BOISE, Idaho (NewsNation) — A DoorDash driver has told police she saw Bryan Kohberger at the crime scene just minutes before four University of Idaho students were killed, according to body camera footage that surfaced ahead of a key court hearing.
The woman, identified only as M.M. in court documents, made the statements during an unrelated DUI arrest in Pullman, Washington. During questioning at the police station, she told officers she would have to “testify in a big murder case” because she was “the DoorDash driver.”
DoorDash driver claims she saw Bryan Kohberger at scene
“I saw Bryan there. I parked right next to him,” the woman, 43, said in the interrogation footage, referring to the defendant charged in the November 2022 killings of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.
Opening statements in Kohberger’s trial are scheduled to begin Aug. 11. The woman said she delivered food to Kernodle at approximately 4 a.m., about 10 minutes before the killings occurred at the off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho.
The body camera footage was discovered by online investigators and journalists after being posted on YouTube.
Bryan Kohberger seeking trial delays
Kohberger’s defense team has sought delays due to media leaks and pretrial publicity.
Prosecutors have built their case around DNA evidence, cellphone data, surveillance video and witness descriptions. An eyewitness previously described seeing a man with bushy eyebrows leaving the scene.
Bryan Kohberger, accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, looks toward his attorney during a hearing in Latah County District Court on Jan. 5, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool, File) 
This photo released by the State of Idaho, which prosecutors claim to have been taken from Bryan Kohberger’s phone, shows Kohberger, accused of slaying four University of Idaho students, gesturing in a selfie on Nov. 13, 2022, reportedly hours after the homicides occurred. (State of Idaho via AP) 
Police released video of a traffic stop involving a man charged in connection with a quadruple murder in Idaho. (Hancock County Sheriff) 
University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle, right, and Ethan Chapin on a boat on Priest Lake in Idaho. Both students were among four found stabbed to death in an off-campus rental home on Nov. 13, 2022. (Jazzmin Kernodle via AP) 
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Questions remain about the credibility of the DoorDash driver’s account, given that she was arrested on DUI charges and appeared emotional during the police interview.
The defense team is expected to address media leaks and seek additional trial delays during a hearing Wednesday. The judge has previously indicated he may appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the source of leaks in the high-profile case.
Kohberger is accused of killing Goncalves, 22; Mogen, 21; Kernodle, 20; and Chapin, 20. The students were found with fatal stab wounds in an off-campus rental home in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022, authorities said.
Kohberger, a former doctoral student in criminology at Washington State University, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary. He could face the death penalty if convicted.