ID - 4 University of Idaho Students Died in Apparent Homicide, Moscow, 13 Nov 2022 ****Media Thread**** NO DISCUSSION

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Moscow Murders Update: Suspect appears in court as documents reveal murder & investigation details​

 

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The burning question Bryan Kohberger affidavit doesn't answer

Full of details, including alleged surveillance and evidence left behind at the crime scene, it did not answer the one question everyone's asking.

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Despite the evidence revealed in the affidavit, Kohberger has maintained his innocence. His attorney in Pennsylvania, Jason LaBar, issued a statement saying that Kohberger, 28, was "eager to be exonerated" of the charges filed against him, which include four counts of murder in the first degree.

Kenneth Mains, a retired detective and nationally renowned cold case expert, told Newsweek on Thursday that the only way the motive for the crime will be revealed is if the suspect talks.

"We, as the so-called experts, can theorize all we want," Mains, who is also the founder of the American Investigate Society of Cold Cases (AISOCC) said. "Yet, the fact remains, unless Bryan Kohberger himself tells us, or something is found on his computer or in writings from him, we will all just be speculating."

"We who study criminology and human behavior have been doing this for centuries because we want to know why. Yet, the fact will always remain each individual is different in behavior and thought process," Mains, who is not involved in the investigation or case, added.


Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer told Newsweek that she believes Kohberger will talk and eventually reveal a motive for the alleged crimes.

"I think he wants to talk," Coffindaffer, who is not involved in the case or investigation, told Newsweek. "The reason I think he'll talk is he wants to explain, he wants that attention, he's a narcissist, he wants to be the smartest guy in the room."

 

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Idaho Murders Suspect Went Back to the Scene of the Crime, Police Say

In an explosive affidavit released Thursday, police detail the gruesome crime scene — and the search for alleged killer Brian Kohberger.

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Authorities say they used phone records and cellular data records to place Kohberger near the crime scene at least 12 times the morning before the homicides took place. Cell phone pings also place Kohberger’s cell phone in the area at least three times during the afternoon of Nov. 13, indicating he went back to the house after the murders took place. After police obtained a search warrant for the Kohberger residence, police matched DNA found from trash at the Kohberger family residence to the DNA left at the scene and issued the arrest warrant.

According to police, Kohberger applied for a fall 2022 internship with the Pullman Police Department and wrote in an essay he was interested in assisting “rural law enforcement agencies with how to better collect and analyze technological data in public safety operations.”

Kohberger has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary and could face life in prison or the death penalty. Rolling Stone reached out to Kohberger’s public defender, who was unable to give a statement because of the court-issued gag order. Gag orders are used in Idaho law to prevent any information from leaking that might affect a fair trial.

“These murders have shaken our community and no arrest will ever bring back these young students. However we do believe justice will be found through the criminal process,” Chief Fry said Friday. “Be assured the work is not done. This is just getting started.”

 

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Bryan Kohberger's dad explained son's "punchy" behavior during traffic stop

Newly-released footage shows the suspect in the Idaho murders and his father being pulled over in a traffic stop a month after the killings.

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In a Wednesday statement, ISP said the trooper let the father and son go as there was no information related to a potential suspect in the November murders at the time of the traffic stop.

"At the time of this stop, there was no information available on a suspect for the crime in Idaho, to include identifying information or any specific information related to the license plate state or number of the white Hyundai Elantra which was being reported in the media to have been seen in or around where the crime occurred," the statement read

Less than 10 minutes before ISP pulled, Kohberger and his father were pulled over by a deputy with the Hancock County Sheriff's Office for speeding.

After Kohberger finished his semester last month, he drove home to Pennsylvania with his father for the holidays. The two arrived on December 17 in the Hyundai Elantra found at his parents' home.

On Tuesday, Kohberger waived extradition from his home state to face the murder charges in Idaho. His attorney has said that he believes he's going to be exonerated from the charges.

It remains unknown as to what Kohberger's connections to the victims were and what the motive was. However, his DNA was matched to genetic material recovered at the scene of the crime and investigators were able to trace the ownership of the Elantra that had been seen in the area of the slayings, to the Ph.D. student.

 

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Why Didn't She Call? | Profiling Evil​

 

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FBI watched Idaho 'killer' take out the trash wearing surgical gloves

The officers were tasked with tracking Kohberger so they could arrest him as soon as a warrant was issued as well as trying to get hold of a DNA sample.

www.dailymail.co.uk

An FBI surveillance team watched Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger take out the trash at his parent's house wearing surgical gloves at 4am – before dumping it in a neighbor's bin.

