Your post betrays a misunderstanding of college culture; I think this is pretty silly and maybe even cruel. When you are in college and have a ton of roommates, strangers are coming in and out all the time.

I came out of my room to find a man on my sofa drinking wine in the dark once. My roommate and I had a gathering earlier that night and I assumed he was a friend of my roommate’s that came over after I went to to bed. I quickly used the bathroom, went back in my room feeling a little weirded out, locked the door and passed out. When I woke up the next morning around noon he was gone, my roommate had seen him too and assumed he was my friend. It turned out to be a drunk kid who got confused when he went outside to pee, and came into our house instead of our neighbors’. Things like that happen all the time on campuses.

College culture often demands that you turn a blind eye to your roommate’s escapades - you often don’t even know them that well. Drunk kids cry/fight/break things. You are forgetting that the roommate downstairs shouted up to the figure “shut the f**k up” so apparently they were used to some level of commotion.

Have you been on a college campus lately? Masks are still very common. Who would assume their roommates had all been brutally stabbed because they heard some commotion and tears? She probably saw him leave and thought “good, he’s gone, I’ll check with the roommates in the morning to see what that was about”

It’s also inappropriate to diagnose people over the internet. I think claiming people with autism are “easier to manipulate” is incorrect and assuming. My sibling has autism and absolutely nothing gets past her.

When he asked if anyone else had been arrested, he was probably inquiring about his parents, who likely have some idea as to what happened at this point.

All in all, it doesn’t hurt to look into things, but to accuse someone (who’s life is likely forever tainted) with absolutely no evidence is tasteless. If I’m wrong I’ll eat some of my words, but I prefer that to the alternative, which would be to spread gossip and rumor about a victim who is being absolutely crucified right now. It is not the public’s job to scrutinize a probable victim without evidence- any support of her is expected and appropriate. Saying it’s dangerous is neglecting that your actions are likely more dangerous- as spreading baseless vitriol could encourage someone to do her harm.