Officials confirmed that the white Hyundai Elantra seen on surveillance video had belonged to 28-year-old suspect Bryan Kohberger, which is what sources who have spoken to NBC News has said is one of the biggest pieces of evidence in the case. NBC’s Dana Griffin reports.
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Crazy if he was already under surveillance when det reached out to the unknown driver of the Hundai Elantra
I just wanna say cudos to Moscow Police Dept, Idaho State Police, and FBI, great job!! Oh, and that long arm of the law is real.
If this guy did it he needs the death penalty
Never trust anyone with a last name that contains Berger
jpaan will retake the kurils sakhalin south korea will take north korea.
I’ll bet you…..there is still 1 other on the lose..
I think dummy boy kept the knife as a souvenir – and that they’ll find it.
Yes, I really doubt that he tossed the weapon somewhere on his 2,500 mile drive back to his parent’s house as some have theorized. He probably hid it somewhere on their property and it can be found eventually. It’s something he really treasures.
@Marcus C Agreed – or they’ll find it in his Washington apt..
@Jim Rafferty Good call–right, either there or in his office. Didn’t know that students in the PHD program at WSU had their own offices.
Animal
If the guy had a Masters and was going for a PhD in Criminal Justice and Criminal Sciences, he sure wasn’t a very good student, if he is the perpetrator. He used his own car in murder? What if anything did he learn about evidence? All remains to be seen, but sure seems crazy.
I heard either that there was no license plate or it wasn’t visible, but they caught him anyway. Thank God!
Shame on this monster!!!
There is the ugly face of evil. Dark black dead eyes. “Lethal injection” would be too kind for him. 👹🔥👺
2015 not 2011-2013, according to a Captain with the Moscow Police Department.
Almost gone with the perfect crime. Now all the Hyundai Elantra whithe color cars could breath easily, no more suspicions
There is no perfect crime. They are solving old cases with new technology.
Innocent until proven guilty yall…
This is again proves just how mass murderers are evil white men!
I figured he was going to be a white boy. Seems like so many of you white men, have such evil in your veins.
He’s not from Pullman Pennsylvania. He lived in Pullman Washington in student housing.
I’ve watched a bunch of news clips of this, but this is literally the first one where that has stated that there’s an Idaho law about evidence and suspect extradition- thanks for that. It’s very clarifying.
A couple days ago people speculated that this would turn into a cold case and today there is a suspect in custody. Thank God!
He probably murder the 2 college kids in cedar city Utah a year ago they to where stab to death
The seat belt ticket was written to a man driving an Elantra – the man driving the Elantra was Kohberger – the tag on the car probably went back to his house in Pennsylvania. If he was planning to commit a murder or murders and received the ticket he should have been smart enough to scrap his plans because the ticket places him at the general location and at the general time. Arrogance and narcissism will do it every time.
He went to school at Washington st
Wow. I haven’t heard this! I didn’t realize he had been ticketed in the vicinity.
Why wasn’t he wearing a seat belt anyways?
@Rose Jr YT 💗Some people don’t like being told what to do.
@Rose Jr YT 💗 arrogance, which is good because it has finally led to his downfall
WITHOUT DNA or Blood evidence or at least 2 witnesses, he will go free.
Guilty or not!
You would think that someone who has a master’s degree in criminal justice would not leave DNA behind at a crime scene. I bet one of the victims had his DNA on their person fighting back because at least one of the victims had defensive wounds. Willing to bet it wasn’t a direct DNA match, but a familial and they narrowed it down from there.
Yes on 23 and me or one of those testing sites. If any even remote relative sends their DNA into those testing sites, they can be caught. It is much easier to catch criminals now than in Ted Bundy’s day. Ironically Bundy studied law. Cameras, surveillance, DNA, computers, profiling. Even LoneStar satellite tracking on cars, their speed & whereabouts. Cellphones! Crime doesn’t pay for criminals! Who wants to live in a cage???
Only way to make it surefire that DNA isn’t left behind is with a gun but many killers don’t want to use a gun for various reasons.
Usual suspect they all look alike
you call this reporting news absolute joke non funny
A doctoral candidate!??? Wowww
Until the Judge gives him a guilty verdict, this man will remain innocent. Innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around
The vast majority of you all have no respect for the US legal system. Innocent until proven guilty
Lol I was thinking if it turns out he’s innocent, cops have just ruined his life.
I bet they stopped the cleaning for the pending Jury trial.
Awesome police work! I really didn’t think that car was going to come into play. Boy, was I wrong. Thank God they “most likely” got the murderer.
Antinatalism is the ethical position that views the birth of sentient beings as morally wrong. The justifications are: harm/suffering prevention, the questionable nature of gambling with another life, & the impossibility of consent to be born.
In summary:
1. There’s no reason to create a child that’s for the child’s sake. For the potential child, birth doesn’t solve any problem that it doesn’t first create. All positives in life such as happiness, good food, and love are based on fulfilling needs, which get created by birth. Not creating those needs would not be bad since no one exists to be deprived of any of life’s pleasures.
2. Everyone experiences at least some suffering, and some people experience disproportionately more suffering than others. Creating a life is inherently unfair & inconsiderate!
