Bryan Kohberger probed for prior break-in before Idaho campus killings

Officials are now saying Bryan Kohberger, the suspect charged in the quadruple homicide of four Moscow, Idaho students, was investigated in connection with a home invasion that took place before the murders in a neighboring city. 

Newly released body camera video, obtained by ABC News, shows police responding to an alleged home invasion, which took place October 2021 in Pullman, Washington – a little over a year before and about 10 miles from where four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed in their off-campus home.

“I heard my door open and I looked over and someone was wearing a ski mask and had a knife, and so I like kicked the s— out of their stomach and screamed super loud, and they like flew back into my closet then ran out my door and up the stairs,” the woman in the body camera footage told police, adding that the masked intruder entered her bedroom, holding a knife at about 3:30 a.m. 

Investigators replace the plywood over the doors and windows to the home where four University of Idaho students were slain in November last year in Moscow, Idaho on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. The FBI worked to compile documentation to construct visual and audio exhibits and a physical model of the home where Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were killed. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

“My family and I have been frustrated that the case was not investigated more in depth or resolved,” the victim in the break-in case told the outlet. 

With Kohberger’s murder trial slated to begin in August 2025, it’s unclear whether the defense will use the break-in case to raise reasonable doubt.

Kohberger is due back in court on Jan. 23. He is being held without bail and could face the death penalty if convicted.

Fox News’ Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.