I'm reading that the guy was a grad student from a nearby school.
He probably had the hots for one of the girls, and she told him to get lost so he went after her.
The other three were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The killer probably didn't realize there were two more housemates downstairs or he would have probably killed them too.
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