The investigation into the quadruple murder of students at the University of Idaho dragged on since mid-November. A suspect was arrested on Friday across the country in Pennsylvania, US media reported. Authorities confirmed at noon that 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger has been arrested and taken into custody in the murders of Kaylee, Madison, Ethan and Xana, who were killed in their sleepy college dorm on November 13.
The Monroe County Jail released a photo of Bryan Kohberger, and court documents show he is scheduled for extradition to Idaho. Kohberger is a graduate student in criminology and criminal justice at the University of Washington, a school a dozen miles from the University of Idaho. In mid-2022, a student of the same name had launched a call for papers on Reddit for a research project aimed at “understanding how emotions and psychological traits influence their decisions when committing a crime.”
White Hyundai
It is 11:58 am on Sunday, November 13, when emergency services receive a call from students at 1122 King Road in Moscow, a town nestled in the hills of this rural American Northwest state. On site, the police discover four bodies: two on the first floor, two on the second. The bodies of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin – 20 and a couple – are covered with stab wounds. No trace of a sex crime was found, but some of the victims had defensive injuries.
The four University of Idaho students, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen (above), and Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle, were killed on November 13, 2022. – Instagram
According to the initial findings of the investigation, these uneventful students were killed in their sleep without waking up their other two roommates in this three-story white house with small windows. The time of the crime? Between 2:52 am, the time of the last calls on Kaylee Goncalves’ phone, and the late morning call for help. Everyone had partied the night before, a normal student on Saturday night.
Hundreds of investigators from the local police, the state police and the FBI are quickly mobilized. They collect 113 seals, 4,000 photographs and more than 5,000 pieces of evidence. The investigation appears to be deadlocked until authorities release a photo of a white Hyundai Elantra. According to NBC News, a vehicle of the same type was found at the suspect’s Pennsylvania home.