Bryan Kohberger An armed break-in was investigated a year before the fatal stabbing of four Idaho students.
According to Pullman Police Department records NBC Newsauthorities investigated a 2021 break-in in a house in Pullman, Washington across the state line in Moscow, Idaho.
According to documents released by Pullman, a knife-wielding man allegedly broke into the house of four sisters at 3:30 a.m. and stood on one of their beds.
Police records said a witness told authorities that the man kicked the scene into the stomach and fled the scene.
The records show that authorities investigated a neighbor but had no reason to be detained.
A policeman appointed a sergeant to investigate whether Koberg could attend campus events for judicious graduate students in the area at that time.
According to NBC News, there was no recruitment activity when a coordinator in the school’s criminology department confirmed the break-in and the school was not aware of any visits from Kohberger.
The Pullman incident happened eight months ago when Koberg officially moved to Washington State University to study criminology. He has never been arrested or charged with a crime.

Bryan Kohberger
AP Photos/Kyle Green, Swimming PoolHowever, everything changed in 2022, but when he was arrested and charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary, he broke into Moscow, Idaho with the aim of committing a felony.
After pleading guilty at the initial stage, Koberg pleaded guilty to the University of Idaho murder in the agreement to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to four life imprisonment in July.
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Mortensen delivered before Kohberger’s sentence Emotional Victim Impact Statement and explains how her friend’s death changed her life forever.
“What happened that night changed everything,” she said in tears under CBS news. “Because of him, four beautiful, sincere, compassionate people, took them away from this world for no reason. He did break me in places I didn’t know would destroy. I should figure out who I am. I should have the experience of college and start building my future. Instead, I was forced to learn how to live in unimaginable people.”
During the verdict, the judge Steven Hippies He also shared a few words and insisted that no parents should find themselves burying their children.
“This incredible and meaningless evil act causes immeasurable pain,” he said. “This is the greatest tragedy that can be caused to a person.”

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