Murderer Goes Grocery Shopping after ‘Butchering’ College Students

He had just butchered four college kids in their sleep — but hours later, Bryan Kohberger was caught on camera doing something horrifyingly normal.

He went grocery shopping.

Newly released surveillance video shows the 29-year-old criminology Ph.D. student casually strolling through an Albertsons supermarket in Clarkston, Washington, just hours after the brutal November 2022 murders in Moscow, Idaho.

He didn’t look shaken or rushed. He looked calm. Focused. Ordinary. He scanned his items at self-checkout, bagged them neatly, and walked out — as if nothing had happened.

“He’s ice-cold,” said one former FBI agent. “You’re watching a man who just committed one of the most brutal crimes imaginable, and he’s acting like it’s just another Monday.”

In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, Kohberger slipped into a rental house near the University of Idaho, where six students were sleeping.

By dawn, four were dead — 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, and 20-year-olds Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.

Investigators believe all but one victim were asleep when the killer attacked with a Ka-Bar knife, leaving a scene so bloody it stunned veteran officers.

Only Xana Kernodle appeared to have fought back.

The killer vanished into the dark, his phone switched off to hide his movements.

But Kohberger made one fatal mistake — he dropped a knife sheath next to one of the bodies. His DNA was on the button snap.

That single piece of evidence cracked open the entire case.

“Without that sheath, it would’ve taken us longer,” said Moscow Police Chief James Fry, “but make no mistake — we would’ve found him.”

Though his phone was off, cameras were rolling everywhere.

Footage from highways, gas stations, and parking lots showed Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra crisscrossing the Idaho-Washington border before and after the murders.

At one point, he tried to enter a Costco store but was turned away for not having a membership card. Hours later, he showed up at Albertsons — cool, collected, and completely unaware police would one day use the footage to prove his guilt.

“He thought he could outsmart everyone,” said a former detective. “But he didn’t count on just how many eyes were watching.”

In the weeks after the murders, Kohberger returned to class at Washington State University as if nothing had changed. He spoke to students, graded papers, and acted like the model academic.

“He was quiet, strange, but polite,” one classmate told a local outlet. “You’d never think he was capable of something like that.”

But behind the scenes, he’d already changed his license plate and started driving more cautiously — a sign police now believe showed he knew they were closing in.

Six weeks later, on December 30, 2022, police finally caught up with him at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania.
Officers said he was wearing gloves and cleaning out his car in the driveway at 4 a.m. when they arrived.

Inside, they found dark clothing, latex gloves, and trash bags — eerily similar to items linked to the crime scene.

In July 2025, Kohberger pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. He is now serving four consecutive life sentences without parole.

During his sentencing, the victims’ families faced him down.
“You took everything from us,” said Kaylee’s father, Steven Goncalves. “You deserve to spend the rest of your life remembering what you did.”

Kohberger only muttered, “I’m sorry.”

The new footage of Kohberger casually shopping after the killings has reignited nationwide outrage.

“It’s pure evil on camera,” said one Idaho resident. “You can see it in his body language — no fear, no guilt, just emptiness.”

For investigators, the video is proof of what they always believed: Bryan Kohberger didn’t panic after killing four innocent people.
He went grocery shopping.