Bryan Kohberger investigated for home invasion year before alleged murders of four University of Idaho students
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Kohberger is no longer being investigated in connection with the home invasion. Bryan Kohberger, the man suspected of killing four University of Idaho college students, was also investigated for an earlier home invasion, according to a new report. She fought him off and her roommate quickly called 911, but the suspect was never caught, according to ABC News.
“I heard my door open, and I looked over and someone was wearing a ski mask and had a knife, and so I like kicked…their stomach and scream super loud, and they like flew back into my closet and then ran out my door and up the stairs,” the woman told ABC News.
Less than two weeks after becoming a suspect in the murder of the students, Kohberger was named as a person of interest in the previous, eerily similar, home invasion, according to ABC News. “When you look at the Idaho murders, one of the things detectives and agents did almost immediately is, are there other cases in the area that might have some similarities,” Brad Garrett, an ABC News crime & terrorism analyst, told the outlet. “For example, fingerprints, DNA, hair samples, anything that you could either biologically or genetically or fingerprint wise, link this suspect to that particular burglary.”.
The victim described the home invader as 5’3” to 5’5”, while Kohberger is 6 feet tall. Kohberger is no longer a person of interest in the break-in, police told ABC News, though the suspect remains at large. Kohberger, a former Washington State University criminology student, is accused of killing University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, at their off-campus home in Moscow in November 2022.
