that is what led them to kohberger.ally concerns me here, we are all happy he has been arrested. but we cannot do the celebration he has not been convicted. let's walk to the process for the first stage of a murder prosecution is an arrest. it takes less evidence to get an arrest warrant than it does to sustain what's called a preliminary hearing is going to have to happen in a couple weeks in idaho in an actual trial. why's that important? these forensic experts are going to have to work around the cl clock. you've got for potential crime scenes you've got the scene of the crime, his apartment, you've got the parent tone, and you've got the car. they have got to be scouring all four of those especially the car now. for example any bloodstains in the car, any hair fibers on the seat of the carpet in the fingerprints on the steering wheel that might have dna. here's another big game changer. this could be the breaking piece of evidence in this case, they are need to get a dna swab of kohberger. either he doesn't voluntar

bryan kohberger. this is his booking photo. he is a graduate student from washington state university, less than 10 miles from where the four victims attended school. he was arrested in pennsylvania on four counts of murder in the first degree. plus, a separate charge of felony burglary. as we said, sources tell cnn, his dna was maxed to dna recovered at the scene of the deaths. tonight, law enforcement is asking for the public's help with uncertainty still surrounding the case, including motive and location of the murder weapon. authorities today are specifically asking media outlets to publicize this information. >> this is not the end of this investigation. in fact, this is a new beginning. you all now know the name of the person who has been charged with these offenses. please get that information out there. please ask the public, anyone who knows about this individual, to come forward. call the tip line. report anything you know about him to help the investigators and eventually our office, and t

the suspect is 28-year-old bryan kohberger.studied criminalology at a university near the murders. he was apprehended this morning and already made a court appearance. this is new video outside his apartment. it's located minutes from the scene of the crime. a lot of new information pouring in. we'll bring it to you live throughout the hour action we await that police news conference. first to to william la jeunesse. william? >> this is one of the biggest mysteries of the year. it paralyzed the university of idaho campus. half of the students department return after thanksgiving because this crime was not solved. that rest of 28-year-old bryan kohberger will not be closure but is a relief. pennsylvania state police and the fbi made the arrest around 3:00 a.m. this morning. 1 1/2 hours from philadelphia in the mountains of eastern pennsylvania. 2,500 miles from the moscow campus in idaho. kohberger is not a student at the university of idaho, but he sen rolled as a ph.d. student in criminalology at washington state about 15 mile

kohberger as a potential suspect? and a follow up, how many tips, if you can say, were related to mr. kohberger? >> to the tip part, i can't honestly answer that question. i won't speculate. the other part, that's part of our investigation and it will come out. i'd like the mic to come over here. >> thank you. dana griffin with nbc news. can you confirmed that kohberger asked whether or not any one else had been arrested when he was in custody? >> i cannot confirm that. i'm not sure of that information. that would be a part of our investigation. >> did cotus return any hits on this guy? >> that's part of our investigation. >> one final question. is there any message to the online slooths that slandered people? >> there's a lot of speculation going on. we said from the beginning, we're the official message that comes out and to pay attention to what we're putting out there to the press. >> i'm nancy lu with news nation. we were over at the house this morning. you told us the remediation would begin today. it was sudden

today i learned investigators had only locked in on bryan christopher kohberger a few days ago but a police source said genetic genealogy played a key role in pointing them to bryan christopher kohberger. that means they must have had dna from the killer left at this crime scene to match it to the dna of a family member. learning more about this and other evidence they had against bryan christopher kohberger when he was extradited to idaho to face counts of first-degree murder. haven't been able to learn much about bryan christopher kohberger from people at this apartment complex because it is fairly vacant as people are still on break. they don't start for another week or so in washington state. this is university housing for most grad students. we understand there are a lot of families here. molly: a lot of curiosity about his connection to the victims. rich: prosecutors charge 28-year-old bryan christopher kohberger with four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the brutal stabbings of four idaho students. he was a grad student at the university a few miles from the ho

