Investigators were able to identify the suspect in the killings of four University of Idaho students through a combination of DNA evidence, cell phone records, surveillance footage and a witness who said she saw him leaving the scene of the crime.
, a 28-year-old Ph.D. student and teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, as the lone suspect in the Nov. 13 stabbing deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, using a combination of cell data, surveillance video and genetic evidence left at the scene.
She described the intruder as 5-foot-10 or taller, and "not very muscular, but athletically built with bushy eyebrows." Law enforcement later determined that Kohberger matched the description the surviving witness provided. The sheath was stamped with a U.S. Marine Corps insignia and was processed by the Idaho State Lab, which “located a single source of male DNA” left on its button snap.
Police also used data from Kohberger’s cellphone data and license plate readers to track his movements before and after the killings.
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