In Cold Blood The Eyes Of A Killer Idaho (2024)

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Did Dylan see the killer Idaho? ›

Dylan Mortensen, 21, told detectives that she saw a man leaving the house in Moscow, Idaho, in the early hours. She did not realize until hours later that four of her roommates had been murdered.

The slayings of Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in November 2022 stunned the Moscow, Idaho, community, and led to a six-week manhunt for the killer. Kohberger was arrested in December 2022.

Kohberger's DNA, which was tested after his arrest, proved to be a statistical match. Investigators have said that they used cellphone tower data to track Mr. Kohberger's phone on the night of the killings, and obtained surveillance video that showed a white vehicle like Mr.

Creech was finally arrested in November 1974. He and a girlfriend were hitchhiking in Idaho when they were picked up by two painters, Thomas Arnold and John Bradford. Creech shot both men to death and the girlfriend cooperated with authorities. While in custody, Creech confessed to a number of other killings.

"He would have been in a heightened state of arousal and that means he was emotionally aroused or even sexually aroused as he was killing those girls, and I suspect it was both," said retired FBI profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole. That heightened state of arousal is driven by hatred, not anger, she added.

Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen — the sole survivors of the bloodbath — found their friends' bodies hours after the brutal attack in their off-campus home. For the first seven weeks of the police investigation, it was reported that they'd slept during the bloodbath.

But his defense attorneys say in a court filing that "there is no connection between Mr. Kohberger and the victims." Criminologist and CBS News consultant Bryanna Fox adds that "the defense is claiming that the defendant, Bryan Kohberger, and the victims have absolutely no connection.

His indictment allowed prosecutors to bypass the previously scheduled June hearing where the two surviving roommates of the victims would have possibly been cross-examined. The next day, Kohberger stood "silent" as the court waited for his plea. The judge ultimately entered a plea of 'not guilty' for him.

Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's "alibi" that he was driving around looking at "the moon and stars," is too vague, according to prosecutors.

Kohberger is in jail in Latah County, Idaho, where he is being held without bail after his extradition from Pennsylvania.

How was Kohberger caught? ›

He drove home to Pennsylvania with his father for Christmas, and agents retrieved some of the family's trash. They ran DNA on it and find Kohberger's father, Michael, is likely to be the father of whoever left the DNA on the knife sheath. They arrest Bryan Kohberger the next day.

Investigators, though, say they have cell phone pings putting Kohberger near the scene of the crime. DNA evidence also connects Kohberger to a knife sheath that was found there, police said.

Kohberger, 29, is facing four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. He allegedly fatally stabbed University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. The trial is expected to begin on June 2, 2025.

Kohberger graduated from Northampton Community College in Pennsylvania with an associate of arts degree in psychology in 2018, college spokesperson Mia Rossi-Marino told The Associated Press. He then attended DeSales University in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where the AP said he received a bachelor's degree in 2020.

Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho undergrads in a home invasion stabbing, offered up an alibi via his attorneys on Wednesday. FOX News reports that, according to an alibi submitted by the defense, Kohberger, 29, claims he was out driving the night of the killings on Nov. 13, 2022.

A roommate who survived the quadruple murders at the University of Idaho told police she saw a man in black clothes and a mask walking past her in her house on the night of the killings, and she stood "frozen" and in "shock," according to newly released court documents.

The two women were also allegedly texting each other while the murders were happening and received an onslaught of hatred online after it was revealed that no one called 911 for several hours after the quadruple slayings happened. Since then, the two roommates who were spared have kept to themselves.

13. Ethan was not a resident in the home, but was staying overnight with girlfriend Kernodle. Two more roommates at the 1122 King Road residence, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, were home and unharmed. Early in the investigation, the surviving roommates were ruled out as suspects.

(NewsNation) — Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen were the survivors of the University of Idaho murders allegedly committed by Bryan Kohberger. A source close to the families of the Idaho victims told NewsNation that Funke was not among those who discovered the bodies.