Bryan Kohberger Allegedly Engaged In Private Encounters With Law Enforcement Prior To Killings

Bryan Kohberger Was Having 'Intimate Meetings' With Police Before Murders

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Kohberger was interviewed for a research assistant position with the Pullman Police Department seven months before the November 13 killings.

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He had an online meeting with the then chief of the department, Gary Jenkins, according to emails obtained by The New York Times.

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The emails indicate that Kohberger was competing with three other candidates for the job, but it is not clear if he was ultimately hired.

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The job was a "graduate research assistantship" created by the university to support local police departments and was set to begin on August 22.

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Kohberger lived in Pullman, Washington, which is located about 10 miles from Moscow, Idaho where the murders were committed.

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The four students were found stabbed to death in a rental home in Moscow on November 13.

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Kohberger was arrested at his parents' home in Pennsylvania on December 30 and charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary.

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Kohberger has yet to enter a plea to the charges and a five-day preliminary hearing is scheduled to begin on June 26.

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