Haunting video alleges Idaho murder suspect returned to the scene

Recently reviewed video in the haunting University of Idaho murder case may support investigators’ theory that the murder suspect returned to the scene of the killing in his white sedan in the hours after the massacre. Bryan Kohberger, 28, the murder suspect, allegedly returned to the crime scene at least once following the heinous act, according to a police affidavit.

Now, new footage of a white car (pictured) driving through the area near the home the day after may correspond with that theory. A Fox News Digital camera recorded a brief sighting of a car heading up a road next to the Moscow house. The vehicle can be seen at the top of the video frame as two law enforcement officers converse near the side of a field at around 2pm on November 14.

Kohberger’s phone pinged in the area of the students’ Moscow house around 9am on November 13 – just five hours after he allegedly broke into the off-campus home and stabbed four students to death. But by the end of that day, his phone went cold. The suspect infamously drove a white Hyundai Elantra and is believed to have driven by the students’ home at least four times on the morning of the killings, between about 3:30am and 4am. According to the police’s probable cause affidavit, at around 4:20am, the same car was captured on video speeding away from the area. The cops said there are generally ‘a very limited number of vehicles’ that enter and exit this residential neighborhood in the early hours of the morning. But the white sedan was one of them that was spotted moving past the house ‘at high speed’ four times.

The pattern of the car’s movement corresponded to the estimated time of the murders, which were eventually connected to Kohberger, a PhD student studying criminology at the nearby Washington State University Pullman. Footage from Washington University also showed a white Elantra leaving the campus in the direction of the students’ house just prior to 3am on the night of the murders. The car then returned to campus just before 5.30am on the same morning. The data also revealed that Kohberger had been in the area of the students’ house at least a dozen times before the murders, generally at odd hours of the day and night.

The police affidavit read: ‘All of these occasions, except for one, occurred in the late evening and early morning hours of their respective days.’ It was also the white Elantra which first brought Kohberger’s name into the police’s orbit – after they found he was the owner when looking through footage from his apartment building’s parking lot. Moscow Police officers visited the parking lot to obtain a license plate for the vehicle – as it matched the description of the car they saw on footage the night the students were killed.

Using forensic DNA testing, cell phone data, CCTV footage and evidence from the scene of the murders, police were ultimately able to hunt down Kohberger and charge him with the quadruple killing. Late last month, Kohberger was pulled over in Pennsylvania for a traffic violation in a white Hyundai Elantra registered in his name during a cross-country drive with his father. He was arrested on December 30, during a raid on his family’s Pennsylvania home, where the white Hyundai Elantra was also found.

He has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary for the vicious murders of Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21. Two other housemates were inside the rental home at the time of the murders, but were not attacked. One of them, detectives revealed last week, saw a masked man exit the house. Last week, Judge Megan Marshall issued a gag order on the case, preventing investigators and attorneys on both sides from making public statements about the many facets of the pending case.

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