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CNN
2 days ago
- CNN
Potential witness in Bryan Kohberger murder case appears to say she saw him at the scene, police video shows
CrimeFacebookTweetLink Follow As a critical hearing in the Bryan Kohberger murder trial is scheduled for Wednesday, an 8-month-old police video is drawing attention for a woman who said she will be a key witness in the case. 'I'm a DoorDash driver,' the woman told a police officer after an unrelated traffic stop in Pullman, Washington, last year, then appears to say, 'I saw Bryan there.' Kohberger is accused of murdering University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin at an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022. Not guilty pleas have been entered on his behalf. Judge Steven Hippler on Wednesday is set to hear a new request from defense attorneys to delay the trial because of a recent episode of NBC's 'Dateline' which, they argue, included information that must have come from unauthorized leaks. The videotaped interview with an officer dated September 4, 2024, shows the 44-year-old woman being questioned after an arrest for allegedly driving under the influence of prescription medicine. Bodycam video was posted to a YouTube channel last year, but only recently gained attention after her reference to the Moscow murders was noticed. The woman's name, which CNN is not publishing because she has not been named in court documents in the Kohberger case and has not publicly identified herself, matches initials listed in court documents for a DoorDash driver who made a delivery to Kernodle early on the morning of November 13, 2022. Final witness lists have been sealed by the court, so it is not clear if she will be called to testify, but Steve Goncalves, Kaylee Goncalves' father, told the Idaho Statesman Monday that he was informed by a private investigator that the DoorDash driver was female. Steve Goncalves did not return CNN's requests for comment Wednesday. The woman – who said she took a prescription painkiller – told an officer that her fragile emotional state was due to stress over her connection to the extremely high-profile case, as well physical ailments and what she described as PTSD after the killing of her husband in Moscow in 2013. 'Now I have to testify in the big murder case, too, because I'm a DoorDash driver, so yeah,' she said. When the officer asked her to clarify which case, the woman replied, 'The murder case with the college girls.' The woman was released from custody and assigned a court date. Court records obtained by the Idaho Statesman confirmed statements from the video that the woman had been pulled over for driving with expired tags. Pullman is about 10 miles from Moscow. The defense objected last year to introducing DoorDash records into evidence at the trial. Prosecutors said in a response last year the evidence regarding a delivery made to the scene of the crime on the morning of the murders was important because it 'provides a timeline of events … before the homicides and corroborates State's witness' testimony.' The driver's testimony may be critical because a court document from prosecutors says Kernodle is believed to be the only person awake in the house when her DoorDash order was delivered just before 4 a.m., minutes before investigators believe the killings began. CNN reached out to email addresses associated with the woman for comment. There was no answer on her home phone Wednesday, and her cell phone was disconnected. DoorDash did not respond to a request for comment from CNN on Wednesday. The local court clerk's office and Whitman County, Washington, Prosecutor Denis Tracy declined to share information on the outcome of the driver's DUI case. Kohberger's trial, which has gone through numerous delays due to disputes about evidence and witnesses, as well as a change of venue to the state capital of Boise, is currently scheduled to start on August 11. In addition to the potential pushback of the trial's start date, Hippler is set to consider a defense request to allow them to introduce evidence of an 'alternate perpetrator' in the killings. The judge sealed the details of the defense request. CNN's Rebekah Riess contributed to this report.
