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4,000-year-old handprint found on ancient tomb
A 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian handprint has been discovered on a 'soul house' at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. (Joe Giddens/via CNN Newsource) A 4,000-year-old handprint has been discovered on a clay model used for offerings in an Ancient Egyptian tomb. Researchers from Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum, in the United Kingdom, stumbled upon the imprint while preparing for an exhibition, which is set to open this fall. It was found on the base of a 'soul house,' a building-shaped clay model typically found in burials and said to have provided a place for the soul to live, according to a press release from the museum. The model has an open space at the front where food offerings, like bread, lettuce or an ox's head, could be placed. Dating back to about 2055–1650 BCE, the soul house underwent extensive examinations that revealed how it was made four millennia ago. It showed that the unnamed potter would have first created a framework of wooden sticks for the two-story building, which was then coated with clay. The firing process would have burnt the wood away. The handprint was found underneath the soul house and was most likely formed when the potter moved the model while the clay was still damp and before it was fired in a kiln. 'We've spotted traces of fingerprints left in wet varnish or on a coffin in the decoration, but it is rare and exciting to find a complete handprint underneath this soul house,' said Helen Strudwick, senior Egyptologist at the museum and curator of the exhibition. 'This was left by the maker who touched it before the clay dried,' she said in the release. 'I have never seen such a complete handprint on an Egyptian object before. You can just imagine the person who made this, picking it up to move it out of the workshop to dry before firing.' 'Things like this take you directly to the moment when the object was made and to the person who made it, which is the focus of our exhibition,' Strudwick added. Vast amounts of pottery have survived from the ancient Egyptian period as ceramics were widely used for functional objects and decorative pieces. It was common for pottery containing food and drink to feature in burials. While much is known about ancient Egyptian rulers like Tutankhamun, the stories of those who made some of the many artifacts discovered in their tombs is often overlooked. The ready availability of clay and low value of pottery is likely to have affected social status of potters, according to the museum. The soul house will be on display at the Cambridge museum as part of the 'Made in Ancient Egypt' exhibition, which aims to highlight the stories of artisans like the one who left this handprint behind. It opens on October 3. By Lianne Kolirin, CNN
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Police officer killed in Midtown Manhattan shooting was an immigrant father with another child on the way
People paying tribute outside Manhattan's Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center as the body of Officer Didarul Islam was transferred on Tuesday. (CNN via CNN Newsource) Didarul Islam, a 36-year-old New York Police Department officer, was among four people killed Monday when a gunman stormed the lobby of a sprawling office tower in Midtown Manhattan and opened fire. A Bangladeshi immigrant hailed as a hero by city officials, Islam leaves behind two young sons and his wife, who is pregnant with their third child. Islam had been off duty but in uniform working security in the building when he was shot and killed by Shane Devon Tamura, 27, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Tamura also shot a security guard and three others before fatally shooting himself, police said. Islam 'was doing the job that we asked him to do,' Tisch said at a news conference Monday night. 'He put himself in harm's way, he made the ultimate sacrifice – shot in cold blood, wearing a uniform that stood for the promise that he made to this city. He died as he lived, a hero.' Islam had served in the NYPD's 47th precinct in the Bronx for 3 1/2 years, Mayor Eric Adams said at the news conference. He was his father's only son, said Adams, who met with Islam's family Monday night and told them, 'He was a hero and we admire him for putting his life on the line.' 'Everyone we spoke with stated he was a person of faith and a person that believed in God and believed in living out the life of a godly person,' the mayor said. 'He was saving lives. He was protecting New Yorkers. He embodies what this city is all about. He's a true-blue New Yorker, not only in a uniform he wore.' Didarul Islam The New York City Police Department has shared a photo of Didarul Islam, the officer killed in a Midtown Manhattan shooting Monday. (X/@NYPDnews via CNN Newsource) Messages honouring the fallen officer and expressing condolences to his family have flowed in from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and police departments as far away as Los Angeles. 'Police Officer Didarul Islam represented the very best of our department,' the NYPD posted on X. 'He was protecting New Yorkers from danger when his life was tragically cut short today. We join in prayer during this time of incomprehensible pain. We will forever honour his legacy.' Just past midnight Tuesday, officials lined the streets outside a hospital to perform a 'guard of honour' as Islam's body was transferred to an ambulance. Some saluted, while others held their hands over their hearts as he was wheeled out. By Jessie Yeung, CNN
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The asteroid that will spare Earth might hit the moon instead. What happens if it does?
