DNA left on knife sheath used to link Bryan Kohberger with Idaho slayings, affidavit shows
Male DNA left on a knife sheath was used to link a doctoral student in Washington state with the slayings of four University of Idaho students in November.
Male DNA left on a knife sheath was used to link a then-doctoral student in Washington state with the slayings of four University of Idaho students in November — and a surviving roommate came basically face-to-face with him the night of the killings, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.
A probable cause affidavit prepared by Moscow, Idaho, Police Officer Brett Payne lays out how investigators used video surveillance in the area to connect the quadruple homicide with a white Hyundai Elantra driven by Bryan Kohberger.
Kohberger, 28, was ordered held without bail at his first court appearance Thursday morning in Idaho following his arrest Dec. 30 at his family's home in northeastern Pennsylvania. He faces four counts of first-degree murder and burglary, accused of breaking into the students' rental house with the intent to commit a felony.
The arrest of a suspect about seven weeks after the killings of the students — Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20 — capped a period of fear and frustration in the largely rural college community of Moscow.
But Kohberger, who was a doctoral student in the criminal justice and criminology department at nearby Washington State University at the time of his arrest, was not immediately known to have an association with any of the victims.
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