- Police believe the suspect charged with killing 4 University of Idaho students returned to the crime scene hours later.
- Police tracked Bryan Kohberger's cell phone movement that day and saw that it returned to the students' home at 9:21 a.m.
- 911 was not called to report the crime until later that day, at 11:58 a.m.
Moscow, Idaho police believe the murder suspect charged with killing four University of Idaho students in the middle of the night in November returned to the scene of the crime the next morning.
Police have arrested 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger as the main suspect in the case and have charged him with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary in connection to the killings of 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves and 20-year-olds Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle.
He appeared in court in Idaho Thursday after being extradited from his hometown of Albright, Pennsylvania where he was detained on December 30.
According to an affidavit explaining the charges against Kohberger released Thursday by Moscow Police, police said they were able to identify the suspect's phone number and vehicle during their investigation and later tracked their movements from November 12 to November 14. The killings took place in the early hours of November 13.
The suspect's phone arrived near the scene of the crime at 2:47 a.m. local time, at which point, the phone stopped working, the affidavit states. It was turned back on at 4:48 a.m. and cellular resources showed the phone was on the highway driving away from the scene shortly after.
At 9:00 a.m., police said the phone left the suspect's home and arrived at the crime scene at 9:21 a.m. It had left the scene by 9:32 a.m., showing that the suspect likely returned hours later.
The two surviving roommates in the home where the killings occurred did not call police until 11:58 a.m. that same day.