For the time being, Mr. Kohberger was discovering out for a doctorate in criminology at Washington State Faculty, only a few miles all through the state border from the Faculty of Idaho campus. Prosecutors havent disclosed any prior connections between him and any of the 4 victims Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20.
Inside the hours sooner than the killings, Ms. Mogen and Ms. Goncalves have been out at a bar, and they also stopped at a meals truck sooner than returning home. Ms. Kernodle and Mr. Chapin have been at a celebration.
Investigators talked about that the victims and two totally different people who lived within the dwelling have been home by 2 a.m. on Nov. 13. After that, investigators have talked about, surveillance video confirmed a white car displaying repeatedly subsequent to the house. Mr. Kohberger drove a white Hyundai Elantra.
The authorities talked about Mr. Kohbergers cellphone was transferring by the world throughout the early morning hours, nonetheless was disconnected from cell networks perhaps it had been turned off, they talked about all through a two-hour interval throughout the time of the killings.
Investigators spent weeks looking for a suspect throughout the case. In the end, they found that DNA theyd found on the knife sheath was related to DNA they found at Mr. Kohbergers family home in Pennsylvania, the place Mr. Kohberger had gone in early December on the end of the autumn semester.