placing trash in Ziploc bags. Evidence isn’t looking so circumstantial.\u00a0 And that’s where things stand as of this pre-trial publication.\u00a0 Will this be the last professionally-written book on this case?\u00a0 No, but it was one of the first and best so far.\u00a0 That’s a nice place to be in if Kohberger pleas out a la Golden State Killer.\u00a0 But, unfortunately for the taxpayers of Idaho, he probably fancies himself a brilliant legal mind as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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