You can read the documents here: Probable Cause Affidavit Against Bryan Kohberger
Documents in the Moscow murder case were released this morning and are attached here.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, is accused of killing four University of Idaho students, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin on Nov. 13 at their King Road residence in Moscow.
The probable cause affidavit in the murder case against Bryan Kohberger was released this morning.
The document indicates that investigators first started looking into Kohberger, a Washington State University graduate student, on Nov. 29. Moscow police had asked the public to be on the lookout for a white Hyundai Elantra, and a WSU police officer, Daniel Tiengo, discovered that such a vehicle was registered to Kohberger.
A “video canvass” effort by police turned up footage of a white Hyundai Elantra making three passes by the residence where the murders occurred, at 1122 King Road.
One of the two surviving roommates, identified in the affidavit as D.M., told investigators she looked out of her bedroom three times after hearing noises. On the third occasion, she saw a male she described as 5-foot-10 or taller, not very muscular but athletically built, with bushy eyebrows. The male walked past her as she stood in a “frozen shock phase.” The male walked toward a back sliding glass door, and D.M. locked herself in her room.
The evidence indicates the murders happened between 4 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. The document doesn’t say why the surviving roommates didn’t call 911 until about noon on Nov. 13.
Bryan Kohberger will potentially face the death penalty for each of the four counts of murder he is charged with, Judge Megan Marshall announced during his first appearance in Latah County Court this morning.
Besides the death penalty, life in prison is also on the table, Marshall said.
No bail was set. And an initial no-contact order bars Kohberger from contacting the relatives of the victims for at least two years.
Kohberger answered “yes” when Marshall asked if he understood the charges against him. He didn’t seem to show emotion during the hearing in the packed courtroom.