CNN
2 days ago
- CNN
Potential witness in Bryan Kohberger murder case appears to say she saw him at the scene, police video shows
CrimeFacebookTweetLink Follow As a critical hearing in the Bryan Kohberger murder trial is scheduled for Wednesday, an 8-month-old police video is drawing attention for a woman who said she will be a key witness in the case. 'I'm a DoorDash driver,' the woman told a police officer after an unrelated traffic stop in Pullman, Washington, last year, then appears to say, 'I saw Bryan there.' Kohberger is accused of murdering University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin at an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022. Not guilty pleas have been entered on his behalf. Judge Steven Hippler on Wednesday is set to hear a new request from defense attorneys to delay the trial because of a recent episode of NBC's 'Dateline' which, they argue, included information that must have come from unauthorized leaks. The videotaped interview with an officer dated September 4, 2024, shows the 44-year-old woman being questioned after an arrest for allegedly driving under the influence of prescription medicine. Bodycam video was posted to a YouTube channel last year, but only recently gained attention after her reference to the Moscow murders was noticed. The woman's name, which CNN is not publishing because she has not been named in court documents in the Kohberger case and has not publicly identified herself, matches initials listed in court documents for a DoorDash driver who made a delivery to Kernodle early on the morning of November 13, 2022. Final witness lists have been sealed by the court, so it is not clear if she will be called to testify, but Steve Goncalves, Kaylee Goncalves' father, told the Idaho Statesman Monday that he was informed by a private investigator that the DoorDash driver was female. Steve Goncalves did not return CNN's requests for comment Wednesday. The woman – who said she took a prescription painkiller – told an officer that her fragile emotional state was due to stress over her connection to the extremely high-profile case, as well physical ailments and what she described as PTSD after the killing of her husband in Moscow in 2013. 'Now I have to testify in the big murder case, too, because I'm a DoorDash driver, so yeah,' she said. When the officer asked her to clarify which case, the woman replied, 'The murder case with the college girls.' The woman was released from custody and assigned a court date. Court records obtained by the Idaho Statesman confirmed statements from the video that the woman had been pulled over for driving with expired tags. Pullman is about 10 miles from Moscow. The defense objected last year to introducing DoorDash records into evidence at the trial. Prosecutors said in a response last year the evidence regarding a delivery made to the scene of the crime on the morning of the murders was important because it 'provides a timeline of events … before the homicides and corroborates State's witness' testimony.' The driver's testimony may be critical because a court document from prosecutors says Kernodle is believed to be the only person awake in the house when her DoorDash order was delivered just before 4 a.m., minutes before investigators believe the killings began. CNN reached out to email addresses associated with the woman for comment. There was no answer on her home phone Wednesday, and her cell phone was disconnected. DoorDash did not respond to a request for comment from CNN on Wednesday. The local court clerk's office and Whitman County, Washington, Prosecutor Denis Tracy declined to share information on the outcome of the driver's DUI case. Kohberger's trial, which has gone through numerous delays due to disputes about evidence and witnesses, as well as a change of venue to the state capital of Boise, is currently scheduled to start on August 11. In addition to the potential pushback of the trial's start date, Hippler is set to consider a defense request to allow them to introduce evidence of an 'alternate perpetrator' in the killings. The judge sealed the details of the defense request. CNN's Rebekah Riess contributed to this report.
CNET
2 days ago
- Business
- CNET
Klarna Enters the Suddenly Bustling MVNO Space With Mobile Phone Service
Klarna, the Swedish buy-now-pay-later financial services company, is introducing a mobile phone plan the company says it will promote to its 25 million US customers. Klarna is partnering with Gigs, a San Francisco company that provides MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) services, allowing companies to create their own wireless brands. MVNOs seem suddenly popular: in the last week, the Trump Organization launched Trump Mobile with its own gold phone on the way and the popular SmartLess podcast, featuring actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes, also set up shop as a wireless provider. Klarna's plan included uncapped 5G plus service and international roaming for under $50 a month, the company says. Klarna will offer its wireless service using AT&T's infrastructure. It has opened a waitlist for the service, which Klarna says will launch in a few weeks, with similar offerings in the UK and Germany on the way as well. The company says it will directly promote its wireless plan through its mobile app. Customers will be able to keep their mobile number and sign up for the service and manage their account within the Klarna app. Klarna promises there won't be fees for service activation or cancellation. It also recently launched a debit card and partnered with DoorDash to allow installment payments on food orders.