we don't know if bryan christopher kohberger had been to the house prior to the murders.olice ask anyone with information to come forward to further build a prosecution and we've and we been trying to find people may have known bryan christopher kohberger but it has been tough because a lot of people are gone for the holidays. this is student housing for grad students and some families, fox news did talk to a woman who lives below bryan christopher kohberger, she was going to complain to him about the noise. molly: thank you for the reporting. people will be interested in learning more. thank you very much. rich: tributes pouring in for barbara walters who died yesterday at 93. a broadcast career spanning 5 decades, or many interviews with world leaders and pop stars made walters a celebrity herself, she inspired countless women to follow in her journalistic footsteps. eric shawn has look at their markable life and legacy of barbara walters. >> reporter: she was a pioneer in television journalism. she was born in boston and exposed entertainment her whole life. she was th

i read through these questions that kohberger had an's researc project. what you make of that in light of his arrest today. >> as soon as i heard those questions are read them earlier it reminded me of the protocol of like 400 questions that we had back in the day as only new profilers would go through trading in virginia within a year or so, we would go out to the prisons and interview seria offenders and violent offenders. their convicted not going anywhere and we put asked them about 400 questions about how they committed crimes then why they committed crimes and why they didn't choose other victims . the questions i've seen so far in our subjects, the questions that he had prepared for his masters thesis are very similar to those spirits of this guy obviously is intelligent and he's obviously done his researc and he wanted to get inside the mind of these people but at the same time he was getting all th answers from them himself so he had to do it himself and commit this type of a crime to truly answer those questions. >> it begs the question, was he

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the suspect is 28-year-old bryan kohberger.studied criminalology at a university near the murders. he was apprehended this morning and already made a court appearance

bryan kohberger was from pennsylvania, near the poconos. they spoke with some of his classmates at high school, say he was a shy genius, and girls mocked him, bullied him and threw things at him. and a classmate at college say that he was awkward and his intelligence stood out among his peers even in high level classes. a neighbor at the apartment building said he was quiet and did not appear to live a life style out of the ordinary. there's a reddit post from earlier this year surfaced that appears to show kohberger was looking to speak with people who committed crimes as part of his research for school. and the unconfirmed post he wrote in part, quote, i am inviting you to participate in a research project that seeks to understand how emotions and psychological traits influence decision making when committing a crime. since the story of these unspeakable murders first broke last month speculators online have been making comparisons of this to ted bundy. now some say that his mug shot physically resembles ted bundy and comparisons how bund

but kohberger's family is said to be very shocked over these charges.has your experience taught you -- tell us a little bit more about the personality of someone who might commit this kind of crime, being able to hide their tendencies from others. because like i said and you pointed out, you can't look at someone who would do something like this expect them to have the same emotion that perhaps you would, a normal person would. >> right. and what i would say -- what i would say about the parents is they're not trained psychologists. they're not trained law enforcement people. but i would say that there are a lot of people who go -- who have -- who deal with mental illness who are fascinated by the reasons for it and for the ways they can help themselves. and many of them actually study psychology for the same reason. this person may have studied criminal justice to understand better why he felt the way he felt. and so, the parents -- the parents may not have understood what they were seeing was actual what we call leakage, the inability to hide certain

we know that kohberger is a criminology student. he is getting his phd or was getting his phd at the department of criminal justice and criminology and pullman appeared we don't know if he has any sort of connection to the v. the police are keeping that stuff under wraps right now, but we do know that they have the car they were looking for, james. >> so we are still looking for all pieces of evidence, but we are still looking for the weapon. and i will say that we have found a lot. >> the pennsylvania state patrol s.w.a.t. team from the state patrol present at the arrest today as well as local police. we know that the suspect is in custody. he was in court making an initial appearance in court in monroe county. the judge there said he would not be issuing any sort of a chance for bail. he did order extradition order but kohberger to come fight that and if he does, you will have a hearing tuesday 3:00 in monroe county. he can waive that and be brought back sooner than that, but again, they will not be talking about the details what

investigators tracking kohberger 2,500 miles away to the pocono mountains in pennsylvania. our matt rivers is there. >> so, it's in this gated community behind me that an s.w.a.t. team, including fbi and p.a.p state police, swooped into the suspect's parents' home around 2:00 a.m., taking him into custody. >> reporter: sources saying the home has been under surveillance for days. our philadelphia station wpvi talking to a neighbor who saw the arrest but didn't want to be identified. >> they had it in handcuffs and we did saw when they took him out and put him in the car. that was very very scary. >> reporter: sources say police linked kohberger to the crime in part through dna technology and tracked though his car. >> i will say that we have found an elantra. >> reporter: investigators have been searching for a white elantra that was spotted in near the crime scene that night. kohberger graduated with a masters in criminal justice from desales university in allentown, pennsylvania. back in may, someone using the same name posted on reddit looking to recruit volunteers for a

