The man arrested Friday by Pennsylvania State Police acting under a Moscow, Idaho, warrant reportedly stalked his four victims for weeks.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s cellular phone location data correlates with location data from mobile phone pings of his victims.
Kohberger is currently detained in Monroe County’s Correctional Facility awaiting extradition to Moscow, Idaho. After extradition to Idaho, he will be charged with the murders of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. The four students were stabbed to death while asleep in their three-story rental unit at 1122 King Road early November 13, according to Police Chief James Fry.
The Daily Mail further reported:
Bryan Kohberger, 28, was fastidious about not leaving his fingerprints behind after the murders, even wearing gloves when he entered a grocery store, according to a friend of one of the police officers assigned to follow him there.
‘He’s not stupid and has been very careful,’ the anonymous source said.
While Kohberger was under surveillance in Pennsylvania, according to the source, police witnessed him appearing to try and avoid leaving any more DNA or fingerprints behind by taking protective measures in public.
‘A good friend of ours was one of the cops who has been following him the last couple days he,’ the source explained of their connection to the surveillance on Kohberger in Pennsylvania.
‘He followed him into a Giant (local grocery store) and wore gloves the entire time.’
They also allege that the prime suspect was stalking his victims ahead of the murders – with their cell phone locations matching up on several occasions.
‘Not sure if they ever interacted – but his cell phone pings followed their every move for weeks.’
Kohberger was arrested at his family’s home on Friday following a more than month-long investigation.
The source said Kohberger was arrested just 40 minutes from where they live, and that his sister lives in their town.
The source has even more overlap with Kohberger, whose family lives in a small town in the Pocono Mountains. According to them, he also allegedly went to school with their cousins, and lives near their aunts and uncles.
The proximity to a quadruple murderer has shaken them and the community.
‘So freaking scary and disturbing!’ they wrote.
‘I’ve been so invested in this case the last 6 weeks, and to find out how close he is to us – and that one of our friends found him and arrested him is just crazy.’
After the murders, he first returned to teaching at the University of Washington, but later drove 2,000 miles from Idaho to Pennsylvania in order to hide out at his parent’s Poconos home.
Police were on his tail during the cross-country road trip and continued to follow him in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, where he was ultimately apprehended.
According to students in his class, Kohberger acted as if nothing had happened after the killings took place.
WSU’s online directory shows he worked as a teaching assistant for the university’s criminal justice and criminology program. He was also a PhD student in the department.
Multiple students in the program told Fox Seattle that Kohberger did not appear different following the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and 20-year-old Ethan Chapin in Moscow, Idaho, a 15-minute drive from WSU.
Ben Roberts, a criminology student, told the Fox affiliate that Kohberger was ‘confident’ and ‘outgoing’ but still appeared as if ‘he was always looking for a way to fit in.’
Speaking about the horrific allegations against Kohberger, Roberts said, ‘It’s pretty out of left field. I had honestly just pegged him as being super awkward.’
Roberts began studying at WSU in August at the same time as Kohberger.
‘One thing he would always do, almost without fail, was find the most complicated way to explain something,’ he said.
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