According to NBC News, which cites police papers, in the weeks leading up to and after the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.
At an off-campus residence, Bryan Kohberger reportedly browsed the internet for Ted Bundy and pornography showing nonconsensual sex.
According to the network, Kohberger conducted searches for pornography using the terms “forced,” “passed out,” “drugged,” and “sleeping.”
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Kohberger worked as a teacher’s assistant in an introductory criminology course before and after the killings, which may have had anything to do with the Bundy hunt.
He could have been able to locate the 1999 opinion piece his mother wrote about the serial murderer, which went viral after her son’s arrest.
At that point, Kohberger was behind bars and without a computer or mobile phone. Additionally, on Nov. 13, 2022, Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin,
20, were fatally stabbed. NBC News was able to get video evidence of a vehicle that looked identical to the one driven by Kohberger, recorded both before and after the stabbings.
Inside the house that Mogen, Goncalves, and Kernodle shared with their two surviving housemates, the four were discovered fatally stabbed.
According to the probable cause affidavit, after identifying a relative using DNA traces discovered on a knife sheath, detectives connected Kohberger to the murders.
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The position of Kohberger’s mobile phone on the night of the killings was also tracked by police. According to NBC News, Kohberger’s phone was reportedly linked.
To a tower that provided service within 100 meters of the murder home 23 times over the course of four months, according to cellular tower data and documents examined by an FBI specialist.
According to NBC News, the latest visit was just six days before to the deaths, and the phone always connected after nightfall.
Kohberger’s attorney, Anne Taylor, said in a petition outlining his alibi that the defendant did not kill the four victims and was driving alone the night of the killings.
The defense successfully petitioned for a change of venue, and Kohberger’s murder trial is scheduled to begin in Ada County on August 11. He may get the death penalty if found guilty.
The murder suspect previously said that he anticipates being exonerated at trial to the public defender who defended him after his arrest in Pennsylvania.
When he was officially charged with four counts of murder in an Idaho courtroom, he refused to make a plea, so the judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
Requests for comment were not answered by Latah County Prosecutor William Thompson or Taylor, who are barred from any remarks about the case by a non-dissemination order issued days after Kohberger’s arrest.
