The criminology student Bryan Kohberger accused of killing four University of Idaho students, in his initial appearance before an Idaho judge on Thursday, was denied bail. Kohberger was arrested last Friday at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, nearly seven weeks after the brutal stabbing attack that shocked a college town in the hills of northern Idaho.
He spent the majority of the 10-minute hearing staring at Judge Megan Marshall as she read him his rights and the five counts, answering ‘yes’ when asked if he understood each one. Kohberger remained calm throughout, only becoming agitated when the final count was read – the murder of Ethan Chapin, for which he faces life in prison or the death penalty.
Kaylee Goncalves’ family was also in court, with her mother shaking her head and sobbing as the homicide charge against her daughter was read out. The hearing ended with Kohberger being denied bond and Judge Marshall scheduling a status conference for January 12 to decide whether or not to hold a rapid preliminary hearing.
Idaho police has released a trove of documents detailing the early stages of their investigation into Bryan Kohberger, including how his DNA was discovered on a knife sheath left at the scene and how he stalked the students’ home in his white Hyundai Elantra before striking. On December 27, three days before his arrest, police recovered Kohberger’s DNA from trash at his parent’s house in Pennsylvania, which matched the profile left on the knife sheath.
According to the probable cause affidavit released by police, Dylan Mortensen was awake at the time of the murders – around 4.20 a.m. – and saw Kohberger in the house, wearing a black mask over his face. She told cops she woke up to the sound of Kaylee Goncalves playing with her dog upstairs on the third floor. She then heard ‘cries,’ and heard Goncalves saying, ‘there’s someone here.’ When she opened her bedroom door, she saw a man walking ‘towards her’ wearing a black ski mask. Then she locked herself in the room.
Another evidence was a shoe print of the sole of a Vans shoe was discovered in the mud outside the murderer’s house, just outside the sliding door that Mortensen claimed the killer used to escape.
A review of Kohberger’s phone records and surveillance camera footage from Pullman, WA, where he lived, and Moscow, ID, where the murders occurred, revealed that he visited the area at least twelve times before the night of the killings.
Kohberger, who is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary, is now being held at the Latah County Jail in Moscow, Idaho.
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