Bryan Kohberger pulled over by cops three months before massacre in chilling footage

Chilling police bodycam footage has surfaced showing the moment Bryan Kohberger - now convicted of murderingfour University of Idaho students - was pulled over for speeding just months before the brutal killings.

The video, captured in August 2022, shows a Latah County Sheriff’s deputy stopping Kohberger on the Pullman-Moscow Highway, which links Washington State and Idaho. Kohberger, then a PhD criminology student, was driving a white Hyundai Elantra - the same car later connected to the crime. The footage was originally set to be used at trial, but was made public after Kohberger accepted a plea deal.

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In the clip, Deputy Darren Duke approaches the vehicle and informs Kohberger he had been exceeding the speed limit. "Hey there, I stopped you going a little fast. You realize this is 35?" Kohberger replied, shaking his head several times, "Oh, it's 35? I was going about 41, about that," before handing over his documents.

During the stop, Kohberger also acknowledges he hadn't been wearing a seatbelt. "No point in not being honest," he says calmly when questioned. The deputy issues him a $10 citation for the seatbelt violation but lets the speeding slide. Kohberger appears cooperative but becomes slightly defensive when asked for a contact number, insisting he was being upfront.

"Just for future reference, I mean I'm obviously an obvious person. I told you I wasn't wearing my seatbelt," Kohberger says. "But people lie to you about that, say I lied to you about that...," he adds. He then asks Deputy Duke if he "usually" looks to see if drivers are wearing seatbelts.

The officer chuckles, replying "I should," and the video ends with the officer letting him off with a warning for the speeding and telling him to have a good night.

Less than three months later, on November 13, 2022, Kohberger broke into a rental home near the University of Idaho campus in Moscow and fatally stabbed four students - Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, both 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle, 20. The murders shocked the nation and led to a six-week manhunt, ending in Kohberger's arrest at his parents' home in Pennsylvania.

After more than two years of pre-trial proceedings, Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders earlier this month. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole last week, as families of the victims gave powerful impact statements. Kohberger declined to address the court, simply saying: "Respectfully decline."

He will serve his sentence at Idaho's Maximum Security Institution.