Pennsylvania cold cases under review for possible links to Bryan Kohberger

Investigators in Pennsylvania counties the place Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger attended school are digging by way of chilly case recordsdata for potential connections to the alleged killer.

Kohberger, 28 — who was arrested in December within the stabbing deaths of 4 College of Idaho college students — beforehand studied at Northampton Group Faculty and DeSales College, each in Pennsylvania.

“Your pure query is to start out questioning, ‘Is that this man wished?’” Northampton County District Lawyer Terence Houck advised KING 5 Information this week.

Whereas authorities beforehand confirmed that Kohberger had no earlier prison data, Houck mentioned he ordered his employees to evaluate their native chilly instances for doable hyperlinks to the suspect.

Northampton County authorities used against the law data heart to comb unsolved instances for Kohberger’s peak, weight, methodology and different traits, however they didn’t discover any connections.

“In actual fact, nothing with respect to Kohberger has come about in our investigations of chilly instances or unsolved instances so far, however we at all times proceed to research and pursue leads,” he mentioned.

Houck’s efforts mirrored these of Lehigh County District Lawyer Jim Martin, whose jurisdiction covers the DeSales College space.

“The very first thing I did [after Kohberger’s arrest] was ask the director of the [Regional Intelligence and Investigation Center] to see if we had any contact with Mr. Kohberger,” Martin advised KING5.

Martin’s search, nevertheless, solely turned up a 911 name Kohberger positioned when his automotive was locked behind a gate on a motorcycle path.

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“And there was a response from him thanking the police and apologizing for the inconvenience,” he mentioned of the incident, noting that the county doesn’t have any unsolved murders that match the MO of the Idaho slayings.

Kohberger was arrested on Dec. 30 at his mother and father’ Albrightsville house for the Nov. 13 stabbing deaths of College of Idaho college students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20. 

No motive has been launched for the killings.

Earlier acquaintances described him as a loner who struggled with heroin habit previously, and one former FBI agent attributed his alleged crimes to an “incel advanced.” 

Kohberger was extradited from Pennsylvania and stays incarcerated in Latah County, Idaho. He faces 4 counts of murder and one rely of first-degree housebreaking, and is due again in court docket on June 26.