Silke Jasso
New information has emerged about the night Bryan Kohberger was arrested and charged with the murders of four University of Idaho students, over two months after the tragic incident occurred. Kohberger, a former Ph.D student at Washington State University, was arrested in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, where he was visiting his parents for the holidays, over 2,500 miles away from the crime scene.
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Kohberger has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary in connection with the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison “Maddie” Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, who were all stabbed to death in Moscow, Idaho on Dec. 30.
During an interview with BRC13, Michael Mancuso, the First Assistant District Attorney in Monroe County, revealed that when authorities arrived at Kohberger’s parents’ residence around 1:30 a.m. to arrest him, they discovered him in the kitchen wearing latex gloves and disposing of garbage in Ziploc bags.
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“Mr. Kohberger was found awake in the kitchen area dressed in shorts and a shirt a [sic] wearing latex medical type gloves and apparently was taking his personal trash and putting it into a separate Ziploc baggies,” Mancuso stated.
Mancuso stated that when the authorities saw the suspect, it provided a potential explanation as to why Kohberger’s DNA wasn’t detected in the family’s garbage in the preceding days. “A trash pull that was done days before recovered DNA profiles but not from him, only from his family members,” Mancuso went on. After his arrest in Pennsylvania, he was extradited back to Idaho to face the charges against him.
According to a search warrant that was unsealed last week, authorities confiscated several items from the Kohberger family home following his arrest, including two knives, a Glock handgun with three empty magazines, black face masks, black gloves, a black hat, a plastic bag with a green leafy substance, a book with underlined page 118, and Kohberger’s AT&T bill, among other things.
Additionally, a separate search warrant that was recently unsealed revealed that authorities seized clothing, shoes, a flashlight, four medical-style gloves, and a cheek swab from Kohberger.
Kohberger is currently being held without bail and has not entered a plea to the charges against him. He is scheduled to appear in court on June 26 for a preliminary hearing that is expected to last five days.