kohberger is a phd student at washington state university.studied criminology and has done research on the thoughts and feelings of felons as they commit crimes. is pullman, washington, apartment was searched today. it's 8 miles from the rental home where the murders occurred. police say they can't divulge any of the evidence against kohberger until he is back in idaho. but the moscow police chief said today at a news conference he is the guy and suggested there is no one else involved. >> what i can tell you is we have a individual in custody who committed these horrible crimes and i do believe our community is safe but we still need to be vigilant, right? >> the four victims, kaylee goncalves, maddie mogen, xana kernodle, ethan chapman were knifed as they slept. police never found the murder weapon and seemed to be stumped but now the new so many were waiting for, and expedition hearing is set for tuesday in eastern pennsylvania. the judge today in the initial appearance tonight any chance of bail for kohberger and also okayed the extraditi

according to law enforcement sources the suspect is 28-year-old bryan kohberger. he was taken into custody in scranton, pennsylvania, by local police as well as the fbi. 2500 miles from the murder scene. he appeared before a judge this morning, we are learning it was a phd student at washington state university. >> investigators have been tight-lipped since the murders took place in mid-november only revealing they were searching for a white hyundai a elantra. a criminal defense attorney is standing by. fox team coverage. david spunt has breaking details on the fbi's role in locating the suspect. now we go to william la jeunesse our west coast newsroom. >> after more than a month and a half, 19,000 tips, thousands of police on the case, law-enforcement has made the arrest in connection with the death of four university of idaho students. according to bay board filed by the pennsylvania state police 28-year-old bryan kohberger is being held for extradition and without fail. he was picked up earlier this morning in eastern pennsylvania near the pocono mountains. he

kohberger. police -- washington state university police searching that apartment at the request of the moscow police because moscow police do not have jurisdiction on the washington side. so washington state university police assisting now in that investigation and searching his apartment. we also understand now in a post that has been removed from reddit, that kohberger's arrest right after kohberger's arrest was made public, that a -- he was a student investigator associated with desal university and he was seeking participation in a research project to understand how emotions and psychological traits influence decision-making when committing a crime. that same post said, in particular, the study seeks to understand the story behind your most recent criminal offense with an emphasis on your thoughts and feelings throughout your experience. so a lot of disturbing details, of course, coming through right now. video of that apartment complex being searched on your screen, and this comes ahead of

dna evidence played a key role in linking the murders to kohberger two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told nbc news his white hyundai elantra, the biggest public clue in the case so far, was also removed from the suspect's home, police said the arrest comes the same day crews started cleaning out the six bedroom rental home where kaylee goncalves, madison mogen, ethan chapin, and xana kernodle were found murdered november 13th. autopsies showed all four were likely asleep when they were attacked some had defensive wounds, and each was stabbed multiple times. two other roommates were home at the time of the slayings, but police say they were not involved this case has drawn national attention from internet sleuths, who speculated about potential suspects and motives, leading police to over 19,000 tips while dispelling unfounded claims on social media police vowing this case would not go cold >> these murders have shaken our community, and no arrest will ever bring back these young students however, we do believe justice will be found through the criminal process.

bryan christopher kohberger, he is the suspect. veronica miracle, thank you very much. >>> let's head to pennsylvania right now. cnn's genjean casares is with u. give us more details. >> it happened at 1:30 this morning and we're at the correctional facility where he is being housed. it is the jail for the area. ironically he was arrested in albrightsville which is about eight miles from here. this is a rural area. it is farmland. the biggest city is stroudsburg. from our understanding, according to a cnn source, the fbi out of philadelphia had been surveilling him here in pennsylvania and officials did say today that is his home and they were surveilling him. at the very same time, authorities in idaho, the police department, the idaho state police, the fbi were putting together the probable cause for that arrest warrant for a judge to sign off on it. and our cnn reporting is that a source is telling us what they found was that his dna was at the scene, but in addition to that, that white car that has become front and center in al

