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Some people are commenting a lot about parallel reconstruction and such. Here are a few key points from a long time North Idaho resident and someone who has sp
by Ccecil 4y ago
Some people are commenting a lot about parallel reconstruction and such. Here are a few key points from a long time North Idaho resident and someone who has spent quite a bit of time in the town.
-DNA was probably used for sure to narrow things down...once you find any sort of special DNA grouping it shouldn't be too hard to narrow down even if you don't have a database with a hit (i.e. Pennsylvania dutch or similar). Then once you have an actual suspect...you find some garbage or discarded item and do a more direct test for certainty. But I suspect filtering by genetic markers and white Hyundai gets you a lot closer than it might seem.
-Some are skeptical about the car being randomly identified...but this town is very small. There are not a lot of entrances/exits from the area. When I saw the location of the murders my first thought was "this person could very well be living in Pullman" since the nearby road leads directly there. It is very hard to not be forced to drive past cameras or businesses when attempting to leave the area.
-Idaho (particularly North Idaho) took a considerable amount of the homeland security money 20 or so years back and spent quite a bit on license plate scanners, highway cameras...etc. You pass at least 3 license plate scanners I have seen just between Coeur d'Alene and Spokane. I suspect there are more of these we don't know about or are harder to see as well. If there was one of these on each of the 3 or so main routes in/out of town it would be very easy to add this to the list of ways they built the case.
-It would be super easy for this person to stalk these girls in the area. Lots of random people, college town, more than one of them worked in the restaurant industry. In the next few weeks I suspect there will be a lot more reports from the area about this person being around creeping people out while they were working.
-Also, I want to reiterate how small this town is. You can quite literally explore the entire town in a car within a half hour. Pullman is essentially right next door with little more than some fields and the state line in between. Pullman is equally as small. When the students go home...the town is very empty.