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Mega Edition: Bryan Kohberger And The Affidavit That Was Brought Before The Court (10/27/26)
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The probable-cause affidavit used to secure Bryan Kohberger’s arrest laid out how investigators connected him to the November 13, 2022 murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin through a combination of DNA, surveillance footage, cellphone records and witness testimony. Police said a tan leather knife sheath was found on the bed next to Mogen, and DNA recovered from the sheath’s button snap produced a male profile. Investigators later collected trash from Kohberger’s family home in Pennsylvania and obtained DNA from a male who could not be excluded as the biological father of the person who left the sheath DNA, with the affidavit stating that at least 99.9998 percent of the male population would have been excluded. Investigators also traced a white Hyundai Elantra seen repeatedly near the King Road residence before the killings and speeding away around 4:20 a.m. to Kohberger, who owned a white 2015 Elantra while attending Washington State University in nearby Pullman. A surviving roommate also told police she saw a masked man dressed in black inside the house and described him as approximately 5-foot-10 or taller, not very muscular but athletically built, with “bushy eyebrows,” characteristics investigators said were consistent with Kohberger.
Cellphone records provided another major component of the affidavit. Investigators said Kohberger’s phone left the area of his Pullman residence shortly before 2:47 a.m. and then stopped reporting to the cellular network until 4:48 a.m., a gap that encompassed the estimated time of the murders. When the phone reconnected, records showed it traveling south of Moscow and then taking a circuitous route back toward Pullman, generally consistent with the movements investigators attributed to the white Elantra. The affidavit also said Kohberger’s phone had used cellular resources covering the King Road area on at least 12 occasions before the murders, almost all during late-night or early-morning hours, and returned to coverage of the neighborhood between approximately 9:12 and 9:21 a.m. on the morning after the killings. Taken together, prosecutors argued that the sheath DNA, vehicle surveillance, phone records and eyewitness description established probable cause to charge Kohberger with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary, leading to the arrest warrant issued December 29, 2022.
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Cellphone records provided another major component of the affidavit. Investigators said Kohberger’s phone left the area of his Pullman residence shortly before 2:47 a.m. and then stopped reporting to the cellular network until 4:48 a.m., a gap that encompassed the estimated time of the murders. When the phone reconnected, records showed it traveling south of Moscow and then taking a circuitous route back toward Pullman, generally consistent with the movements investigators attributed to the white Elantra. The affidavit also said Kohberger’s phone had used cellular resources covering the King Road area on at least 12 occasions before the murders, almost all during late-night or early-morning hours, and returned to coverage of the neighborhood between approximately 9:12 and 9:21 a.m. on the morning after the killings. Taken together, prosecutors argued that the sheath DNA, vehicle surveillance, phone records and eyewitness description established probable cause to charge Kohberger with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary, leading to the arrest warrant issued December 29, 2022.
to contact me:
bobbycapucci@protonmail.com