Eerie new images show Bryan Kohberger’s infamous car after it was deconstructed by police investigating the Idaho student murders.
Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra was meticulously cleaned after the murders, practically taken apart inside, according to prosecutors.
After his arrest at his parent’s residence in Pennsylvania, authorities seized his car to search for clues connecting him to the brutal killings of Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and Madison Mogen in 2022.
Newly-released images show the inside of the killer’s car after it was torn apart and swept for any connections to the murder scene.
Investigators asked the public for help locating the vehicle after the murders, calling it a critical clue in the case.
Despite Kohberger’s exhaustive efforts to cleanse the vehicle, investigators couldn’t discover any DNA evidence linking it to the crime scene post-arrest.
Kohberger, who is now 30, had embarked on a Ph.D. program in criminal justice at Washington State University, which is just across the border from Moscow, Idaho—mere months before the murders on November 13, 2022.
Surveillance footage from both local residents and businesses placed Kohberger’s car—which investigators identified from a police traffic stop in August—near the scene.
Moscow police released images of quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra after he was sentenced to life in prison
Prosecutors said that Kohberger went to extremes to clean the car after the murders
Bryan Kohberger was pictured at the Ada County Courthouse during his sentencing hearing on July 23
The perpetrator’s mobile phone started connecting to cell towers in the vicinity of the crime scene over four months prior to the stabbings, said Thompson, with activity recorded 23 times between the hours of 10 pm and 4 am during that period.
On the night of the killings, Kohberger parked behind the house and entered through a sliding door to the kitchen at the back of the house shortly after 4am, prosecutors said.
He moved to the third floor, where Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were sleeping.
After killing both of them with a knife, Kohberger left a knife sheath next to Mogen’s body.
Both victims’ blood was later found on the sheath, along with DNA from a single male that ultimately helped investigators pinpoint Kohberger as the only suspect.
With the DNA of a single mystery male on the knife sheath, detectives worked with the FBI and the local sanitation department to secretly retrieve garbage from the Pennsylvania home of Kohberger’s parents, seeking a DNA match to their suspect.
The pile of garbage yielded investigative gold: A Q-tip that contained DNA identified ‘as coming from the father of the person whose DNA was found on the knife sheath that was found by Madison Mogen’s body on the bed.’
Later, Kohberger changed his car registration from Pennsylvania to Washington State – significant for investigators who were combing through surveillance camera footage because Pennsylvania law doesn’t require a front license plate, making it harder to identify the vehicle.
Surveillance videos from neighbors and businesses placed Kohberger’s vehicle in the area of the murders
Police obtained the killer’s car after his arrest and searched every corner for any evidence tying him to the stabbing murders
Pictured left to right: Housemates Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee’s shoulders) Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Bethany Funke in 2022
And by the time investigators did catch up with him weeks later, his apartment and office in nearby Pullman were scrubbed clean.
Idaho investigators began releasing evidence from the quadruple homicide after Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders last month, in a deal to save himself from the death penalty.
On July 23, the killer was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
Newly-released bodycam footage shows Moscow Police officers responding to what they believed was a report of an unconscious individual at 1122 King Road around midday on November 13 – only to find the bodies of the four students.
Outside the home, the 52-minute-long video reveals a heartbreaking and chaotic scene as the surviving roommates and friends of the victims huddle under blankets, sobbing uncontrollably in the road.
New crime scene photos were also released by Idaho State Police, revealing the remnants of a college party inside the home that was now a crime scene.
On a table in the living room, red cups set up for a game of beer pong make the scene eerily ordinary compared to what took place just hours earlier.
Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger was pulled over by Indiana State Police on December 15, 2022, – but cops didn’t have information that he was a suspect in the student murders
Remnants of the night before were still visible in newly-released police pictures from the time they arrived to inspect the home. This included a beer pong set up (pictured)
One chilling photo shows Kernodle’s half-eaten DoorDash order from Jack in the Box, delivered moments before Kohberger broke in and began his murderous rampage
One chilling photo shows Kernodle’s half-eaten DoorDash order from Jack in the Box, delivered moments before Kohberger broke in and began his murderous rampage.
Another image shows a large footprint in the snow out the back of the three-story house – a clue Kohberger may have left behind.
Kohberger is serving his sentence inside Idaho’s maximum security prison in Kuna where he has already filed multiple complaints about his fellow inmates.
According to a law enforcement source, Kohberger – now known as inmate number 163214 – is being relentlessly tormented by his new jail-mates, who are shouting through the vents into his cell at all hours of the day.
