Idaho student killer tracked to Pennsylvania, says sources

• Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, charged with first-degree murder, burglary.
• In November, stabbed University of Idaho students were found off-campus.
• Authorities tracked the man across the country before arresting him Friday.

Authorities carefully followed the suspect accused of killing four college students from Idaho as he travelled across the country around Christmas and followed him for many days before apprehending him on Friday.

According to Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was apprehended in his native Pennsylvania and charged with four charges of first-degree murder as well as criminal burglary in connection with the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in November.

However, neither the suspect’s motive nor his familiarity with the victims has been publicly established by the investigators.

Additionally, the murder weapon has not been found, according to Moscow Police Chief James Fry on Friday.

Investigators have spoken to more than 300 people and looked through almost 20,000 tips in the roughly seven weeks since the students were discovered dead from stab wounds in an off-campus residence.

The University of Idaho community and the nearby town of Moscow, which had not seen a murder for seven years, have been alarmed by the news of the killings and the prolonged period without a suspect or noteworthy developments.

According to two law enforcement sources briefed on the inquiry, investigators narrowed in on Kohberger as the suspect thanks to DNA evidence and by establishing his possession of a white Hyundai Elantra seen close to the crime scene.

According to authorities, Kohberger lived only a few minutes away from the crime scene. Washington State University’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology verified that Kohberger is a PhD student there.

According to a law enforcement source, he travelled across the country in a white Hyundai Elantra and landed at his parents’ residence in Pennsylvania around Christmas.

The source claimed that police were keeping tabs on him when he was driving and were also watching his parents’ home.

Before his arrest, an FBI surveillance team followed him for four days as law enforcement and prosecutors tried to establish enough probable cause to obtain a warrant, according to the two law enforcement sources.

Another individual with knowledge of the investigation told Media that Kohberger was linked to unidentified DNA evidence using genetic genealogy procedures.

He was identified as the suspect after law enforcement conducted further investigation after the DNA was processed through a public database to look for possible family member matches, the person claimed.

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