Brian Koberger Update: Pennsylvania man charged in Idaho college killings also wanted in another home invasion, police say

There is a new twist in Idaho College Murders case. Officials now say the suspect, Brian Koberger, was being investigated in connection with a previous home invasion.

Body camera footage obtained by ABC News shows police responding to an alleged home invasion a year before the killings, less than 10 miles from the off-campus home where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death.

A woman on body camera video tells police it was around 3:30 a.m. when a masked assailant entered her bedroom in Pullman, Washington, with a knife in his hand.

“I heard my door open and I looked over and someone was wearing a ski mask and had a knife,” the woman said. “And I kind of punched the (expletive) out of their stomachs. They flew into my closet, then ran out the door and up the stairs.”

According to the police report, she said the suspect was quiet the entire time, and although one of her roommates quickly called the police, officers found no suspect or evidence.

A few months later, Koberger was arrested for the murders of Cale Gonsalves, Madison Mogen Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in Moscow, Idaho. In this incident, the killer also allegedly had a knife, was wearing a mask, entered the house early in the morning and left silently.

Then, 13 days later, Koberger, who is from the Pennsylvania Poconos, was named a person of interest in the Pullman case.

“When you look at homicides in Idaho, one of the things detectives and agents do almost immediately is see if there are any other cases in the area that might have some similarities. For example, fingerprints, DNA, hair samples — anything you could either biologically, genetically, or with fingerprints, link this suspect to this particular burglary,” Brad Garrett, ABC News’ criminologist, told ABC News. & terrorism analyst.

But the woman described the Pullman suspect as 5-foot-3 by 5-foot-5, according to the report. However, Kochberger is six feet tall.

The report also shows that the Pennsylvania resident has not yet been enrolled at Washington State University or visited campus as a prospective graduate student.

Pullman police told ABC News that Koberger is no longer interested in the burglary, adding that “at this time, we have no reason or evidence to believe that he was involved in this theft.” This case is now closed but remains unsolved.

The question is now growing whether the defense will try to use it to cast doubt on the Koberger murder trial.

“No doubt Brian Koberger’s defense team will try to create reasonable doubt by pointing to an alternative suspect in the use of this alleged burglary, which raises the question of why the judge would admit this evidence when nothing in this case proves that Brian Koberger was not the killer,” said By Brian Buckmire, legal correspondent for ABC News.