and what happens next for bryan kohberger?er: well, i talked to the chief this morning and he says that this investigation now moves into a new phase. but they want to collect as much information about the suspect bryan kohberger as possible. yesterday at that press conference they said that the tip line remains open. and throughout the investigation those tips have really helped them to shape this case. they received about 20,000 tips via phone, email and the digital submissions and that helped them to create strong leads. and the tip line remains open because they want to know from as far back as bryan kohberger's chil childhood, they want to paint a picture of who this person was and the results already have been incredible. here is what the chief had to say. >> maybe somebody those something or sees something and they call us just like every other piece, that is it why we're still asking for tips and stuff. and i know right after our press conference i was told that we received 400 calls in the first hour. >> reporter: 400

however, we do believe justice will be found through the criminal process. >> reporter: kohberger is listed as a ph.d. student in the department of criminal justice and criminology at washington state university, a short drive across the state line from the university of idaho. today, investigators revealed they have not found the murder weapon and why they were tight-lipped on information. >> providing any details in this criminal investigation might have tainted the upcoming criminal prosecution or alerted the suspect of our progress. >> reporter: one of the missing pieces to the puzzle, his motive. >> all right. dana griffin joins us now live tonight from moscow, idaho, dana, because of idaho state law, we know investigators are limited on what they can share with the public until the suspect is extradited. when could that be? >> reporter: so, tom, he's expected to be back in court next tuesday. if he fights extradition, investigators tell me it could take several weeks if not months to get him back in idaho. tom. >> okay. dana griffin leading us off on that breaking news. >>> we

so how did they zero in on brian kohberger? here with us is mark fuhrman, a fact news contributor and retired d.c. detective. you've seen the big news of the day. give us your top line analysis of what's going on? jason, i've got to tell you, i'm excited that they have been able to locate the suspect in this case. i believe with forensics as well as the public tips, as well as latching on to that automobile, and possibly dna found at that seen that led to the arrest of this gentleman kohberger. i have to believe that law enforcement, while they haven't given the public much, they have a great deal of evidence that they are working with and from, and i think that vehicle, that white vehicle that was confiscated in scranton, ohio, i stand directed, pennsylvania, that white vehicle has a wealth of evidence and i'm sure they are processing that white vehicle, as well as the other places that this guy stayed. wherever he stayed was a crime scene. >> yes, mark, it was december 7 that police put out a picture of the vehicle that was s

so much that we've learned about bryan kohberger and a source telling pamela brown just recently thatryan kohberger drove his white hyundai elanta across the country to pennsylvania for christmastime and that source telling cnn during that time police were tracking his cross country drive and they were also surveilling his parents' house and it was dna evidence and that car that led them to zero in on bryan kohberger. as you mentioned, a graduate state at washington state university 20 minutes from here. we were there at his apartment earlier today where the washington state university police department was searching and what is coming next is this tuesday, kohberger has an extradition hearing. the prosecutor saying if kohberger fights the tradition, this could drag out for along time and we might not know a lot of details until he's back in the staid of idaho because until he returns here according to state law that probable cause affidavit that has so much information cannot be unsealed. if he decides to on his own free will come back to idaho and he is extradited, that will be unse

them zero in on kohberger, dna left at the crime scene by the suspect. families of the victims obviously relieved. >> to me and my family, it feels like the first joy there is and you can't smile when you have this over your head and it feels like a little bit of weight has been relieved and things are on the right track. >> ethan chapin was the only male victim and his family put out a statement which said in part, we are relieved this chapter is over because it provides a form of closure, however, it doesn't alter the outcome or alleviate the pain. we miss ethan and our family is forever changed. yesterday, police searched kohberger's apartment 10 miles from the murder scene and campus police assisted. and they said, that he had completed his first semester as ph.d. student in wsu's criminal justice program earlier this month and that means if kohberger is the killer, he didn't go into hiding right away, he did not go back to pennsylvania. he would have gone back to his classes just a few miles away to finish before heading back through the holidays wi

kohberger was arrested in pennsylvania friday on four counts of first-degree murder. >> in addition toony burglary which involves entering the residence with the intent to commit the crime of murder. >> reporter: any indication the suspect knew the victims? >> that's part of the investigation, as well. that won't be something that will come out at this point in time. >> reporter: police also won't release a motive, but law enforcement sources tell cnn police were led to him after tracing the ownership of a white hyundai elantra seen in the area the night of the killings. they learned kohberger left the moscow area and tracked to monroe county, pennsylvania, south of scranton. sources say the fbi surveilled him for four days until the arrest was made at 1:30 a.m. on friday. his white hyundai was recovered those sources tell cnn and his dna was found at the crime scene. >> providing any details in the criminal investigation might have tainted the upcoming criminal prosecution or alerted the suspect of our progress. >> reporter: kohberger is currently a grad student majoring in criminolog