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is currently zooming beyond the reach of telescopes on its orbit around the sun. But as scientists wait for it to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: the moon. An artist's impression depicts an asteroid orbiting the sun. (ESA via CNN Newsource) Discovered at the end of 2024, the space rock looked at first as if it might hit our planet by December 22, 2032. The chance of that impact changed with every new observation, peaking at 3.1 per cent in February — odds that made it the riskiest asteroid ever observed. Ground- and space-based telescope observations were crucial in helping astronomers narrow in on 2024 YR4's size and orbit. With more precise measurements, researchers were ultimately able to rule out an Earth impact. The latest observations of the asteroid in early June, before YR4 disappeared from view, have improved astronomers' knowledge of where it will be in seven years by almost 20 per cent, according to NASA. That data shows that even with Earth avoiding direct impact, YR4 could still pose a threat in late 2032 by slamming into the moon. The impact would be a once-in-a-lifetime event for humanity to witness — but it could also send fine-grained lunar material hurtling toward our planet. A vapor cloud trail left by the Chelyabinsk asteroid. (M. Ahmetvaleev/ESA via CNN Newsource) While Earth wouldn't face any significant physical danger should the asteroid strike the moon, there is a chance that any astronauts or infrastructure on the lunar surface at that time could be at risk — as could satellites orbiting our planet that we depend on to keep vital aspects of life, including navigation and communications, running smoothly. Any missions in low-Earth orbit could also be in the pathway of the debris, though the International Space Station is scheduled to be deorbited before any potential impact. Initially, YR4 was seen as a case study in why scientists do the crucial work of planetary defence, discovering and tracking asteroids to determine which ones have a chance of colliding with Earth. Now, astronomers say this one asteroid could redefine the range of risks the field addresses, expanding the purview of the work to include monitoring asteroids that might be headed for the moon as well. The moon is covered in craters like Daedalus, as seen by the Apollo 11 crew on the moon's far side. (CNN) "We're starting to realise that maybe we need to extend that shield a little bit further," said Dr. Paul Wiegert, a professor of astronomy and physics at the Western University in London, Ontario. "We now have things worth protecting that are a bit further away from Earth, so our vision is hopefully expanding a little bit to encompass that." In the meantime, researchers are assessing just how much chaos a potential YR4 lunar impact could create — and whether anything can be done to mitigate it. The threatening hunk of rock appears as just a speck of light through even the strongest astronomical tools. In reality, YR4 is likely about 60m in diameter, according to observations in March by the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space-based observatory in operation. "Size equals energy," said Julien de Wit, associate professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who observed YR4 with Webb. "Knowing YR4's size helped us understand how big of an explosion it could be." A graphic shows the range of possible locations of the asteroid in yellow on December 22, 203 (CNN) Astronomers believe they have found most of the near-Earth asteroids the field would classify as "planet killers" — space rocks that are 1 kilometre across or larger and could be civilisation-ending, said Dr. Andy Rivkin, planetary astronomer from the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. The planet killer that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs was estimated to be roughly 10 kilometres in diameter. Smaller asteroids such as YR4, which was colloquially dubbed a "city killer" after its discovery, could cause regional devastation if they collide with our planet. About 40 per cent of near-Earth space rocks larger than 140m but smaller than a kilometre — capable of more widespread destruction — have been identified, according to NASA. An illustration shows NEO Surveyor, NASA's next-generation near-Earth object hunter. (CNN) But astronomers have never really had a chance to watch a collision of that size occur on the moon in real time, Wiegert said. The latest glimpses of YR4 on June 3 before it passed out of view revealed a 4.3 per cent chance of a YR4 lunar impact — small but decent enough odds for scientists to consider how such a scenario might play out. Initial calculations suggest the impact has the largest chance of occurring on the near side of the moon — the side we can see from Earth. "YR4 is so faint and small we were able to measure its position with JWST longer than we were able to do it from the ground," said Rivkin, who has been leading the Webb study of YR4. "And that lets us calculate a much more precise orbit for it, so we now have a much better idea of where it will be and won't be." ESA's NEOMIR mission could spot previously unknown asteroids (Pierre Carril/ESA via CNN Newsource) The collision could create a bright flash that would be visible with the naked eye for several seconds, according to Wiegert, lead author of a recent paper submitted to the American Astronomical Society