The FBI denied requesting Indiana police to stop Bryan Kohberger as he drove to Pennsylvania with his father, despite being part of the law enforcement alliance that made the request.
“The traffic stops conducted on Bryan Kohberger’s vehicle in Indiana on December 15 were not requested or directed by the FBI,” the agency informed Fox News in a statement.
The federal government clarified its position when a law enforcement source informed a television station that an FBI surveillance team had followed the couple during their cross-country travel from Washington State to Pennsylvania.
According to the news source, members of a law enforcement consortium, including the FBI, investigating Kohberger requested Indiana police to stop the white Hyundai Elantra on that day.
The task force wanted Indiana police to capture film of the suspect’s hands, a source claimed, presumably to examine them for markings or wounds caused when he allegedly killed four University of Idaho students on November 13 with a huge knife.
Officials say police stopped Kohberger twice within minutes for following too closely on I-70 in Hancock County outside of Indianapolis.
The cops let Kohberger and his 67-year-old father, Michael Kohberger, escape with a mere warning both times.
Kohberger was arrested at his parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, on December 30 and charged with the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, in Moscow, Idaho, following an apparently random and unprovoked spree.
Police had DNA evidence and phone records linking Kohberger to the crime site, as well as surveillance footage of his car leaving the area shortly after the attack, according to an affidavit unsealed on Thursday.
30 December, Bryan Kohberger was arrested and extradited to Idaho.
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Thursday was his first court appearance in Idaho after he was extradited from Pennsylvania and placed into the Latah County Jail. He has not yet entered a plea, but he has signaled to his attorney that he will plead not guilty.
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