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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Yahoo
Kohberger judge cracks down on investigation leaks
May 16—The judge in the Bryan Kohberger case is cracking down on leaks about the Moscow murder investigation after a "Dateline" episode on the Nov. 13, 2022, killings premiered last week. The NBC reporters for the "Dateline" episode, titled "The Terrible Night on King Road," relied on information from anonymous sources connected to the case. The episode detailed, among other information, Kohberger's alleged cellphone activity, including internet searches of Ted Bundy, porn and the Moscow murder investigation. The episode also shared gruesome details about the crime scene and surveillance video of what appears to be the suspect's vehicle near the King Road crime scene. Kohberger faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in the stabbing deaths of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. In a court document filed Thursday, Ada County District Judge Steven Hippler wrote that it appears someone violated the court's non-dissemination order, which prohibits people involved in the case from talking publicly about it outside the courtroom. Hippler said these violations potentially violate Kohberger's right to a fair trial, and could prolong the case. "Accordingly, the Court finds it is imperative to attempt to see that the source of such leak is identified and held to account, and that doing so is the best deterrent to future violations," Hippler wrote. He ordered that anyone involved in the case are prohibited from deleting or destroying any evidence related to the case or related communications they've had with someone outside the investigation. The prosecution and Kohberger's attorneys have seven days to submit a list of all people in their teams who have had access to any facts related to the murder investigation. The prosecution must also write up a plan to prevent future violations of the gag order. Also on Thursday, Hippler set a deadline for the defense to provide "alternative perpetrator" evidence, and went over the rules of the upcoming trial. On June 18, a hearing will be held to discuss the defendant's evidence that alternative perpetrators were responsible for the quadruple murders. Hippler warned attorney Anne Taylor and her defense team that they need to provide him specific evidence, and reasons why it is admissible. They cannot just offer allegations, he said.
NBC News
14-05-2025
- NBC News
Watch the Dateline episode 'The Terrible Night on King Road' now
You know the victims. Four University of Idaho students. Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Stabbed to death in the house at 1122 King Road. You also know the person accused of committing the crime. Bryan Kohberger. At the time, he was a doctoral student in criminology at Washington State University. Now he's awaiting trial, a not guilty plea entered on his behalf. What you didn't know is what we've learned in the past two years. And what we've seen. But you'll learn all about it when you watch the full episode 'The Terrible Night on King Road' available on Peacock now. You can also watch on the NBC app or listen to it on our podcast. When you're done with the episode, you can watch loved ones remember the four students who lost their lives that terrible night: Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Plus, learn about the Made with Kindness Foundation, a nonprofit organization created in honor of Kaylee, Maddie, and Xana, aimed at empowering college students by promoting safety and awareness through workshops and scholarships. You can also listen to this week's episode of Talking Dateline with Keith Morrison and Blayne Alexander, in which they take you behind the scenes of filming the episode.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Yahoo
Bryan Kohberger: Similar Car Seen Around Time of Murders
Originally appeared on E! Online Another piece of evidence linking Bryan Kohberger to the University of Idaho murders has been revealed. Nearly three years after Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Kaylee Gonclaves were found stabbed to death at an off-campus house at the University of Idaho in November 2022, a video captured from a neighbor's home security camera reveals a white car—similar to Kohberger's—circling the block multiple times the night of the crime. In the video footage obtained by Dateline, a white vehicle circles the block near the home where the victims resided in the early hours of the morning for 13 minutes before ultimately speeding away. Investigators believe, per NBC News, that the car seen in the footage was a Hyundai Elantra, the same vehicle Kohberger drove. E! News has reached out to Kohberger's legal team for a response to the Dateline episode and has not heard back. The car footage is just the latest piece of evidence revealed that links Kohberger to the scene of the crime. More from E! Online Sean 'Diddy' Combs Trial: Male Stripper Details Having Sex With Cassie in Front of Rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs' Daughters Jessie and D'Lila Combs Honor Late Mom Kim Porter Morgan Wallen Breaks Silence on His Abrupt SNL Exit Prior to his arrest in December 2022, investigators found a knife sheath in the Idaho home where the murders occurred, and linked DNA found on the item to Kohberger. They also traced Kohberger's cell phone activity to towers near the Idaho murder scene. More recently, chilling details about Kohberger's behavior leading up to the murders have been revealed. In Dateline's 'The Terrible Night on King Road' a student who identifies herself as only Holly detailed a prior interaction she had with the murder suspect at a party. 