The True Crime Thread • Page 8

Last day of this trial was today and the vibe around the city is this guy is not going to be found guilty.

Medical can’t determine how she died. Almost no physical evidence found, no murder weapon found, no DNA anywhere, no video of him in any of the places body parts were found, no phone pings on his phone put him anywhere, literally the only thing they seem to know for sure is that he lit her car on fire. I guess they found a jacket of his with her dna on it in a garbage 4 days after he was arrested (and in a garbage near his house not his garbage) but what that dna was I don’t think was specified. There’s video of someone driving her car but nothing shows who was driving it and he’s never seen in it in any footage. It’s all super bizarre.

strangely enough, his lawyer always has some pretty snazzy suits and glasses but his client, besides a haircut, looks like he just rolled out of bed each day and looks like he’s hearing English for the first time based on the constant confused look on his face. Fascinating that his lawyer didn’t have him more tidied up to help try and make a good impression. Just a frown and bed head every single day while he’s dressed to the nines.

 

Well never mind, guilty on all 4 counts

 

I think this will be the first time the other roommates in the house that survived go public

 

Very glad Karen Read was found not guilty of the murder / manslaughter charges

 

Kohberger pled guilty!

 

Watching the Kohberger Idaho Amazon Prime doc. There are multiple aspects of this case that show how problematic modern online true crime culture is.

From the "citizen detective" youtubers stalking and retraumitizing witnesses and family members for content. To Kohberger being a regular known poster in the case's biggest Facebook discussion group. To Kohberger watching true crime youtube videos about Ted Bundy literally right before the killing. It's everywhere in this case.

 

We are in the era of true crime now where they bring in the mods of the places the killer posted as talking heads

 

I watched the doc on Peacock and they had someone on there as an “Internet Journalist”. I think if you have to put that qualifier on there you’re not an actual journalist but what do I know.

 

There is a documentary that is a few years old now about the woman that ended up in the water tower of the haunted hotel in LA (the one with the super creepy video of her in/out of the elevator as if she was trying to hide from somebody) and I think a few of the people on there were just random internet people. Feel like that may have been the start to where we are now with true crime and back then it seemed odd since it was new but the handling of the case/documentary was ahead of it’s time it seems

 

Yeah that one and the cat killer docs were where I started to question the validity of the talking heads

 

I really want to see that doc that debuted at Sundance where the guy spent years making a Zodiac Killer true crime doc that ended up falling through, so instead he used his footage to make a doc critically examining the true crime documentary industry and process instead.

 

This Amazon Kohlberger doc is going with the motive theory that he was an incel. His grad school classmates and his Facebook group mods all saying he was weirdly fascinated with the Elliott Rodger case.

 

can't wait for this to happen to me

 

Re-listening to Last Podcast's Biggie and 2Pac series. It's wild that we essentially know exactly who did both murders and on the explicit order from Suge and at least implied order from Diddy.

 

It was also funny to find out one of the inciting incidents of the feud happened at the mall right down the street.