The MSM is all over it, which is massive red flag #1.  This just actually seems you trying to deal with cognitive dissonance or a previously held belief that media act as one single voice.  Why wouldn't the media cover this?  It's a legit BIG story.  A country killing its citizens in a consulate/embassy would be a big deal.  Add the fact that it involves the US, Turkey and the United States and how is this not a legit story?  And it's a whodunnit.  There are giant questions that are still to be answered.  Saudia Arabia has provided no good answers and seems to have lied.  Then you add the fact that the President and his son in law have been unusually close to the Saudi Crown Prince at one point a company Kushner has ownership in was seeking Saudi government investment money.  Cadre, a real estate technology startup co-founded and partly owned by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, is discussing an investment of at least $100 million from a private fund that receives much of its capital from the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to people familiar with the discussions.  The President even tried out an alibi the Saudi's were floating, that it was done by "rogue" elements.  Khashoggi was a legal US resident which meant he's afforded protections by the US government.  If US intel learns of an assasination attempt they are obligated to warn the person they are in harms' way.  Khashoggi was a such a prominent person, this was bound to be huge news, Saudi Arabia had to understand this could disrupt their relationship with the US.   Did they simply ignore that possibility and go ahead anyway?  That's a BIG and LEGIT story.  Did they run their plans by the US Government and get an OK?  That would be an even BIGGER & LEGIT story. There's no reason at all the media shouldn't be covering this story unless you prefer a coverup.  The story is changing...dismembered, strangled, etc, red flag #2  Initial stories often change, particularly when more facts emerge, people closer to the event talk, etc.  That's not inconsistent with a search for the truth.  It's pretty standard in journalism. Wouldn't it be a little odd, if everything emerged on day one?  Would you raise a similar red flag if the story was consistent?  Would you be saying, it's all little too consistent, it must be a preplanned story? Strangled and dismembered are not inconsistent.  One is method of killing someone and one is method of getting rid of their now dead body.  We’re supposed to believe that a bunch of assassins and upper echelon Saudi officials allowed their own crime to be recorded? I’m having a hard time with that.   But what if that is an actual fact?  What if it actually happened that way?  In that case your suspicion is getting in the way of you getting to the truth.  In fact, this is a common logical fallacy known as Argument by incredulity.  https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_fallacy I call this the "YEAH, RIGHT" argument and we've probably all done it at some point. You're trying to tell me Italians put walnuts on pasta?  Yeah Right.  It's a case where your own cynicism or ignorance (of northern Italian food, in this case) gets between you and the truth.  https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/e5/6a/8ae56a639404936afa89241f1f84ee67.jpg So back to the example?  Could the assassins allow themselves to be recorded?  Of course, if they didn't know they were being recorded.  Also plans go awry all the time. The story about the Apple Watch seems completely fake, if that is what you are referring to, but it doesn't seems unlikely to me that Turkey could have had the consulate under hidden surveillance that the Saudis didn't know about.  And in fact, it seems that Turkey is now admitting they had the consulate bugged..  The Apple Watch story was intended as a cover story to obscure the fact, that Turkey knows what happened because they somehow had surveillance capability inside the Saudi Consolate.  We know for a fact that Turkey would be highly interested in knowing Saudi plans and thinking. Yesterday, a leak came out of the Turkish government that Mike Pompeo listened to audio of the killing.  That's a very specific claim and it deliberates boxes Pompeo in.  If he did listen to this audio, he knows that Turkey will be able to prove that.  Listen to Trump hem and haw and not really deny it.  “I’m not sure yet that it exists, probably does, possibly does,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding: “I’ll have a full report on that” when Mr. Pompeo returned. “That’s going to be the first question I ask.”  Look at him stall for time, he doesn't know what Mike Pompeo talked about while in Turkey?  He has to wait for Pompeo to return to Washington to speak with him?  Phones and email don't exist?  I mean when Stanley when to look for Dr. Livingstone in Zanzibar in 1871, he was able to get letters out. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1872/07/02/79181684.pdf  And, those assassins and Saudis had to kill him right then and there?  Well they couldn't let him leave the embassy and kidnapping him and killing him somewhere other than the consulate would have meant taking him on to Turkish soil which would have meant raising the risks of the operation extensively. One of the men identified by Turkey was a doctor who knew how to cut up a body.  If that was their plan, would they have delayed once they had Khashoggi?  It was in their interest to get it over with and get the hell out of Turkey.    We all have our own biases when it comes to investigating/learning or judging the truth of something, but if you practice critical thinking you have to test yourself.  Am I leaping to an unjustified conclusion?  Am I telling myself a story that's not true.  One test you can do it look for plausible alternatives.  Is there another explanation for this set off facts.  Rather than say I don't believe they killed him then and there, and concluding it couldn't have happened that way, you can ask Why would they have killed him then and there and try to find a reason.  Getting out of Turkey is something they absolutely needed to do if they didn't want to be arrested for murder.  So it becomes highly plausible once they had him (and they knew why time he was expected) they would execute their plan with haste.