Bryan Kohberger case: Surviving roommate 'was scared to death' after encounter with suspect, attorney says

MOSCOW, Idaho — A roommate who survived the Nov. 13 quadruple homicide near the University of Idaho campus "was able to give some additional identification" about the suspect to police, an attorney representing Kaylee Goncalves' family said Saturday.

Attorney Shanon Gray told Fox News' "Cavuto Live" the roommate, one of two who survived the gruesome attack, "is still a victim in this case."

"And the fact that she was able to give some additional Identification I think it beneficial in this case. She was able to give kind of type and build and what [the suspect] looked like a little bit — bushy eyebrows, things along those lines," he said. 

The roommate identified only as D.M. in an affidavit released Tuesday "opened her door for the third time" that Sunday morning "after she heard the crying and saw a figure clad in black clothing and a mask that covered the person's mouth and nose walking towards her."

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"D.M. described the figure as 5' 10" or taller, male, not very muscular, but athletically built with bushy eyebrows," the affidavit states.

After the suspect apparently walked past D.M. as she stood frozen by her door on the second floor of the home, the suspect walked toward the back sliding glass door, and "D.M. locked herself in her room after seeing the male," whom she did not recognize.

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A 911 call was placed from one of the roommate's phones later that day at 11:58 a.m. Police arrived around noon and located the four victims — Goncalves and Madison Mogen, both 21, and their 20-year-old roommate, Xana Kernodle, and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin.

The victims were stabbed to death with what investigators believe was a kind of "edged weapon" upon arrival. Investigators also discovered a tan leather Ka-Bar knife sheath beside Mogen's bed on the third floor, where she and Goncalves were stabbed to death. The sheath contained a single source of DNA that matched the suspect's profile, according to police.

The Moscow Police Department on Dec. 30 named Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old criminology Ph.D. student at nearby Washington State University in Pullman, as their main suspect in the case. Kohberger's vehicle, a 2015 white Hyundai Elantra, and his phone apparently tied him to the scene of the crime on the morning of Nov. 13. 

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Five days after the tragedy, on Nov. 18, Kohberger changed the license plate on his vehicle. 

A month after the Nov. 13 murders, surveillance footage captured the vehicle in Colorado. Indiana authorities stopped Kohberger twice on Dec. 15 before eventually letting him continue on to his parents' home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, where investigators recovered trash that contained DNA that "identified a male as not being excluded as the biological father of suspect profile."

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Gray said Goncalves' family was "relieved, initially, to find a suspect" and put a "name and a face to all of this stuff."

"No one knew anything about Kohberger until he was arrested," the attorney explained. "We didn't know anything until the name was given to the public. Obviously, since then, since we have a name and a face, I think all the families are going back and looking at if there [are] any connections between any of the victims in the case."

Police have not disclosed a motive for the murders.

A Latah County judge ordered Kohberger held without bond in the local jail during his initial hearing Tuesday morning.

House speaker drama: Democrat reads 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F**k' book on floor

While the House Republican conference was in turmoil Friday as GOP lawmakers struggled to cobble together enough votes to elect a speaker, California Congresswoman Katie Porter sat quietly on the other side of the aisle reading a book.

Poerter, dressed to match the books cover, was reading, "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k," making a not-so-subtle statement that captured how many Democrats were feeling after watching Republicans try and fail to elect a House speaker again and again over four days. 

The New York Times best-selling self-help book by Mark Manson argues that people need to stop thinking positively and learn to cope with bad situations in order to be happy, albeit in much more profane terms. 

Republicans were in a bad situation until an agreement was reached between McCarthy and the 20 GOP dissidents who demanded several concessions before lending him their support. The beleaguered California Republican was finally elected House speaker on the 15th ballot since Tuesday, winning over most of the holdouts while six anti-McCarthy Republicans voted "present" to let him win. 

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The price he paid is an agreement that will dramatically reshape the way the House of Representatives is run. 

McCarthy agreed to allow a single lawmaker to make a motion to elect a new speaker, returning to the way the House ran for decades before that practice was eliminated under former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He agreed to votes on term limits and the adoption of a budget resolution that balances the budget in 10 years, and a cap on fiscal year 2024 spending at FY 2022 levels.

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McCarthy agreed to reject any negotiations on spending with the Senate until the Senate passes its own spending bills. He agreed not to increase the debt limit without spending cuts or other fiscal reforms, to set up a committee to examine the weaponization of government against U.S. citizens, and to ensure no bills are brought up on the floor until at least 72 hours passed.

And he agreed to give three members of the House Freedom Caucus three seats on the House Rules Committee, which sets the terms of debate for all legislation headed to the House floor.

"The 15th time's the charm, apparently. Americans deserve more than House Republicans' inability to govern—and better than their proposed rule changes," Porter tweeted after McCarthy won the election. "Their agreement to weaken watchdogs, empower extremists, and tip the scales toward special interests betrays the American people."

Fox News' Peter Kasperowicz contributed to this report.