After seemingly acting so carefully right before and after the shooting I’m perplexed as to why he had so much evidence still on him (Gun/silencer, Fake ID, manifesto) during the arrest. One would think he would have discarded or destroyed those things as soon as possible after the incident.
3. He figured the safest place to have that stuff was on his person, but then why go and get arrested at McDonald's? To be fair I don't know about that interaction.
I don't buy 3 because there were so, so many places to ditch shit between Altoona and Manhattan. The Susquehanna for starters.
Just to put the hypothesis out there: because he's a fall guy to placate the people afraid of being killed like the UHC CEO, which the authorities desperately need.
(Although a brief perusal of the photos in the article doesn't show anything obviously different between them.)
You would probably want the fall guy to be someone who can't defend themselves easily, like someone with substance abuse issues and prior convictions, not an attractive 26 year old valedictorian with an affluent family.
This seems extremely unlikely in practice considering how many people would need to play along. Also what happens if more evidence appears afterwards or the actual killer gives himself up? You just end up playing whack a mole to keep the lie working. No it really doesn't make sense.
Not saying it's impossible but in those cases they need to A) know who the real killer actually is, and B) kill/suicide the fall guy.
With is face pretty much being captured on camera in the hostel and in an Uber I'm not sure there was much point hiding it. He was going to get caught shortly whatever he did.
If he ditched the gun, fake IDs and any other evidence he had tying him to the crime and just gave the cops his real id and denied being in NYC recently, it would have made it much harder to prosecute. Without any physical evidence, he just looked like the shooter.
Not sure I agree with that. Had he stayed in hiding for months, he wouldn’t have been ID’d. Why is he walking around bare-faced a few days later? My take is he planned the actual act but didn’t think about much beyond that.
After seemingly acting so carefully right before and after the shooting I’m perplexed as to why he had so much evidence still on him (Gun/silencer, Fake ID, manifesto) during the arrest. One would think he would have discarded or destroyed those things as soon as possible after the incident.
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