MOSCOW, Idaho — A roommate who survived the Nov. 13 quadruple homicide near the University of Idaho campus “was able to provide some additional identification” about the suspect to police, an attorney representing the family of Kaylee Goncalves said Saturday.
Attorney Shanon Gray told Fox News’ “Cavuto Live” that the roommate, one of two who survived the gruesome attack, “is still a victim in this case.”
“And the fact that she was able to give additional identification, I think is beneficial in this case. She was able to give the type and the structure and what [the suspect] looked a bit: bushy eyebrows, things like that,” he said.
The roommate identified only as DM in an affidavit released Tuesday “opened her door for the third time” that Sunday morning “after hearing crying and seeing a figure dressed in black and wearing a mask covering the mouth and nose of the person walking towards it”. .”
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Kaylee Goncalves, one of four University of Idaho students found murdered Sunday in a home near campus.
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“DM described the figure as 5’10” or taller, masculine, not heavily muscled, but athletically built with bushy eyebrows,” the affidavit reads.
After the suspect apparently walked past DM as she stood frozen by her door on the second floor of the home, the suspect walked to the back sliding glass door and “DM locked herself in her room after seeing the man,” who did not see recognize.
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Later that day at 11:58 a.m., a 911 call was placed from one of the roommates’ phone. Police arrived around noon and located the four victims: Goncalves and Madison Mogen, both 21, and their 20-year-old roommate, Xana Kernodle, and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin.
Madison Mogen, 21 (top left); Kaylee Goncalves, 21 (bottom left); Ethan Chapin, 20 (center); and Xana Kernodle, 20 (bottom right) in her latest Instagram post, shared the day before the murders.
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The victims were stabbed to death with what investigators believe was some sort of “sharp weapon” upon arrival. Investigators also discovered a brown leather Ka-Bar knife sheath next to Mogen’s bed on the third floor, where she and Goncalves were stabbed to death. The pod contained a single source of DNA that matched the suspect’s profile, according to police.
The Moscow Police Department on December 30 named Bryan Kohberger, a Ph.D. in criminology of 28 years. student at nearby Washington State University in Pullman, as the prime suspect in the case. Kohberger’s vehicle, a white 2015 Hyundai Elantra, and his phone number apparently linked him to the crime scene on the morning of Nov. 13.
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Five days after the tragedy, on November 18, Kohberger changed his vehicle’s registration.
A month after the November 13 murders, surveillance footage captured the vehicle in Colorado. Indiana authorities stopped Kohberger twice on December 15 before allowing him to proceed to his parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, where investigators recovered trash containing DNA that “identified a male as the biological father of the suspect profile.” .
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Gray said Goncalves’s family was “relieved, initially, to find a suspect” and to put “a name and a face on all of this.”
Bryan Kohberger, 28, is accused of killing Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen.
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“Nobody knew anything about Kohberger until he was arrested,” the lawyer explained. “We didn’t know anything until the name was given to the public. Obviously since then, as we have a name and a face, I think all the families are going back and seeing if there is [are] any connection between any of the victims in the case.”
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The police have not revealed the motive for the murders.
A Latah County judge ordered Kohberger held without bond at the local jail during his initial hearing Tuesday morning.
