Welcome back to the news at 4.
The man accused of murdering 4
University of Idaho students lived in
the northwest for only a few months.
He spent most of his years on the East Coast,
so that's where Chris Engles,
from our sister station in Seattle, went.
He uncovered new information about
how police and prosecutors in
Pennsylvania are responding to the case.
We're in eastern Pennsylvania.
Brian Koberger spent his teenage years
and most of his adult life here.
That includes stints.
At 2 local colleges including Desales.
Now police and prosecutors in
this area want to know what he
was up to all those years and are
digging into their cold case files.
Just outside the open wilderness and
resort towns of the Pocono Mountains.
Lies a neighborhood called the Birches. It's
just a very quiet community.
These are the streets and accused
killer once roamed as a teenager.
I've definitely seen it on TV. Who hasn't
now? Lynn Klein and others in the
Pennsylvania communities where Brian
Koberger lived until last year want
to know if he could have committed any
crimes before he was charged with the
murders at the University of Idaho.
Because anybody or any family
that's been harmed or done wrong to
deserves to know the truth. It isn't
just citizens. Police and prosecutors
have asked the same question.
Your natural reaction
is to start wondering,
OK, is this guy wanted,
is his name out there?
Did he do anything here
in Northampton County?
Terence Houck is District Attorney
of Northampton County and leads an
office of more than 20 prosecutors
and a half dozen detectives.
It's here at Northampton Community
College where Brian Koberger took his
first courses in higher education,
graduating here in 2018.
After Koberger's arrest
for the Idaho murders,
Northampton County's District
Attorney ordered a review of
unsolved cases in his county.
We have a crime Information Center
that that compiles information
of people's description, size,
weight, height, method of operation,
things of that nature. Obviously,
you wonder whether or not
there was any criminality that.
Be committed here in Lehigh
County or in the environs.
Jim Martin, District Attorney of
the neighboring county Lehigh,
also ordered a review of unsolved cases.
Lehigh County is home to Desales University,
which Coburger attended after
Northampton Community College.
He spent four years here studying
criminal justice Ryan Koberger,
earning a Masters degree last summer.
What does law enforcement do,
given that he did spend time here?
Well, we have a resource here
called the regional Intelligence
and Investigation Center.
It's the first thing I did was I asked that.
I asked the director of the Rick,
as we call it, to see if we
had any contact with Mr.
A data search of more than 6
million police incident reports
in Pennsylvania turned up only
one record with Coburger's name.
He called police from this bike
trail one night to report that his
car was locked behind a parked gate.
There was a response from
him thanking the police and
apologizing for the inconvenience.
The District Attorney in Monroe County,
Pennsylvania, where Koberger
grew up and where a SWAT team
arrested in him on December 30th,
did not respond to our questions.
But in Northampton and Lehigh counties,
both district attorneys say their
investigations have found no links
to Coburger and any unsolved cases.
So we have no unsolved homicides.
In any way, meet the modus operandi
of of this event out in Idaho.
There is nothing being
brought to my attention.
In fact, nothing with respect to
Kobe Burgers come come about in
our investigations of cold cases
or unsolved cases to this point.
And that should be some relief to
a community that's been stunned and
saddened by the murders of four
college students 2500 miles away.
It's a little close to home.
You just don't expect it.
So prosecutors say the bottom
line is there's no evidence
that Coburger committed any
crimes here in Pennsylvania.
In center Valley,
PA Chris Engles, KING5 news.
And KING5 was unable to reach the Coburger
family for comment for this story.
But the lawyer, who represented
Coburger only during the extradition
process in Pennsylvania,
did say Coburger looks forward
to being exonerated in Idaho.
Tonight on the news, at 10,
Chris Engels talks to one of
Coburger's former college classmates
about an upsetting experience
he had with the accused killer.