Police in Moscow, Idaho, believe the suspect in the murders of four Idaho college students acted alone, Chief James Fry told Fox News on Saturday.
Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was arrested for local police and the FBI at 1:30 a.m. in eastern Pennsylvania with a warrant charging him with four counts of murder and robbery in the deaths of Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21.
Front view of the house where four Idaho students were murdered in November 2022. It is just steps from the University of Idaho campus.
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Asked by Fox News if police were considering any accomplices, Fry replied: “We really believe we have the individual who committed these crimes.”
When asked further if there was a clear connection between the suspect and the victims, Fry said police were still developing the crime profile.
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Flowers at a makeshift memorial at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, on Monday, November 21, 2022, for four of its students who were killed on November 13.
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“You know, that’s part of that investigation that we’re still putting together. We’re still collecting information,” Fry said. “That’s why we’ve still been asking people, you know, to send us tips on the individual, to send us any information that they have because all of that will be part of that picture. Still, it will give us even more information.”
The doctoral student, who is studying criminal justice, appeared before a judge Friday in Monroe County Court.
Fry said investigators are continuing to search for the murder weapon, described as a fixed-blade knife, and said more than 400 calls came to the tip line within an hour after news of the arrest broke. Fry also confirmed that a white Hyundai Elantra was found at the home of Kohberger’s parents, where Kohberger was arrested.
Fry said it was “a little disappointing” that Kohberger was studying criminology in graduate school at Washington State University in Pullman.
Police executed a search warrant at a home near the Washington-Idaho border on Friday, December 30, 2022, just minutes from where four University of Idaho students were killed on November 13.
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“That’s not what we want in our profession,” Fry told Fox News. “We hold ourselves to a higher standard and we hold ourselves to an ethical standard.”
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The mystery murders it initially baffled investigators and left the small university town of 25,000 deeply shaken.
The four students were stabbed multiple times in the torso and were likely ambushed in their sleep with a large, fixed-blade knife between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, according to the coroner and police.
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Two surviving roommates, who lived on the basement level, appeared to have slept through the gruesome attack.
Shortly before noon on Nov. 13, the roommates called friends at the home because they believed one of the victims on the second floor had passed out, authorities said.
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Police responded to a 911 call reporting an unconscious person at 11:58 a.m. that originated from the phones of one of the surviving roommates. Responding officers found all four victims on the second and third floors.
Fox News’ Rebecca Rosenberg, Stephanie Pagones, Audrey Conklin and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
