{"id":36021,"date":"2025-08-27T01:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=36021"},"modified":"2025-08-27T01:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:33:20","slug":"neighbor-of-university-of-idaho-students-heard-tapping-on-window-after-murders-told-police-might-have-been-bryan-kohberger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=36021","title":{"rendered":"Neighbor of University of Idaho Students Heard Tapping on Window After Murders, Told Police Might Have Been Bryan Kohberger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?-->&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A University of Idaho student spoke to state police about an incident on Nov. 13, 2022, when he heard someone tapping on his window<\/p>\n<p>This happened at approximately 5 a.m. at his home, less than an hour after Bryan Kohberger murdered four college students at 1122 King Road<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin: 1.5em 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 1em auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/rti4X6n3LLhYf-tqsmFSKMHXzI8=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(737x298:739x300):format(webp)\/bryan-kohberger-sentencing-072325-cd8b437006a140808ad4af7e1cc89fea.jpg\" alt=\"Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse for his sentencing hearing on July 23, 2025 in Boise, Idaho.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This young man was a neighbor of the victims, and spoke with Idaho State Police thinking it could have been Kohberger, 30, at his window that morning<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor of the four University of Idaho students murdered by Bryan Kohberger told investigators that he believes the killer also came to his home in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022.<br \/>\nThat neighbor is also a college student, and told officials that he had been playing video games with his fraternity brothers until 4:30 a.m., according to an Idaho State Police report obtained by PEOPLE.<br \/>\nHe told police that he drove home that night, parked his car just to the east of 1122 King Road and took his dog for a walk down the street.<br \/>\nThe neighbor said in his interview with police that there was &#8220;another dog barking in the area&#8221; and he could hear music playing, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary.<br \/>\nThe walk stopped at a dead end, which placed the young man directly to the south of 1122 King Road.<br \/>\nUnbeknownst to him, four of his fellow college students had just been stabbed to death inside that house.<br \/>\nAnd that dog he heard barking was likely Murphy, the Goldendoodle owned by victim Kaylee Goncalves.<br \/>\nThe young man told police he arrived home from his walk at 5 a.m. and went to bed.<br \/>\n&#8220;About two minutes after getting in bed, he heard a tapping on the window next to the front door. He peered through the blinds on the window but didn&#8217;t see anyone,&#8221; read the report.<br \/>\nWant to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE&#8217;s free True Crime newsletter\u00a0for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.<br \/>\nIt went on to say that the neighbor contacted ISP because after learning about the murders, he thought the person outside his home might have been Kohberger.<br \/>\nThis interview was conducted after the release of the probable cause affidavit, which said Kohberger was seen on a Ring camera speeding out of the neighborhood at 4:20 a.m.<br \/>\nThe affidavit also placed Kohberger in Uniontown at 5 a.m. that morning, a small town in Washington located approximately 15 miles southwest of Moscow.<br \/>\nKohberger also pinged a cell phone tower 15 miles due south of Moscow in the farm town of Genesee just before 5 a.m. when he turned his phone back on for the first time.<br \/>\nHe would spend much of that day on the phone, incessantly calling his mother starting just after 6 a.m. Kohberger even called her as he drove back to the murder scene that morning, speaking with her for over three hours.<br \/>\nPolice did not appear to follow up on the neighbor&#8217;s report, but they did enter the interview into evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A University of Idaho student spoke to state police about an incident on Nov. 13, 2022, when he heard someone tapping on his window This happened at approximately 5 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36023,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36021\/revisions\/36023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}