'I think he's killed before': Experts speculate the possibility of 'calling card' left by Bryan Kohberger
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: Experts have suggested Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger is likely to have committed murder before and at the crime scene, he may have left behind a 'calling card'. The speculation was put forth at a 'Dr.Phil' special episode on Friday, January 13 where the experts convened to discuss the suspect's patterns and the evidence collected from the quadruple massacre.
Jonathan Gilliam, former FBI special agent expressed that investigators will locate the knife used for the grisly murders as he thinks it to be "part of his operational tools" as similar to the suspect's car. Suggesting that the suspect may have left the sheath in the murder home intentionally, Mercedes Colwin, the trial attorney further stated that they will find the weapon eventually. “It could be, I mean it’s almost as if – and we’ve seen this with other killers, it’s their calling card, ‘I got this,’” she said during the special," he said, reported the FOX News.
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He continued, “Especially if you think you’re smarter than everybody else, and he certainly – he had gloves, at least that’s what’s presumed, that he had gloves. He tried to cover himself, and did something to dispose of the clothing, if he in fact is the killer, then of course, this is something that could have just been a calling card and left it there.”
Speculations on Kohberger as a 'serial killer'
The experts at the discussion talked about the possibility of Kohberger being a serial killer as Gilliam speculated that the suspect may have committed murder before in a similar manner. “I think he’s killed before most likely. Not four people, but I think he’s probably stalked and potentially killed females before,” Gilliam said, to which Colwin added, “If he’s the killer, this viciousness, the brutality, and the butchering of these four individuals, I can’t imagine this is the first time if he is indeed the killer.”
Among the group convened at the episode is Joseph Scott, a forensics expert who opined that it could be the suspect's first murder and he thinks that it was not the first time the suspect has tried to find ways out of the wrongdoing. “Murder? Possibly. Bad act? No,” Scott responded when he was asked whether he thought it was the suspect's first murder.
Kohberger, 28, was taken into custody in connection to the November 13 brutal killings of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, at their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho. He was pursuing a PhD in criminology at Washington University, Pullman which is around nine miles (15 km) west of Moscow, Idaho, where the slain students resided.
Notably, Kohberger is scheduled to appear for a preliminary status on June 26.