as we know this guy brian kohberger was about 2,000 miles away in pennsylvania when arrested. this was good law enforcement work, when you listen to the press conference there this afternoon, you know that there is a lot more that they got to do in this investigation. they're clearly trying to determine if there were others involved in the murders of these four victims. some of the questions, by the way, they did not answer this afternoon was who was the target. you remember, bret, early on they told us there was a target there. and so i am trying to figure out who was the target. was it the two on the second floor or the two on the third floor? these are some of the questions need to be answered. >> yes, mark was on our channel earlier today talking about the case that the police have put together and what they have had up to this point, take a listen. >> they had a first-degree murder warrant out of idaho for the suspect, so that does not happen over night. they put a case together that absolutely means that they put him in the home at the time of the murders. it is not that

kohberger is a graduate student in criminology at washington state university. gene caceres is in pennsylvania where this arrest was made. we were talking about this yesterday on air. what was the big case, the big break that you saw or that you picked up in this case? >> reporter: well, what we are hearing is it was the dna. a source familiar with the investigation confirmed with me last night that, in fact, it was genetic genealogy, that science that was used to lead them to this suspect. and genetic genealogy is relatively new, but it has solved major crimes in this -- in the last few years. of course, kohberger is innocent until proven guilty, but how genetic genealogy works is when they are canvassing a crime scene and find unknown dna and they think it's significant, they will put that unknown dna through the codis database to see if there is a hit, a match. if isn't, it remains unknown dna. that's when they take it to the public dna databases, the ones that do allow law enforcement to go there. they run it. if there are any familial hits, and it can be di

they learned kohberger left the moscow area and tracked to monroe pennsylvania south of scranton. fbi surveilled him for four days until the arrest was made at 1:30 a.m. on friday. his white hyundai was recovered those sources tell cnn and his dna was found at the crime scene. >> providing any details in the criminal investigation might have tainted the upcoming criminal prosecution or alerted the suspect of our progress. >> reporter: kohberger is a grad student majoring in criminology at washington state universitiless than ten miles west of the crime scene in most d -- moscow, idaho. police sent the day searching his campus apartment in washington. >> bryan kohberger. >> reporter: he graduated earlier in 2022 in pennsylvania. a reddit post made while a student there indicates he worked on how emotions and psychological traits influence decision making when committing a crime with an emphasis on your thoughts and feelings throughout your experience. back in moscow, the announcement is bringing the first signs of relief after weeks of fear. >> it's just been very scary not knowing

today i learned investigators had only locked-in on kohberger a few days ago.e source also says genetic genealogy played a key role in pointing them to kohberger. that means they must of had dna from the to match it to a family member. we will of course know more about that and the other evidence they have against kohberger when he has extradited back to idaho to face four counts of first-degree murder. we have not found anyone yet in this apartment complex who knows him. he was described by classmates as a loner. frankly a lot of people are still on christmas break that this complex prudent also this is catering mainly to graduate students and families, emily. >> dan thank you so much with excellent reporting as always. we'll come to you for any breaking developed of course. ♪ >> a joke on me and i were talking about and got outnumbered. i went to the university of washington which is in seattle. across the state is just across the border from university of idaho is generous at lying there for its 8 miles away but for us we would drive over spend weekends goin

. >> reporter: ...kohberger was arrested at his parents' pennsylvania home.8-year-old is a ph.d. criminology student at sh stave just a0-. kohbgend wl spend the weekend in pennsylvania. his extradition back to idaho is expected next week. the arrest caps nearly seven weeks of fear and frustration for families of the four murdered students. >> this is the first bit of joy that we've had in close to seven weeks. we hope that there is-- they've picked the right guy and that gives us hope. and we haven't had hope for a long time. >> reporter: kaylee goncalves, madison mogen, xana kernodel, and ethan chapin, all stabbed multiple times as they slept inside this house near the campus. despite surveillance video showing the victims in the hours before they were murdered and despite thousands of tips pouring into the moscow police department, there appeared, at least publicly, to be little movement on the case-- no suspects, no arrests. as the grief mounted and many students left campus. >> no arrest will ever bring back these young students. however, we do believe ju

