{"id":61933,"date":"2025-08-06T06:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/61933\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:01:12","slug":"bryan-kohberger-was-investigated-in-a-break-in-involving-a-masked-intruder-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/61933\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Kohberger was investigated in a break-in involving a masked intruder in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man who confessed to fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students nearly three years ago<\/a> was investigated in connection with an earlier break-in that involved a knife-wielding intruder wearing a ski mask, records show.<\/p>\n

The 2021 break-in was at a home in Pullman, Washington, just across the state line from Moscow, Idaho, where Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were found stabbed to death at an off-campus home on Nov. 13, 2022, according to records obtained from the Pullman Police Department.<\/p>\n

No one was injured in the break-in, and a witness told authorities that the person fled after she kicked them in the stomach, the records show.<\/p>\n

Bryan Kohberger<\/a>, who pleaded guilty to the University of Idaho murders last month and is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole, has not been accused in the break-in, and it is unclear whether there have been any arrests.<\/p>\n

The records show that authorities investigated a neighbor but did not have probable cause to take him into custody. Pullman\u2019s police chief did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Authorities in Pullman began investigating Kohberger, 30, after his arrest in the quadruple homicide in December 2022<\/a>, the records show.<\/p>\n

He moved to Pullman as a doctoral student in Washington State University\u2019s criminology program in June 2022, less than a year after the Oct. 10, 2021, break-in.<\/p>\n

Even though Kohberger did not yet live in Pullman, the records show that the police chief \u2014 then a commander \u2014 tasked a sergeant with looking into whether Kohberger could have been in the area at the time for an on-campus event for prospective graduate students.<\/p>\n

The sergeant noted in a supplemental report that in the University of Idaho case, the killer used a knife and was said to have worn a ski mask inside the off-campus home.<\/p>\n

According to an affidavit in support of a search warrant in the Pullman case, authorities arrived at the home just before 3:30 a.m. A woman told police that she awoke to a person wearing a burgundy ski mask opening her bedroom door. The person was holding a knife and approached her bed.<\/p>\n

She kicked the intruder in the stomach, according to the affidavit, and the person fell backward, then fled.<\/p>\n

The affidavit does not identify the intruder’s gender, and the woman described the person\u2019s height as between 5 feet, 3 inches and 5 feet, 5 inches. In the University of Idaho case, a surviving roommate who saw the masked intruder later identified as Kohberger said the man she saw appeared to be 5 feet, 10 inches tall, according to an affidavit in support of an arrest warrant in that case.<\/p>\n

In Pullman, the sergeant deemed the case \u201cinactive\u201d after a coordinator for the school\u2019s criminology department told him there were no recruitment events at the time of the break-in and that the school was unaware of any visits from Kohberger.<\/p>\n

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