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CNN
4 days ago
- CNN
Lead investigator reveals what was found on Kohberger's phone
Idaho State Police lead investigator on the Bryan Kohberger case, Lt. Darin Gilbertson, sat down with CNN's Jean Casarez and shared details about what was found on Kohberger's phone during the investigation.
CNN
4 days ago
- CNN
Lead investigator reveals what was found on Kohberger's phone
Idaho State Police lead investigator on the Bryan Kohberger case, Lt. Darin Gilbertson, sat down with CNN's Jean Casarez and shared details about what was found on Kohberger's phone during the investigation.
CNN
4 days ago
- CNN
Lead investigator reveals what was found on Kohberger's phone
Idaho State Police lead investigator on the Bryan Kohberger case, Lt. Darin Gilbertson, sat down with CNN's Jean Casarez and shared details about what was found on Kohberger's phone during the investigation.
Edmonton Journal
6 days ago
- Edmonton Journal
Strange happenings weeks before Bryan Kohberger stabbed 4 students detailed in police documents
Article content A woman who lived nearby told police that in either August or September 2022, she and her daughter saw a man in their yard who 'looked nervous.' She said she was almost certain it was Kohberger. Article content Officers eventually identified Kohberger — a doctoral student in criminology at nearby Washington State University — using a DNA sample found on a knife sheath at the crime scene. They tracked his movements that night with cellphone data, obtained online shopping records showing he had purchased a military-style knife, and linked him to a car that repeatedly drove by the students' house. Article content Article content The documents include memos memorializing the subpoenas or warrants they served seeking records and the responses to those requests. Investigators served a warrant on the dating app Tinder, looking for accounts Kohberger might have created with certain emails and which might link him to his victims. Article content Article content No such evidence emerged, and the motive for the killings remains a mystery. Article content Kohberger was arrested at his parents' home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, about six weeks after the killings. He was taken to a state police barracks to be interviewed by officers from the Moscow police department, Idaho State Police and the FBI. Article content They chatted about the Washington State football team, Kohberger's doctorate studies in criminal justice, his required duties to be a teaching assistant while in college, and why he wanted to become a professor. Article content Article content Kohberger eventually said he understood they were engaging in small talk, but he would appreciate if the officers explained what they wanted. One detective told him it was because of what had happened in Moscow. Asked if he knew what had transpired, he replied, 'Of course.' Article content Article content Did he want to talk about it? 'Well, I think I would need a lawyer,' Kohberger replied. Article content He continued speaking, though — asking what specific questions they had and asking if his parents and dog were OK following his arrest. Article content Article content A man incarcerated at the Latah County Jail who was once housed next to Kohberger's cell told a detective Sept. 16, 2024, that Kohberger would often question him about his past criminal offenses and why he was in the maximum security wing of the facility. Article content The man said Kohberger's habits annoyed him, including how he washed his hands dozens of times each day and spent 45 minutes to an hour in the shower. He said Kohberger stayed awake almost all night and would only take a nap during the day. Article content — Johnson reported from Seattle. Associated Press journalists Hallie Golden, Audrey McAvoy, Martha Bellisle, Mark Thiessen and Jesse Bedayn contributed.
New York Post
6 days ago
- New York Post
Bryan Kohberger had no connection whatsoever to his four Idaho victims, investigators reveal
Bryan Kohberger had no apparent real-world or online connection to any of his four University of Idaho victims, investigators revealed after his sentencing Wednesday. 'We have never, to this day, found a single connection between him and any of the four victims or the two surviving roommates,' Idaho State Police Lt. Darren Gilbertson said during a news conference after the hearing. 'We had every resource possible and we worked that tirelessly,' he said. 4 Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death nearly three years ago. AP Since Kohberger's arrest a month after the November 2022 murders, theories have abounded about why he might have targeted his victims, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20. One theory suggested he dined at a local restaurant where Mogen and Kernodle worked and developed a crush on one of them – though the restaurant owner later refuted those claims, and said Kohberger never set foot inside. Other accounts claimed Kohberger repeatedly messaged one of his victims on social media before the murders, but that she never responded – and that Kohberger might have become enraged over it. But investigators clarified Wednesday that zero social media connections between Kohberger and his victims had ever been found. 4 Final photo of the victims, pictured just hours before their untimely deaths. They also dispelled rumors that Kohberger discussed the case in Facebook groups prior to his arrest under the name 'Pappa Rodger,' telling reporters they determined that was not in fact him. That user appeared to be intimately familiar with the case, and was arguing with commenters in what were described by group administrators as 'creepy' posts. 'Of the evidence released, the murder weapon has been consistent as a large fixed blade knife. This leads me to believe they found the sheath,' read one post, accurately predicting that a fixed-blade knife sheath had been found at the scene of the crime. Here's the latest coverage on Bryan Kohberger: It also remains unclear who — if anyone in particular at all — Kohberger was targeting in the attack, authorities added. 4 General view of an off-campus home where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death on Sunday, November 20, 2022 in Moscow, Idaho. James Keivom Mogen has been particularly highlighted as a possible target by sleuths, including writers Vicky Ward and James Patterson, who posited in their recent book 'The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy' that Kohberger may have wanted to kill her to emulate the infamous incel Elliot Rodger. Every morning, the NY POSTcast offers a deep dive into the headlines with the Post's signature mix of politics, business, pop culture, true crime and everything in between. Subscribe here! Rodger – who identified as an 'involuntary celibate' – despised women and murdered six people because he was rejected by a blonde sorority girl named Maddy, and 'The Idaho Four' suggested Kohberger may have idolized the killer and found his own Maddie to hate. 4 Blood oozes out of the side of an off-campus home where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death Saturday, November 19, 2022 in Moscow, Idaho. James Keivom 'It was her room he went straight to. And it's her room you could see from the road if you parked your car at the cul-de-sac behind the King Road house, which the police believe he did multiple times,' Ward wrote. Follow the Post's live updates on Bryan Kohberger's sentencing for the latest news Kohberger provided no explanation for the killing when given the opportunity to speak during his sentencing. 'I respectfully decline,' was all he said throughout the four-hour hearing. He was then sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, according to the arrangements of a guilty plea deal he struck earlier in July.
