Bryan Kohberger changed Pennsylvania-registered Hyundai Elantra license plates 6 DAYS after Idaho murders
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: Bryan Kohberger arrived at the Latah County Jail Wednesday evening, January 4, hours after authorities flew him out of Pennsylvania. He was taken into custody on December 30 after the FBI and the police raided his parents' house in Albrightsville. He faces four counts of first-degree murder and a felony burglary charge. One main element of the entire investigation was the White Hyundai Elantra that Kohberger drove. Now, sources claim that he changed his license plate to eliminate his vehicle from the spotlight.
According to a Newsweek review of CarFax documents, the 28-year-old PhD student at WSU was pulled over by the Latah County Sheriff's Office in Idaho back in August. At the time, his car was registered in Pennsylvania, where his parents lived. However, that was changed merely five days after the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, i.e., on November 18. The CarFax documents show that the registration was changed to Washington. Christine Anthony, a communications manager at the Washington State Department of Licensing told the outlet that for Kohberger, it wouldn't be possible to get Washington license plates if the car he was driving was still registered in Pennsylvania. The state law requires the driver to register their vehicle within 30 days of moving to the state. According to the bodycam footage from when he was pulled over, the license plate number was CFB8708 which was the same number assigned to the car on November 18. The license plates on the white Hyundai Elantra were changed on November 19, six days after the murders.
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Body camera video shows Indiana State Police pulling over Brian Kohberger and his father in the white Hyundai as they drove from Washington to Pennsylvania on December 15th. pic.twitter.com/vJY1lK7PDo
— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) January 3, 2023
Bryan Kohberger changes his license plate
Bryan Kohberger, when pulled over again, confirmed that he was the owner of the vehicle. Jennifer Coffindaffer, a former FBI agent that the timing of Kohberger's plate change "is certainly interesting." She told Newsweek, "I believe he was starting to get worried about the fact that he did use his vehicle in the commission of that crime and likely wanted to change plates so that in the event that someone saw it, it would now have a completely different state on it."
The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office has released the Dec. 15 traffic stop involving Bryan Kohberger in Indiana. This stop was before the other stop by Indiana State Police. pic.twitter.com/NX25k0ojHM
— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) January 4, 2023
The Moscow Police Department quickly announced the White Elantra as a matter of interest as they said that the vehicle was around the area where the murders took place and were seen in the early morning hours of November 13. As revealed earlier, the police combed through 19,000 tips and many of them were about the vehicle saying that it had been identified in Oregon. However, that tip was inaccurate. The vehicle was retrieved after Bryan was arrested.