() Newly released security footage captures Bryan Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra circling the King Road neighborhood multiple times in the hour before he killed four University of Idaho students in November 2022.
The video, obtained by and first reported by the Idaho Statesman, shows Kohberger making several passes by the victims’ home between 3:30 a.m. and 4:20 a.m. on Nov. 13, 2022. Moscow Police released the footage Wednesday following a public records request.
The 2015 sedan, which didn’t have a front license plate required in Pennsylvania where it was registered, appeared four separate times on the neighbor’s security camera at 1112 King Road.
Timeline of Bryan Kohberger’s movements
- 3:30 a.m. – White vehicle enters neighborhood, drives south on King Road, turns east onto Queen Road
- 3:33 a.m. – Vehicle returns west on Queen Road, turns north onto King Road and leaves
- 3:38 a.m. – Second pass through same route
- 3:40 a.m. – Vehicle exits neighborhood again
- 3:56 a.m. – Third pass begins
- 3:58 a.m. – Vehicle exits for third time
- 4:04 a.m. – Final entry into neighborhood
- 4:07 a.m. – Kohberger completes three-point turn in King Road cul-de-sac, heads toward 1122 King Road
- 4:20 a.m. – Vehicle speeds away “at a high rate of speed” on Queen Road
Prosecutors believe Kohberger committed the murders during a 13-minute window when his car was not visible on camera.
The footage also captured a DoorDash delivery driver who arrived at 3:46 a.m. in a gray Subaru Forester to deliver food to victim Xana Kernodle. The driver spent about 15 minutes searching for the address, walking with a flashlight before leaving at 4 a.m.
At 4:17 a.m., the security camera recorded audio of “what sounded like voices or a whimper followed by a loud thud,” according to police reports. A dog began barking repeatedly at the same time and continued for nearly 15 minutes. The camera was located fewer than 50 feet from Kernodle’s second-floor bedroom.
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Kohberger, a former graduate student in criminal justice at Washington State University, faces murder charges for the deaths of Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin, who were killed at an off-campus house near the University of Idaho on Nov. 13, 2022. He had pleaded not guilty. -
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University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle, right, and Ethan Chapin on a boat on Priest Lake in Idaho. Both students were among four found stabbed to death in an off-campus rental home on Nov. 13, 2022. (Jazzmin Kernodle via AP) -
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The victims were Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. All were fatally stabbed with a large, fixed-blade knife.
Kohberger, a former Washington State University criminology doctoral student, registered his vehicle in Washington five days after the murders and changed his license plates. He pleaded guilty last month to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary, receiving four consecutive life sentences without parole.
His motive and any connection to the victims were never revealed. Kohberger is serving his sentence at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.
