The November 13 December 13 Stabbing of a Student at the University of Idaho Revealed by a Washington, D.C. Kohberger
Two federal law enforcement sources tell CNN that a suspect was arrested in connection with the murders of four students at the University of Idaho.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, was briefed on observations made by investigators during four days of surveillance leading up to Kohberger’s arrest at his family’s Pennsylvania home on December 30.
The arrest in the fatal stabbing case was made by Pennsylvania State Police and the FBI in northeastern Pennsylvania, the law enforcement source told CNN.
The November 13 killings in an off-campus home riveted the nation and shocked the small college town of Moscow, its first murder in seven years. The community and student body were frightened by the case and questions swirled about how fast the police investigation was going.
The arrest comes a day after police said they have received about 20,000 tips through more than 9,025 emails, 4,575 phone calls, and 6,050 digital media submissions, while having conducted over 300 interviews.
The students – Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20 – were likely asleep when they were each stabbed multiple times in the early morning hours, authorities have said. The victims had wounds in their body, according to the coroner.
New information from Moscow police on the four fatal stabbings that occurred near the university of Idaho. A new license plate for a young man accused of killing four college students
Moscow police worked with a property management service company to remove harmful substances used to collect evidence, according to an update. The property management company will take over the home.
There was a police shooting in Idaho that did not seem to have any connection to the four fatal stabbings that took place there about a month earlier. Four murders have now been charged with Mr. Kohberger.
MOSCOW, Idaho — The man accused of killing four University of Idaho college students received a new license plate for his car five days after the murders, according to records released Wednesday.
The Moscow police had said that a white car that was seen near the Moscow crime scene in November had not been seen in that time period. Mr. Kohberger’s car was a 2015 model and registered on Nov. 18, according to the licensing document. A vehicle history report shows the car had previously been registered in Pennsylvania, where Mr. Kohberger is from.
The first stop was by a deputy with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department at 10:42 a.m., who pulled over Mr. Kohberger and his father. The body camera footage released on Wednesday captured the deputy asking where the two were headed. The father said that they were coming from Washington and talking about the situation near the Washington State campus at the time.
Mr. Kohberger’s father told the officer that there had been a “mass shooting.” He was corrected by his son, who said, “We don’t know if it was a mass shooting,” and referred to a SWAT team being called for the standoff. “It’s horrifying,” Mr. Kohberger’s father said in the video. That incident involved a man who the police later said had barricaded himself in an apartment and threatened to kill his roommates before a police officer shot him to death.
The Pennsylvania State Police plane landed in Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport at 6:30 p.m., and the man that was on board was taken into custody.
There is no indication that the police in Indiana had any idea that Mr. Kohberger would be arrested for the murders, or that they were aware of the police in Moscow, Idaho, saying that a white Hyundai Elantra had been seen near the crime scene on the night of the murders.
After about three minutes, the deputy told them to go and return Mr. Kohberger’s driver’s license.
“Pursuant to records provided by a member of the interview panel for Pullman Police Department, we learned that Kohberger’s past education included undergraduate degrees in psychology and cloud-based forensics,” according to an affidavit.
The Charge of Kohberger, the Executor, and the Offender, has not been Charged with a Crime. The evidence in the case of a stabbing victim
The police have said that the surviving roommates realized something was not right late in the morning and that one of them had passed out. They called friends to the home Police officers were called after someone called to report the gruesome scene.
Some questions that remain are contained in the court documents about the probable cause affidavit used to support Kohberger’s arrest and obtain a warrant.
The trash found in the family home matched the DNA profile from the tan leather knife sheath found on one of the victims, according to the probable cause affidavit. The DNA recovered from the trash “identified a male as not being excluded as the biological father” of the suspect whose DNA was found on the sheath. “At least 99.9998% of the male population would be expected to be excluded from the possibility of being the suspect’s biological father,” the affidavit said.
The affidavit said at least 99% of the population would be excluded from the possibility of being the suspect’s biological father.