'I was kind of mingling and socializing and started chatting with this guy,' she explained to Dateline's host Keith Morrison in the special, 'and he had told me that he had just moved and he was starting his PhD.' Kohberger—who was getting his PhD in Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University—was described by Holly as 'like you might expect for a PhD student who didn't know anyone at the party and was maybe trying his best to kind of get out there and be social and make friends.' However, Holly later detailed an 'overly formal' text she received from Kohberger the following day. 'Hey, I am pretty sure we spoke about hiking trips yesterday,' Bryan's text from July 10, 2022 at 1:19 p.m., read, per Dateline. 'I really enjoy that activity, so please let me know. Thanks!' As Holly detailed the correspondence from Kohberger, 'The wording of the text as I look back on it is peculiar.' For more on the Idaho murders and Kohberger's upcoming August trial, keep reading… Who Were Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle?Were There Any Survivors?Who Is Bryan Kohberger and How Was He Found?What Is Kohberger's Defense Arguing?Where Does the Case Stand Today?Prosecution Introduces SelfieKohberger's 'Peculiar' Habits, Revealed For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Yahoo
Where Is Bryan Kohberger Now? What to Know About the Idaho Murders Suspect as He Awaits Trial
Bryan Koberger is accused of killing four University of Idaho students — Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin — in 2022 His trial is expected to start in late July New details about the murders were revealed in a May 2025 Dateline episodeAlmost three years after Bryan Kohberger was arrested in connection with the November 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students, his trial is set to begin. Ahead of the trial — which will start in late July, per CBS News — the slayings of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were featured on the May 9 Dateline episode "The Terrible Night on King Road." The episode contained previously-unseen footage into the night of the murders. Goncalves, 21, Mogen, 21, Kernodle, 20, and Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death in an off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13. Two more roommates at the 1122 King Road residence, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, were home and unharmed. Early in the investigation, the surviving roommates were ruled out as suspects. In December 2022, Kohberger was charged with four counts of murder and one count of felony burglary. In May 2023, the judge ultimately entered a plea of "not guilty" for him. Kohberger has since waived his right to a speedy trial. If he is convicted during his July trial in Ada County, he could be sentenced to everything to know about Bryan Kohberger and where he is now. Kohberger earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at a local community college near his eastern Pennsylvania hometown, The New York Times reported. In June 2022, he received a master's degree in criminal justice from DeSales University. Jack Baylis, who befriended Kohberger in eighth grade, told PEOPLE that Kohberger was very interested in psychology as a teen. "He is super curious. Probably the most curious [person] who you'll ever meet. Guaranteed," Baylis said. "He was really into psychology, how people thought and whatnot. He's always been really into that kind of stuff." One of his classmates at DeSales, Brittany Slaven, told The New York Times that Kohberger seemed rather interested in serial killers, but that his behavior didn't raise any red flags for her at the time. "At the time it seemed as if he was just a curious student, so if his questions felt odd we didn't think much of it because it fit our curriculum," she explained. In April 2022, Kohberger interviewed for a job as a graduate research assistant at the Pullman, Wash., police department. According to email correspondence obtained by The New York Times, Kohberger sent a note to then-Police Chief Gary Jenkins with the subject line "Thank you" after his interview. "Chief Jenkins, It was a great pleasure to meet with you today and share my thoughts and excitement regarding the research assistantship for public safety. I look forward to hearing from you," he wrote. At the time of the murders, Kohberger was a Ph.D student in criminology at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., about eight miles from the Moscow, Idaho, residence where the four University of Idaho students were slain. BK Norton, a classmate of Kohberger at Washington State University who took the same courses as him one semester, described Kohberger to PEOPLE as "intelligent but quiet." Norton told PEOPLE that Kohberger was "more of a loner in the program," and claimed that Kohberger made disparaging remarks about the LGBTQ+ community. Kohberger generally kept to himself, Norton said. But he noted, "I know that there were students meeting with him after the murders. He