Idaho murders. Probable Cause for Arrest Affidavit released. Very detailed.

Mindy D · ‎05-23-2010

A probable cause affidavit was released on Thursday. Here are some of the details:

One of the surviving roommates said she heard crying in the house the morning of the murders. She heard a voice say, "It's OK, I'm going to help you,"then she saw a "figure clad in black clothing and a mask that covered the person's mouth and nose walking toward her." She gave a description of the man as being about 5'10" and "not very muscular, but athletically built built with bushy eyebrows." The man walked walked by her. She stood in a "frozen shock phase," according to law enforcement in the probable cause affidavit. "The male walked towards the back sliding glass door. XX locked herself in her room after seeing the male," the roommate didn't recognize him.

Her statements and other evidence led investigators to think the murders happened between 4 a.m. and 4:25 a.m.

A Washington State University officer found a 2015 white Hyundai Elantra registered to Bryan Kohberger in an apartment parking lot. Officials were able to obtain the driver's license information of the owner, with the photo being consistent with the roommate's description.

"On December 27, 2022, Pennsylvania Agents recovered the trash from the Kohberger family residence located in Albritsville, PA. That evidence was sent to the Idaho State Lab for testing."

On December 28th "the Idaho State Lab reported that a DNA profile obtained from the trash" matched DNA on a leather knife sheaf found "laying on the bed" of one victim. "On December 28, 2022, the Idaho State Lab reported that a DNA profile obtained from the sheath, identified a male as not being excluded as the biological father of Suspect Profile."

"At least 99.9998% of the male population would be expected to be excluded from the possibility of being the suspect's biological father."

The affidavit also said that the only source of male DNA on the tan leather knife sheath was found on its button snap.

The affidavit also says that phone records for the suspects's phone show he was near the victims' residence at least 12 times between June 2022 and the present. "All of these occasions, except for one, occurred in the late evening and early morning hours of their respective days." The records indicated that Kohber's phone was near the scene between 9:12 a.m. and 9:21 a.m. on the day after the murders. Further review of phone records by law enforcement show he left his home around 9 a.m. and went to Moscow and went "back to the area of the Kohberger residence...arriving to the area at approximately 9:32 a.m."

The affidavit also revealed that the suspect had applied for an internship with the Pullman Police Department in Washington state in fall of 2022. The affidavit also stated "Pusuant to records provided by a member of the interview panel for Pullman Police Department, we learned that Kohberger's past education included (undergraduate) degrees in psychology and cloud-based forensics." He wrote an essay with his application that said he was interested in "assisting rural law enforcement agencies with how better to collect and analyze technological data in public safety operations."

SOME OF THIS NOT FROM THE AFFIDAVIT, WHILE SOME IS:

Law enforcement had reviewed local camera footage and noticed a white sedan which they then were able to identify a Hyundai Elantra in the area near crime scene. They notified all area law enforcement to be on the lookout for it.

The suspect had received a new license plate for the car five days before the murders. The affidavit cites records from the Washington State Department of licensing.

A law enforcement source told CNN that the suspect had "cleaned his car, inside and outside, not missing an inch." The same source also said the the suspect was seen multiple times outside of his parents' PA home wearing surgical gloves. The same source further said that the suspect was seen around 4 a.m. putting trash bags in his parents' bin and in his parents' neighbors' bins. The bags were recovered by law enforcement.

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My quotes from the affidavit are taken from articles by CNN online. My information about the confidential source is taken from the same articles.

Newsweek online has posted a pdf of the complete affidavit. Many more details are contained in it. Read the entire affidavit here:

https://d.newsweek.com/en/file/465416/bryan-kohberger-probable-cause-affidavit.pdf

scatcat · ‎03-15-2010

I wonder if his parents thought twice about fact that the police were looking for a white Elantra and their son drove one.

I thought I read that there was a food delivery at 4 am? I wonder if the delivery guy ever saw the murderer.

How the roommate who heard and saw him lived to tell is a miracle.

shoesnbags · ‎03-10-2010

I still can't get over the roommate just locking her door and going to sleep. What kind of environment were these kids living in that she could hear what she heard, see a stranger walking down the hall at that hour, and do no more than lock her door? And no one checks until so much later the next day.

"Breathe in, breathe out, move on." Jimmy Buffett

ValuSkr · ‎03-15-2014

@shoesnbags wrote:
I still can't get over the roommate just locking her door and going to sleep. What kind of environment were these kids living in that she could hear what she heard, see a stranger walking down the hall at that hour, and do no more than lock her door? And no one checks until so much later the next day.

Yes, that is hard to believe. Maybe that's how you act if you live in a party house with people coming-and-going at all hours and you aren't partcularly friendly with your housemates.

Mindy D · ‎05-23-2010

@shoesnbags wrote:
I still can't get over the roommate just locking her door and going to sleep. What kind of environment were these kids living in that she could hear what she heard, see a stranger walking down the hall at that hour, and do no more than lock her door? And no one checks until so much later the next day.

@shoesnbags @ValuSkr Check in the full affidavit. I haven't read it yet. I just posted it here a minute ago. I'm pretty sure there would be more on this. She did think the guy was still in the house. Maybe her cell was not in the bedroom with her and she was too afraid to go get it. UPDATE: I read the full affidavit and this information is not included. Law enforcement only needs to provide enough information to make an arrest, so they didn't include it if they do know why she didn't get help.

skatting44 · ‎07-26-2019

Yes, I read the entire affidavit . What I cannot understand is why didn't the surviving room mate call 911 after she opened her door 3 times and heard her room mates say " someone is here " and then heard whimpering . The two surviving room mates did not call Police for 8 hrs later ! If she had called 911 , maybe one of the 4 murdered room mates my have lived if they had received medical care.

RetRN · ‎10-01-2013

Lots of questions. I wonder what really all went on in that house.

Mindy D · ‎05-23-2010

@scatcat wrote:
I wonder if his parents thought twice about fact that the police were looking for a white Elantra and their son drove one.

I thought I read that there was a food delivery at 4 am? I wonder if the delivery guy ever saw the murderer.

How the roommate who heard and saw him lived to tell is a miracle.

@scatcat You are right. The complete affidavit mentions that Kernodle received a DoorDash delivery at 4 a.m.
Here's the quote about it from the affidavit.

"This is with the exception of Kenrodle, who received a DoorDash order at the residence at approximately 4:00 a.m. (law enforcement identified the DoorDash delivery
driver who reported this information"