Bryan Kohberger: Similar Car Seen Around Time of Murders
Another piece of evidence linking Bryan Kohberger to the University of Idaho murders has been revealed.
Nearly three years after Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Kaylee Gonclaves were found stabbed to death at an off-campus house at the University of Idaho in November 2022, a video captured from a neighbor's home security camera reveals a white car—similar to Kohberger's—circling the block multiple times the night of the crime.
In the video footage obtained by Dateline, a white vehicle circles the block near the home where the victims resided in the early hours of the morning for 13 minutes before ultimately speeding away. Investigators believe, per NBC News, that the car seen in the footage was a Hyundai Elantra, the same vehicle Kohberger drove.
E! News has reached out to Kohberger's legal team for a response to the Dateline episode and has not heard back.
The car footage is just the latest piece of evidence revealed that links Kohberger to the scene of the crime.
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Prior to his arrest in December 2022, investigators found a knife sheath in the Idaho home where the murders occurred, and linked DNA found on the item to Kohberger. They also traced Kohberger's cell phone activity to towers near the Idaho murder scene.
More recently, chilling details about Kohberger's behavior leading up to the murders have been revealed. In Dateline's 'The Terrible Night on King Road' a student who identifies herself as only Holly detailed a prior interaction she had with the murder suspect at a party.
'I was kind of mingling and socializing and started chatting with this guy,' she explained to Dateline's host Keith Morrison in the special, 'and he had told me that he had just moved and he was starting his PhD.'
Kohberger—who was getting his PhD in Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University—was described by Holly as 'like you might expect for a PhD student who didn't know anyone at the party and was maybe trying his best to kind of get out there and be social and make friends.'
However, Holly later detailed an 'overly formal' text she received from Kohberger the following day.
'Hey, I am pretty sure we spoke about hiking trips yesterday,' Bryan's text from July 10, 2022 at 1:19 p.m., read, per Dateline. 'I really enjoy that activity, so please let me know. Thanks!'
As Holly detailed the correspondence from Kohberger, 'The wording of the text as I look back on it is peculiar.'
For more on the Idaho murders and Kohberger's upcoming August trial, keep reading…
Who Were Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle?Were There Any Survivors?Who Is Bryan Kohberger and How Was He Found?What Is Kohberger's Defense Arguing?Where Does the Case Stand Today?Prosecution Introduces SelfieKohberger's 'Peculiar' Habits, Revealed
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