Investigators were able to identify the suspect in the killings of four University of Idaho students through a combination of DNA evidence, cell phone records, surveillance footage and a witness who said she saw him leaving the scene of the crime, according to newly-released court documents.
, a 28-year-old Ph.D. student and teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, as the lone suspect in the Nov. 13 stabbing deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, using a combination of cell data, surveillance video and genetic evidence left at the scene.
The roommate, identified in the affidavit as D.M., said she didn't recognize the man, who walked toward the back sliding glass door as she stood"frozen" and in"shock." Police also discovered a “tan leather knife sheath” laying next to Mogen’s bed, according to the affidavit. On Dec. 27, FBI agents in Pennsylvania “recovered the trash from the Kohlberger family residence” in Albrightsville, Pa., and sent it to the lab in Idaho, which matched the “DNA profile obtained from the trash and the DNA profile obtained from the sheath.”waived his extradition to IdahoInvestigators were able to identify Kohlberger’s vehicle, a white Hyundai Elantra, from surveillance footage taken near the scene and track it to the WSU campus in Pullman, Wash.
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