An FBI-Police Search for a Stabbing Suspect in a Moscow, Idaho, Home for Four U. of Idaho Students

A suspect was taken into custody in connection with the investigation into the murders of four University of Idaho students, two federal law enforcement sources confirmed to CNN on Friday.

The justice system in America cloaks Mr. Kohberger with a veil of innocence as he is accused of very serious crimes. He should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise and not tried in the public eye.

A law enforcement source told CNN that the FBI and Pennsylvania State Police made an arrest in the fatal stabbing case.

In the nearly seven weeks since the students were found stabbed to death in an off-campus home, investigators have conducted more than 300 interviews and scoured approximately 20,000 tips in their search for the suspect. News of the killings – and the long stretch of time without a suspect or significant developments – have rattled the University of Idaho community and the surrounding town of Moscow, which had not seen a murder in seven years.

Police received over 20,000 tips through emails, calls, and digital submissions, and conducted over 300 interviews before the arrest.

Four college students were stabbed to death in a home in Moscow, Idaho, where they lived with two other people. The fourth victim was spending the night with his girlfriend.

An Idaho student arrested in connection with the deaths of four students killed in November 2022, a friend of his father, Kohberger, 46, told CNN

Moscow police say they have worked with a property management services company to remove “potential biohazards and other harmful substances used to collect evidence,” the update said. The property management company will take care of the home.

The man arrested in connection with the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death in November attended a nearby university and lived just miles away from where the victims were found.

In the days since he was arrested, there has been much focus on his study of criminology and criminal justice as a student at Washington State University.

University police assisted authorities in executing search warrants at his apartment and office, the statement said.

In June 2022, he finished graduate studies at DeSales University, where he also was an undergraduate, according to a statement on the school’s website. An associate degree was obtained from Northampton Community College.

A now-removed post said the study wanted to understand the story behind your most recent criminal offense with an emphasis on your thoughts and feelings.

CNN reached a professor at DeSales University who was one of the main investigators of the study, but they wouldn’t comment. The university has not responded to requests for comment.

In Washington State, the license documents show that the vehicle that the suspect was driving in was a white one, which investigators had been seeking in recent weeks.

Days later, officers at nearby Washington State University, where the suspect was a PhD student in criminal justice, identified a white Elantra and found it was registered to Kohberger.

The sources said that he matched the DNA that was recovered at the crime scene and that authorities believe he went to Pennsylvania after the crime.

Authorities kept Kohberger under surveillance while investigators from Moscow’s police department, the Idaho State Police and the FBI worked with prosecutors to develop sufficient probable cause for an arrest warrant.

“This is not the end of this investigation, in fact, this is a new beginning,” Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson said Friday. Anyone who knows of the person who has been charged with these offenses is encouraged to come forward.

Thompson encourages anyone with knowledge of him to report it to the investigators to get a good idea of what happened and why.

More context: State law limits what information authorities can release before Kohberger makes an initial appearance in Idaho court, Fry told reporters, and that could have to do with the lack of further details. The police chief thanked the public for its patience and acknowledged frustrations with the pace of updates on the case.

Authorities carefully tracked the man charged in the killings of four Idaho college students as he drove across the country around Christmas and continued surveilling him for several days before finally arresting him Friday, sources tell CNN.

Since he was arrested after both stops, the public has seen the most of him, but this new footage is the only one they have seen of him. After visiting his family in Pennsylvania, Mr. Kohberger was flown to Idaho, where he is accused of stabbing four students to death in their home.

Still, investigators have not publicly confirmed the suspect’s motive or whether he knew the victims. Moscow Police Chief James Fry said Friday the murder weapon has not been found.

A law enforcement source says he drove cross-country in a white car to get to his parents in Pennsylvania. Authorities began tracking him as he traveled east from Idaho.

The suspect has the option to waive extradition and return to Idaho voluntarily. If he doesn’t agree to be extradited, Moscow police will have to initiate it through the governor’s office.

Kohberger’s lawyer, Jason LaBar, has a presumption that he’s going to be exonerated and will return to Idaho

The post said the study aims to understand the story behind the criminal offense, with an emphasis on thoughts and feelings throughout the experience.

The suspect in the killings of four University of Idaho college students wants to return to Idaho as soon as possible so that he can face murder charges there.

LaBar said his client is presumed innocent until he is proven guilty.

It has to be proved that he is the person responsible for the crime and that he was in the area at the time of the crime, LaBar said.