journals analysing the potential lunar impact. The collision could create an impact crater on the moon estimated at 1 kilometre wide (0.6 miles wide), Wiegert said — about the size of Meteor Crater in Arizona, Rivkin added. It would be the largest impact on the moon in 5000 years and could release up to 100 million kilograms of lunar rocks and dust, according to the modelling in Wiegert's study. Even pieces of debris that are just tens of centimetres in size could present a hazard for any astronauts who may be present on the moon, or any structures they have built for research and habitation, Wiegert said. The moon has no atmosphere, so the debris from the event could be widespread on the lunar surface, he added. On average, the moon is 384,400 kilometres away from Earth, according to NASA. The Webb telescope captured images of YR4 in March using its NIRCam and MIRI instruments. (A Rivkin/Webb/STScI/CSA/NASA/ESA via CNN Newsource) Particles the size of large sand grains, ranging from 0.1 to 10 millimetres in size, of lunar material could reach Earth between a few days and a few months after the asteroid strike because they'll be travelling incredibly fast, creating an intense, eye-catching meteor shower, Wiegert said. "There's absolutely no danger to anyone on the surface," Wiegert said. "We're not expecting large boulders or anything larger than maybe a sugar cube, and our atmosphere will protect us very nicely from that. But they're travelling faster than a speeding bullet, so if they were to hit a satellite, that could cause some damage." Not all lunar debris that reaches the Earth is so small, and it depends on the angle and type of impact to the moon, according to Washington University in St. Louis. Space rocks slamming into the lunar surface over millions of years have resulted in various sizes of lunar meteorites found on Earth. Hundreds to thousands of impacts from millimeter-size debris could affect Earth's satellite fleet, meaning satellites could experience up to 10 years' equivalent of meteor debris exposure in a few days, Wiegert said. Humankind depends on vital space infrastructure, said Dan Oltrogge, chief scientist at COMSPOC, a space situational awareness software company that develops solutions for handling hazards such as space debris. "Space touches almost every aspect of our lives today, ranging from commerce, communications, travel, industry, education, and social media, so a loss of access to and effective use of space presents a serious risk to humanity," Oltrogge said. Hundreds to thousands of impacts from millimetre-size debris could affect Earth's satellite fleet (AP) The event is unlikely to trigger a Kessler Syndrome scenario in which debris from broken satellites would collide with others to create a domino effect or fall to Earth. Instead, it might be more akin to when a piece of gravel strikes a car windshield at high speed, meaning solar panels or other delicate satellite parts might be damaged, but the satellite will remain in one piece, Wiegert said. While a temporary loss of communication and navigation from satellites would create widespread difficulties on Earth, Wiegert said he believes the potential impact is something for satellite operators, rather than the public, to worry about. Scientists and astronomers around the world are thinking about the possible scenarios since they could not rule out a lunar impact before YR4 disappeared from view, Wiegert said. "We realise that an impact to the moon could be consequential, so what would we do?" de Wit said. A potential planetary defence plan might be clearer if the asteroid were headed straight for Earth. A potential planetary defence plan might be clearer if the asteroid were headed straight for Earth. (AP) Rivkin helped test one approach in September 2022 as the principal investigator of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, which intentionally slammed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022. Dimorphos is a moonlet asteroid that orbits a larger parent asteroid known as Didymos. Neither poses a threat to Earth, but the double-asteroid system was a perfect target to test deflection technology because Dimorphos' size is comparable to asteroids that could harm our planet in the event of an impact. The DART mission crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid at six kilometres per second to find out whether such a kinetic impact would be enough to change the motion of a celestial object in space. It worked. Since the day of the collision, data from ground-based telescopes has revealed that the DART spacecraft did alter Dimorphos' orbital period — or how long it takes to make a single revolution around Didymos — by about 32 or 33 minutes. Though defence plans for a potential moon impact still aren't clear, YR4's journey underscores the importance of tracking objects that are often impossible to see. (Getty) And scientists have continued to observe additional changes to the pair, including how the direct hit likely deformed Dimorphos due to the asteroid's composition. Similarly, if YR4 strikes the moon and doesn't result in damaging effects for satellites, it could create a tremendous opportunity for researchers to learn how the lunar surface responds to impacts, Wiegert said. But whether it would make sense to send a DART-like mission to knock YR4 off a collision course with the moon remains to be seen. It will depend on future risk assessments by planetary