According to the affidavit released Thursday, the suspect in the case falls into what criminal profilers call an “organized offender,” who likely planned and prepared for the attack, said CNN Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller.
“Leaving behind the sheath of a knife was clearly a mistake … and could have happened for several reasons,” said retired FBI profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole. The suspect may have needed to use the knife immediately or the victims may not have responded in what the suspect expected. The offender was also likely in a state of arousal during the commission of the crime, O’Toole added,” and their attention to detail would have waned, at least somewhat causing him to make mistakes.”
The roommate said she heard crying in the house and a man say, “I’m going to help you.” D.M. said she saw a person clad in black clothing and wearing a mask walking towards her.
The man was going towards the sliding glass door. The document says that D.M. locked herself in her room after seeing the male, and her roommate didn’t recognize him.
“D.M. described the figure as 5’ 10” or taller, male, not very muscular, but athletically built with bushy eyebrows,” the affidavit says. A man walked past D.M. in a frozen shock phase.
An investigation of the case of Kohberger, the man responsible for the killings of four victims, according to Monroe County Chief Public Defender Jason LaBar
At the time of Kohberger’s arrest last week, a white Elantra was found at his parents’ house in Pennsylvania, according to Monroe County Chief Public Defender Jason LaBar, who said Kohberger had gone home for the holidays.
Investigators say phone records indicate Kohberger was near the victims’ home at least 12 times between June 2022 and the present day, according to an affidavit detailing the evidence against him. Records show that the suspect was close to the residence on the morning of the killings.
The records also show that when he applied for an internship with the Pullman Police Department, he wrote an essay. Kohberger wrote in his essay he had interest in assisting rural law enforcement agencies with how to better collect and analyze technological data in public safety operations.”
A law enforcement source told CNN that the man accused of killing four people at the University of Idaho had cleaned the interior and exterior of his car before he was arrested.
Before Kohberger’s arrest, authorities noted that the suspect thoroughly cleaned his vehicle and was seen wearing surgical gloves repeatedly outside his family’s Pennsylvania home, a law enforcement source tells CNN.
A surveillance team assigned to Kohberger was tasked with two missions, according to multiple law enforcement sources: keep eyes on Kohberger so they could arrest him as soon as a warrant was issued, and try to obtain an object that would yield a DNA sample from Kohberger, which could then be compared to DNA evidence found at the crime scene.
In one instance prior to Kohberger’s arrest, authorities observed him leaving his family home around 4 a.m. and putting trash bags in the neighbors’ garbage bins, according to the source. At that point, agents recovered garbage from the Kohberger family’s trash bins and what was observed being placed into the neighbors’ bins, the source said.
Last Friday, a Pennsylvania State Police SWAT team then moved in on the Kohberger family home, breaking down the door and windows in what is known as a “dynamic entry” – a tactic used in rare cases to arrest “high risk” suspects, the source added.
It took authorities nearly two months to identify a suspect in a murder which had not been recorded in years, making the case a cause for national concern as well as a cause for alarm.
Still, the public’s view of the case remains mired with questions. It is unclear what motivated the killings. It is not clear how the suspect entered the house after it was said that there was no sign of forced entry or why the two roommates who were inside survived the attacks.
Following the stabbing deaths of four students in November, the tight-knit University of Idaho community was shaken for weeks, but the recent arrest of a suspect may allow the campus to regain a sense of security as students return to classes this week.
“I think I speak for many in our community that there’s a great sense of relief, but it’s bittersweet because this is still a horrible tragedy,” the university’s provost and executive vice president Torrey Lawrence told CNN Friday.
Classes resume on Wednesday following the winter break, and though students who are still uncomfortable being on campus have the option to attend remotely, most students are planning to return, Lawrence said.
“The timing of this for our students was probably good,” the provost said, adding, “Hopefully we can really just be focused on classes starting and on that student experience that we provide.”
The search for a suspect in Kohberger’s final restraints at the home he rented from a family home
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, was briefed on observations made by investigators during four days of surveillance leading up to Kohberger’s arrest at his family home.