police spent the day searching kohberger's campus apartment in washington. he graduated in 2022 from desal university in pennsylvania and a student there indicates he worked on a study about how emotions and psychological traits influence decision making when committing a crime with an emphasis on yu thoughts and feelings throughout your experience. back in moscow, the announcement is bringing the first signs of relief after weeks of fear. >> it is just been very scary not knowing who is out there. >> and now? >> oh, i feel much better. i feel relieved and so i'm just very happy police have done the work. >> reporter: and, wolf, at the crime scene this morn there was a clean-up crew and they were supposed to start work and work all day to clean up the house and turn it back to the homeowner. but within minutes of them arriving, that work stopped and that is according to police because of a court order for some reason it was stopped. i asked further about why and they said all they could reveal is that they were ordered to stop that clean-up. so for now, it r

we have learned more about this suspect. 28-year-old bryan kohberger. he was getting a ph.d.y. he had a fascination with crime. while the authorities won't detail about anything of a motive, what does what we're learning about him tell you about a possible motivation for the murders? >> i wasn't surprised at all to find out he was studying criminology and his fellow students said he was interested in forensic psychology. we have seen with killers of this nature and serial killers. we don't know if he would have committed this crime again or in the past. they can be groupies of criminology. doing case study after case study and wanting to become experts. helps fellow students in the ph.d. program said he was awkward and he would be quiet and give them long stares. the biggest thing is he wanted to be an expert on everything. he would overexplain everything. he wanted to be super academic. they turned to class after these murders happened and he was extremely isolated and perhaps manic. >> casey, we know investigators were pouring through 20,000 tips. keeping the details of the

what can you tell us. >> good evening this is where the suspect bryan kohberger has been brought.s here in pennsylvania. this happened after his arrest very early in the middle of the night this morning he is in a jail that holds approximately 400 prisoners both maximum and minimum security inmates here 28-year-old bryan kohberger will spend his first night at the monroe county correctional facility tonight. he was taken into custody at 3:00 a.m. southeast of scranton, pennsylvania at a private residence known as a fugitive from justice warrant. investigators in idaho revealing little about the details of how they zoned in on bryan kohberger but they said they had enough to make arrest. >> a criminal complaint was filed yesterday in latah county charging the defendant bryan kohberger with four counts of first-degree murder in addition to felony burglary which involves entering the residence with the intent to commit the crime of murder. >> affidavit with some details of the charges is sealed until the suspect is physically back in idaho. he is expected to be extradited after heari

this has just started. >> kohberger will appear in court next tuesday. sources telling john miller, they narrowed their focus to the suspect after tracing him to a white elantra was seen in the area of the murders and that his dna was a match to dna at the crime scene. he is a 28-year-old graduate student at washington state university, which is eight miles from the crime scene. police earlier today searching what is believed to be the suspect's apartment. veronica miracle is in moscow. do we have any idea what the motive might have been behind these murders or whether the suspect knows the victims? >> reporter: of course, these questions at the front of everyone's minds. it was one of the first questions asked at the press conference. why did this happen? that's a question that authorities say they cannot tell us. prosecutor bill thompson revealing today that they are bound by idaho state law and they cannot reveal a lot of the questions that we have outside of the courtroom because kohberger was arrested in the state of pennsylvania. it's until that he

we learned that bryan kohberger was a ph.d. student in the field of criminology. it's likely these murders were discussed in his classes. what was your reaction upon learning he was a criminology student? >> a little disappointing, actually. that's not what we want in our profession. in our profession we are, we're above what, you know, we hold ourselves to higher standards, and we hold ourselves to an ethical standard, and and we can't pick and choose though, can we, what people study. so we will continue on, and we'll follow through with this investigation. >> reporter: sure. i think it just added another level of shock, that detail, for everybody. >> i'm sure, especially across the nation. a lot of times in law enforcement we're not shocked anymore, we're not shocked by anything because we've seen so much. you ask any police officer across the nation do they get shocked by things, typically not anymore. especially if you've been in the field for 27 the, 28 years. >> reporter: okay. have you been getting a lot of tips on the suspect since the news conference yes