3. Existence brings guaranteed harm for unneeded benefit—guaranteed harms being: pain, fear, worry, sickness, injury, grief/loss, fatigue, & (possibly gruesome) death!
4. The only way to guarantee that your kids won’t ever suffer is by never bringing them into this world in the first place!
5. No one has the moral right to inflict serious, preventable harms upon others without their consent. Existence is imposed without consent. No one chooses to be born or chooses the circumstances of their birth. Because a child cannot consent to being born, the default should be to assume that consent doesn’t exist and that no action should be taken on the child’s behalf.
6. It’s morally questionable to place someone in a position from which death is the only escape.
7. None of the nonexistent wish to be born, but plenty of the living wish they had never existed…
Tl;dr: everyone experiences at least some suffering, & some people just have better luck, making procreation inherently unfair & inconsiderate. No one asks to be born. We don’t have the moral right to inflict serious, preventable harms upon our unborn children without their consent,,,.
Did he Rhape them first day least?
NO
And Moscow LE was going to have a haz mat team clean that house today , a judge apparently ordered a stop on that , why would they want to that 🤷♀️ it doesn’t make sense to me until they had an arrest? What am I missing 🤷♀️
Because now they have a suspect the house evidence can be used against him. before an arrest is made the longer the case goes on the likelihood is they would allow it to be cleaned
@I’ll_Be_Frank but the cleaning was scheduled before they had an arrest
@Dee W yes I know and now they have an arrest it was put on hold
They probably halted the clean up in case during a trial there would be a Jury walk through of the crime scene.
They were looking for a 2010-2013… but it appears it’s a 2015.
A really bizarre situation
This reporter said he is from Pullman, Pennsylvania, he goes to school in Pullman, Washington and has an apartment there, but he is from Pennsylvania and has a family there.
Such good work. The police deserve a lot of credit along with other forces that helped. Going back to the bodycam footage where people weren’t sure if it was a scream or a car speeding away. With the timings it makes me think it was the getaway vehicle. So freaky to think it was potentially him speeding away and the police were so close that night.
Thats literally why taxpayers pay em the big bucks
@James NguyenJust yards away!
Facts so far point to him being a liberal
At least in your mind 😇
The two cars are not the same. one car has a sunroof. I hope they have the enough evidence against this person
i want to know if he’s connected to any of the 4 victims.
My biggest concern and question is will he be able to take correspondence courses for that PhD program from jail and prison?
i guess, yes and taxes pay, for it
Bankman-Fried is thanking God that he’s not the biggest news anymore.
Broken Nose Guy or Hoodie Guy. It’s gotta involve one of these suspects.
I’ve always wondered how you pronounce it
Omg, is this for real??😱
“Fake Gyllenhaal”
I hope he acted alone and there is not another psychopath out there.
🧡🙏
She butchered that report.
This reminds me of Stephen Griffiths. He also studied for a PhD in Criminology and was a cannibal serial killer from England. Weird. No Serial Killer.
He was not found in Pullman Pennsylvania, he went school in Pullman Washington, lol
There is a video of an old friend of his recently posted on TikTok. She came forward with information stating Bryan was actually a heroine addict who “cleaned up”… wonder if his behavior that night has anything to do with it…
Yes, but that’s hearsay. TikTok being considered a platform for truth is … too bad.
HE DIDN’T DO IT!!!
If that car had someone involved in the stabbings in it after the crime there is no possibility it won’t have DNA evidence.
Chris watts who earn the award 🥇 ‘worlds most hated man in 2018’ can officially hand it to this scum bag now !
I really thought the white Hyundai was in the bottom of a lake…..this dude kept driving it lol….the longer they get away with it the more cockier they get, and thank God! Because he was dumb enough to keep the car and got caught!
So glad that gas shop attendant sleuth was watching videos and noticed that car since it lead to this rascal’s arrest . Why the police or FBI weren’t looking at CTV’s near the crime scene around the time of the crime is another story. He has a smirk of his face like he’s some sort of Dexter. Evil man! I bet there will be a mass exodus from his school especially students in that criminology program after learning this monster was in their program.
America’s media (and many lame citizenry) seem to think it has some sort of entitlement to investigatory details while actual investigations are underway. While media indeed has a role to play in many instances, broadcasting what investigators are doing in real-time is not one of them! Media has been a tool for local, regional, and government officials since newspapers began. However their role is not as an “investigator”. Far too many cases have been ‘tried’ in the public before the actual court case has begun. This serves no purpose; rather it’s a hindrance. In many other countries, Europe in particular, investigations proceed in a more timely fashion since they do not give a play-by-play account in the media. And it works.
Let us hope he has not been “experimenting” for his thesis before now.
no matter how careful you think you are in a murder. There is one thing you can never ever hide and that is a time line… Amazing how a single camera picked out of the middle of the night was this white car and lo and behold it was the murderer!!! i can see this dude doing it with his schooling background and thought he could be smarter then a 5th grader!!!
She’s TERRIBLE with words
I feel ignorant really thinking this was going to be a cold case. Thank God they caught him. I hope the four students he murdered were his only victims but if not I hope they find any others that were his victims.
