Suspect arrested in brutal murder of four University of Idaho students

This is true about the FL/GA 95 border. You’ll see Kingsland police, Camden Sheriff, and GSP from the border to Exit 7 and Woodbine. Working both North and South bound. It’s a good part of their busine$$. I make trek from South Jacksonville to Woodbine about 40 times a year. I rarely see Florida Troopers unless I am in Jacksonville city limits.

 

Exact same thing on 75…those first few exits working both sides. Think it is exit 5 there and then the Valdosta exits just north.

 

They’re pretty active between Micanopy and Gainesville. Fortunately I usually have good situational awareness am always running Waze and also have an Escort 360 on the highway. Haven’t had a speeding ticket in 22 years

 

I had not had a ticket since I was 17 until we took the kids to a game at Vandy a few years ago. Got off the plane at 4:00 and was in rush hour traffic moving at 15 mph on 6 lanes with cars cutting up the emergency lane to save time. Finally get to the exit for the hotel not far from their campus and it is three lanes that were merging with another three lanes halfway to the light I needed to turn at. I was in the middle lane waiting for my wife to give me which direction to turn and following a the rear corner of a car to the left of me as we approached the light. Apparently there was a light as the two sets of three lanes merged and I crossed the line after it turned red. I really did not see it as I was focused on the car just in front to the left and the light ahead with all the traffic. Bike cop lit me up. Once he saw rental car and Florida drivers license. I had no chance. Part of me wanted to say some sarcastic stuff (like you want to go pull over the people cutting up the emergency lanes on your interstate that are a real danger right now) to him but with my young kids in the car I held back. It would have been one thing if I can flying off the interstate and sped through the thing last second in a dangerous fashion. But I was driving like grandpa trying to be as safe as I could in a place I had never driven. Oh well.

 

There is a school of thought that this punk waived extradition so he could get a look at the charging warrant to see what evidence they have. My thought is he thinks he was too smart for them and they can't have anything on him. Between the DNA and the cell phone tracking, he is done, just a matter of time. I guess she forgot about the whole cell tracking thing while he stalked his victims and committed the crime. I imagine they can enter a certain set of phone numbers and determine fairly quickly if they used the same towers and when.

 

When would we know if accused has any signs of recent cuts? Would that intake information be included in the arresting documents?

 

it's starting to come out that the stops by Indiana police were phony and directed by the FBI to see if they could get pics of his hands

weird that they would pick Indiana of all places? maybe somehow they didn't realize he was leaving until he got there all the way to Indiana?

Idaho murders: FBI directed Indiana police to pull over Bryan Kohberger, seeking video images of his hands

 

Had a similar instance on the interstate outside Memphis but when he saw rental car and my Fl DL, along with the unspoken attitude that even if he gave me a ticket I wasn't going to pay it, he gave me a warning. Was headed to the airport and didn't know how long it would take to get there so I was probably doing 85 or so.

 

Makes sense. To have two stops in the same state for tailgating. Bet that does not happen to the same person very often…

 

He was flown to Idaho last night so we might start to see the evidence they have on him soon, I assume he’s going to get a court appearance quickly.

 

i think it’s tomorrow.

 

CNN says they found his DNA on a knife sheath that was lying next to a victim, and they used trash from the family residence to narrow him as the suspect.

Live updates: Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger expected in court

“On December 27, 2022, Pennsylvania Agents recovered the trash from the Kohberger family residence located in Albrightsville, PA. That evidence was sent to the Idaho State Lab for testing,” the document says.

The next day “the Idaho State Lab reported that a DNA profile obtained from the trash” matched a tan leather knife sheath found “laying on the bed” of one of the victims.

“On December 28, 2022, the Idaho State Lab reported that a DNA profile obtained from the trash and the DNA profile obtained from the sheath, identified a male as not being excluded as the biological father of Suspect Profile,” the document says.

“At least 99.9998% of the male population would be expected to be excluded from the possibility of being the suspect's biological father.”

 

Some court docs released…

Idaho Judicial Cases of Interest

Looks like that website is crashing as of now.

 

direct link to the probably cause order …. NOt much there

https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/case/CR29-22-2805/122922 Probable Cause Order.pdf

 

Sounds somewhat targeted… a roommate says he walked right by her in the middle of the night but didn’t do anything to her….

Which is weird, because didn’t they say they didn’t know there was a crime in the house until the next morning?

“D.M. said she then saw a “figure clad in black clothing and a mask that covered the person’s mouth and nose walking towards her.”

“D.M. described the figure as 5’ 10” or taller, male, not very muscular, but athletically built with bushy eyebrows,” the affidavit says. “The male walked past D.M. as she stood in a ‘frozen shock phase.’”

 

He's toast.

 

This is the doc that outlines the case for the arrest. Nothing conclusive about stalking or any indication that he knew the victims, but his phone records show he was on the move around the time of the murders, but likely turned his phone off as he went to Idaho. Even though he probably turned his phone off, They used video cams to trace a white Elantra from Pullman to Moscow that night, though.

https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/case/CR29-22-2805/122922 Affidavit - Exhibit A - Statement of Brett Payne.pdf

 

There's a lot in that Affidavit. Retroactively tracking him potentially surveilling the area by utilizing phone records...wow.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

Yeah he did well to cover his tracks too. You gotta think they will find more forensic evidence in his car too unless he spent a few days soaking it in bleach.

 

So far, the DNA on the knife sheath seems pretty insurmountable…. Everything else is circumstantial/inconclusive, but fits with the DNA to build a picture of what happened. But his defense is going to say there are 1000s of white elantras, and his phone battery died that night, he didn’t intentionally turn it off, and the witness got his height wrong… but the DNA on the knife sheath, how do you explain that away? Seems he is screwed unless he gets OJs lawyers…