CNN –
Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November, has returned to Idaho to face murder charges after waiving extradition from his home state of Pennsylvania.
Law enforcement escorted him to the Latah County Jail Wednesday night.
Moments earlier, an online flight tracker showed the Pennsylvania State Police plane believed to be carrying Kohberger had arrived at Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport, just across the border in the Washington State. A CNN crew at the airport saw Idaho State Police vehicles at the scene.
Kohberger was turned over from the Monroe County Correctional Facility to Pennsylvania State Police authorities, prison director Garry Haidle told CNN. State police would not comment on any prisoner transports, according to their policy.
Kohberger was arrested Friday in Pennsylvania, nearly seven weeks after Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, were found fatally stabbed Nov. 13 in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.
Authorities have yet to release key details of the case, such as whether the suspect knew the victims and what the motive might have been.
Investigators zeroed in on Kohberger as a suspect after they traced ownership of a white Hyundai Elantra, which had been seen in the area of the killings, according to two law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation.
In addition, his DNA was matched to genetic material recovered from the house where the students were killed, the sources said.
The suspect recently finished his first semester as a doctoral student in the criminal justice program at Washington State University’s campus in Pullman, about a 15-minute drive west of Moscow.
He went home to Pennsylvania for the holidays with his father, Monroe County Chief Public Defender Jason LaBar said. Father and son arrived around December 17th.
The white Elantra authorities had been searching for in connection with the killings found Kohberger’s parents’ home, LaBar said.
An FBI surveillance team tracked Kohberger for four days before his arrest while law enforcement worked with prosecutors to develop enough probable cause to obtain a warrant, the two law enforcement sources said .
The probable cause affidavit, which would contain information to warrant the suspect’s arrest, remains sealed until he appears in an Idaho court.
A court order bars the prosecution and defense from commenting beyond public records.