defence groups when the asteroid comes back into view around 2028, de Wit said. Though defence plans for a potential moon impact still aren't clear, YR4's journey underscores the importance — and the challenges — of tracking objects that are often impossible to see. YR4 was detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS telescope, in Río Hurtado, Chile, two days after the asteroid had already made its closest pass by Earth, hidden by the bright glare of the sun as it approached our planet. The same thing occurred when an asteroid measuring roughly 20m across hit the atmosphere and exploded above Chelyabinsk, Russia, on February 15, 2013, damaging thousands of buildings, according to the European Space Agency. While no one died, about 1500 people were injured when the windows in homes and businesses blew out due to the shock wave. Trying to observe asteroids is challenging for many reasons, Rivkin said. Asteroids are incredibly faint and hard to see because rather than emitting their own light, they only reflect sunlight. And because of their relatively tiny size, interpreting observations is not a clear-cut process like looking through a telescope at a planet such as Mars or Jupiter. "For asteroids, we only see them as a point of light, and so by measuring how bright they are and measuring their temperature, basically we can get a size based on how big do they have to be in order to be this bright," Rivkin said. For decades, astronomers have had to search for faint asteroids by night, which means missing any that may be on a path coming from the direction of the sun — creating the world's biggest blind spot for ground-based telescopes that can't block out our star's luminosity. NASA and other space agencies are constantly on the lookout for potentially hazardous asteroids. (Don Pettit/NASA via CNN Newsource) But upcoming telescopes — including NASA's NEO Surveyor, expected to launch by the end of 2027 and the European Space Agency's Near-Earth Object Mission in the InfraRed, or NEOMIR satellite, set for liftoff in the early 2030s — could shrink that blind spot, helping researchers detect asteroids much closer to the sun. "NEOMIR would have detected asteroid 2024 YR4 about a month earlier than ground-based telescopes did," said Richard Moissl, head of ESA's Planetary Defence Office, in a statement. "This would have given astronomers more time to study the asteroid's trajectory and allowed them to much sooner rule out any chance of Earth impact in 2032." NASA and other space agencies are constantly on the lookout for potentially hazardous asteroids, defined as such based on their distance from Earth and ability to cause significant damage should an impact occur. Asteroids that can't get any closer to our planet than one-twentieth of Earth's distance from the sun are not considered to be potentially hazardous asteroids, according to NASA. This illustration made available by Johns Hopkins APL and NASA depicts NASA's DART probe, upper right, on course to impact the asteroid Dimorphos, left, which orbits Didymos. DART is expected to zero in on the asteroid Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph. The impact should be just enough to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion space rock. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP) (AP) When the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located in the Andes in Chile, released its first stunning images of the cosmos in June, researchers revealed the discovery of more than 2,100 previously unknown asteroids after seven nights of observations. Of those newly detected space rocks, seven were near-Earth objects. A near-Earth object is an asteroid or comet on an orbit that brings it within 190 million kilometres of the sun, which means it has the potential to pass near Earth, according to NASA. None of the new ones detected by Rubin were determined to pose a threat to our planet. Rubin will act as a great asteroid hunter, de Wit said, while telescopes such as Webb could be a tracker that follow up on Rubin's discoveries. A proposal by Rivkin and de Wit to use Webb to observe YR4 in the spring of 2026 has just been approved. An illustration depicts the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it descended toward the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona) Webb is the only telescope with a chance of glimpsing the asteroid before 2028. "This newly approved program will buy decision makers two extra years to prepare — though most likely to relax, as there is an 80 per cent chance of ruling out impact — while providing key experience-based lessons for handling future potential impactors to be discovered by Vera Rubin," de Wit said. And because of the twists and turns of YR4's tale thus far, asteroids that have potential to affect the moon could become objects of even more intense study in the future. "If this really is a thing that we only have to worry about every 5000 years or something, then maybe that's less pressing," Rivkin said. "But even just asking what would we do if we did see something that was going to hit the moon is at least something that we can now start thinking about." CONTACT US
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Women will soon be able to request a female Uber driver in these US cities
