Court docs say DNA of Idaho murder suspect found on knife sheath. College roommate frozen in shock coming face-to-face with killer. Expert profiler believes Bryan Kohberger is an incel.



Bryan Kohberger made his first court appearance on Thursday after being charged with the murders of four University of Idaho students.

Kohberger, 28, is accused of murdering Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle, 20, on Nov. 13 at an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho.

Kohberger drove his 2015 white Hyundai Elantra from Washington to Pennsylvania in mid-December. During the cross-country trip with his father, Kohberger was pulled over twice in Indiana for tailgating, but was not ticketed. A report claimed that the FBI instructed police to pull over Kohberger to help build a case against the suspected killer.

Kohberger was extradited to Idaho after being arrested at his parents' home in Chestnuthill Township, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 30. Kohberger appeared before Latah County Magistrate Judge Megan Marshall on Thursday.

College roommate comes face-to-face with killer

Court documents released on Thursday claimed that a roommate came face-to-face with the man who stabbed four college students to death in the house.

Around 4 a.m., Dylan Mortensen, 21, said she heard Kaylee Goncalves say something to the effect of, "There's someone here." She opened her bedroom door but did not see anyone.

Then, Mortensen told investigators that she opened her door a second time when she thought she heard Xana Kernodle crying in her room. The woman said that she heard a male voice say, "It's OK, I'm going to help you."

The roommate opened her door a third time when she heard crying, and that's when she allegedly saw the killer lurking in the house.

Mortensen said she saw a man standing about 5'10" walking toward her. He was wearing a face mask, but she noticed that he had bushy eyebrows. He was not very muscular, but athletically built.

Mortensen said she was standing in a "frozen shock phase" as the man walked past her and exited through the back sliding glass door. She locked herself in her room after the chilling encounter.

Phone records and Hyundai Elantra sightings tip off police

The affidavit stated that the suspect's vehicle was sighted near the crime scene "multiple" times by neighborhood surveillance cameras between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m. However, the car did not have a front license plate. Investigators believed the suspect's vehicle was a Hyundai Elantra model between 2011 and 2016.

Five days after the slayings, Kohberger switched his license plates on his 2015 Hyundai Elantra.

Based on wireless data records, Kohberger's phone was turned off at approximately 2:47 a.m. on the day of the murders. The phone started communicating with the wireless network at 4:48 a.m., according to court docs. The phone was traveling on a highway south of Moscow, Idaho. The phone returned to Kohberger's residence in Pullman, Washington.

Kohberger — a doctoral student studying criminal justice and criminology at Washington State — lives about 15 minutes from the house where four students were stabbed to death.

Authorities say the phone's movements mirror the movements of a white Hyundai Elantra.

The morning after the murders, Kohberger's phone was reportedly detected near the house of the grisly slayings between 9:12 a.m. and 9:21 a.m.

Court documents say that Kohberger's phone was near the crime scene at least 12 times before the murders and as far back as August.

Expert criminal profiler believes Bryan Kohberger is an incel

Expert criminal profiler and psychotherapist John Kelly said of Kohberger, "I think he was an incel and really just hated women."

Kelly declared that Kohberger isn't the mastermind that some have painted him as.

"What’s interesting is how people are talking about how smart he is," Kelly told Fox News. "Looking at it from an investigative standpoint and looking at the mistakes he made: Criminology 101. He looks like a moron to me."

Kelly explained that murdering someone indoors is the "worst place" because there's a "good chance" of leaving evidence behind.

Suspect's DNA found at crime scene

Law enforcement found a tan leather knife sheath lying on the bed next to stabbing victim Madison Mogen. Investigators allegedly found DNA on the knife sheath.

Moscow Police Department officer Brett Payne wrote, "The sheath was later processed and had 'Ka-Bar' 'USMC' and the United States Marine Corps eagle globe and anchor insignia stamped on the outside of it. The Idaho state lab later located a single source of male DNA (suspect Profile) left on the button snap of the knife sheath."

The affidavit noted that investigators collected trash from Kohberger's family residence. DNA obtained from the trash matched the knife sheath, according to court documents released on Thursday.

"On December 28, 2022, the Idaho State Lab reported that a DNA profile obtained from the trash and the DNA profile obtained from the sheath, identified a male as not being excluded as the biological father of the suspect," the affidavit declared. "At least 99.9998% of the male population would be expected to be excluded from the possibility of being the suspect's biological father."

Kohberger applied at the local police department

In the fall of 2022, Kohberger reportedly applied for an internship with the Pullman Police Department, according to court documents. In his applicant essay, Kohberger wrote that he had "interest in assisting rural law enforcement agencies with how to better collect and analyze technological data in public safety operations."

The affidavit added, "Kohberger also posted a Reddit survey which can be found by an open-source internet search. The survey asked for participants to provide information to "understand how emotions and psychological traits influence decision making when committing a crime."

Kohberger was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary.

In his first court appearance, Kohberger was denied bail on Thursday.

Investigators used Bryan Kohberger's DNA at scene, cellphone records to link him to case youtu.be

FBI reportedly instructed police to pull over Idaho murder suspect to obtain images of hands. Bryan Kohberger switched license plates after slayings of college students.



The FBI instructed police to pull over the suspect in the Idaho murders of four college students to obtain images of Bryan Kohberger's hands, according to a new report.

