🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.
A mugshot of the man suspected of killing four university students in Idaho has been released as he arrives in the state.
Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of the November murders in Moscow, Idaho, was detained by authorities last week.
He is facing charges for the murders of Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Madison Mogen.
The 28-year-old criminology student and teaching assistant at Washington State University waived his extradition rights and was then taken from Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday morning to Latah County Jail, Idaho. A statement from his attorney in the extradition case has said he is "eager to be exonerated" and was "looking forward to resolving these matters as promptly as possible."
He is alleged to have killed the four housemates who were discovered dead in their beds on November 13, 2022.
The public glimpsed Kohberger for the first time since he was arrested at his extradition hearing in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
Dressed in a red jumpsuit, Kohberger communicated to his family the words, "I love you," during the hearing at a Monroe County Courthouse, according to ABC News.
It is expected that the reasons for his arrest, thought to be detailed in the probable-cause affidavit, will be released during the court process in Idaho.
Kohberger was booked at Latah County Jail for four counts of murder and one count of burglary, according to jail records.
Monroe County chief public defender, Jason LaBar, who represented Kohberger during the extradition case, told CBS News ahead of his arrival in Idaho that Kohberger "understands the proceedings" and had remained "calm" throughout the process.
Law enforcement began looking at Kohberger as a suspect in the killings after appealing for information on a white Hyundai Elantra, thought to have been manufactured between 2011 and 2013, according to CNN.
Police said the vehicle had been in the "immediate area" of the killings on King Road at the time.
Moscow police chief James Fry told a press conference on Friday that authorities were "still looking for all pieces of evidence," including the murder weapon, but that they had located a white Hyundai Elantra.
Kohberger made the 2,500-mile journey from Moscow to Pennsylvania by car, along with his father in December, around a month after the murders were committed.
New bodycam footage has shown the father and son being stopped by law enforcement during the journey in a white Hyundai Elantra.
Kohberger, who is behind the wheel, and his father can be seen speaking with an Indiana State Police Trooper who stopped the car for traveling too close to the vehicle ahead. The car had been pulled over by another law enforcement officer from the Hancock County Sheriff's Office under ten minutes earlier.
Indiana State Police said that at "the time of this stop, there was no information available on a suspect for the crime in Idaho, to include identifying information or any specific information related to the license plate state or the number of the white Hyundai Elantra which was being reported in the media to have been seen in or around where the crime occurred."
About the writer
Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine ... Read more