Yeah i noticed the Ca, Ny and Ha similarities. At one point it made me even wonder if he was the ex, but the ex flew to NY, whereas the shooter took a Greyhound.
I checked the U of PA on wiki and it is one of 8 Ivy League unis.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Yeah, it really seems odd, now if they had been months apart maybe not, but they were both the biggest probably cases of the last wk or so and BOTH missing...
Just catching up with some posts and see he was reported missing too.. But man all the same places with ties and so on... WEIRD.
So the U of PA is Ivy League. News to me. I don't have reason to doubt it just didn't know it.
Yeah I don't know. I'm not saying by any means the cases are connected but it's pretty odd imo. It's early days yet but guessing both have internet histories of some type and such may or may not come out.
So they talk of his back surgery and pain now...
I seriously would have expected if he truly had a grudge that it would be over a relative, like mom or dad.
It's so strange. Personally I think they better be looking into online groups, etc.. And perhaps they have or know...
What I mean is things I'm not going to go into but we know SKs have connected or their families, etc. Teens have done the most stupid or dangerous sh*t from things that come from online, etc.
This man, and you said it, seemed fairly smart, planned John Kelly said such too, but he's also pretty darned stupid. I mean, and I do not mean this as a joke, his eyebrows probably caught him. Seriously.
I just have to shake my head at it all. It would be funny other than a man is dead. And he just threw his own life away.
I'ts pretty easy I'm sure and I could easily too dislike a victim who is a big health care exec, and easy for all of us not connected but at a distance, but I don't know, this week I am really having gravity strike me and this was a serious crime.
Sometimes I get numb a bit to crime, I think we all do. Kids hit me hard always but we just see so much crime. For example it is ridiculously easy to hate Lori in Daybell, Chad too, because of what they did AND to make fun of them. The length of time, etc. it's been. But every once in awhile it just hits me, the gravity, the two dead kids in that one for instance.
Anyhow, I remember the age well, like his or Hannah's. I might not be great these days at remembering all details in every crime all of the time, in some I do but other things I recall well.
And if being honest in my 20s I honestly felt anyone who wronged me deserved revenge but it never including KILLING or even INJURING. You know maybe they started a false rumor so you paid back the same. Maybe they failed to be there for you, so next time they needed you, oh well I'm busy. Dumb stuff like that. I also quickly outgrew it probably by this guy's age.
He murdered. And solved what?
I just don't get it.
Maybe that's why so many want to assume they are mentally ill, most killers, etc.
But he had every opportunity to stop. He planned, traveled, got the gun, etc. etc. It's like it was a game or intentional of course. Covered up after.
So he was carrying some foreign money and $10K of cash. Where? In the jacket? backpack was monopoly money wasn't it?
I guess I had $10K in cash ONE time in my life, and it isn't that much to carry. If not all small bills. From my bro's death, all legit. Took it out of the bank where it had been legitimately put.
It can be carried.
One last thing I'd say is the cash thing. Years ago we went to Green Bay, and my brother could not even get into his room with only cash and not a credit card in case he damaged, charged, etc. Nothing to do with him, they just didn't do such. I put up my credit card for his room. No big deal. Or debit card, can't recall. All was just fine.
He though was surprised, I was as well, that he had flat out cash to pay his room rate, even more if they wanted some deposit.
Do you know how often I get asked at work if we take cash? I'm used to it but it surprises me every single time.
Insisting on a card of course would not have stopped this but there'd be even more trail. We know he planned the false ID of course, etc. Also how many times I've had to say give me a minute and go get my license plate number if booking a hotel room? Of course it was a hostel and he traveled by bus.
I'm just chatting I guess. Thinking through it some. Making no sense maybe.
But it makes me think he knew where he was going, that they'd take cash, etc. I'd bet money he or someone he knew had been at this hostel before. Who knows...
I'm also sure in both cases, PROBABLY unrelated, they know more than we are being told. This particular one is already big enough and political that things are going to go unsaid for sure for now.
Or maybe purposely said.
In Hannah's, there were no murders, etc. There was a suicide. No laws likely broken. They are completely different but the timing is odd, and the fact that both had ties to at least three of the same places. I guess that's the crime junkie in me.
I don't even think they are related but that's also hard to ignore.
Anyhow not on computer much either, just managing for moment and read some recent posts here.
Just don't get people nowadays or some I guess.
He just gave up his entire future. The rest of his life. Maybe all who do this are a bit insane, dang if I know.
Kohberger comes to mind a lot in this one for me. Eyebrows again
Neither one had the common sense to realize how much such stand out and unusual and memorable.
I'm still curious about the fliritng was it from the hostel clerk with him? And wondering why the UH exec didn't just stay at the Hilton.
But who knows...Of course I forget he'd been in NY for days.
Of course there's more to come, IF we ever hear it.
Just catching up, and going on I realize.
ANd of course someone else will now head the big corp...
And of course he was related to some type of politician which I know enough to leave there...
The kinds of cases lol I generally stay away from.
Well he's alive, most of the type suicide or die by suicide by cop so to speak. If he gets along with his family members he will likely have the max canteen money always. Not sure about butter...
LOL. Trying for some lightness. Know others deal with worse, just not been a good week, and not getting better.
Then cases like this. What he just did to someone else's family and his own.
Again anyhow............
It's been a crazy one and that's evident from the interest. Stopping and either going to sleep or finding some cooking.