Newly released bodycam footage shows accused killer Bryan Kohberger quibbling with a Washington State University Police officer during a traffic stop about a month before he allegedly slaughtered four University of Idaho students.
The October 2022 traffic stop was released by WSU police on Thursday along with a number of previously sealed documents offering a new glimpse into the life of the alleged quadruple murderer.
The video, obtained by Fox News, shows a female police officer approach Kohberger’s driver side of his white Hyundai Elantra and tell him that he ran a red light.
“What actually happened?” Kohberger pushes back. “I was stuck in the middle of the intersection. So I was forced to go to the left.”
“You’re not supposed to enter the intersection at all for that reason because if the light turns red, then you’re stuck in the intersection,” she tells him.
Kohberger calmly tells her he’s not familiar with how to drive through crosswalks since he is from rural Pennsylvania.
The 28-year-old, who was a Ph.D. criminology student at WSU, asks her to explain to him exactly what he did wrong.
“Can you explain that to me a little bit further?” Kohberger, a 28-year-old with a master’s degree in criminal justice, asks the officer. “So, in Pennsylvania, when you’re stuck in an intersection, you have to make the left. What would the appropriate thing for me to have done been?”
She obliges, and explains that per Washington state law, drivers cannot enter an intersection unless there’s enough space for their vehicle on the other side of the crosswalk.
“You’re not supposed to block an intersection like that in Washington,” she tells him.
The officer eventually lets him off with just a warning.
“I do apologize if I was asking you too many questions about the law,” Kohberger says.
In addition to the traffic stop, WSU police also released footage of them knocking at the front door of his on-campus apartment building on Dec. 30 to execute a search warrant.
Kohberger, however, had just driven cross-country with his father and was staying at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania.
The FBI and state police raided the home and took him into custody the same day.
WSU police also revealed what they found at Kohberger’s apartment.
Assistant Chief of Police Dawn Daniels noted that the apartment was “sparsely furnished and fairly empty of belongings, including no shower curtain in the bathroom and the trash cans appeared empty.”
Police found hair samples, red-stained fabric amid other pieces of evidence in the Pullman residence.
Police seized a single “nitrite-type black glove,” a Walmart receipt and Dickies tag, two receipts from a Marshalls store, the dust container from a Bissell vacuum, eight “possible hair strands,” a Fire TV stick, a single “possible animal hair strand,” four other “possible” hairs and a computer tower, according to the document.
They additionally recovered two “cuttings from uncased pillow of reddish/brown stain,” and mattress covers with multiple stains, Fox News reported.
Kohberger’s desk in the university’s criminology department was found to be completely empty.
The school also released an official letter telling Kohberger that he is no longer welcome on campus.
He signed the letter from behind bars.
Kohberger is accused of slaying of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kernodle’s boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20 on Nov. 13 in their Moscow, Idaho home — about a 10 minute drive from his Pullman apartment.
Moscow police allege that Kohberger crept in their house shortly after 4 a.m. and stabbed them to death with a large knife. Two other roommates were home at the time, one of whom claimed she saw the killer.
