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Cops probe whether Bryan Kohberger had prior contact with female victims, reveals ex-FBI agent

Months after the gruesome Idaho murders, it was revealed that Bryan Kohberger had pictures of one of the female victims on his phone

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MOSCOW, IDAHO: New court documents have revealed that a probe is underway to find out if there was any contact between Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger and his three female victims over a year before he brutally murdered them. Kohberger, 28, has been accused of fatally stabbing University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in their off-campus three-story rented home on November 13, 2022. He was arrested in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, on December 30, 2022.

The Facebook and Twitter search warrants have a start date for the search of June 2022. However, cops are looking into a longer period to determine whether the suspect had any contact with Kaylee, Xana, and Madison over TikTok 22 months before the murders.

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'Did BK have a nexus w/his victims?'

The search warrant reportedly requested messages, records, files, and logs for their accounts. Authorities sought records of those that were deleted too. Police were looking at the photos linked to the accounts, as well as location data, including geotags. They were also examining all of the people they followed, unfollowed, and blocked.

Taking to Twitter, FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer pointed out, "Interesting how far the SWs went back in time? Why 1/2021? Did #BryanKohberger somehow meet #Kaylee or #maddie on a possible school visit early on? What made BK choose WSU? Did BK have a nexus w/his victims sooner than we thought?"

Bryan Kohberger had photos of victim on his phone

Months after the gruesome Idaho murders, it was revealed that Kohberger had pictures of one of the female victims on his phone. A phone belonging to Kohberger was collected after his arrest, in which authorities discovered pictures of the victim. It is unclear if the photos were taken by Kohberger or downloaded from the victim's social media.

"He had more than one picture of her," a source told People, adding, "It was clear that he was paying attention to her." In the past that two weeks before the murders, Kohberger sent a series of messages to one of the victims on Instagram, as reported by People. He reportedly had a clean report apart from a drug problem. He was a PhD student in Washington State University’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology.

It has been revealed that Kohberger returned to the crime scene area and may even have stalked the home of his victims about 12 times before the attack. His cell phone pinged its location in the area of the house where the crimes were committed at around 9 am on November 13, which was just five hours after he killed the students. He now reportedly plans to fight the probable cause evidence in a June 26 preliminary hearing, according to his attorney Kootenai County Public Defender Anne Taylor.