Megyn Kelly

Their second concern, however, was an even more dangerous prospect.

Was the suspect armed?

Would someone who they believed had killed four people hesitate to kill again?

Would the highway cops become victims too?

Or would the suspect simply gun the Hyundai and race down the highway?

The spectacle of another OJ-like chase might be imminent.

In the end, none of the apprehensive watcher's anxieties came to fruition.

But a hard lesson, according to what other law enforcement officials heard, had been learned.

This case had to be wrapped up soon.

If not, anything could happen.

There were too many imponderables.

Time was not on their side.

In the antsy days following the Kohlberger's arrival, at last, in the Poconos, on the afternoon of December 16, the Moscow police suffered through variable moods.

There were bursts when there was no denying that a great push forward was underway.

Corporal Brett Payne, the PD's lead investigator, obtained a search warrant.

And then a day later, on December 23rd, he received those records of Kohlberger's cell phone for the 24 hours before and after the homicides, the ones we told you about earlier when we were quoting from the affidavit.

Just as the case was nearing the finish line, cops in Moscow moaned they had no choice but to hand it off to the Pennsylvania State Police.

Kohlberger was now on the state's playing field.

They'd be the ones who would take the ball over the goal line.

Major Chris Paris had been handpicked by the FBI to run the op for the state's, and he was a shrewd choice.