By Lisa Eadicicco , CNN Uber is piloting a new option for its US app that will allow female passengers to request women drivers, coming after the company has long grappled with preventing sexual assault on its platform. Photo:via CNN Newsource Uber is piloting a new option for its US app that will allow female passengers to request women drivers, coming after the company has long grappled with preventing sexual assault on its platform. The feature, called Women Preferences, will launch in a pilot stage in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit in the next few weeks, Uber said in a blog post on Wednesday. It marks the first time the popular ride share app is bringing this option to its service in the United States after launching it in 40 other countries. Uber joins Lyft and other taxi hailing apps, like HERide and Just Her Rideshare, that connect female passengers with women drivers. "Across the US, women riders and drivers have told us they want the option to be matched with other women on trips," vice president of operations in the US and Canada Camiel Irving said in a press release. Women riders in cities where the feature is available will see a new option called Women Drivers. They'll also be able to pre-book rides with women drivers and set a preference in the app to be matched with a female driver. The feature works both ways; women drivers will be able to request female passengers too with a new "Women Rider Preference" option in the settings menu. Riders and drivers will still be able to connect more broadly with non-female passengers and drivers if they wish, even with these preferences set. The company conducted testing and collected feedback from other markets like Germany and France to make sure the feature would work reliably considering most Uber drivers are men, Irving wrote in Uber's blog post. Sexual assault has been a problem for Uber for years; nearly 6,000 sexual assault reports were made from 2017-2018, according to Uber's safety report. That number had dropped significantly to 2,717 by 2022, the report said, although five passengers sued Uber in 2022 over sexual assault incidents that occurred between August 2021 and February 2022. The California Public Utilities Commission fined Uber $59 million in 2020 for not handing over sexual assault data, but that fine was slashed to $150,000 after the company cut a deal requiring it to provide anonymised data on sexual assault incidents. Uber has launched other features to promote safety in recent years, such as a hub in the app for managing safety preferences. - CNN
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New police documents detail 'socially awkward', 'annoying' Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger
By Brianna Morris-Grant , ABC Bryan Kohberger was sentenced this week to life in prison for the 2022 murders of four Idaho university students inside their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho. Photo: Kyle Green/Pool/AP via CNN Newsource A convicted mass killer's co-workers, cellmates and former Tinder matches have labelled him "socially awkward" and "annoying" in newly released police documents. Bryan Kohberger was sentenced this week to life in prison for the 2022 murders of four Idaho university students inside their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho. Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, both 21 years old, and Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, both 20 years old, were all killed on November 13, 2022. Earlier this month Kohberger accepted a plea deal and admitted to the killings, offering no motive for the crime. Minutes after his sentencing, the Moscow Police Department released hundreds of pages of documents online. The files reveal new details about the case, spanning from the moment police arrived on the scene to the months following Kohberger's arrest. Roommates of the four students had already detailed hiding from a stranger clad in black in the early hours of that November morning. One of the two surviving roommates, Dylan Mortensen, told police she heard Ms Goncalves "scream and announce there was 'somebody' inside", according to a police report dated November 13. "[She] said she locked herself in her bedroom and continued to hear a commotion," the report said. "[She] said eventually she stopped hearing a struggle and heard a male voice say, 'You're gonna be fine. I'm gonna help you.'" Other documents described the aftermath of the brutal attack as officers entered the home. One report, dated November 21, 2022, described dozens of "mostly defensive" injuries to Ms Kernodle. The four University of Idaho students were found dead at an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022. Photo: Angela Palermo/Idaho Statesman/TNS/Getty Images via CNN Newsource An officer wrote it was "obvious an intense struggle had occurred" between Ms Kernodle and Kohberger. Authorities have previously suggested the other three victims were asleep when they were attacked. Ms Goncalves's sister, Alivea Goncalves, confronted Kohberger while delivering a victim impact statement at his sentencing hearing. "You want the truth? Here's the one you'll hate the most," she said. "If you hadn't attacked them in their sleep, in the middle of the night like a paedophile, Kaylee would have kicked your f***ing ass." One tip among the thousands received by police came from a woman who believed she had matched with Kohberger on Tinder several months before the killings. The woman said Kohberger had told her he was a criminology student , and that she had discussed the murder of a friend in her town with him. "The conversation turned to horror movies and which ones [she] liked the most," the police offer wrote in the March 18, 2024 report. "[She] told Kohberger she liked the Rob Zombie Halloween movies. To this, [she] said Kohberger asked what she thought would be the worst way to die. "[She] said she thought it would be a knife. [She] said Kohberger then asked her something to the effect of 'like a Ka-Bar?'" A Ka-Bar brand knife sheath was found in the Moscow home following the killings. Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen were victims in the Idaho student killings. Photo: (Obtained by CNN) via CNN Newsource The prosecution said Kohberger bought the same brand of knife with the sheath and a sharpener in the months leading up to the killings. The murder weapon has never been found. The woman said Kohberger's questions "made her uncomfortable" and she eventually stopped speaking to him. Kohberger moved to Pullman, Washington, from Pennsylvania, to pursue a PhD in criminology at Washington State University. He had been called in on multiple occasions for inappropriate and troubling behaviour on campus. A former teaching assistant who shared an office with Kohberger at the university told police he thought Kohberger was "very intelligent but also selfish", describing him as "dishonest". The man added Kohberger began to talk "much more than usual" following the November murders. "[He] characterised Kohberger's conversations as those coming from someone who wanted to vent," the police offer wrote in the October 2023 report. "[He] stated Kohberger attempted to use his authority as a TA to inappropriately interact with female students." The former co-worker also noted injuries he saw on Kohberger's face and hands "on two separate occasions" in October and November 2022. "[He] stated one injury was a large scratch on Kohberger's face which [he] described as looking like the scratches from fingernails," the officer wrote. "[He] said he also saw wounds to Kohberger's knuckles on two separate occasions. "When [he] asked Kohberger about what happened to him, Kohberger replied he had been in a car accident." Other former staffers and students at Washington State University have recalled Kohberger often made female staff uncomfortable. One report noted a former student who described him sitting in "close proximity" to her "on the rare occasions he would attend class". "[The student] told me she thought Kohberger was socially awkward but was not able to provide me any other information about him," the police officer noted in his report. The student's mother contacted police after watching a Dateline special about the Moscow killings. During a segment talking about photos of university students found on Kohberger's phone, the woman said she identified several photos as being of her daughter and her friends. Dateline reported "dozens of photos" of women from Washington State University and the University of Idaho found on Kohberger's phone. The student told police she believed they had been taken from her public Instagram account. A fellow inmate described Bryan Kohberger as "a f***ing weirdo". Photo: Supplied / Police Kohberger was arrested on December 30, 2022. A police report included among the released documents stated his name first came to the attention of police on December 18. Within two years, police had begun to receive information from Idaho inmates regarding Kohberger's behaviour. In August, a video supplied to police by a prosecutor showed a male inmate talking about being in "max" security with Kohberger. Asked, "how is he" by another inmate, the man responded: "A f***ing weirdo." "He continued to say if he wasn't worried about further legal repercussions he would have physically assaulted Kohberger," the officer noted in the report. "[The other inmate] asked if Kohberger 'did it', referencing the homicides. [He] affirmed this statement and added he had pretty good judgement of people and '[Kohberger's] eyes tell a story.'" In September, another inmate housed at the Latah County Jail and kept in the cell next to Kohberger for several weeks spoke to police. "[He] told me Kohberger was highly intelligent and polite for the most part," the officer wrote. "[He] told me Kohberger quickly became annoying because of some of his habits. "He told me Kohberger would wash his hands dozens of times each day and would spend 45 minutes to an hour in the shower. "I asked [him] if Kohberger slept at night. He told me Kohberger would be awake almost all night and would only take a nap during the day. "[He] said Kohberger did not mention his alleged offenses at all [and] was excited to move to Ada County [Jail]. "[The inmate] stated he had served time at Ada County and noted he did not think Kohberger would like to be there." Kohberger has been sentenced to four life sentences without the possibility of parole, and waived his right to an appeal. An Idaho Department of Corrections spokesperson told media he will face two weeks of evaluation before likely being transferred to the state's only maximum-security facility. In sentencing, Judge Steven Hippler labelled Kohberger a "coward" who "slithered through the sliding glass door at 1122 King Road". He added the motive behind the murders may never be known. "[But] by continuing to focus on why, we continue to give Mr Kohberger relevance, we give him agency, and we give him power," he said. - ABC