reporter: kohberger being held here at monroe county jail till his next court hearing on tuesday.ather of one of the victims spoke with fox news last night about this major break in the case. >> it feels like the first joy we've had in days but it really is. you can't even smile when you have this over your head and feels like a little bit of weight has been relieved and things are on the right track and moving in the right direction. we have hope that we have somebody in custody. he's innocent till proven guilty, but that's a lot better off than we were, you know, 48 hours ago. reporter: and there have been multiple reports that genetic genealogy play add major role -- played a mayor role in this case and fox news is expected to speak with the police chief in moscow this morning. we'll hopefully find out more about this case, about the motive, about anything else they can tell us as we dig around here in pennsylvania to find out more about this suspect. back to you. pete: laura, thank you very much. will, your interview earlier was interesting with chris weker and speculated you

kohberger is innocent until proven guilty. but that long drive with the timeline, he's acting normal, finishes up his semester, drives home for christmas, it gave him 38 hours of driving in which he may have disposed of a murder weapon. very difficult, if we planned to get that knife, i don't think he has it any longer, i don't think we'll ever find it. but that car would have raised some eyebrows. it was the car that brought him down. i think we'll learn a lot more. jean casarez says he has an attorney. in a few weeks everything will be unsealed and we'll get some good details. >> you make a good point about the murder weapon, we don't know where it is, if it will ever be pound. we also don't have a motive at this point. what scenarios would you be looking at right now as an investigator, as an analyst? >> i have to tell you, asking the question of motive is almost -- first of all, it's not required to know motive to get a guilty conviction for murderers like this. i interviewed enough people on the spectrum that the motive i

investigators say dna evidence led them to kohberger but would not say if he knew any victims. the murder weapon has not been recovered. kohberger is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary, a sigh of relief for the small college town. kohberger is due back in court in pennsylvania for next edition hearing on tuesday. -- for an extradition hearing o tuesday. liz: the state revisits a law from 1864 that criminalized nearly all abortions, yet was barred from being enforced for decades. after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade earlier this year, the state attorney general asked a judge to allow the law to be implemented. the court did not repeal the law altogether, did determine doctors cannot be prosecuted for performing abortions, because other arizona laws passed over the years have allowed the procedure. house lawmakers have a least six years of former president trump's tax returns. the documents reveal he paid little or no income tax for several years while in office. as elizabeth schulze he tells us, the former president says th

bryan christopher kohberger is a criminology graduate student at nearby washington state university. the campus coburg attended is just a nine miles from the house where the victims, madison motion, kayleigh golconda, guess xana kernodle, and ethan chapin worst found stabbed to death on november 13th. on this time there's no word on a motive. those leaving the community of moscow shaking and yearning for more information. law enforcement officials in idaho addressing that frustration just hours after the arrest. >> these murders have shaken our community, and no arrests will ever bring back these young students, however, we do believe justice will be found through the criminal process. i recognize the frustration with the lack of information that's been released, however, providing any details in this criminal investigation might have tainted at the upcoming criminal prosecution or alerted the suspect of our progress. we will continue to provide as much information as we can as the process moves forward. >> nbc's steve patterson has the very latest for us. dave, welcome, what more ca

we want to bear in mind, of course, kohberger is innocent until proven guilty. what is it about the mind of a criminal that would allow someone to do this after allegedly killing four innocent people? >> we see it all the time, that when these killers are caught, the neighbors, everyone who knows them says, oh my gosh, i'm in shock. it's because they want to get away with it. to do that, they have to act as normal as possible. if he had run out and gotten rid of that white hyundai elantra, that would have raised eyebrows given that we had a nationwide apb looking for a white elantra. keep in mind that we've not found the murder weapon. he is smart enough to know that, if indeed mr. kohberger is the culprit, he can get rid of a knife very easily, but to get rid of a car is not so easy. to act normal, his father probably already planned to drive out there and share the driving on the way back. it's a very long drive. i've read accounts from fellow students in the criminology program in washington state that he did return to class after the killings and he would no

bryan kohberger was arrested. >> reporter: he was apprehended at his parent's home early friday morning 2500 miles from the murder scene. >> this is the first bit of joy we have had in close to seven weeks. we hope they picked the right guy and that gives us hope and we haven't had hope for a long time. >> reporter: the four roommates were stabbed multiple times as they slept inside their rental home near the university of idaho campus. cbs news has learned forensic analysis allegedly linked the suspect to the crime scene in moscow, idaho. police say they have not located the murder weapon but have found the hyundai that was spotted near the murder scene. and they won't say whether the suspect and victims knew each other. university of idaho president scott green says there is finally a feeling of relief on his campus. >> we never lost faith that this case would be solved and are grateful for the hard work of the moscow police department and their partners. >> reporter: kohberger is a criminology community at washington state university just over the state line. >> let's come back to th