was quiet and stared a lot, but after the murders he seemed more willing to talk and hold a conversation." An anonymous classmate of Kohberger's recalled him frequently taking contrarian viewpoints in classes and getting into heated arguments with other doctorate students, according to The New York Times. The classmate said Kohberger seemed to have more disagreements with women, including one incident that led to a female doctoral student storming out of the classroom after accusing Kohberger of "mansplaining." While at Washington State University, Kohberger was also a teaching assistant. One of his students, Joey Famularo, said that his behavior changed after Nov. 12, 2022, when the murders occurred. "Definitely around then, he started grading everybody just 100s," she told CNN in January 2023. "Pretty much if you turned something in, you were getting high marks." Several months before the murders, Kohberger was warned about his interactions with women working and frequenting a bar in Bethlehem, Pa., Jordan Serulneck, the owner of Seven Sirens Brewing Company, told NBC News. Serulneck explained that the bar staff scan IDs of all patrons and that they can add notes in their internal system. "Staff put in there, 'Hey, this guy makes creepy comments, keep an eye on him. He'll have two or three beers and then just get a little too comfortable,' " Serulneck recalled. The brewery owner added that Kohberger would often sit alone at the bar, asking female staff and customers questions about where they lived and who they were at the bar with. Serulneck said that if women weren't interested in conversing that Kohberger "would get upset with them a little bit" and that Kohberger called a female staffer a "b----" when she wouldn't answer his questions. During Serulneck's final interaction with Kohberger, he said, "Hey Bryan, welcome back. We appreciate you coming back ... I just wanted to talk to you real quick and make sure that you're going to be respectful this time and we're not going to have any issues.'" Kohberger seemed shocked at his remarks and told the owner, "'I don't know what you're talking about. You totally have me confused.' " Kohberger never returned to the bar after the conversation, Serulneck says. While authorities have not revealed if the victims knew Kohberger, the suspect's now-deleted Instagram account — which was reviewed by PEOPLE before it was removed — followed the accounts of Mogen, Goncalves and Kernodle. None of the victims followed him back. Two weeks before the students were killed, Kohberger sent a series of messages to one of the victims on Instagram, an investigator familiar with the case told PEOPLE. "He slid into one of the girls' DMs several times but she didn't respond," a source told PEOPLE. "Basically, it was just him saying, 'Hey, how are you?' But he did it again and again." The source added that the victim may not have ever seen the messages, as they went into the message request folder on Instagram. "There's no indication that he was getting frustrated with her lack of response," the source said, "but he was definitely persistent." Kohberger also allegedly visited the Mad Greek restaurant in Moscow — where both Mogen and Kernodle worked as servers — in the weeks leading up to the slayings. According to a former employee, he came in at least twice to grab vegan pizza. According to the case's probable cause affidavit, which was reviewed by PEOPLE, a sheath of the knife used in the murders was left at the scene in the bed where Mogen and Goncalves were found. The affidavit states that this is where detectives found DNA linking Kohberger, which they then matched to trash taken from Kohberger's parents' home in Pennsylvania. In June 2023, prosecutors revealed that a DNA sample taken directly from Kohberger matched DNA found on the sheath of a knife. The affidavit also alleged that around 4:20 a.m. on the night of the killing, a white sedan referred to as "Suspect Vehicle 1" in the affidavit was seen leaving the area of the home. The document also stated that the vehicle and a phone associated with Kohberger returned to the scene between 9:12 a.m. and 9:21 a.m. Additionally, the affidavit alleged a cell phone associated with Kohberger pinged in the area of the 1122 King Road home on at least twelve occasions prior to November 13, 2022. "All of these occasions, except for one, occurred in the late evening and early morning hours of their respective days," the affidavit read. A source familiar with the investigation told PEOPLE that Kohberger also had photos of one of the female victims on his phone. They did not specify whether the images were taken by Kohberger or pulled from social media. "He had more than one picture of her," the source said. "It was clear that he was paying attention to her." After Kohberger was arrested, body camera footage was released that showed him getting pulled over twice in one day while on a cross-country road trip from Washington to Pennslyvania with his father. Kohberger was driving a white Hyundai Elantra — the same vehicle authorities were searching for in connection with the case — and was stopped both times for following a vehicle too closely. He was released with a verbal warning on both occasions. After Kohberger's arrest, the vehicle was taken from his family home. "At the time of the traffic stop, there was no information available on a suspect for the