Suspected Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger could have had more practice than anyone thought before he allegedly killed 4 University of Idaho students ... turns out he was under investigation for a home invasion that had many of the markings of the savage murders.
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00:00So, you know about Brian Koberger, he is now charged in the murders of the four Idaho University
00:06students.
00:07It turns out he was a person of interest in a home invasion that happened a year before
00:15the murders and only eight miles away.
00:19So this happened in Pullman, Washington, where a woman says that somebody, a guy, had broken
00:26into her house with a knife.
00:29And Brian Koberger was actually considered a person of interest.
00:34Now, this is the woman talking to police about what she saw.
00:39Where did you see this person?
00:41I was asleep, and then I woke up, me.
00:44And it was just me and Sadie home at the time, and we both lived down in the basement.
00:49And my door was closed, I heard my door open, and I looked over and someone was wearing
00:54a ski mask and had a knife like this.
00:59And so I like kicked the out of their stomach and screamed super loud, and they like flew
01:04back into my closet and then ran out my door and up the stairs.
01:08It almost makes me think that somebody was specifically targeting that person.
01:13You know what I mean?
01:15They went to a specific room and would know how to get into this place.
01:18Yeah, this sounds hauntingly familiar to the circumstances in 2022 when Koberger is accused
01:24of killing those four University of Idaho students.
01:26The ski mask, the knife, the sort of circumstances that she's describing sound similar, but he
01:32was eventually sort of dismissed as a person of interest because of a height discrepancy.
01:36The way this person was described by the woman was between 5'3 and 5'5.
01:40Brian Koberger is six feet tall, so that's a big, big leap.
01:43And the thing that I don't get that I'm fascinated by is why was he considered a person of interest?
01:52Because the way the story has been told up to this point is that there was no indication
01:58that Brian Koberger had done anything like this.
02:02What I'm trying to figure out is he's a student at a huge university.
02:06Why him?
02:07Why is he a person of interest in that case?
02:11It's a great question.
02:12I wonder if there was any communication between these police departments.
02:14This one occurred in Pullman, Washington, this 2021 incident, obviously University of
02:18Idaho is in Idaho.
02:20So I'm wondering if the two police departments didn't communicate.
02:22Oh, wait a minute.
02:23I didn't think of this.
02:24So you're saying that maybe he became a person of interest after the murders.
02:29I think it's entirely possible that they sort of, that's the only, you know what?
02:32You're right.
02:33That's the only thing that makes sense.
02:34Because why?
02:35Because they had no inkling of him doing anything.
02:38Oh, I get it.
02:39So after the murders, they knew about this case.
02:43They started looking into it.
02:44They made him a person of interest and they cleared him.
02:46Yeah, that makes sense.
02:47Got it.
02:48Thank you, Derek.
02:49Ebenezer from London.
02:51A lot of people be scared of horrific attacks being random, but what this shows us is sometimes
02:57there's a pattern and they're not just one off events, a person, a group of individuals
03:02or circumstances lead to these horrific attacks.
03:06So in the comfort, very little comfort, people can say, Hey, it's not random.
03:11There's a pattern sometimes, you know?
03:13Well, again, we don't know.
03:15They've cleared him of this home invasion.
03:19Okay, now it all makes sense.
03:21I got it.