who had previously completed his masters from desales university in pennsylvania. >> bryan kohbergerusing the same name posted on reddit looking to recruit volunteers for a research project aimed at understanding how emotions and psychological traits influence decision-making when committing a crime. >> please ask the public, anyone who knows about this individual to come forward. >> reporter: law enforcement sources telling abc news they used dna technology and other tools to identify the suspect, tracking him 2,500 miles to rural pennsylvania through his vehicle. >> we have seized a 2015 white hyundai elantra and have secured a search warrant for it and it has been executed. >> reporter: the small community in moscow terrified for weeks after popular roommates kaylee goncalves, madison mogen, xana kernodle and her boyfriend ethan chapin were found stabbed to death in an off-campus home. kaylee's father now with some hope. >> we are on the path to justice, and this isn't our new normal. this is idaho standing up as a state saying, we weren't going to let this be normal. >> reporter:

kohberger is a 28-year-old graduate student. he attended washington state university near where the four victims attended college. cnn's veronica miracle has been following the story since it broke and joins us from idaho. police are asking the public to call in and provide any tips or information regarding that suspect. what kind of information are they hoping to get? >> reporter: well, pamela, today authorities made clear that this investigation is far from over. they also credited the nearly 20,000 tips that they received from the public as giving them information to get to those strong leads that led them to the suspect now that they have that suspect in custody, bryan kohberger. they're asking people not only in this community but across the country if they know this man, if they've had any interactions with him, and if they have any information about his background. they say the tipline remains open. they want to hear from the public. they also say now that they have this arrest, it's not just about an arrest, but it is ab

a 28-year-old man by the name of bryan christopher kohberger.to custody this morning in pennsylvania. the case has drawn worldwide attention. shocked the small town of moscow, idaho. a farming community of 25,000 people. any moment, the chief of police in moscow, idaho, will be joined by university officials. as we wait for them, let's go to dana griffin inside the room where the news conference is set to take place. dana, a lot of unanswered questions. is. >> reporter: we hope to get the answers in two minutes when the press conference is about to start. we will hear from the police chief james fries and the prosecutor and the university of idaho president scott greene. we learned this morning that 28-year-old bryan kohberger, that is how we are pronouncing his name, was arrested atmonroe. a white elantra was towed from the home. you may remember police asked for any information about a hyundai elantra. the pieces are coming together in the case. we are learning about information about the suspect. nbc news learned recently he will be charged w

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the fbi and pennsylvania state police arrested 28-year-old bryan kohberger this morning in monroe county, pennsylvania, near scanton. dna matched him. and the investigation focused on him after they traced a white hyundai elantra back to him. any moment now moscow, idaho, police are expected to have a conference. it is been more than six weeks since the four were found stabbed to death in their off campus house. their murders shocked the small college town an the country, this presser begins right now. >>> thank you for coming today. last night the con jeks with the pennsylvania state police and the federal bureau of investigation and detectives arrested 28-year-old brian christophercoberger in all brightsville, pennsylvania, for the murder of ethan, zana and madison and kaylee. i want to thank these agencies for this assistance in this case. he reside the in pullman, washington and is a student at washington state fluf. we'll provide as much information as we can about the extradition to idaho and the criminal process. however, due to idaho stay law we are limited in what information we

. >> 28-year-old bryan kohberger is now facing four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of fourwho were stabbed to death in their beds in the middle of the night. >> sources say the suspect was identified with the help of genetic genealogy after dna was found at the crime scene, but law enforcement are still investigating what if never connection the suspect had to the victims. cnn's camila bernal has the latest. >> reporter: a call to the public. authorities in need of any information regarding bryan kohberger. >> we still squ for people to continually send us things in the tip line. >> reporter: the hyundai ala tra was linked to the case. more evidence is needed for a successful prosecution. >> we're looking for more information, still trying to build that picture like we have stated all along. we're putting all the pieces together, and is that will help. >> reporter: the 28-year-old graduated in may from desales university in pennsylvania with a masters in criminal justice. >> it's someone who has been delving into the inner most sanctums of criminal thinking who is now accus