Mystery white car spotted near Idaho crime scene day after student killings

Newly reviewed video within the College of Idaho homicide case may assist investigators’ perception that the homicide suspect returned to the crime scene in his white sedan quickly after he allegedly killed 4 college students.

Bryan Kohberger’s cellphone pinged within the space of the scholars’ Moscow house round 9 a.m. on Nov. 13, simply 5 hours after he allegedly broke into the off-campus home and stabbed the scholars to loss of life, based on the possible trigger affidavit.

Freshly inspected information footage taken close to the house within the afternoon and the next day reveals a white automotive driving by. Kohberger, 28, drove a white Hyundai Elantra — which grew to become a key clue within the investigation and seven-week seek for a suspect.

A white Hyundai Elantra believed to have been pushed by the criminology scholar was seen driving by the scholars’ house a minimum of 4 instances on the morning of the murders, between 3:29 a.m. and 4:04 a.m., based on footage obtained by police.

Round 4:20 a.m., the identical automotive was captured on video dashing away from the realm, based on the affidavit.

The automobile’s sample matched the estimated time of the murders and it was later related to Kohberger, a PhD scholar learning criminology at close by Washington State College Pullman.

Footage from the college confirmed a white Elantra leaving the campus within the route of Moscow, Idaho simply earlier than 3 a.m. on the evening of the murders. The Elantra returned to campus at round 5:25 a.m. the identical morning.

Kohberger was pulled over for a visitors violation in a white Hyundai Elantra registered in his identify final month throughout a cross-country drive together with his father to Pennsylvania.

Information experiences from Fox Information and ABC 7 close to the homicide scene captured a white automotive passing by within the background as their journalists up to date the general public on the creating case. The Fox sighting got here after police started investigating following the 911 name, which got here in round midday and the ABC 7 sighting occurred a day later.

Right here’s the newest protection on the brutal killings of 4 faculty pals:

It’s unclear what the make and mannequin of the automotive is from the information footage.

Cellphone knowledge beforehand put Kohberger within the space round 9 a.m. — earlier than the stabbings have been reported.

The information additionally revealed an alarming pattern exhibiting the accused killer had been within the space of the scholars’ house a minimum of a dozen instances earlier than the bloodbath — principally at odd hours.

“All of those events, aside from one, occurred within the late night and early morning hours of their respective days,” the affidavit states.

Kohberger was charged with 4 counts of homicide and one rely of housebreaking for the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21.

He was arrested on Dec. 30 throughout a raid on his household’s house in Pennsylvania, the place the white Hyundai Elantra was additionally recovered.