Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger was unknown to victims, lawyer says - Fox News

MOSCOW, Idaho – University of Idaho murder fishy Bryan Kohberger was chartless to the victims, according to a lawyer for 1 of their families.

The 28-year-old criminology PhD student is accused of entering the location of a radical of sleeping University of Idaho undergrads and stabbing 4 of them to decease connected Nov. 13, according to constabulary successful Moscow, Idaho.

The ambush claimed the lives of Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, 21-year-old champion friends, their housemate Xana Kernodle, 20, and her fellow Ethan Chapin, besides 20, who was spending the nighttime over.

Shanon Gray, the lawyer for Goncalves' parents, said "no one" knew astir Kohberger earlier the slayings.

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Bryan Kohberger arrives astatine the Monroe County Courthouse successful Pennsylvania for his extradition hearing. (The Image Direct for Fox News Digital)

"Any accusation immoderate of the families stitchery regarding connections to immoderate of the victims volition beryllium turned implicit to the Moscow Police Department," helium told Fox News Digital.

Police documents allege that Kohberger, a pupil astatine the neighboring Washington State University just 7 miles away, cased retired the victims' location astatine slightest 12 times anterior to the murders. Then, conscionable hours aft the attack, constabulary accidental they tracked Kohberger's telephone backmost to the transgression scene.

Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, on with the women's 2 different roommates successful Kaylee Goncalves' last Instagram post, shared the time earlier the slayings. (@kayleegoncalves/Instagram)

Moscow Police Cpl. Brett Payne wrote successful a probable origin affidavit filed connected Dec. 29 that helium obtained a hunt warrant for Kohberger's telephone records to spot if helium had "stalked immoderate of the victims," contacted their associates, oregon spied connected the King Road house.

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Law enforcement vehicles connected the country of the Idaho quadruple murder. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

"The records for the 8458 Phone (Kohberger's phone) amusement the 8458 Phone utilizing cellular resources that supply sum to the country of 1122 King Road connected astatine slightest 12 occasions anterior to November 13, 2022," helium wrote. "All of these occasions, but for one, occurred successful the precocious evening and aboriginal greeting hours of their respective days."

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The Goncalves family, led by lawyer Shanon Gray, leaves Latah County Courthouse connected January 5, 2023, aft Bryan Kohberger's archetypal quality earlier an Idaho judge. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

Kohberger faces 4 charges of first-degree execution and different felony burglary complaint for allegedly entering the location with the intent to kill.

Some experts person speculated that the burglary complaint could beryllium an denotation that Kohberger didn't cognize the victims – nevertheless they enactment burglary charges tin inactive beryllium filed if the intruder is not a stranger.

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"The burglary complaint allows the prosecution to present grounds of the unlawful introduction into the house," Neama Rahmani, a Los Angeles-based attorney and erstwhile national prosecutor, told Fox News Digital. "There is nary wide grounds of motive, oregon astatine slightest not yet, truthful the authorities wants to amusement that Kohberger wasn’t determination legitimately and determination is nary crushed for his DNA to beryllium there."

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Gray did not instantly respond to further questions from Fox News Digital, but successful an earlier interview with Business Insider, helium said the victims gave nary denotation they were being watched.

Fox News' Lawrence Richard contributed to this report.