{"id":3663,"date":"2023-01-07T03:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T09:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2023-03-20T03:19:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T08:19:39","slug":"the-white-sedan-how-police-found-suspect-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3663","title":{"rendered":"The white sedan: How police found suspect in Idaho slayings<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) \u2014 The white sedan cruised past the gray, three-story rental home on a dead-end street in Moscow, Idaho. Then again. And again.
\nIt was unusual behavior in the residential, hillside neighborhood in the quiet hours before dawn. And according to a police affidavit released Thursday, surveillance videos showing the vehicle that November night were key to\u00a0unraveling the gruesome mystery\u00a0of who killed four University of Idaho students inside the house.
\nWith little else to go on as a panicked community demanded answers, investigators canvassed security footage from the neighborhood \u2014 including one recording of the car speeding away after the slayings \u2014 to get a sense of the killer\u2019s possible movements, the affidavit said.
\nEventually, the document said, police were able to narrow down what was at first known only vaguely as a white sedan to a 2015 Hyundai Elantra registered to Bryan Kohberger,\u00a0a 28-year-old doctoral student in criminology\u00a0at Washington State University, just across the border in Pullman, Washington. Further investigation matched Kohberger to DNA at the crime scene, it said.
\nKohberger\u00a0made an initial appearance in an Idaho courtroom\u00a0Thursday following his extradition from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested last week. His attorney didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment, though a public defender who represented him in Pennsylvania, Jason LaBar,\u00a0has said he is eager to be exonerated\u00a0and should not be tried \u201cin the court of public opinion.\u201d
\n\u201cTracking movements in public is an important technique when you haven\u2019t identified any suspects,\u201d said Mary D. Fan, a criminal law professor at the University of Washington. \u201cYou can see movements in public even if you don\u2019t have probable cause to get a warrant. We live in a time of ubiquitous cameras. This is a remarkable account of what piecing together that audiovisual data can do.\u201d
\nThe car\u2019s first pass by the home was recorded at 3:29 a.m. on Nov. 13 \u2014 less than an hour before Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were stabbed to death in their rooms, Moscow Police Cpl. Brett Payne wrote in the affidavit.
\nThe vehicle drove by twice more and was recorded a fourth time at 4:04 a.m., Payne wrote. It wasn\u2019t seen on the footage again until it sped away 16 minutes later.
\n\u201cThis is a residential neighborhood with a very limited number of vehicles that travel in the area during the early morning hours,\u201d Payne wrote. \u201cUpon review of the video there are only a few cars that enter and exit this area during this time frame.\u201d
\nA forensic examiner with the FBI determined the car to likely be a 2011-13 Hyundai Elantra, though subsequently said it could be a model as late as 2016, according to the affidavit.
\nSurveillance footage from the Washington State University campus offered further tantalizing information: A similar vehicle headed out of town just before 3 a.m. on the day of the killings and reappeared on cameras in Pullman just before 5:30 a.m., the affidavit said.
\nOn Nov. 25, the Moscow Police Department asked regional law enforcement to look for a white Elantra. Three nights later, a WSU police officer ran a query for any white Elantras on campus.<\/p>\n

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