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- A woman claims she made a DoorDash delivery to the off-campus home where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death — and that she saw Bryan Kohberger
- “I’m the DoorDash Driver. I saw Bryan. I parked right next to him,” the woman said while being detained by police in an unrelated incident on Sept. 4, 2024
- The trial for Kohberger starts on Aug. 11. He is facing four counts of first-degree murder. If convicted he could face the death penalty
A DoorDash driver told police she saw Bryan Kohberger on the night he is accused of killing four college students, and that she will be testifying at his upcoming trial.
Those statements were made by the woman on Sept. 4, 2024, when she was taken into custody by officers with the Pullman Police Department following a traffic stop that is unrelated to the case.
Body camera footage obtained by PEOPLE shows the woman telling the officer booking her into jail: “I’m the DoorDash Driver. I saw Bryan. I parked right next to him.”
Just prior to that, she told the officer: “Now I have to testify in the big murder case, too.”
When the officer asked her what murder case she was referring to, she responded: “The murder case of the college girls.”
Prosecutors and police could neither confirm nor deny the woman’s claims due to a nondissemination order barring extrajudicial statements about the case. However, the woman shares the same initials as the DoorDash driver referred to as M.M. in court filings.
She is one of only two people believed to have seen Kohberger near the scene of the murders, with the other being the surviving roommate who told police she watched him exit the home that night.
The DoorDash driver arrived at 4 a.m, to the house in Moscow with a delivery from Jack in the Box for Xana Kernodle, according to the probable cause affidavit.
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Authorities believe that the killer entered the home just a few minutes later and by 4:20 a.m., had left the off-campus residence after fatally stabbing the four students: Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, both 20; and Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, both 21.
The probable cause affidavit says that authorities linked Kohberger to the killings through DNA allegedly found on a knife sheath, cell phone location data, and surveillance footage showing a car matching his make and model driving to and from the scene.
In a motion laying out his alibi, Kohberger’s lawyer, Anne Taylor, said the suspect was out driving by himself on the night of the murders but that he did not kill the four victims.
Kohberger’s murder trial is scheduled to begin on Aug. 11 in Ada County after the defense successfully petitioned for a change of venue in the case. If convicted, he could be sentenced to death. Jury selection will begin on Aug. 4, one week prior to the start of the trial.
Kohberger told the public defender who represented him after his arrest in Pennsylvania that he expects to be exonerated at trial. He declined to enter a plea in court when the judge formally charged him with four counts of murder, at which time a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf.
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