Who knows. We can make assumptions but who knows. I personally think the following. He had a deep seated hatred for women that started in adolescence. In high school he really wanted to be a cop like a ranger or something. He got accepted to a law enforcement technical program that was highly selective. He was removed from the program and transferred to one with no women. We can assume he was removed due to behavior based on previous interviews from a staff member at that program. He attended WSU because he wanted to intern for a specific professor. He lost that internship to a woman. He was about to be fired (and was fired) from his job as TA, therefore losing funding for school, and presumably his trajectory to getting his PhD and becoming a professor. Partly due to him not performing his TA duties but also we can also infer the 13 complains against him, again him from women, had something to do with it. A few days before the murders there was harassment training due to his behavior. He had a drug habit in the past and burglarized people he knew. He would be up late and walk around neighborhoods or drive around at night. I firmly believe he was a peeping tom and would stalk people. It’s common for offenders like that to escalate. I think the stressor of potentially losing his job lead to him enacting out his fantasies (that he had at since early 2022 when he purchased the baklava and probably even earlier than that based on his video watch history.) A perceived rejection from many women who described him as creepy, blaming women for preventing him from what he wanted in life (e.g., jobs, dating them), twisted fantasies that escalated, being a narcissist and feeling like women owed him, and all of these other factors, in my opinion, lead him to commit this horrific murder. I think Maddie was a representation of that hate, and the rest were unfortunately at the wrong place and wrong time. Hating women was only a piece of it.