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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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Family members of University of Idaho murder victims reveal possible entry into off-campus home, coroner offers new details in 'personal' slaughter that happened in bed



New details have emerged about the grisly murder of four college students in Moscow, Idaho. The bodies of the University of Idaho students were found at an off-campus house on Sunday.

Partial autopsy reports were released for the four victims — Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20. Preliminary information revealed that the four University of Idaho students' time of death was approximately 2 a.m. on Sunday, but the first 911 call regarding the victims was not made until noon that day.

The autopsies performed by the Spokane Medical Examiner's Office found that all four college students were stabbed to death with a knife.

Latah County coroner Cathy Mabbutt said the murder weapon "would have been a bigger knife" to be consistent with their "pretty extensive" wounds.

Moscow Building Supply general manager Scott Jutte told the Idaho Statesman that a police officer went to the store multiple times this week to inquire about the possible sale of a KA-BAR brand combat blade.

"They were specifically asking whether or not we carry KA-BAR-style knives, which we do not," Jutte told the paper. "If we did, we could’ve reviewed surveillance footage. But it wasn’t something I could help them with."

Jutte said KA-BAR tactical knives are about six inches long and similar to the one used in the movie "Rambo."

The victims each suffered "multiple" stab wounds, but the coroner did not detail exactly how many times they were stabbed. The coroner did note that the victims were stabbed in different places and a different number of times.

Mabbutt told News Nation that each victim suffered a "lethal" stab wound to the "chest area or the upper body area."

The coroner said it "seems likely that they were sleeping" at the time of the attacks. She said that the victims were found in beds.

Regarding a possible suspect, Mabbutt said, "It has to be somebody that’s pretty angry in order to stab four people to death."

Mabbutt told Idaho News that the stabbings appear to be "personal."

The coroner informed KXLY that there were no signs of sexual assault.

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Jeffrey Kernodle, the father of Xana Kernodle, told Arizona’s Family that he believes the autopsy shows that his daughter fought off her killer until the very end.

"Bruises, torn by the knife. She's a tough kid. Whatever she wanted to do, she could do it," Kernodle said.

The coroner said that there was a "little bit of bruising" but "nothing significant."

Mabbutt believes that the victims bled to death from their stab wounds.

There were reportedly nail clippings found at the crime scene that were sent to a lab to be processed.

"It's pretty traumatic when there's four dead college students who have been stabbed to death in one location," Mabbutt said. "I've been coroner for 16 years. ... We have had multiple [victim] murders in the past, but nothing, nothing like this."

The final autopsy results will take another four to six weeks to process.

Moscow police Chief James Fry said at a press conference on Wednesday, "We do not have a suspect at this time, and that individual is still out there. We cannot say that there is no threat to the community. There is a threat out there, possibly."

Fry said that it "certainly is possible" that there could be more than one suspect in the case.

Fry noted that there were two additional roommates at the off-campus home during the murders. However, Latah County prosecuting attorney Bill Thompson said they are not suspects and have been cooperating with law enforcement.

A neighbor told NBC News that Mogen, Goncalves, and Kernodle lived in the six-bedroom home. Kernodle was dating Chapin at the time of the bloody attack.

There were reportedly no signs of a break-in at the home.

Xana's father said the front door has a keypad lock that requires a code for entry. He suspects that the killer may have entered the home through the rear sliding glass door.

"The door locks with a number code. Every time you go, you have to go around the house because of the number code. So they either knew that or went around and maybe found the slider door open," Jeffrey Kernodle said.

The sister of Kaylee Goncalves told KHQ, "There was a keypad on their front door. I will say, due to the closeness of the community and due to the safeness of it, I think a lot of people had access to that door."

"It wasn't a hit and run, it wasn't a car accident," the sister said. "Someone did this with a purpose of doing this. Not once, not twice, not three times, but four times."

Fox News obtained a photo of the home that shows blood oozing out of the side of the house.

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The Moscow Police Department released a map and timeline of the victims' movements leading up to their murder.

"The following map details the night of November 12th into the early hours of November 13th, with the locations and approximate times when Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were in downtown Moscow while Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle were at the Sigma Chi house," a statement read. "Anyone near these areas who observed suspicious behavior, has video surveillance, or can provide relevant information is asked to call the Tip Line."