MOSCOW, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger flew into Pullman, Washington, Wednesday night and is expected to face murder charges in Moscow, Idaho, in connection with the brutal murders of four college students at an off-campus home in November.
Kohberger, 28, has been in custody since Dec. 30 when authorities raided his parents’ home in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. He was flown to Idaho on a Pennsylvania State Police plane a day after he waived his extradition to Idaho on Tuesday.
The alleged killer departed in a Pennsylvania State Police Pilatus PC-12 single-engine turboprop aircraft, which has a range of 1,800 nautical miles and a top speed of over 300 MPH, from Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport around 7 a.m. PT Wednesday, flight logs show.
The plane then left Champaign, Illinois around 10 a.m. Pacific Time, likely to refuel, and then took off again to the west around 11 a.m. Pacific Time. There was another stop in Rapid City, South Dakota, and it took off again around 3 pm (Pacific time). Per TK, police escorted Kohberger off the plane in Pullman, Washington, across the state line and just 7 miles from the Idaho crime scene.
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Internet sleuths from around the world on Wednesday tracked the nearly 12-hour flight across three time zones from the moment it took off to the moment it landed. The flight had 13,500 viewers as of Wednesday night on the Flight Radar app.
The four victims, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle, who were in a relationship, and 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, were stabbed multiple times, likely in their sleep, on the second and third floors of a building. six-bedroom home just steps from the University of Idaho campus, according to Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt. Two roommates on the lowest level were not attacked. The victims and their roommates were students at the University of Idaho.
General views of a Pennsylvania State Police plane in Rapid City, South Dakota, as it makes a refueling stop on Wednesday, January 4, 2023.
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Kohberger was pursuing a Ph.D. at Washington State University’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 7 miles from UI. He had driven with his father in a white 2015 Hyundai Elantra from Pullman, Washington to Pennsylvania before authorities caught up with him.
Police said they were looking for a white 2011 to 2013 Elantra that was believed to have been seen near the crime scene.
Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, along with the two other roommates of the women in Kaylee Goncalves’ latest Instagram post, shared the day before the murders.
(@kayleegoncalves/Instagram)
Local and federal authorities used DNA evidence to track down the accused killer nearly seven weeks after the four students were found dead in the early hours of November 13.
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Kohberger’s family said in a statement that they “have fully cooperated with law enforcement in an attempt to seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence rather than adjudicate unknown facts and make erroneous assumptions.”
A view of the Sigma Chi house at the University of Idaho through fog on December 13, 2022. Inset: A reference image showing the type of Hyundai Elantra police were looking for in their search for Bryan Kohberger.
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Before the attacks, Chapin and Kernodle were seen at a party at the university. Sigma Chi Fraternity House on campus around 9 pm on November 12, a Saturday. They returned home around 1:45 a.m. on November 13. Goncalves and Mogen spent the night of November 12 in central Moscow, stopping at a popular university bar and then a food truck on the way home. They returned to the house around 1:56 am.
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Victims of the November 13 massacre at the University of Idaho.
(Instagram @xanakernodle / @maddiemogen / @kayleegoncalves)
Authorities believe the victims were stabbed between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. that morning. Around noon that day, Moscow police officers responded to a 911 call reporting an “unconscious person” from the house where the murders occurred, but several people had gathered at Crime scene by the time police arrived, authorities said.
Bryan Christopher Kohberger is seen for the first time since his arrest Friday outside the Monroe County Courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. He is charged with the quadruple homicide in Moscow, Idaho.
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The Moscow Police Department continues to urge the public to submit any images or information that they believe might be important or useful to their investigation. They can do so by calling 208-883-7180, submitting suggestions via tipline@ci.moscow.id.us and digital media delivery here.
Stephanie Pagones of Fox News contributed to this report.
