Bryan Kohberger cops forced to break silence & rule Idaho murders suspect out of home invasion as bodycam video emerges
A year before to his suspected murder of four University of Idaho students, BRYAN Kohberger was deemed a person of interest in connection with an unresolved home invasion.
In addition to being investigated for a suspiciously similar case in Pullman, Washington, Koberger was arrested six weeks after the killings of Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20 on November 13, 2022.
About ten miles from the location where the four University of Idaho students were discovered fatally murdered in their off-campus residence in Moscow, Idaho, on October 10, 2021, police were called to a home invasion in the vicinity of Pullman.
According to bodycam footage, Pullman police arrived at the residence early on October 10, 2021, after a female victim reported that an intruder wearing a ski mask had entered her house with a knife.
The terrified woman told police, “I heard my door open, and I looked over, and someone was wearing a ski mask and had a knife,” in a video that ABC News was able to obtain.
“So, I like kicked the s**t out of their stomach and screamed super load, and they like flew back into my closet then ran out my door and up the stairs.”
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According to a police complaint, the woman told officers the suspect entered her house at around 3:30 am and remained silent the entire time.
But no proof or possible suspect was discovered by Pullman police.
EERIE SIMILAR CASE
Then, on December 30, 2022, Moscow police revealed that Kohberger, 29, had been arrested in connection with the killings of the four college students, potentially leading to a breakthrough in the case.
According to investigators, Kohberger entered the students’ King Road off-campus residence covertly at around four in the morning, then proceeded to each of their beds and fatally stabbed Mogen, Goncalves, Kernodle, and Chapin.
After hearing the victims’ shouts, heavy thuds, and sounds of a fight, one of their surviving roommates told authorities she spotted a man wearing a mask and had “bushy eyebrows.”
Kohberger was labeled a person of interest in the unresolved 2021 case 13 days after his arrest because the descriptions of the Pullman house invasion and the Moscow killings were so strikingly similar.
The suspects in both home invasions entered the houses in the early morning, donned masks, had knives, and left without saying anything.
But when the female victim of the Pullman break-in identified the culprit as being between five and five feet three and five feet five—Kohberger being six feet tall—the differences between the instances became apparent.
According to ABC News, Kohberger, a citizen of Pennsylvania, was not yet enrolled at Washington State University when the Pullman event occurred.
KOHBERGER RULED OUT
Kohberger was pursuing a Ph.D. in criminology at Washington State University when he was arrested in 2022.
In August 2022, Kohberger became a student at Washington State University.
Kohberger was formally disqualified by Pullman police as a person of interest in the home invasion in 2021.
Pullman police told ABC News, “At this time, we have no reason or evidence to believe he was involved in this burglary.”
The source was informed by the victim in the Pullman case, “My family and I have been frustrated that the case was not investigated more in-depth or resolved.”
The Pullman case has been closed and is still open.
Kohberger is expected to go on trial for the quadruple murder on trial on August 11, 2025.
A judge granted hisdefense team’s request for a change of venuefrom Latah County, thecounty where the murders took place, to Bosie in Ada County.
Judge John Judge noted in his September ruling that the Latah County courthouse is not big enough to accommodate the trial and that the county sheriff’s office does not have enough deputies to handle security.
“Considering the undisputed evidence presented by the defense, the extreme nature of the news coverage in this case, and the smaller population in Latah County, the defense has met the rather low standard of demonstrating ‘a reasonable likelihood’ that prejudicial news coverage will compromise a fair trial in Latah County,” the judge wrote.
“Thus, the Court will grant Kohberger’s motion to change venue for presumed prejudice.”
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Anot-guilty plea was entered on Kohberger’s behalfin May 2023.
Prosecutors plan toseek the death penaltyif Kohberger is convicted.
University of Idaho murders timeline
On November 13, 2022, a brutal home invasion claimed the lives of four University of Idaho students.
Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death in their Moscow, Idaho, off-campus home.
A six-week manhunt ensued as cops searched for a suspect.
On December 28, 2022, Bryan Kohberger, 29, was arrested at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania – 2,500 miles away from the crime scene.
He was taken into custody and has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
Kohberger, a former criminal justice student at Washington State University, has been linked to the crime scene through phone records, his car’s location, and DNA evidence found at the home where the murders took place.
The house was demolished in December 2023 despite backlash from the victims’ families.
Kohberger is being held at Latah County Jail while he awaits trial.
On September 9, 2024, an Idaho judge ruled to move the upcoming murder trial out of Moscow after Kohberger’s lawyer argued that the town was prejudiced against him.
The state Supreme Court will decide the new venue and judge for the trial, which is expected to start in June 2025.
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