It should not have been hard to find. Those cars aren’t that popular. Find out who owns one and attends or works at the university. You’ve narrowed down your suspects.
Pullman Pennsylvania?
This guy thought he outsmarted LE but his mistake was driving his own vehicle to the murder scene which was captured by cameras.
Technology prevails as usual including DNA.
Cyber sleuths provided very helpful info on the journey of that Elantra. I wonder if it helped them.
They say ” get out a town if you committed a crime ” .He literally got out of town ,all the way to Pennsylvania but that wasnt enough. Give credit to the investigators that’s was involved in this case
The gas attendant did all the heavy lifting. She should get a medal 🥇
🤦
That on site reporter didn’t get her job on merit. My GAWD she’s awful.
Dana Griffin sounds white. You know I am right, so don’t call me racist.
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Stupid Action for PHD Holder
Crime justice holder becomes crime suspect 👭🩸👭🩸
Effort pa
when was he going to get a job? dude is 28 man. will we have to pay his student loans?
There are plenty of 28 year old Doctors out there. It seems as though he was just circling the drain so to speak as far as College goes.
@Cobra yeah an MD doesn’t start life until, 28-29……28 is minimum.
anyone knows how the police knew about the car in the first place? was the car parked outside of the house and someone told the police?
It’s freaky that his birthday is so close to Bundy’s (3 days’ difference).
be blood trace in that car. No way did he butcher 4 living adults and not come out showered in blood.
Ted bundy 2.0 too many similarities!! Very eerie..
Could we please not knock the reporter over…sheesh!
Thank goodness for the gas station employee for looking through video footage. She helped break the case.
We’ve all seen this movie before it’s called ” Death Wish 3 ” .
This person should have practiced her delivery a little more before getting on air. How lame
Does anyone know if that is Kohberger in the picture floating around at the Corner Club, the guy sitting talking to hoodie guy and another guy in the far bottom right of the picture? It kind of looks like him.
Resale prices white Hyundai Elantras likely to fall. CNBC likely to describe financial effects and stock prices on Tuesday. A tragedy!
Is that Sinefields car
I wonder how much of this guy’s mental illness was recognized and NOT treated for years?…..Parents, teachers, and who ever, not wanting to “label him” as “disturbed”…..just ignored the OBVIOUS and made excuses for him and told the other kids to “accept” his strange ideas!!
(sound familiar?)
I have heard 3 different birthdays for this guy. Some say 24, 25 and 28 . I wonder what his real date of birth is ?
Moral of the story: Hyundai is bad luck. Either you’ll get your catalytic converter stolen or it’ll be evidence against you for murder charges.
Hmmm… I’m very skeptical. Law enforcement were under attack due to not having a clue and then suddenly “Boom!” This guy appears from no where? I hope he is the guy because if he’s not, we have a serial killer on the loose and our children are not safe! Be on guard…
What’s little talked about, because it’s politically incorrect, is how these women consistently presented themselves immodestly and sexualized. Notice in their pics that they’re often scantily clad and posing provocatively. This is both deeply sinful and wildly foolish, as this case shows. No doubt, if these women had dressed modestly and conducted themselves in a correspondingly virtuous manner, they wouldn’t have attracted the attention of this evil loser.
Hyundai is releasing a new model called , ” The Elantra Kohberger Edition”. I don’t think it will sell very well. especially in white!
He is not from Pullman. Albrightsville, PA. Get facts straight.
Thank you for all your Garda work NBC NEWS
Sorry hard work
The killer got caught because of the public getting involved not because of the police or the FBI
Show the video of him talking about the murder, he saids every detail that not even police have released. This guy is a pos inhumane worthless monster . The way he talks about killing them, they absolutely suffered horrifically. If they didn’t catch him, this was only the beginning. And I believe he has hate towards women . The bf was just at the wrong place at the wrong time . Especially how the women who met him in the passed describe him . As creepy and disturbed .
Are you telling me this guy was a student and it took them months these flipping keystone cops to figure out he drove a white Hyundai Elantra? Wow
The local authorities took a lot of crap through social media and again the media in general is a total failure compared to previous decades.
As a UW alum from Seattle living in Guadalajara, Mexico following this story from outside the US I must thankfully eat some crow because I myself called the locals a clown show because they didn’t solve the crime in the First 48 Hours because we have become a microwave society and if you enjoy forensics type programs like me I know better.
I started my comment after hearing they halted cleaning the property for whatever reason which is understandable but…
How about the city, university, state buy the property and destroy the house and use the lot as a small park and memorial. Seems like someone much smarter than me can think of something because it’s a small town and community and that house/apartment can never be cleaned. That small plot of land should be about healings and a small intimate memorial for the victims family and friends! Thoughts and prayers for all!
I myself spent a number of weekends on or near the U of Idaho campus as a UW student visiting my kid brother playing football there in the early to mid 90s. Always enjoyed my brief trips occasionally driving from Seattle to see my kid brother play in the Kibbe (sp?) Dome. Nice community there although I have visited since 95/96 … hope all in the area can start the healing process especially the family and friends! 🙏🏻