In Cold Blood The Eyes Of A Killer Idaho (2024)

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How do they know who the Idaho killer was? ›

According to an affidavit for Mr Kohberger's arrest, the killings are believed to have taken place around 4am. Among the revelations in the 18-page document is that Mr Kohberger's DNA was found on a knife sheath that the killer left behind at the crime scene.

Ethan Chapin, Madison "Maddie" Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Xana Kernodle. One year ago, on Nov. 13, 2022, four promising University of Idaho students were brutally killed in an off-campus house in Moscow.

Blood was seen seeping from the house where four students were brutally murdered, Fox News reports. Grisly photos of the crime scene on Wednesday that blood dripping from the first floor bedroom down an exterior wall at the back of the house.

Kohberger had a new Washington State license plate on his car, something he had obtained five days after the killings, records show. The police tested DNA from trash found at the family's Pennsylvania home, and arrested Bryan Kohberger Dec. 30 in a predawn raid.

Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger was likely motivated by "arousal" and "hatred" when he slipped into an off campus home in the dead of night and allegedly stabbed four students to death, experts told Fox News Digital.

DNA analysis, which was conducted the following day in the Idaho State Lab, showed a sample from the trash belonged to Kohberger's father, Michael, with more than 99% accuracy.

Mrs Goncalves revealed she and her husband discovered that Mr Kohberger followed Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves on the social media platform, and when the couple cross-referenced this account with the profiles of the four victims, it showed he had interacted with Mogen's Instagram posts.

There, investigators collected evidence that ranged from creepy to mundane: a black surgical glove; a vacuum cleaner bag; roughly a dozen strands of hair, both human and animal; receipts from Marshall's and Walmart; a sample collected from a “dark red spot” found inside; cuttings from an “uncased pillow [with a] ...

Kaylee Goncalves, one of the four victims in the University of Idaho student murders, was found upright, slumped against the wall, her parents recently revealed.

Prosecutors filed a court document stating Kohberger's DNA was a "statistical match" with DNA found on the knife used in the stabbings and found at the crime scene.

What evidence was found against Brian Kohberger? ›

A probable cause affidavit, which detailed the evidence used to charge and arrest Kohberger, was unsealed on Jan. 5. In the affidavit, authorities laid out evidence linking Kohberger to the crime, including DNA samples, cell phone records and the movements of a white Hyundai Elantra.

FOX News reports that, according to an alibi submitted by the defense, Kohberger, 29, claims he was out driving the night of the killings on Nov. 13, 2022. Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's "alibi" that he was driving around looking at "the moon and stars," is too vague, according to prosecutors.

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 Idaho murder victims' surviving female roommate likely didn't call for help after coming face-to-face with accused killer Bryan Kohberger because she may have been paralyzed by fear and confusion, experts told Fox News Digital.

Police tracked Bryan Kohberger to Pennsylvania, where he was arrested. Police identified Bryan Christopher Kohberger as the suspect accused of murdering four University of Idaho students in November through DNA using public genealogy databases, law enforcement sources told ABC News.