San Francisco Chronicle
3 days ago
- Business
- San Francisco Chronicle
Top S.F. burger spot closing after nearly a decade
WesBurger 'N' More, whose burgers the Chronicle once hailed as among the best in the Bay Area, will close its doors at 2240 Mission St. after nearly ten years of business. Owner Wes Rowe announced the closure on Instagram Tuesday, inviting customers to 'have a last burger or five' before the final day of business on July 15. Until then, Rowe is primarily focused on celebrating the legacy of the business. 'I love the city a lot,' Rowe told the Chronicle. 'I don't really want to harp on too many negative things about closure and kind of pile along the same way that I feel like a lot of people do when they close.' Rowe, originally a photographer, started WesBurger in 2013 as a monthly popup. That turned into a weekly occurrence, and in 2016, he opened on Mission Street serving burgers and other items seven days a week. WesBurger is best known for its smashburger, but also offers a menu of fried chicken, mac and cheese (that was featured among the Chronicle's best), beer and a range of sides — with fries notably left off the menu in favor of tater tots. Following the tradition of the Wednesday weekly popup, Rowe will be at the restaurant on Wednesdays leading up to the closure and continue to put out specials for customers. He also envisions a big party in the last few days of the restaurant for the community to 'try all the tots and drink all the beer.' Tuesday's announcement might have felt sudden for the public, but Rowe's decision to shut down had been simmering for a while, he said. Many things have changed for the restaurant since 2016, including the rise of delivery apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats, which decreased their dine-in crowd. Although this iteration of WesBurger is closing down for good, Rowe thinks the brand is strong and may have a future. Since announcing the closure, he has been approached by a few people hoping to take over the business — and for the right person, he might consider. 'For now, I'm gonna let it breathe and go back to normal life for a little bit,' Rowe said, 'but I don't think that this will be the ultimate end of WesBurger.'
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Daily Mail
DoorDash driver emerges as surprise Idaho murders witness who could doom Bryan Kohberger with four words
A DoorDash driver is expecting to testify at the upcoming Idaho murders trial that she 'saw' Bryan Kohberger during a delivery on the night of the fatal stabbings. The unidentified 44-year-old woman told police during a traffic stop in Pullman, Washington, last year that she delivered food to Xana Kernodle at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, in the early hours of November 13, 2022. She uttered the words 'I saw Brian there' to officers - adding that she parked right next to him. The purported delivery is alleged to have taken place just minutes before Kernodle, her boyfriend Ethan Chaplin, and two roommates, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, were all stabbed to death by a masked assailant. The woman also told an officer with the Pullman Police Department that she may be called to the stand to testify at Kohberger's trial, according to body-camera video of the conversation posted to YouTube. 'I have to testify in a big murder case here... because I'm the DoorDash driver, so yeah,' the woman says in the clip, as she's being questioned over a suspected DUI in September 2024. When asked what case, she responds: 'The murder case with the college girls...I saw Bryan there - I parked right next to him.' True crime sleuths picked up on the video, and the woman's connection to the Kohberger case was reported in the Idaho Statesman on Tuesday. Her name has been redacted from court documents. The woman's credibility as a witness is likely to be called into question because Pullman PD accused her of driving while under the influence of drugs. The outcome of that DUI case is not clear. The woman initially pulled over for driving a pickup truck with expired registration tags. Court records show that Kernodle received a DoorDash order at approximately 4am on Nov. 13. The order was from a Jack in the Box chain in Pullman, across the Idaho state line. Prosecutors have stated they believe the murders of the Idaho Four took place during a 13-minute window between 4.07am and 4.20am. That's when surveillance footage captured what police allege was a white Hyundai Elantra in the home's vicinity, matching the description of a vehicle owned by Kohberger. The unnamed woman's account of delivering DoorDash to Kernodle matches the chain of events shared in recent court filings. Additionally, a private investigator who worked on behalf of the Goncalves family told them the DoorDash driver was female, Steve Goncalves, Kaylee's father, reportedly told the Statesman. The surprise emergence of the DoorDash driver comes ahead of a hearing Wednesday, where Judge Steven Hippler will address the defense's request to once again delay Kohberger's trial. In an 11th-hour move, Kohberger's defense is asking the judge to delay the trial, citing a recent Dateline episode that revealed bombshell new details and pointed to a potential evidence leak in the case. In the show, released in early May, the suspected killer's phone records, porn habits and online searches for Ted Bundy were revealed for the first time. Dateline also aired never-before-seen surveillance footage of a suspect vehicle fleeing the horrific crime scene on November 13, 2022. The defense argued that they need more time to effectively prepare for trial and investigate Kohberger's 'life story' ahead of the potential penalty phase. Prosecutors, however, are pushing for the trial to commence in August as planned. They emphasize the importance of the victims' families receiving justice without further delay. If the trial goes ahead as planned, jury selection will begin in late July or early August, with the trial beginning on August 11. Kohberger, 30, who is from Pennsylvania, was studying for a Ph.D. in criminology at Washington State University, just a 10-mile drive from the King Road, at the time of the murders. He faces four counts of first-degree murder and one of felony burglary. If convicted, Kohberger faces the death penalty.
