MOSCOW, IDAHO: A former police officer recently revealed unsettling similarities between the Idaho murders probe and the 'botched' murder investigation from 2007.
Amanda Knox turned journalist and wrote her memoir after being acquitted of the crime.
Prosecutors are currently building a case against Bryan Kohberger, who stands accused of murdering four University of Idaho students on November 13, 2022.
The slain students include Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
Authorities led a two-month-long extensive investigation before arresting Kohberger from his parent’s house in December 2022.
However, they surprisingly started removing victims' belongings from an off-campus home days before making the arrest.
Joe Giacalone, a former commanding officer with the New York Police Department, recently said he could not understand why Moscow police would reveal the crime scene so early in the investigation.
"Once they started giving family members back stuff from the house, as far as I was concerned, the crime scene was over," Giacalone told The Sun.
"But then here they are, going back to the house, they shut it down, they said they sent in cleaners if you remember too, it was like, what are you guys doing, right?
"You don't release a crime scene until you are 150 percent sure you've done everything. You take the time because you only get one chance to do it right and if you screw it up, there's no second chance,” he continued.
Why was Amanda Knox accused of murdering Meredith Kercher?
Giacalone likened the crime scene of the Idaho killings to that of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British exchange student who was discovered dead in her Perugia apartment in 2007, which she shared with Knox.
After an initial investigation, Knox, a fellow American exchange student, was arrested in Kercher’s murder.
She spent almost four years in an Italian prison following her wrongful conviction for the 2007 murder.
Knox was finally declared not guilty after authorities arrested Perugia native Rudy Guede and convicted him of the murder.
While discussing the similarities between the Kercher murder case and the Idaho murders, Giacalone said: "The Italian police did the same thing.”
"They botched the entire crime scene stuff, then they came back two weeks later and said, 'Oh, I found this bloody bra,” he said, adding "Remember that? It all got thrown out [...] Like, are you kidding me? Two weeks later, you went back and you found this incriminating piece of evidence?"
Did investigators find evidence against Bryan Kohberger?
As prosecutors continue to build a case against Kohberger, Giacalone asserted that he believes the defendant's car is the ideal spot to discover pivotal evidence.
Giacalone asserted that he believes the defendant's car is the ideal spot to seek hints. "To me, the most important thing is, did they find anything in his car? Because you can't slaughter four people, get in your car — I don't care if he bleached it,” the retired officer said.
"I tell people, it's like, remember when you were a kid, you were making a milkshake at home, and the cover comes off, and the stuff goes everywhere, and you think you cleaned it all up, and then six months later, you pull a dish out, and you find chocolate milk on the bottom of it, right?” he continued.