Kohberger and his father were driving cross-country from Washington state to Pennsylvania last month. On Dec. 15, Kohberger was pulled over in Indiana by a member of the Hancock County Police Department while driving in his 2015 white Hyundai Elantra.

Police bodycam video shows a sheriff’s deputy pull over the Elantra and ask for Kohberger's driver’s license. Kohberger complies, and then the officer says that the traffic stop was for tailgating.

The deputy tells Kohberger, "You were right up there on the back end of that van. I pulled you over for tailgating."

The officer asks the father and son where they are driving to and from. The father, Michael Kohberger, replies that they are coming from Washington State University – where the younger Kohberger had recently completed his first semester as a Ph.D. student in criminology and criminal justice.

The father informs the officer, “We're slightly punchy. We've been driving for hours."

The father and son are seen on video telling the officer about a deadly SWAT team standoff in Washington state that caused the WSU campus to issue a shelter-in-place order. The SWAT crisis occured in Pullman, Washington. Kohberger lives in Pullman – which is about 15 minutes from the deadly college student stabbings in Moscow, Idaho.

The deputy advises Kohberger, "Don't follow too close." He then leaves without handing Kohberger a citation.

New bodycam video shows the first time Bryan Kohberger was stopped by police www.youtube.com

Approximately 10 minutes after the traffic stop, Kohberger was pulled over again on I-70.

Bodycam video shows an Indiana State Police trooper stopping Kohberger for tailgating. The Kohbergers inform the trooper that they had just been pulled over for following too close while driving. The police officer did not issue a ticket to the driver.

The father and son tell the officer that they're driving to Pennsylvania. The trooper joked, "Long haul. Have you ever heard of airplanes?"

Police bodycam video and dashcam footage show the second traffic stop by an Indiana State trooper.

Idaho Student Murders Suspect Bryan Kohberger Stopped in White Hyundai Elantra by Indiana Trooper www.youtube.com

The traffic stops were reportedly directed by the FBI to build a case against Kohberger in relation to the quadruple murders of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in the early morning hours of Nov. 13. Fox News reported, "The law enforcement source said that investigators were still building their case on Dec. 15 to make an arrest, but added that genealogy played a major role."

The New York Post speculated, "Investigators likely wanted to see if the suspect had any visible wounds after allegedly using a large knife to commit the bloody crime."

Kohberger's Elantra was registered in Pennsylvania. However, CarFax documents show that the vehicle's registration was switched from Pennsylvania to Washington on Nov. 18 – five days after the college students were stabbed to death, according to Newsweek.

At around 1:45 a.m. on Dec. 30, Kohberger was arrested at his parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania. He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder for the stabbing deaths of the Idaho college students.

Kohberger, 28, issued a statement through his attorney that he wants to return to Idaho so he can be “exonerated.”

College class instructs students to list examples of white privilege, male privilege. If they can't? Well, that's privilege.



An allegedly mandatory class at the College of Eastern Idaho reportedly instructed its students to document the many forms of white privilege and male privilege.

If students find themselves unable to list any white or male privileges, that, according to the school, is indicative of privilege itself, The College Fix reported.

What are the details?

According to outlet — which described the course as "required" — the course instructs students to identify privileges specific to "men, whites, and members of the 'majority religion' in the region."

An unidentified parent of one student shared the "privileges activity" with the outlet after the student engaged in a conversation with the class that reportedly disturbed them.

The class — which is reportedly on oral communications — "cited White Male Privilege as a fact rather than a hypothesis that could be debated," according to the parent, who shared the class's syllabus.

The College Fix reported that when the student called the assignment into question, the instructor and other students "shamed him in a sexist and racist way while claiming their virtue signaling points."

"There wasn't really a debate," the student told The College Fix, adding that the teacher was only reportedly committed to shutting him down.

The student then argued that the class wasn't including "female privileges or black privilege," which reportedly prompted the teacher to fire back, "[W]e might talk about those another time."

You can read more about the class here and below.

'We have no record of a complaint'

Following the class, the unnamed student said he wanted to take his gripes to dean of students, Michael Walker, and requested a meeting.

"While the student was able to express his complaints to Walker, the dean recommended he put up with the bias in the class and just try to finish," the student told the outlet via email.

A spokesperson for the college told the outlet that it did not receive any complaints about the class instructor.

"We have no record of a complaint regarding [the instructor] with either our Dean of General Education, Dr. Angela Sackett, or the Dean of Student Affairs, Michael Walker," the statement said.

In response to the school's statement, the student said, "I thought by talking with him I was filing an official complaint."

The student also said that Walker — who reportedly told the student that he was a personal friend of the instructor — would address the student's concerns with them.

"Other than that he told me to just stay in the class and try to just get through the semester," the student told the outlet.

The student said he's not going to bother with filing an "official" complaint because he fears it "might be too late to file one to be taken seriously."

Anything else?

Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs Lori Barber told the outlet that it found no complaints regarding the instructor in question.

According to an email, when a student "has a complaint or concern," there are allegedly "internal procedures by which they can resolve an issue or at least permit the College to provide context."

The statement added that the school cannot address any complaint "[u]nless or until the student follows our established protocols."

Barber's email added that she would be "glad to address this with the student directly."