Cops investigated Bryan Kohberger for eerily similar break-in at Washington house of college girls year before University of Idaho killings

University of Idaho killer he pleaded guilty to last month, according to newly released documents.

Cops in Pullman — where Kohberger later attended Washington State University — investigated him after an Oct 2021 report that a knife-wielding masked man broke into a house of four sorority sisters at 3:30 a.m. and stood over one of their beds, according to documents released by the City of Pullman.

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A 20-year-old student was startled in the middle of the night by a man in a burgundy ski mask with a knife entering her bedroom, the records showed.

The man, seemingly unaware she was awake, was then kicked by the student in the stomach, documents said.

The intruder fled without saying a word, the female student said.

Her roommate called the cops after being informed of the alarming break-in and hearing her scream.

The burglary occured over a year before Kohberger broke into an off-campus University of Idaho house of six coeds and stabbed three of them and one’s boyfriend to death in their beds.

After several leads in the Pullman case went cold, police eventually identified Kohberger as a possible suspect on Jan. 10, 2023 — two weeks after he was arrested for the murders in Moscow.

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The case had alarming similarities to the University of Idaho murders, which Kohberger later confessed to. The Idaho murders similarly occurred in the middle of the night at a home full of college students, and a knife was used to commit the heinous acts.

The Pullman intruder also wore a ski mask, which Kohberger supposedly wore during the Idaho murders, surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen previously told police.

The incident in Pullman occurred eight months before Kohberger moved to study criminology at Washington State University, but on the same weekend that the school’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology hosted an incoming students event.

However, the investigation into the Idaho killer was shut down over a week later after WSU officials said there was no record that Kohberger had attended such events, the documents said.

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The newly released documents also revealed that Kohberger had emailed back and forth with the Pullman chief of police about a Ph.D graduate research position.

He interviewed for the position in April 2022 and wrote a follow-up email to share his “excitement” regarding the position.

Kohberger is currently housed in a maximum security prison after being sentenced to four life terms for the slayings of Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.