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He was also seen cleaning the inside and outside of his car, with the source adding that he didn't 'miss an inch'.

Law enforcement saw him multiple times outside of his parent's $250,000 Pennsylvania home wearing surgical gloves.

A source told CNN Kohberger wore surgical gloves while taking out the bags, and was even seen putting trash into his neighbor's bins at around 4am.

This was prior to his arrest, with agents recovering items from both his family home and the neighbors.

 

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How WA authorities helped track down University of Idaho murder suspect

The affidavit shows that Washington licensing records and WSU police officers helped investigators connect the description of a possible suspect vehicle to Bryan Kohberger.

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The affidavit shows that Washington licensing records and WSU police officers helped investigators connect the description of a possible suspect vehicle to Kohberger. Pullman police also provided information on Kohberger’s educational background.

Investigators said a white Hyundai Elantra made between 2011 and 2016 was seen on surveillance footage before and after the homicides in the neighborhood where the students were killed.

Payne wrote that investigators saw on WSU surveillance footage a similar car traveling away from Pullman in the hours before investigators believe the killings occurred. FBI officials reviewed the footage and determined the vehicle was an Elantra made between 2014 and 2016.

Around two weeks after the killings, the Moscow Police Department asked WSU police officers to be on the lookout for white Elantras. A few days later, a WSU officer looked up white Elantras registered at the university and found a 2015 Elantra registered to Kohberger.

The same day, another WSU police officer also saw the car in the parking lot of Kohberger’s home and looked up his driver’s license information and photograph, according to the court document.

Payne wrote that he also reviewed body-camera footage and a report from an October 2022 WSU police traffic stop involving the 2015 Elantra, which indicated that Kohberger was driving the car. Payne also said he reviewed Washington licensing records and learned the car had previously been registered in Pennsylvania.

Pullman police also shared records from Kohberger’s application for an internship in the fall of 2022. The records showed Kohberger has undergraduate degrees in psychology and cloud-based forensics and was interested in helping rural law enforcement agencies collect and analyze data.

Kohberger was a graduate student in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at WSU’s Pullman campus, about 10 miles from where the killings occurred.

 

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Court documents reveal how DNA left at King Road crime scene led to Bryan Kohberger's arrest

Investigators found a knife sheath near one of the victims which contained the microscopic clue.

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Updated: 6:48 PM PST January 5, 2023

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In an 18-page affidavit of probable cause, investigators reported a knife sheath was found next to the body of Madison Mogen. On that sheath, Idaho's State Lab found a 'single source of male DNA,' which was labeled suspect profile. The sample was pulled from the button snap on the sheath.

"The reason DNA is so compelling is because it is a unique signature. Unless you have an identical twin, no one has your exact DNA," says CeCe Moore, Chief Genetic Genealogist for Parabon.

Moore pioneered the genetic techniques that have been used in solving hundreds of criminal cases, such as the Golden State Killer case in California (Parabon didn't work on that particular case).

The techniques can crack a case with only a tiny sample of DNA.
"Because technology has advanced so far, it is possible to just use a few skin cells in order to identify someone," Moore says. "That is true both for the traditional genetic forensic profile, that is what is court-admissible DNA evidence. It's also true for investigative genetic genealogy, we can work with the tiniest fragment of DNA, and that includes touch DNA.

Based on the affidavit in this case, it looks like touch DNA is what they had to work with. That's just skin cells."

Moore says we are always shedding our DNA wherever we go, in our epithelial or skin cells, saliva, and even hair without a root. That's why, she says, with the advance of technology in genetics it's nearly impossible for criminals to go uncaptured.

"So, in this case, it looks like they had to take that tiny amount of DNA and perform two separate lab analyses on that, because the crime lab creates that STR profile, the one that is court admissible. But a private lab has to create the SNIP- based genetic profile that's used for genetic genealogy.

And at this time, none of the crime labs have the capability to do that themselves. So it would have had to have been sent out. So clearly, even if it was a very small amount, there was enough to be able to do these two separate lab analyses, which is really interesting," Moore says.

