Bryan Kohberger saw a news article about a white Hyundai Elantra having been identified as a suspect vehicle in the Idaho student murders and immediately panicked, according to the forensic team that analyzed his phone.

“I think the vehicle was a huge stress point for him, because he had registered it to park there,” said Jared Barnhart, who along with his wife Heather works at the digital forensics firm Cellebrite. “He had a PDF download of like a list of Hyundai Elantras for the university, you know, and you can see this long list of cars.”

Kohberger was attending Washington State University, just 10 miles from the crime scene adjacent to the University of Idaho, and had been pulled over driving near both campuses in the weeks before the murders.

The car was still on his mind in t

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