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Recently unveiled surveillance footage reveals Bryan Kohberger nonchalantly entering a DMV in Washington. During his visit, he requested a license plate change and engaged in a casual conversation with an employee, even as the topic of four Idaho college students’ murders came up—murders he had committed just days prior.
The security video, provided to Storyful by the Washington State Department of Licensing, shows Kohberger at the Pullman Vehicle Vessel Licensing office on November 18, 2022. He is seen conversing with the DMV employee about being from the East Coast and discussing their baseball team preferences.
During the exchange, the DMV worker shares that she hails from the Bay Area but prefers residing in Washington over California.
“I really like it here,” she remarks. “It’s small, quiet, and I would say safe, but the whole Moscow thing makes it feel a little less so,” she comments to Kohberger.
Her remark directly alludes to the tragic incident in Moscow, where Kohberger had fatally attacked four University of Idaho students at their home on November 13.
The former Washington State University PhD student was arrested on December 30, 2022, in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
In July last year, Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison without parole after agreeing to plead guilty to murder as part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty.
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