Moore guesses, from her analysis of the affidavit, investigators zeroed in on Kohberger either because of a combination of the DNA evidence and technological evidence, like his type of car being seen near the King Road home numerous times, or that they "could have had good enough genetic genealogy matches that they were able to connect to both his mother's side of the family and his father's side of the family. And if they did that, it would have pointed right at him because he is the only son of that union."

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Idaho Murder Suspect Bryan Kohberger's Affidavit Is Full of 'Bad Facts' for His Lawyers — and Some Gaps for the State, Experts Say

Defense attorneys call information that hurts their clients' case "bad facts." A seasoned public defender says they're all over Brian Kohberger's affidavit.

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Bryan Kohberger Has No Clear Sign of Psychotic Disorder: Forensic Psychologist​

 

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SPOKANE, Wash. — Whitman County has sealed the search warrant for University of Idaho student murder suspect Bryan Kohberger'sresidence at the Steptoe Village Apartments in Pullman.

According to court documents, releasing the search warrant would create serious and imminent threats to law enforcement and could prematurely end the investigation which would cause a threat to public safety.

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Here's why the search warrant for the Moscow murder suspect's apartment is sealed

According to court documents, releasing the search warrant would create a serious threat to effective law enforcement and could prematurely end the investigation.

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Idaho murders: Ride along Bryan Kohberger's suspected route home from student stabbings crime scene

Bryan Kohberger lived in Pullman, Washington, just over 10 miles away from the home where he allegedly stabbed four University of Idaho students to death.

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BTK Says Bryan Kohberger Shares His Serial Killer Attributes

The BTK serial killer says Bryan Kohberger shares some of his traits, and that one of his own attacks -- a quadruple homicide -- is eerily similar to the Idaho student slayings.

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The BTK serial killer says Bryan Kohberger shares some of his traits, and that one of his own attacks -- a quadruple homicide -- is eerily similar to the Idaho student slayings.

Dennis Rader -- who gave himself the moniker, "Bind, Torture, Kill," tells TMZ in a new email he believes Kohberger would lie in wait for his victims, stalking them and casing their home. All of this, BTK says, was "much like I did," referencing Kohberger's "dark mind," which he can relate to.

 

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"While investigators worked long hours to crack the case, technology sped things along dramatically, including thousands of digital uploads processed by the FBI. Without a murder weapon, motive or anyone seeing the killer's face, authorities were able to make extraordinary use of advancements in technology to piece together the mystery surrounding who they say killed University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20 — an act of violence that upended the small college town.

"I think it just goes to this idea that there is no perfect crime in this day and age," said former Los Angeles County prosecutor Joshua Ritter, who is now a partner with El Dabe Ritter Trial Lawyers. "It is for the most part a fairly circumstantial case. And building that kind of case requires you to build this kind of tapestry of evidence, which they have done here in a very remarkable way.""

'A perfect case study': How advances in tech allowed Idaho police to unravel mysterious student killings

Without a murder weapon, motive or suspect, Idaho police made use of advancements in technology to piece together the mysterious student killings

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Moscow murder victim's father, Steve Goncalves, talks about his daughter Kaylee -- 1/9/23​

 

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1/9/23

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Bryan Kohberger Released Affidavit with Scott... Live!​

 

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Bryan Kohberger's father seen cleaning up mess after SWAT team raid

Michael Kohberger was seen Sunday tidying up the mess from the SWAT team raid in Albrightsville that saw law enforcement officers break open the family's front door to apprehend his son.

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The 28-year-old appeared in court wearing an orange T-shirt and pants, and gave the judge short one-word answers when asked if he understood his rights during the roughly five-minute-long hearing.

Kohberger's attorney, Anne Taylor, told Marshall that Kohberger was willing to waive his right to a speedy preliminary hearing, which would have required that it be held within two weeks. The hearing itself will likely take four or five days, Taylor said.

He's willing to waive timeliness to allow us time to obtain discovery in the case and be prepared,” Taylor told the judge.

Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson said he had no objection to waiting until June or even July for the preliminary hearing.


If the magistrate judge agrees that there is evidence to justify the charges, the case will be “bound over” into Idaho's 2nd District Court, and a district judge will take over. Then Kohberger will have a chance to enter a plea. If he pleads not guilty, the case will begin working toward a trial. If he pleads guilty, a sentencing hearing will be set.

Thompson has 60 days from the time Kohberger enters a plea to say if he will seek the death penalty.

Man charged in Idaho stabbings waives right to speedy trial, hearing set for June