Posted on 01/05/2023 10:55:52 AM PST by bitt
A knife sheath discovered next to one of the four Idaho students killed in November had DNA on it that matched DNA found on trash from the home of the criminology graduate student charged in the stabbings, investigators allege in court records released Thursday.
Additionally, a phone registered to that man, Bryan Kohberger, was near the victims’ home at least 12 times between June and the day of the killings, according to an affidavit of probable cause. One of the surviving housemates saw a man dressed in black and wearing a mask leaving the home around 4 a.m. that day, the document says.
The new details offer a glimpse into what authorities say happened on the night they allege that Kohberger, 28, stabbed the University of Idaho students in their sleep.
The killings shocked the college town of Moscow, Idaho, and prompted a seven-week search for a suspect that drew thousands of tips and involved Idaho State Police and the FBI. Kohberger’s arrest Friday at his parents’ home in northeast Pennsylvania, more than 2,000 miles from the killings, marked a major break in the case.
Kohberger told a Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday that he would not fight extradition to Idaho, where authorities plan to prosecute him on four counts of murder and a burglary charge. His public defender in Pennsylvania, Jason LaBar, previously said that Kohberger expects to be exonerated.
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Yet officials can’t determine who went to a drop box multiple times during the election.
Thank you kindly!
At least he’ll never see the light of day again no chance for release ever
“ did those survivors realize he was a killer, or yet another random stranger coming and going from their apparently active house? If they knew there had been killing at 0400h then why wait until 1130h to phone 911?
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She must not have understood what had happened? Probably won’t know till trial.
One of the roommates was awoken by noises. That both slept through it all was just a rumor, repeated throughout the coverage, as these things tend to be ...
While I don't disagree with your thoughts from an historical perspective, the death penalty was and should be as much of a deterrent as a "punishment". It's why many executions used to be "public" (in some countries they still are).
Today, in the US, the cost of litigation and the many appeals over 20 years to have a convict executed likely negates the cost to keep them in prison for life. So execution as a means to save the state money and space is not as valid as when the execution was carried out after the verdict. Prison over crowding could be solved by executing lifers to make space. But the states would rather pick lessor offenders to set free or just not prosecute some crimes at all.
Our justice system is deficient in a great many ways these days. A more liberal use of the death penalty could help things, but we don't have the stomach to use it correctly (as a deterrent, cost savings and space savings)
Maybe he spared Dylan because his sister was spared in the slasher flick?
Sounds really weird but this is a mentally unstable killer
Ban the knives!!!
“His public defender in Pennsylvania, Jason LaBar, previously said that Kohberger expects to be exonerated.”
That’s a pretty confident attitude for someone being represented by a public defender.
And he went and changed his PA car plates to Washington only 5 days after the murder. He was starting to flip out about the car that’s why he spent far more time and money to drive it back to PA - probably going to sell it they were doing maintenance on it too
Then what did she do—go back to sleep? You see a masked man n your house and peoepl crying and dogs barking at 4am.....weird.
You would think one of them would be screaming their head off or running.
By claiming the two survivors were asleep through the ideal, it temporarily provides
1-safety for these two, because the perp thinks there were no eye witnesses
2-conceals the level of Intel LEOs have on him, relaxing him to make mistakes
My guess
“so how could one of the roomates witness someone wearing a mask leaving the home at 4 am?”
They slept through the attack, woke up when they heard the person leaving, saw someone in a mask and assumed it was one of the upstairs roommates, then went back to bed, only realizing later they had seen the murderer.
“” Kohberger expects to be exonerated””
what is weird-the creepy stare ... reminds me of the
insane person in Hitchcocks-PHYSCHO at the end
saying they will see... I wouldn’t even hurt a fly.
Many people are serving long prison sentences based on circumstantial evidence.
I think a lot of assumptions were made and became accepted as fact that we now know are not true. Most of these will be resolved as more evidence becomes public. However, not all. Most cases have an unresolved question or two that is not critical to conviction and won't ever be resolved unless the perpetrator decides to provide the information. For example, LE probably doesn't have the knife and likely won't need it for a conviction. Its whereabouts won't be known unless Bryan Kohberger tells them where to find it.
Kudos to the MPD (and other LE agencies involved) for staying focused on the objective: catching the perpetrator and making sure he can be prosecuted. Satisfying the curiosity of the amateur sleuths around the country is not part of their job. Despite being heavily criticized by some, it is clear that LE was right on track in this investigation.
It is unfounded bravado from a defense lawyer who probably will be glad to see his client go away to another State for trial and be somebody else's problem.
The only route to an acquittal would be to suppress all of the DNA and weapons evidence and cell phone evidence on procedural technicalities. I do not believe that will happen.
What a pleasant surprise! The local police and federales seem to be doing a competent investigation that will put away a truly evil bad guy forever.
PhD in criminology they say?
Yet he carried his cell phone as he stalked them for may days beforehand.
Not the brightest twinkle bulb in the knife drawer.
What, he didn’t know how the J6 folks were traced and rounded up, or didn’t watch 2000 mules?
According to the affidavit, the cell phone off or in airplane mode from 2:47 am to 4:48 am.
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