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The DNA of the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students was found on a knife sheath recovered at the crime scene, and cellphone data shows he was in the area of the victims' home around the time of the November attack and on a dozen prior occasions, an investigator said in affidavit unsealed Thursday.
Shortly after the affidavit was released, Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old criminology doctoral student at nearby Washington State University, appeared in an Idaho court to face four charges of first-degree murder. Kohberger, who did not enter a plea, was ordered held without bail.
The affidavit details a chilling encounter between one of the victims' surviving roommates and a masked intruder the night of the stabbings in Moscow, Idaho. But many questions remain unanswered, including whether Kohberger and any of the victims knew each other, and why police weren바카라 게임 웹사이트t alerted until nearly eight hours after the killings likely occurred.
Traces of DNA from a lone male later determined to be Kohberger were found on the button of a leather knife sheath found in the rental home where the victims were killed, according to the affidavit written by Brett Payne, a police corporal in Moscow, Idaho. Investigators later closely matched the DNA on the sheath to DNA found in trash taken from Kohberger바카라 게임 웹사이트s parents바카라 게임 웹사이트 home in Pennsylvania, where he was arrested last week.
The sheath had a U.S. Marine Corps insignia on it, though there's no record of Kohberger having served in the military.
Video below: Pennsylvania State Police speak about arrest of Idaho killings suspect
The attack that occurred in the early morning hours at the off-campus home had spread fear throughout the university and surrounding area for weeks, as authorities seemed stumped by the brutal stabbings. Investigators recently made a breakthrough, however, after analyzing DNA evidence and searching for a white sedan that was seen around the time of the killings.
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From left: University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen were found dead November 13 at an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.
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Two other housemates were at home during the Nov. 13 killings, but were not physically harmed.
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Investigators believe the suspect then left the home. The document does not say what happened next at the home, or why police were not alerted for several more hours.
Mental health experts say common physiological responses to frightening or traumatic experiences include an urge to fight, an urge to flee, or an urge to freeze.
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Five minutes later, the phone started using cellular resources located southeast of the home -- consistent with Kohberger traveling south, the affidavit said. There was no other location data available from the phone until 4:48 a.m., suggesting Kohberger may have turned his phone off during the attack, the affidavit said.
At that point, the phone began taking a roundabout route back to Pullman, traveling south to Genesee, Idaho, then west to Uniontown, Washington and north to Pullman just before 5:30 a.m. -- around the same time the white sedan showed up on surveillance cameras in town.
An FBI expert identified the vehicle as a 2011-2016 Hyundai Elantra; Kohberger was driving a 2015 white Elantra during traffic stops in August and in October, the affidavit said.
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