Body-cam and dash-cam footage released this week by the Indiana State Police and the sheriff’s office in Hancock County, located just east of Indianapolis, showed the Kohbergers pulled over along a stretch of eastbound Interstate 70 within a 10-minute span on Dec. 15.
In each traffic stop, law enforcement warned Kohberger for following other vehicles too closely in his white Hyundai Elantra on the trip to the family home in northeastern Pennsylvania. He was not issued any tickets.
On Tuesday, Indiana State Police released video footage in response to public records requests, including from the Idaho Statesman. The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office waited until Wednesday to release its body-cam footage, shot by Deputy Nick Ernstes, until the department obtained clearance from Idaho homicide investigators, according to Hancock County Sheriff’s Capt. Robert Harris.
“I believe it to be a random coincidence,” LaBar told NBC’s “Today” show on Tuesday morning, concerning the two minor traffic stops by police in a short amount of time. “I know there’s no actual evidence that they were stopped in Indiana, but Mr. Kohberger — Michael — had definitely said that they were stopped twice in Indiana, back to back.”
On Dec. 7, Moscow police asked for the public’s help finding a 2011-2013 white Hyundai Elantra they believed was in the area of the off-campus home where the four students were killed in the early morning hours of Nov. 13. Investigators previously would not identify the relevance of the Elantra, beyond that they thought the driver and any potential occupants could have information critical to the investigation.
Investigators have since seized the Elantra, Moscow Police Chief James Fry said in announcing Kohberger’s arrest at a press conference on Friday. “As a general rule, information that is gathered as part of an ongoing criminal investigation is typically exempt from public records requests,” Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson told the Statesman in an interview last week. “I can’t speak specifically for why each individual agency made their final decision, but that’s always been the consistent position that we’ve taken when we’ve been asked to advise on that.
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