Newly released body camera footage shows murdered University of Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves speaking to police officers three months before the brutal killing of her and three friends.
Moscow police responded to the off-campus house Goncalves and her friends rented on August 16 after neighbors complained about the noise coming from an apparent party at the house.
Goncalves, 21, was polite and respectful as an officer let her off with a warning.
But on November 13, officers called again at the home and found them, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, all stabbed to death.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, is now being held without bail in connection with the quadruple murders. Officials say his knife sheath was found at the scene.
Murdered University of Idaho student Kaylee was caught by a police body camera in August as Moscow police responded to a call about noise disturbances at her off-campus home
Bodycam footage shows Moscow police officers responding to noise disturbances at the Idaho murder house and near a house on King Road three months before the Aug. 16 stabbings. pic.twitter.com/uh0pkcCLKP
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Video released by the Law and Crime Network on Wednesday documents the visit of the Moscow police to the house on King Road in August.
Goncalves was seen coming through a sliding glass door in a brown strapless dress as she greeted officers at the scene and said: “Hey guys.”
A police officer then asks if she knows why they were called inside, to which Goncalves replied, “I suppose noise.”
The police officer then confirmed that the Moscow Police Department had indeed received a call about the excessive noise coming from the house, noting that there was a “large loudspeaker” there.
He went on to say he “didn’t mind throwing a party [but] As soon as the neighbor calls, we have a problem.’
“Good,” Goncalves replied.
At this point, the police officer told Goncalves he would “verbal warn you” and reminded her, “As soon as I call neighbors, you’re disturbing the peace.”
“Don’t mind having parties, having older people drinking, but once we start disturbing the neighbors, we have a problem,” he said.
He went on to say that noise tickets could cost anywhere from $300 to $400 for a first infraction.
Goncalves was seen in the video exiting the house through a sliding glass door. It’s unclear if this is the same door that suspect Bryan Kohberger escaped from
Goncalves, 21, was polite and respectful when police dismissed her with a warning about a noise nuisance
“I don’t want to give this to you,” the policeman said to Goncalves. “Nevertheless, this is your place, I will hold you responsible for it.
“Because it’s your place, you’re also responsible for everyone here,” he added. “So I’ll get your information and if I need to come back here, a $300 ticket will come your way.
“I’d rather you spend the $300 on beer or something fun than a noise ticket.”
“Other than that, warnings, don’t do it again. I’d hate to come back in a few hours and have to say that,’ the policewoman continued before asking Goncalves if she had any questions, to which she said no.
“Thank you, have a nice rest of the day,” the policeman told her, prompting Goncalves to reply, “Thank you, you too.”
Goncalves was found stabbed to death November 13 along with her roommates Maddie Mogen, 21, top left, Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20
Moscow police are pictured at the scene of the King Road house after the massacre
Goncalves was found dead on the top floor of the King Road house on November 13, in the same bed as her best friend Maddie Mogen. Both were stabbed.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, has been charged with four counts of murder
Her friends Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were also stabbed downstairs.
Authorities have since revealed that a knife sheath was found next to the bodies of Goncalves and Mogen.
Police were able to match the DNA found on the snap button housing to a sample taken from the Kohberger family home in Pennsylvania.
They already had Kohberger in their sights after discovering his white Hyundai Elantra was nearby on the night of the quadruple murders.
And they learned that Kohberger appeared to have been following the victims as his phone was pinged nearby at least 12 times before the night of November 13.
Officials now believe he snuck out of the house through a sliding glass door – possibly the same one Goncalves was seen leaving – before driving back to Washington, where he attended school.
Kohberger, a criminology student, has since been charged with four counts of murder and one burglary. He is being held without bail.
Kohberger is pictured grinning as a judge listed the charges against him at a bail hearing earlier this month
Since then, acquaintances have come forward who describe in detail Kohberger’s strange behavior after the quadruple murder
After the revelations, acquaintances came forward who describe Kohberger’s strange behavior in detail.
A neighbor, Arun Dash, who lived in the same apartment complex as Kohberger in Pullman, Washington, described him as “chatty” in the days after the murders, but added that there was “never anything suspicious” about him.
Dash told Insider that Kohberger has always been kind and often tried to make plans, even though their schedules didn’t line up.
“He asked me what I’m studying, where I’m from. He would only make friendly small talk.
Similarly, another colleague described Kohberger: “He talked to everyone, he was a very talkative person – not charming, but outgoing.”
Kohberger, who worked as a teaching assistant at Washington State University’s Pullman campus while he was studying criminology, also “stopped caring” after the murders, a student claims.
“He wasn’t a great TA,” criminology student Emilie, who asked to use only her first name, told Insider.
She said Kohberger was a difficult teacher before the November 13 massacre and seemed to lose interest in teaching afterward.
Kohberger’s Pullman, Washington, home was searched by police for evidence related to the ongoing investigation, but a judge recently sealed the arrest warrant through March 1
A judge from Idaho has now sealed a search warrant for Kohberger’s apartment in Washington because it threatened to end the investigation prematurely.
The search warrant documents, filed the same day as his arrest, state that “compelling circumstances justify the temporary sealing ordered in this matter.” The information will remain secret until March 1st.
The language used in the court document left some questions about what the “threat to public safety” and the “threat to privacy of witnesses, victims and names of victims’ families in the affidavit” might be.
The documents were filed before Kohberger’s identity was widely reported.
The court documents emerged after a gag order released by the Moscow Police Department last week.
Latah County Magistrate Judge Megan Marshall issued a non-proliferation order Jan. 3 relating to the Kohberger murder case.
“The order prohibits any communication by investigators, law enforcement personnel, attorneys and representatives of prosecutors or defense attorneys regarding this case,” police said in a release.
“As a result of this court order, the Moscow Police Department will no longer communicate with the public or the media in relation to this case.”