Three days after the arrest of a suspect in the fatal attack on four University of Idaho students, police have yet to give any details about why he was picked up and how the victims died.

LaBar said that it would be based on authorities, but he was unsure how quickly his client would be returned to Idaho. According to LaBar, Kohberger was expected to be returned to Idaho within 72 hours.

The relatives of the man who was arrested in Pennsylvania in the killings of four University of Idaho students expressed sympathy for the families but also vowed to support him and promote his presumption of innocence.

In an interview Tuesday, Kohberger’s lawyer Jason LaBar, the chief public defender of Monroe County, Idaho, said the suspect “believes he’s going to be exonerated.”

Kohberger’s First-degree Charged Murders in Idaho and a Criminal Case in Washington, D.C., (I.M.J. Jackson)

His parents, Maryann, and Michael, along with his two sisters, were quoted as saying that they care deeply for the families of the four children who have died. There are no words that can adequately express the sadness we feel, and we pray each day for them.”

The family said that relatives will continue to let the legal process unfold, and that “as a family we will love and support our son and brother.” They say they have fully cooperated with law enforcement to try to to “seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence rather than judge unknown facts and make erroneous assumptions.”

Capt. Anthony Dahlinger of the Moscow Police Department in Idaho told The Associated Press on Saturday that authorities believe Kohberger was responsible for all four murders. “We believe we’ve got our man,” he said.

Latah County prosecutors have said the affidavit for four charges of first-degree murder in Idaho will remain sealed until he is returned. He has also been charged in Idaho with a felony. Many details of the case will be released after Kohberger’s first appearance in an Idaho courtroom.

Joey Jackson said that the document will tell them an awful lot. The issue of probable cause will be brought up, along with the rationale behind detaining him and going after him from a prosecution perspective.

A search for genetic material in the home of the four victims of Kohberger’s murder in Moscow, CNN reported on Monday. Jason LaBar, 59, and Shannon Gray

Kohberger’s parents and two sisters plan to attend Tuesday’s hearing, public defender Jason LaBar told CNN Monday. They cannot visit him while they are there.

The hours before the attack had been a normal Saturday night for the four victims and their friends. Chapin and Kernodle had attended a fraternity party; Mogen and Goncalves had gone to a bar and stopped by a food truck on the way home to their house on King Road. The four were home by 2 a.m. and all slept by 4 a.m.

He said that he was looking for a genetic material. “Was his DNA (in the residence)? Is there any reason for anyone to know why he would be there?

Shannon Gray told CNN Monday that families of victims and law enforcement will look at any connections between the victims and the suspect in the case.

“We would encourage the community to send any leads or information to the Moscow Police Department regarding any contacts or any information they may have about the defendant and any of the victims in the case,” the attorney said.

Investigating the case of Kohberger, a 37-year-old suspect in a cross-country drive to Philadelphia, Pa., during the holidays

In some cases offenders have studied in areas of study that prepare them to commit a crime. She said studying the criminal mind did not cause him to do this, and that if he is guilty, her area of study is not a consequence of cause and effect.

He is interested in this, but the way to motivate him to commit a violent crime is already there. “So, this was kind of a conduit to explore what he was already interested in doing.”

It’s also unclear why Kohberger wasn’t arrested until more than six weeks after the victims were found dead. Fry wouldn’t say Saturday when the case would be released, but he promised details would be released in time.

Kohberger went home to Pennsylvania for the holidays, LaBar told CNN on Saturday, adding the suspect and his father – who accompanied his son on the cross-country drive – arrived around December 17.

An FBI surveillance team from the Philadelphia field office had been tracking him for four days in the area where he was arrested, according to two law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation.

“I was very excited, because it was a celebration of life – the same day that we were doing that event,” he told CNN’s Bianna Golodryga. His wife wanted to have this event behind her before the event began so she could focus on our girls and that is what happened.

The man suspected of killing four university of Idaho students is on a plane back to the state for a five-day tailgating spree

“We’re definitely going to look at this guy, look him in his eyes. He’s going to have to deal with us,” said Goncalves, who plans to attend the suspect’s court appearances. He hasn’t been talking to us for seven weeks.

Fry said Saturday that they want information on that individual. We want to get the latest information so we can build the picture. Every tip matters.”

The man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November is on a flight back to the state to face murder charges, a source familiar with the case said Wednesday.

The suspect is a PhD student at Washington State University in Pullman, about a 15 minute drive west of Moscow.