crimes in Idaho, to include identifying information or any specific information related to the license plate state or number of the white Hyundai Elantra which was being reported in the media to have been seen in an around where the crime occurred," the Hancock County Sheriff's Office said in a statement obtained by multiple outlets. Though Kohberger has largely remained silent after he was charged, a police source who was involved in the process told PEOPLE that he spoke to officers while he was being extradited. "He seemed really nervous," the source said. "He was narrating to himself everything that was happening. At one point, he was saying something to himself like 'I'm fine, this is okay.' Like he was reassuring himself that this whole thing wasn't awful." While Kohberger didn't speak directly to officers about the case, the police source said he did make an offhand comment about it. "He did say, 'It's really sad what happened to them,' but he didn't say anything more," the source said. "He's smarter than that." According to Kohberger's defense attorney, his client was driving outside of Moscow on the night of the murders. The defendant claims he went to "hike and run and/or see the moon and stars." The defense will attempt to corroborate the alibi using Kohberger's cell phone data. After a location change from Latah County — where the killings took place — to Ada County — which is more than 300 miles south, Kohberger is currently awaiting trial in a local jail. His trial is expected to start in late July. 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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Yahoo
Former Student Reveals 'Peculiar' Text from Bryan Kohberger, Accused University of Idaho Killer
Months before Bryan Kohberger was accused of sneaking into an off-campus home and killing four University of Idaho students, he had a 'peculiar' exchange with a fellow student, she says. The woman — referred to only as a former graduate student named Holly by Dateline — opened up to the newsmagazine about her 'awkward' meeting with Kohberger at a summer pool party months before the killings. The all-new two-hour broadcast, 'The Terrible Night on King Road,' airing Friday, May 9 at 9/8c p.m. on NBC, will explore the shocking murders and the man at the center of the case. RELATED: Young Tennessee Woman "Mysteriously Vanishes," Out-of-Character Racy Photo Posted: "Something's Wrong" Kohberger is slated to go on trial in the summer of 2025 for the murders of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, all of whom were found stabbed to death in the same Moscow, Idaho, residence in November of 2022. Friday's special, reported by Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison, will feature new interviews and 'never-before-reported evidence,' including video, photographic and digital materials that investigators believe track Kohberger's movements around the time of the killings, according to the newsmagazine. Morrison spoke to friends of the victims, as well as the mother of Mogen's best friend, criminology experts, genetics experts, and former students who crossed paths with Kohberger, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. The interview subjects include a former graduate student named Holly who told Morrison, as seen in a preview clip from the broadcast, that she met Kohberger — then a doctoral student in criminology at the nearby Washington State University — in July of 2022 at a pool party. 'I was kind of mingling and socializing and started chatting with this guy, and he had told me that he had just moved and he was starting his PhD,' Holly told Dateline. RELATED: North Dakota College Student, 18, Found Stabbed To Death in Her Bed: "Final Chapter No One Saw Coming" Holly had also recently relocated to the area to start her own graduate work in plant science. She told Morrison that there was something slightly off about her exchange with Kohberger. 'I definitely felt a little obligated to chat with him, because to me, he seemed a little awkward. Kind of like you might expect for a PhD student who didn't know anyone at the party and was maybe trying his best to kind of get out there and be social and make friends,' she said. Holly said she told Kohberger that she was part of a hiking group and that the two exchanged phone numbers. The next day, she received what she described as a 'kind of peculiar text' from him. The text, sent on July 10, 2022 at 1:19 p.m., read: 'Hey, I am pretty sure we spoke about hiking trips yesterday. I really enjoy that activity, so please let me know. Thanks!' RELATED: Young West Virginia Dad's Mysterious Death Reveals "Sordid Tale Full of Secrets and Betrayal" Holly was struck by the wording in the message. 'It was almost overly formal,' she told Morrison. ''I really enjoy that activity.' So, you know, can you follow up with me about that?' Kohberger was arrested in December of 2022 for the brutal murders after police said they linked him to the crime through DNA found at the scene, according to NBC News. His trial is set to begin this summer. To find out more about what Holly and others had to say about their time with Kohberger, watch Dateline on Friday May 9, 2025 at 9/8c p.m. on NBC or stream the episode on Peacock after it becomes available the next day. For even more Dateline, sign up for the show's official newsletter and check out its podcast.
