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Recently reviewed video in the disturbing University of Idaho murder case may support investigators’ theory that the murder suspect returned to the scene of the murder in his white sedan within hours of the massacre.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, the murder suspect, allegedly returned to the scene of the crime at least once after the heinous act, according to a police affidavit.
Now, new images of a white car driving through the area near the house the next day may be consistent with that theory.
A Fox Digital News The camera recorded a brief sighting of a car driving onto a road next to the Moscow home. The vehicle can be seen at the top of the video frame as two law enforcement officers chat near the side of a field around 2 p.m. on November 14.
Pictured: What is believed to be a white car that may belong to Bryan Kohberger driving near the crime scene where four University of Idaho students were brutally stabbed to death. This image is from November 14 around 2 pm
Cops have not provided dates, times or details of the 11 other cases in which they believe Kohberger stalked students in Idaho and their college home. However, the police confirmed that all but one of the 12 cases of ‘harassment’ took place in the late afternoon or early morning.
Kohberger’s phone rang in the area of the students’ Moscow home around 9 a.m. on November 13, just five hours after he allegedly broke into the off-campus home and stabbed four students to death. But at the end of that day, her phone froze.
The suspect was driving a white Hyundai Elantra and is believed to have passed the students’ home at least four times on the morning of the murders, between 3:30 a.m. and 4:00 a.m.
According to the police probable cause affidavit, at around 4:20 a.m., the same car was captured on video speeding away from the area.
Police said there are usually “a very limited number of vehicles” entering and leaving this residential neighborhood in the early hours of the morning. But the white sedan was one of them that was seen speeding past the house four times.
The pattern of the car’s movement corresponded to the estimated time of the murders, which were ultimately connected to Kohberger, a doctoral student studying criminology at nearby Washington State University, Pullman.
The suspect is believed to have driven about 2,300 miles from Moscow to Pennsylvania. He was attending college in nearby Washington state.
Images from the University of Washington also showed a white Elantra leaving campus heading for the student house just before 3:00 a.m. on the night of the murders. The car then returned to campus just before 5:30 a.m. that same morning.
The data also revealed that Kohberger had been in the area of the students’ home at least a dozen times before the murders, usually at odd hours of the day and night.
The police affidavit stated: “All but one of these occasions occurred in the late afternoon and early morning of their respective days.”
It was also the white Elantra that first brought Kohberger’s name into the police orbit, after they discovered he owned it by looking at footage of his apartment building parking lot.
Moscow police officers visited the parking lot to obtain a license plate for the vehicle, as it matched the description of the car they saw on footage the night the students were killed.
Using forensic DNA evidence, cell phone data, CCTV footage, and evidence from the scene of the murders, police were eventually able to locate Kohberger and charge him with the quadruple murder.
Kohberger, 28, is accused of murdering Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin on November 13 in the sleepy college town of Moscow, Idaho.
Late last month, Kohberger was pulled over in Pennsylvania for a moving violation in a white Hyundai Elantra registered to him last month while on a cross-country trip with his father.
He was arrested on December 30 during a raid on his family’s home in Pennsylvania, where the white Hyundai Elantra was also found.
He has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of robbery for the brutal murders of Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21.
Two other housemates were inside the rental house at the time of the murders, but were not attacked.
One of them, detectives revealed last week, saw a masked man leave the house.
Last week, Judge Megan Marshall issued a gag order on the case, preventing investigators and attorneys for both sides from making public statements about the many facets of the pending case.