Bryan Kohberger's affidavit reveals Idaho suspect returned to crime scene, stalked house 12 times
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: The suspect in the Idaho murders went back to the scene where he allegedly slashed four students and may have stalked their home a dozen times before the attack, according to an affidavit released on Thursday, January 5. Bryan Kohberger's cell phone pinged its location near the student residence at 1122 King Street in Moscow at around roughly 9 am on November 13, just five hours after he allegedly stormed into the building and killed the four students in cold blood.
According to cellphone records gathered by the Moscow Police Department, Kohberger, 28, left his apartment in Pullman, Washington at 9 am and arrived in the neighborhood of the house between 9:12 and 9:21 am that day. Authorities say the spooky criminology student allegedly turned off his phone the night of the killings to hide his tracks. “The lack of [the phone] reporting to AT&T between 2:47 am and 4:48 am is consistent with Kohberger attempting to conceal his location during the quadruple homicide,” the document states, as The New York Post reported.
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Investigators' access to his phone data also revealed that at least 12 times in the months leading up to the massacre, his phone could be traced to a location close to the three-story off-campus party home where the students resided. “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 states.
According to the affidavit, a Moscow Police Department investigator entered the house during the inquiry and discovered Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, dead in Mogen's bed. On the bed next to them was a tan leather "Ka-Bar" knife sheath with the logo of the United States Marines. According to the complaint, an investigator discovered a dog that Goncalves shared with her ex-boyfriend Jack Ducoeur in her bedroom.
Dylan Mortensen, who shared a room with them, also admitted to waking up at 4 am to what she believed to be Goncalves playing with her dog. Later, Mortensen overheard a male voice saying something along the lines of "I'm going to help you," as well as the sound of crying coming from Goncalves' room. She then saw a black-clad, 5-foot-10-inch man approaching her who was wearing a mask covering his mouth and nose, and she stood there in "frozen shock." Mortensen locked herself in her room out of fear, as the intruder moved towards a sliding glass door in the back of the three-story house, where he allegedly disappeared.
A shoe print with a frequent diamond-shaped pattern was also discovered by the investigators outside the roommate's bedroom. Following Kohberger's journey from Idaho to Pennsylvania, the Moscow Police joined forces with the Idaho State Police and the FBI to conduct a joint investigation into the killings. Once there, they took a DNA sample from his family's trash and compared it to the DNA on a knife sheath that had been discovered at the crime site. The DNA matches were made. In a horrific home invasion on November 13, Kohberger is accused of stabbing Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, as they slept on two different floors of the residence. He was captured on December 30 following a seven-week manhunt.