In the days after murdering four University of Idaho students in an off-campus home, Bryan Kohberger’s behavior shifted dramatically and investigators would later find that he had fixated on news coverage of the killings and began paying for items in cash – often wearing gloves – as he avoided the area of the murders.

James Fry, former chief of the Moscow Police Department, never entered the crime scene. With prior experience as an investigator, the veteran officer of decades knew it could compromise evidence at the home where four University of Idaho students were killed in November 2022.