Bryan Kohberger called his mother after Idaho murder – once when he got home and again when he drove back to the crime scene (exclusive)

Bryan Kohberger called his mother less than two hours after murdering four students from the University of Idaho.

The former criminologist student, 30, called his mother Maryann Kohberger at 06:17 on the morning of November 13, 2022, shortly after returning to the home he lived at at Washington State University Campus.

This new information comes from Heather BarnhartThe digital forensic expert who led the team whose task is to investigate Kohberger’s phone and hard drive.

She is now talking to people about the case, which she became part of after Latah County Prosecutor’s law firm took her on to help with their investigation.

Kohberger first went to his mother at 06:13 the same morning and when she did not answer, he called his father at 06:14 Barnhart, and quoted the exhaustive discs gathered by her team.

He got his parents saved as “mother” and “father” on his phone, says Barnhart, and would often call his mother first followed immediately by his father if he did not get an answer.

“And he would go back and forth SMS: ‘Father, why didn’t Mom answered? Why doesn’t she answer the phone?” Barnhart says.

In the morning she eventually answered, and the two spoke for 36 minutes.

It was not long after Kohberger and his mother took off the phone that he called her a second time.

“Since 08:03, another outgoing call to” Mom “that lasted for 54 minutes,” says Barnhart.

The time of that call means Kohberger would have talked to his mother while he was in his car Drive back to the crime scene.

LATAH County prosecuting lawyer Bill Thompson said on Kohberger’s basic negotiation That he spent 10 minutes at the crime scene around 9:00, which would be about when he got off the phone with his mother.

He also spent nine minutes on the phone with his mother at 9 o’clock, says Barnhart and joins her just minutes after their previous conversation.

The two spoke for two minutes at 16:05 and at 17:53 had their last conversation, which lasted for 96 minutes.

By the end of that day, Kohberger and his mother had talked on the phone for over three hours.

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Not present on Kohberger’s phone were some texts with friends or any person outside his family.

“It was a group chat but it was all benign conversations,” Barnhart explains.

Kohberger would most talk to his parents, says Barnhart, who adds that Kohberger would start calling his mother already 4 AM a few days.

This information was collected from the Samsung Galaxy phone that Kohberger owned and had bought in June, at about the same time as he moved to Washington from Pennsylvania.

Barnhart notes that Kohberger had completely extinguished his phone between 02:54 and 04:48, a move probably thought to protect himself while committing the murder.

In the end, it was a move that turned out to be extremely revealing, she explains.

“When he turned it off, it was from a human pressing of a button, and the battery was 100 percent charged,” Barnhart says.

It was a “pretty fantastic” moment, says Barnhart, who has previously made digital forensic technicians at Gabby PetitoThe Delphi Murdersand the catch of Osama bin Laden.

She went on to say that this discovery meant that Kohberger’s defense team could not claim that his phone happened to die around the time of the murder.

The head of CX strategy and advocating at Celllebrite, Jared Barnhart, who is also Heather Barnhart’s husband, points out that the phone that seemed to be in conflict with Kohberger’s alibi also.

“If you stare and take pictures of the sky, your phone must be at,” says Barnhart, referring to a comment from her husband in a court application.

In the end, that alibi did not play.

On July 2, Kohberger appeared in court and admitted he killed the four students in Idaho University: Mogent Madson, 21; Kaylee goncalves, 21; Xnana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chupan,

Three weeks later he was back in court, where he was convicted of serving four lifetime in jail for these murders.

In the courtroom that day were two of Kohberger’s family members – his sister Amanda and his mother.

The ignored them both when he left the courtroom.