December 14, 2024

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Is THIS Bryan Kohberger returning to the scene of the Idaho murders?

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Recently reviewed video in the haunting University of Idaho murder case may support investigators’ theory that the murder suspect Bryan Kohberger returned to the scene of the killing in his white Hyundai Elantra in the hours after the massacre.

Kohberger, 28, allegedly returned to the crime scene at least once following the heinous act, according to a police affidavit

Now, new footage of a white sedan driving near the home the day after may correspond with that theory.

A Fox News Digital camera recorded a brief sighting of a car heading up a road next to the Moscow house. The vehicle can be seen at the top of the video frame as two law enforcement officers converse near the side of a field at around 2pm on November 14. 

Pictured: What is believed to be a white car that could belong to Bryan Kohberger driving near the crime scene where four University of Idaho students were found brutally stabbed to death. This image is from November 14 at around 2pm

Cops have not outlined dates, times, or details of the other 11 instances when they think Kohberger stalked the Idaho students and their college home. However police did confirm that all of the 12 'stalking' instances - bar one - took place late in the evening, or in the early hours of the morning

Cops have not outlined dates, times, or details of the other 11 instances when they think Kohberger stalked the Idaho students and their college home. However police did confirm that all of the 12 ‘stalking’ instances – bar one – took place late in the evening, or in the early hours of the morning

Kohberger’s phone pinged in the area of the students’ Moscow house around 9am on November 13 – just five hours after he allegedly broke into the off-campus home and stabbed four students to death. But by the end of that day, his phone went cold.

The suspect infamously drove a white Hyundai Elantra and is believed to have driven by the students’ home at least four times on the morning of the killings, between about 3.30am and 4.00am.

According to the police’s probable cause affidavit, at around 4.20am the same car was captured on video speeding away from the area.

The cops said there are generally ‘a very limited number of vehicles’ that enter and exit this residential neighborhood in the early hours of the morning. But the white sedan was one of them that was spotted moving past the house ‘at high speed’ four times. 

The pattern of the car’s movement corresponded to the estimated time of the murders, which were eventually connected to Kohberger, a PhD student studying criminology at the nearby Washington State University Pullman.

The suspect was attending college in nearby Washington State, where he pursued criminology

The suspect is believed to have driven some 2,300 miles from Moscow to Pennsylvania. He was attending college in nearby Washington State

Footage from Washington University also showed a white Elantra leaving the campus in the direction of the students’ house just prior to 3.00am on the night of the murders. The car then returned to campus just before 5.30am on the same morning.

The data also revealed that Kohberger had been in the area of the students’ house at least a dozen times before the murders, generally at odd hours of the day and night.

The police affidavit read: ‘All of these occasions, except for one, occurred in the late evening and early morning hours of their respective days.’

It was also the white Elantra which first brought Kohberger’s name into the police’s orbit – after they found he was the owner when looking through footage from his apartment building’s parking lot. 

Moscow Police officers visited the parking lot to obtain a license plate for the vehicle – as it matched the description of the car they saw on footage the night the students were killed. 

Using forensic DNA testing, cell phone data, CCTV footage and evidence from the scene of the murders, police were ultimately able to hunt down Kohberger and charge him with the quadruple killing.

Kohberger, 28, is accused of murdering Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin on November 13 in the quiet, college town of Moscow, Idaho

Late last month, Kohberger was pulled over in Pennsylvania for a traffic violation in a white Hyundai Elantra registered in his name last month during a cross-country drive with his father.

He was arrested on December 30, during a raid on his family’s Pennsylvania home, where the white Hyundai Elantra was also found. 

He has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary for the vicious murders of Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21.

Two other housemates were inside the rental home at the time of the murders, but were not attacked. 

One of them, detectives revealed last week, saw a masked man exit the house.

Last week, Judge Megan Marshall issued a gag order on the case, preventing investigators and attorneys on both sides from making public statements about the many facets of the pending case. 

HOW PHONE RECORDS REVEALED BRYAN KOHBERGER’S ‘STALKING’

August 21, 2022: Bryan Kohberger’s phone, ending in 8458 – was picked up by a cellphone tower providing coverage to the murder house – 1122 King Road, Moscow, Idaho.

He was in the vicinity of the victims’ home between 10:34pm and 11:35pm that night.

Kohberger was picked up by a cellphone tower near the property at least 11 more times before the murders on November 13. Cops have yet to share further details of those subsequent visits.

November 13, 2022, 2:42am: Kohberger’s 8458 phone was picked up by a cell tower near his home – 1630 Northeast Valley Road in Pullman, Washington.

2:47pm: Phone pinged again, indicating that it had begun to travel south through Pullman. Moments later, the phone stopped pinging, indicating that it had been put on airplane mode, turned off, or dropped off the network.

4:00-4:20am: Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were all knifed to death at 1122 King Road, Moscow.

4:48am: Kohberger’s phone pings network again on Idaho State Highway 95, south of Moscow.

4:50am-5:26am: Phone pings show it traveling south on ID95 to Genessee, Idaho, them west towards Uniontown, Idaho, and back north into Pullman, Washington.

5:30am: Kohberger’s phone pings again at 1630 Northeast Valley Road, indicating that he’d arrived back home.

November 13, 9:00am: Kohberger’s phone is on the move again, and travels back to the vicinity of the King Road murder house. It is picked up by a nearby cellphone tower between 9:12am and 9:21am.

9:32am: Kohberger’s phone indicates that he’s arrived back home in Pullman again.

 

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