Idaho Murders Update: Officials Investigate Other Cold Cases For Possible Link To Kohberger

Investigators in Pennsylvania have begun digging through other unsolved murder cases to look for potential connections to Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the gruesome killings of four University of Idaho students.

Terence Houck, the Northampton County District Attorney, ordered his personnel to look for links that could connect Kohberger to any cold cases in his jurisdiction.

"Your natural question is to start wondering, 'Is this guy wanted?'" Houck said, the New York Post reported, citing an interview with KING 5 News.

But after searching the crime information center to look for possible links to Kohberger, authorities in Northampton County did not find any connections.

"In fact, nothing with respect to Kohberger has come about in our investigations of cold cases or unsolved cases to this point, but we always continue to investigate and pursue leads," Houck said.

Houck launched the reopening of other cold case investigations after Kohberger went to Northampton Community College as a student.

In the neighboring Pennsylvanian county of Lehigh, where Kohberger studied criminology at DeSales University for four years, authorities there have also tried searching in their crime database to look for data related to the Idaho murder suspect.

Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin said he asked the director of the Regional Intelligence and Investigation Center (RIC) to look for any related data about Kohberger following the suspect's arrest on Dec. 30, 2022.

The database showed only one piece of information about Kohberger: a 911 call complaining about the suspect's locked vehicle behind a parked gate on a bike trail.

Martin said Kohberger apologized for the incident and thanked the police for their response.

But like Northampton County, authorities in Lehigh County failed to find any possible connections of Kohberger to any unsolved investigations.

While Pennsylvania authorities are retrieving further information about Kohberger, a new report revealed that the suspect was fired from his teaching assistant position at Washington State University a few days before he was arrested.

According to the termination letter obtained by News Nation, Kohberger was axed because of his "sexist attitude toward women" and being rude to women he interacted with inside the campus.

Kohberger was also accused of grading his female students differently than his male students.

It was also revealed that Kohberger had an altercation with a WSU professor about a month into his job.

Kohberger, a graduate student taking criminology at WSU, is facing multiple murder and burglary charges after he was accused of killing four University of Idaho students in an off-campus home.

Kohberger is expected to return to court on June 26.