The man accused of killing four students at the University of Idaho received a new license plate for his car five days later, according to records.

In Indiana, authorities have released video of multiple traffic stops that took place in the morning of December 15 where two different officers pulled over the same family for tailgating.

The father of the suspect told the officer that he and his son had been discussing the terrible police standoff near Washington State University, which ended in the death of a police officer.

The plane carrying the Pennsylvania State Police touched down at the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport at 6:30pm and Mr. Kohberger was taken to the Lalah County Jail in Moscow.

An Idaho man charged with the murders of four college students was found murdered in the late morning by a deputy and the local coroner

After about three minutes, the deputy said, “Do me a favor and don’t follow too close, OK?” and then returned Mr. Kohberger’s driver’s license and let them go.

The police have said that the surviving roommates realized something was wrong only late in the morning and believed that one of their roommates had passed out. They called friends to the home and then someone called 911, after which police officers discovered the grisly scene.

The Idaho authorities released the most detailed evidence yet, tying the murders of four University of Idaho students to a suspect charged with their murders.

Among the new information is the discovery that a roommate of the victims woke them up in the middle of the night and saw a masked man exit, and that a leather knife sheath was found in one of the victims’ beds.

Two other roommates did not do anything to be attacked. In an affidavit released Thursday, Moscow police said that one of the people, identified in the document as “D.M.”, was woken by sounds from upstairs and said there’s someone here.

D.M. heard more noises after she looked out her bedroom door, crying and a male voice telling her “I’m going to help you”.

“The male walked towards the back sliding glass door. D.M. locked herself in her room after seeing the male,” according to the document, which said the roommate did not recognize the male.

The Kohberger case: A white Hyundai Elantra that vanished from a cell phone network near a crime scene in Pullman, Washington

There are cameras on the Washington State University campus in Pullman,Wash., that show a white car headed in the direction of Moscow shortly after 3 a.m., and then reappearing around 6 a.m.

On Nov. 29, a police search of vehicles registered to WSU students revealed a 2015 white Hyundai Elantra registered to Bryan Kohberger, originally with Pennsylvania plates that were later registered in Washington.

It is thought that a lack of cell phone pinging could be an attempt to prevent law enforcement from learning of a crime.

A review of phone records showed Kohberger’s phone left his home at approximately 9 a.m. and traveled to Moscow, the affidavit said, and that the same phone traveled “back to the area of the Kohberger Residence … arriving to the area at approximately 9:32 a.m.”

Then, at 4:48 a.m., the phone appeared on the network again, pinging along highways south of Moscow, then west across the border into Washington state, and then back north toward Pullman — a timeline that aligned with security footage of the white Elantra, investigators noted.

The disappearance of his phone from the network was evidence of an attempt to hide his location during the killings.

But his phone had pinged cell phone towers in the area of the King Road house at least 12 times before the murders, investigators found, including as early as Aug. 21, the day before his classes as a graduate student were set to begin at Washington State. The affidavit said most of those times were late at night or early in the morning.

The phone also returned to the area of the crime scene around 9:15 a.m. on Nov. 13, about five hours after the stabbings, before they had been reported to police.

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Body camera footage showed the younger Kohberger driving the car with his father in the passenger seat. Both times, after a brief and polite conversation, the officers let the Kohbergers go without a ticket.

The crime lab determined that the sample in the trash was the biological father of the person who left the knife sheath, according to the affidavit.

“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.

John Miller, CNN’s Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence analyst, said that the suspect in the case is an “organized offender,” who likely planned and prepared for the attack.

Leaving behind the knife sheath was a mistake and it could have happened for many reasons, said retired FBI profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole, who is no longer with the FBI. The suspect probably had to use the knife immediately or the victims might not have responded the way the suspect anticipated. It was implied that the offenders would have made mistakes because they would have lost their attention to detail, and they were probably also in a state of arousal.

One of two roommates who were not harmed told investigators she saw a masked man dressed in black in the house the morning of the attack, according to the probable cause affidavit.

The document states that the roommate heard a man say, “It’s OK, I’m going to help you” as she cried in the morning.

A man with bushy eyebrows was described as 5′ 10″ or taller and not very muscular by D.M. D.M. stood in shock as the male walked past.

Statistical Mechanics of Rural Law Enforcement: A Memorandum on Data Collection and Analysis in his 2022 Application to the Pullman Police Department

“These records also showed Kohberger wrote an essay when he applied for an internship with the Pullman Police Department in the fall of 2022. 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.”