Boise, Aidaho (AP). The main prosecutor, who is tasked with finding justice for four students at the University of Aidah, who killed the gloomy quadruped, beating more than two years ago, on Wednesday, in court, who previously admitted guilty this week, provided his main evidence to avoid the death penalty at the hearing.
The exhibition summary recited by the main prosecutor Bill Thompson, before Kohberger introduced his pleasures, caused a dramatic tale containing the DNA-loaded Q-on trash, the deceased at night, the escape car, which was cleaned. to submit one of the victims.
This information provided new insights on how the crime revealed in 2022. November 13th And how the investigators finally resolved the case using tracking footage, mobile phone monitoring and DNA alignment. However, the summary leaves hooks to the key questions that could have been answered during the court – including the motif of beating and why Kohberger chose that house, and those victims, all strangers.
The small Moscow farming community, the northern Aidaho Panhandle, has not had a murder for about five years when Kaylee Goncalvs, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen were found dead at home near the university town.
Kohberger, who has now been 30 years old, has begun a doctorate in criminal justice at the nearby Washington State University – over the state line from Moscow, Aidaho for several months before crimes.
“The defendant studied crime,” Thompson said when the victim’s family members spread on tears. “Actually, he made a detailed document on the processing of the crime scene when he worked for his doctoral degree, and he had that knowledge skills.”
What we learned from listening
Kohberger’s mobile phone began contacting mobile towers towers at the crime scene for more than four months before the beating, Thompson said and covered 23 times during that period 23 times.
The Kohberger’s vehicle also helped the neighbors and companies’ tracking video – the researchers are aware of August. Police in a regular traffic stop in the area.
At night, Kohberger stood behind the house and entered the sliding door to the kitchen door at the end of the house shortly after 4 pm, Thompson said. He moved to the third floor where Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves slept.
After killing them both with a knife, Kohberger left the knife sheath near the body of Mogen. Later, the blood of both casualties was found on the shell, along with DNA of one male, which eventually helped investigators identify Kohberger as the only suspect.
In the floor below, another student was still on duty. The Xana Kernodle has long ordered a door dash, and when Cohberger left, he crossed the paths and killed her with a big knife, Thompson said. He then killed her friend Ethan Chapin, who slept in Kernodle’s bedroom.
Kohberger left two other alive at home, including one roommate, who is expected to testify to court that somewhere before 4:19. She saw an intruder with “bushes eyebrows” wearing black clothes and ski mask.
About five minutes later, the car could be seen in a neighbor’s surveillance camera. The speed so quickly “the car almost loses control because it turns the corner,” Thompson said.
What did Kohberger do next?
After Kohberger escaped from the scene of the incident, Thompson said, his cover was difficult.
Prosecutors believe he drove to his apartment in Pullman, Washington to avoid surveillance cameras on the main roads and did not turn his cell phone again until 4:48 to 5:26, he returned to Pullman, Thompson said.
Later, Kohberger replaced his car from Pennsylvania to Washington – significant for researchers who combed the observation camera footage, as Pennsylvania laws do not require an anterior license plate mark, making it harder to determine the vehicle.
By the time the investigators caught him in a few weeks, his apartment and office in the nearby Pullman were cleanly clean.
“Spartan would be a pleasant description. There was nothing, no obvious value was found,” said Thompson about Kohberger’s apartment.
The car was also “basically dismantled inside,” he added. “It was without a stain. The defendant’s car was thoroughly cleaned inside.”
Q-tip that broke the case
Investigators became involved in Kohberger, but they needed to prove that he was their suspect.
Having a single mysterious male DNA on a knife sheath, they worked with the FBI and the local sanitation unit to secretly recover the garbage from the Pennsylvanian home Cohberger’s parents in search of a DNA match with the suspect.
“They married what called the bin during the night hours,” Thompson said and “took the bin that was released on the street collection,” and sent it to the Aidah Forensic Laboratory.
A pile of garbage gave the test gold: Q-TIP, which contained DNA, found “stems from the person whose DNA was found on a knife sheath found by Madison Mogen’s body on the bed,” he said.
With that, Kohberger was arrested in his parents’ home in Pennsylvania, where he went on vacation, and was eventually issued to Aidah’s prosecution.
The secrets remain
Even if prosecutors described that night in detail, the main question remains: why did Cohberger referred to that house and those victims? Did he knew them? And what was his motive?
“We have no evidence that the defendant contacted the 1122 or residents in 1122, but we can put his phone in that time,” Thompson said, indicating the house number in which the murder took place.
Some of these evidence may have appeared in court and may still be submitted in the documents relating to the case that the court seal until July 23. Conviction hearing. The order of all lawyers for all lawyers is still valid.
These documents include lists of witnesses, a list of exhibits, analysis of evidence, additional discoveries, applications of mitigating factors and various unsuccessful defense proposals aimed at introducing alternative suspects.
Victims’ families are divided by the basis of a claim
Once the case is resolved, the families remain divided into its decision.
The transaction provides that Kohberger will be ruthlessly enforceable in exchange for four consecutive punishments. He also refused his right to apply and challenge his sentence.
Chapin and Mogen’s families support the agreement.
“Now we are on a new path. We are on the path of hope and treatment,” the Mogen family said in a statement.
The Kaylee Goncalves family publicly condemned the basis of the claim before Wednesday’s hearing, and her father refused to attend the proceedings.
Goncalves’ 18-year-old sister Aubrie Goncalves said in a Facebook post that “Bryan Kohberger, who has been in prison, means he will still talk, establish relationships and establish a relationship with the world.”
“Meanwhile, our relatives were silenced forever,” she wrote.