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Bryan Kohberger Seen Changing His License Plate as DMV Worker Brings Up Idaho Murders in New Video
New video has been released that shows Bryan Kohberger acknowledging the 2022 University of Idaho murders just days after he committed the crime.
In footage uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday, March 25, Kohberger — who pleaded guilty to the murders in order to avoid the death penalty — was seen walking into a Washington state DMV to ask to change his license plates.
The footage appears to have been taken on November 18, 2022.
“I definitely need to get my license plate changed,” Kohberger, 31, said upon entering the DMV.
As he was assisted by the DMV worker, the two engaged in casual conversation, including discussing their hometowns.
“I am originally from the Bay Area,” the DMV worker can be heard telling Kohberger. “But I like living up here much better than in California. I don’t miss it. … I like how it’s small and quiet — and I would say safe, but the whole Moscow thing makes it feel a little less safe.”
Kohberger acknowledged what she said and appeared calm throughout the footage.
Just days earlier, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were brutally stabbed to death in their Moscow apartment by Kohberger.
TMZ reported that Kohberger did in fact get two Washington license plates but that it didn’t initially raise any red flags because his Pennsylvania license was about to expire. However, during the investigation, authorities did look into a white Elantra owned by Kohberger.
As Kohberger drove from Washington to Pennsylvania with his father for the holidays, the two were pulled over twice. Kohberger — who was linked to the crime in part by DNA evidence — was eventually arrested outside his parents’ Pennsylvania home on December 30, 2022.
In recent weeks, photos of the murder scene at the off-campus house where the four University of Idaho students were killed were uploaded online.
The photos show blood splattered, smeared and pooled inside the victims’ bedrooms.
Kohberger is currently serving four life sentences without parole.
