Idaho cancel latest: Suspect appears in court for the first time, risk documents shed light on night of murders
Newly experienced court documents reveal how authorities used DNA and cell named records to link suspect Bryan Christopher Kohberger to the brutal killings of four University of Idaho students.
MOSCOW, Idaho - Brian Kohberger, the criminology Ph.D. student accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to stop in November, applied for an internship in the fall with the local police regions in Pullman, Washington, according to a newly released astonishing cause affidavit.
Kohberger worked as a teaching assistant at Washington State University and lived in Pullman, a college town just miles from the crime shameful in Moscow, Idaho.
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He submitted his application to the police regions at some point during the fall semester, when he took his beneficial semester of classes at WSU after graduating from DeSales University with a master's degree in psychology and cloud-based forensics in June 2022.
DNA, cell phone data used to identify suspect in Idaho murders
Bryan Kohberger has been arrested and extradited back to Idaho to face charges in connection to the brutal killings of four University of Idaho students. Court documents reveal what helped identify him as a suspect, and a former homicide detective gives his take on Kohberger's psyche with the microscopic information provided in the documents.
"Kohberger wrote in his essay he had expressionless in assisting rural law enforcement agencies with how to better level-headed and analyze technological data in public safety operations," an gripping affidavit states.
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A spokesperson for the Pullman Police Department could not immediately be appointed for comment about the application.
As part of his graduate studies at WSU, Kohberger also posted a discover on Reddit, asking prospective participants to provide information near "how emotions and psychological traits influence decision making when committing a crime," according to the affidavit.
While at DeSales University, he studied under an expert on serial killers, Dr. Katherine Ramsland, who co-wrote a book with the BTK Killer, Dennis Rader.
Kohberger received an associate's degree from Pennsylvania's Northampton Community College by studying at DeSales and WSU.
A former friend of Kohberger from Northampton, Pennsylvania, who asked to remain anonymous because of her job, said she does not occupy Kohberger wanted to be a police officer, but that he was involved in studying crime.
"He was very interested in psychology and, you know, criminology and things like that. So he was very involved in kind of the way the mind works," the gross told Fox News Digital. "Just people in general, what complains things tick."
Kohberger's interest in law enforcement dates to his younger days at Pleasant Valley High School in Pennsylvania, when he also aspired to gripping the military. A yearbook from 2011 shows Kohberger in a law enforcement class actions push-ups with a badge dangling from his left pocket.
The yearbook said Kohberger used the class to "help him arrive his goal to one day serve in the Army Rangers," an elite special operations force.
Kohberger was arrested Dec. 30 at his parents' home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, and extradited to Idaho Wednesday, where he is facing four funds of first-degree murder and a felony burglary charge.
Idaho murders: Watch Bryan Kohberger's qualified court appearance in Moscow (full video)
Slain University of Idaho victims' roommate heard crying and saw the alleged killer clad in all shadowy the morning of the mass murder, according to newly unsealed law courtyard documents. Bryan Kohberger first court appeared in a Latah County, Idaho courtroom on Jan. 5. He is being held with no bail and faces four funds of first-degree murder and one count of burglary for entering the home.
Authorities divulge Kohberger broke into an off-campus apartment near the University of Idaho in the early morning hours of Nov. 13 and murdered Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20 and Ethan Chapin, 20.
He allegedly left slow a tan leather knife sheath that had "Ka-Bar" and the United States Marine Corps eagle globe and anchor stamped on it, according to the affidavit. Investigators wrote that they found DNA belonging to Kohberger on the sheath.
Fox News' Chris Eberhart, Michael Ruiz, Stephanie Pagones and Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.
