The photo, first obtained by ABC News, was snapped just after the 30-year-old cold-blooded killer was nabbed sorting through garbage at his parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 30, 2022.
“I’ll never forget — my phone dinged and I looked at it and it said, ‘We got him,’” Moscow Police Chief Anthony Dahlinger said of the moment the psycho was finally found and cuffed over the slayings.
“The next thing on, there was a picture of him in handcuffs from the scene.”
In the image, Kohberger — then a criminology PhD student at Washington State University — was wearing black shorts and a hooded sweatshirt as he stared at the camera.
Idaho State Police Lt. Darren Gilbertson, who was among those to question the murderer that day, described him as being “expressionless” during the interviews.
“We started with just very general questions about Pullman, about WSU … he spoke at length about that with us,” Gilbertson said, adding that his demeanor quickly changed when the killings were brought up.
“As soon as we mentioned that, then he stopped, and he said, ‘I don’t want to talk anymore.’”
“We asked if he was familiar with it, if he knew anything about Moscow, and he said, ‘No’ … and stopped right then and said he wanted an attorney,” Gilbertson said.
The exchange hammered home to cops that they “had their guy,” according to Gilbertson.
Kohberger was sentenced last month to life in prison for butchering Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Ethan Chapin in their off-campus Moscow home.
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