Investigators’ belief that the murder suspect drove back to the crime scene in his white sedan in the hours following the massacre may be supported by recently examined video in the chilling University of Idaho murder case.
A police document claims that the murder suspect, 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger, visited the crime scene at least once after committing the horrible act.
That theory appears to be supported by recent video of a white automobile passing through the neighborhood near the residence the day following.
A quick sighting of a car driving up a road near to the Moscow residence was captured on tape by a Fox News Digital camera. Two police officers are speaking near the edge of a field at around 2:00 pm on November 14 when the vehicle can be seen at the top of the camera frame.
On November 13, at around 9 a.m., just five hours after reportedly breaking into the off-campus house and fatally stabbing four students, Kohberger’s phone rang near the students’ Moscow home. But his phone stopped ringing by the end of that day.
On the morning of the deaths, between around 3.30 and 4.00 am, the suspect is thought to have passed the students’ house at least four times in his iconic white Hyundai Elantra.
The identical car was seen driving away from the scene on camera at roughly 4.20 am, according to the police’s probable cause affidavit.
The police reported that in the early morning hours, “a very limited number of vehicles” typically enter and leave this private neighborhood. However, one of them—the white sedan—was observed four times passing the residence “at high speed.”
The travel pattern of the car matched the approximate time of the murders, which were ultimately linked to Kohberger, a PhD candidate at the nearby Washington State University Pullman researching criminology.
On the night of the murders, just before 3 o’clock in the morning, Washington University surveillance video captured a white Elantra leaving the school and heading toward the students’ residence. Later that morning, just before 5.30am, the automobile made its way back to campus.
Before the murders were discovered, cellphone data indicated Kohberger was in the vicinity of the students’ house at 9.00am.
The information also showed that Kohberger had visited the students’ home at least a dozen times before to the killings, usually at strange hours of the day.
“All of these occasions, with the exception of one, occurred in the late evening and early morning hours of their respective days,” states the police affidavit.
Police were ultimately able to track down Kohberger and accuse him of the quadruple homicide using forensic DNA testing, cell phone data, CCTV footage, and evidence from the scene of the deaths.
On December 30, he was taken into custody during a search of his family’s Pennsylvania home, where the white Hyundai Elantra was also discovered. He is accused of killing Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, and 20-year-old Ethan Chapin on four charges of murder and one count of burglary.
When the murders occurred, there were two additional roommates living there, but they were not attacked. Detectives stated last week that one of them observed a masked man leaving the house.
Judge Megan Marshall placed a gag order on the case last week, prohibiting the investigators and lawyers on both sides from publicly discussing the numerous aspects of the ongoing case.
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