Serial killer stopped by cops three months before murders in chilling footage
Chilling police bodycam footage has surfaced showing the moment Bryan Kohberger - now convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students - was pulled over for speeding just months before the brutal killings.
The video, captured in August 2022, shows a Latah County Sheriff's deputy stopping Kohberger on the Pullman-Moscow Highway, which links Washington State and Idaho. Kohberger, then a PhD criminology student, was driving a white Hyundai Elantra - the same car later connected to the crime. The footage was originally set to be used at trial, but was made public after Kohberger accepted a plea deal. READ MORE: Bryan Kohberger ordered 'sit up straight' by victim's sister as killer jailed
Kohberger being stopped by cops in August 2022 (Image: Latah County Sheriff's Office)
In the clip, Deputy Darren Duke approaches the vehicle and informs Kohberger he had been exceeding the speed limit. "Hey there, I stopped you going a little fast. You realize this is 35?" Kohberger replied, shaking his head several times, "Oh, it's 35? I was going about 41, about that," before handing over his documents.
During the stop, Kohberger also acknowledges he hadn't been wearing a seatbelt. "No point in not being honest," he says calmly when questioned. The deputy issues him a $10 citation for the seatbelt violation but lets the speeding slide. Kohberger appears cooperative but becomes slightly defensive when asked for a contact number, insisting he was being upfront.
"Just for future reference, I mean I'm obviously an obvious person. I told you I wasn't wearing my seatbelt," Kohberger says. "But people lie to you about that, say I lied to you about that...," he adds. He then asks Deputy Duke if he "usually" looks to see if drivers are wearing seatbelts.
Kohberger pleaded guilty in exchange for being spared the death penalty (Image: Getty Images)
The officer chuckles, replying "I should," and the video ends with the officer letting him off with a warning for the speeding and telling him to have a good night.
Less than three months later, on November 13, 2022, Kohberger broke into a rental home near the University of Idaho campus in Moscow and fatally stabbed four students - Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, both 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle, 20. The murders shocked the nation and led to a six-week manhunt, ending in Kohberger's arrest at his parents' home in Pennsylvania.
Victims Kaylee Goncalves (second from left, bottom) and Madison Mogen (second from left, top), Ethan Chapin (center) and Xana Kernodle (second from right) (Image: ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock)
After more than two years of pre-trial proceedings, Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders earlier this month. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole last week, as families of the victims gave powerful impact statements. Kohberger declined to address the court, simply saying: "Respectfully decline."
He will serve his sentence at Idaho's Maximum Security Institution.
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Kohberger was granted an allocution at his sentencing, but "respectfully declined" to address the court before Judge Steven Hippler sent him to prison to begin his four-term life sentencing. Meanwhile, chilling accounts of Bryan Kohberger's behaviour before killing four Idaho students have come to light in new police documents. A woman who matched with Kohberger on Tinder weeks before the tragedy said he overwhelmed her with disturbing questions and mentioned the Ka-Bar knife he used in the quadruple murders. New documents reveal insight into the police investigation into Kohberger, including tips from people who came in contact with him. In March 2024, a woman identified only as "KC" and "C" in the redacted files told detectives she matched with Kohberger on Tinder one or two months before the 2022 murders. However, she ended things after the conversation turned alarming. 4
