The father of Idaho “killer” Bryan Kohberger flew to Washington state weeks after the killings

The father of the University of Idaho murder suspect flew from Pennsylvania to Washington weeks after the quadruple murder to accompany his son on a cross-country road trip.

Bryan Kohberger’s public defender revealed the 28-year-old graduate student at Washington State University in Pullman did not make the 2,000-mile journey back to his family home alone.

Kohberger was spotted with his father in the white Hyundai Elantra that police were looking for at a Pennsylvania auto repair shop on December 16.

“He was home for the holidays,” public defender Jason LaBar told CNN.

The suspected killer was arrested Friday after a more than month-long manhunt for the killer behind the brutal deaths of Ethan Chapin, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Madison Mogen, 21.

Bryan Kohberger, 28, drove with his father from Washington to Pennsylvania weeks after he allegedly murdered the four University of Idaho students, his defense attorney revealed

Kohberger’s father had boasted to the witness that he flew to Washington to do the cross-country trip with his son in the white Hyundai Elantra. Police were previously looking for the exact model they said was sighted near the Idaho murder home

Kohberger is accused of breaking into the four students’ home outside the Moscow campus on November 13 and stabbing them to death in their beds.

He is currently behind bars in Pennsylvania and is currently awaiting extradition to Idaho in hopes of being “acquitted of those charges,” LaBar told the Idaho Statesman.

LaBar is preparing for Kohberger’s return to Idaho and has already requested that he be given a public defender immediately.

Kohberger may face the death penalty in the state — which his family cannot afford to hire an attorney to fight.

“He doesn’t have the resources to get a private attorney,” LaBar said.

Surveillance footage the night of the killings showed a white Hyundai Elantra near the home when the killings took place around 3am. Police believe it belonged to Kohberger.

The Ph.D. The student had driven the car back to Pennsylvania, where police found it at his parents’ home.

An unidentified person at the dealership confirmed that Kohberger was doing maintenance on his car after the trip with his father.

According to the source, Koherberger’s father boasted that he flew to the West Coast to accompany his son on his holiday trip home and recalled the 28-year-old as being reserved.

It is unclear whether Koherberger’s father knew about the murders.

Police later found the car at Kohberger’s parents’ home, where he was arrested.

Idaho Police said the four University of Idaho students were murdered in their sleep between 3 and 4 a.m. Pictured: victims Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and 20-year-old Ethan Chapin

The crime happened six weeks ago, 2,500 miles from where Kohberger was arrested. His father flew to meet his son in Washington and drove him back to their home in Pennsylvania

Police were on the hunt for Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra, which officers began chasing around Christmas time when the suspect was driving across the country

Kohberger was taken into custody in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, a small town in the heart of the Poconos Mountains more than 2,000 miles from where the gruesome killings took place

Kohberger’s family responded to the charges on Sunday and urged people not to pass judgment.

“We will pursue legal process and as a family we will love and support our son and brother,” the family wrote in a statement seen by TMZ.

“First and foremost, we care deeply for the four families who have lost their precious children.

“There are no words that can adequately express the sadness we feel and we pray for it every day,” the statement said, in part.

“We have cooperated fully with law enforcement to seek the truth and further his presumption of innocence, rather than assessing unknown facts and making false assumptions.”

Kohberger’s family has requested privacy during this time as they are working with law enforcement to get to the bottom of the case.

“We respect privacy in this matter as our family and the families who are suffering losses may go through the legal process.”

The suspect attended college in nearby Washington state, where he majored in criminology

Forensic teams and police are working at Kohberger’s home near Washington State University in Pullman, Washington

Police said they began tracking and monitoring Kohberger around Christmas and stayed with him for four days when they spotted the white Hyundai Elantra they believed was linked to the killings.

Friday’s arrest marks the first major break in the case — Kohberger asks if “someone else was arrested” when he was arrested. An extradition hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.

Law enforcement sources told CNN that his DNA was discovered at the scene – with officers managing to track down the owner of the car seen in the area of ​​the killings.

However, according to public records, Kohberger has no previous arrests, so it’s unclear how officials got hold of his DNA.

Kohberger is said to have followed the students in the weeks leading up to the murders. Pictured is the home where the murders took place, just over 8 miles from where he worked as a graduate student and teaching assistant

Kaylee and Madison were found on the top floor of the house in Moscow, Idaho. College lovers Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle were found in a second-floor bedroom, while survivors Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke were sleeping on the first floor

Kohberger is said to have followed the students in the weeks leading up to the murders.

Moscow police chief James Fry did not want to rule out that the killer had an accomplice.

Details of the murders and their motives have yet to be released. Law enforcement officials say a sealed affidavit of arrest will be released once Kohberger is extradited to Idaho.