This is going to haunt me for a long time. I thought I knew the story. I thought they got the killer. This true crime account makes me question everything!
A very detailed account of all that went into the investigation and analysis of the crime scenes, the victims, and the identified perpetrator. Bryan Christopher Kohberger pled guilty to the murders of four college coeds before his case went to trial. In accepting the plea, many questions were never answered and the families and public will never get the answers they crave.
In this well written documentary, the author describes all the ways in which the case was improperly handled and how the local Idaho police might have zeroed in on their target without the evidence and proof they should have obtained. The prosecutor was trying to obtain the verdict and the public defender tried but was sidelined despite having some serious reasonable doubt.
It makes me sick to contemplate. But why, if the revelations in this book are true, did Bryan go ahead with this plea and skip the trial? He’s never explained or answered to any of it. Makes no sense and after reading I’m still so torn. I remember reading about this at the time it happened and how I, along with most of the public, thought Bryan was guilty as charged and was happy he saved the taxpayers and went on to jail without the spectacle of a trial. I hope we find out the truth of it all someday, but not sure we ever will. Very compelling and interesting story that kept me glued to the pages despite all the heavy scientific information about DNA and the descriptions of information about vehicles, college life, the friendship and relationships among the group, and the attempt to explain the blood evidence at the crime scene.
Drinking and drug consumption among college students made this even more difficult because the only witness can’t remember anything. Which I sort of find suspicious. There was a lot of that.
I was able to listen to the audio book while also following along in the e-book, both provided by the publisher. The narrator, the author himself, Christopher Whitcomb, did a great job of using his voice to explain his story. He speaks with conviction and handles the complex investigation very well. I enjoyed immersing myself in the story and thing that this audio enhanced the book and my enjoyment.
This is a standalone and is not part of any series.
Genre and tags: true crime, murder, Idaho killer, Bryan Kohberger
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