Pop culture presents it as if murders are easily solvable, that's all it is. There's so much murder entertainment yhat people consume, it gives the impression these things are solved easily...
I think you and I talked a few years back about this, but I also think our respective journeys thru life color our perception differently. Murder is always the hardest case to solve because the primary witness(es) is dead, so unless dudes kill someone in plain view of others or otherwise leave a trail, murders are the most difficult things to clear...
That said, while many people have shytted on Moscow PD for their handling of this case, I've felt different. While it's clear they aren't the most prepared department for a quadruple homicide, I think it's also clear they have some info they are sitting on, they've said themselves they aren't releasing all information publicly. They have FBI help too, there's like 70 muhfukkas working this shyt (MPD, ISP, FBI). They know something...
As it always is you have to be able to prove it. So I agree with you in the vein of, this investigation will take as long as it needs to until they feel they have enough there to prove murder warrants...
Where I disagree with you is that frat cats couldn't have done this. Why not? It doesn't sound implausible at all...
yeah bro, you phrased it all perfectly. Here's why the frat thing, and a lot of other theories are not valid, not just here but in a lot of cases that gain rampant speculation:
There is NO available actual evidence that points to them. None. It's a theory created out of entirely speculation, which is not how cases are solved. They are solved by following and interpreting the evidence. You can create a theory that the teachers at the college killed the kids, largely the same way the frats are implicated.
The source is random, not credible ,reddit reports, that follow a narrative of shock value, and "they are going to get away with it".
Third, the criminal psychology doesn't track. Frat guys can be lots of things. They can be drunks, they can be rapists, they can be great guys, and those things all at the same time. They can be great students and whatever to. But, they aren't born killers, this isn't a group like ex military, or a group of dudes just out of the pen. There is a certain level of vioence that comes from a group of men that is built on rituals, and male bonding, and competition, sure, but the idea that they killed 4 people in cold blood, is unlikely, to say the least. This is one killer. I've read dozens of books on these kinds of things, it's one killer.
So, 2, or three, much less 4, all banding together to cut up 4 women in a drunken rage? It's just not the way things work. Maybe, a beating or an accidental killing, on site, certainly rapes, can happen like that. But, organizing, while drunk, driving to the house, in the middle of the night, and stabbing four of their peers to death, over what? It's POSSIBLE, sure, but there is nothing to suggest that is what happened, as of now.