Unconfirmed reporters reports leaked from Moscow, Idaho police investigators confirm that 28-year-old mass knife killer Bryan Kohberger tried to contact one of the four victims numerous times on Instagram, prompting no response from the victim. Kohberg’s gruesome stabbings occurred Nov. 13, 2022 with the help of a professional-grade KA-BAR knife, still not located by investigators. Kohberger did his research on his murder weapons, picking military-grade weapon, bound to inflict maximum injuries on victims. But the latest revelation about him contracting one of the victims several times by Instragrm begins to sketch out a motive for the Washington Statte Univ. criminal justice Ph.D. student. Kohberger left detectives at the crime scene and valuable piece of evidence, a sleeve from his KA-BAR knife from which they extracted valuable DNA evidence.
Armed with DNA evidence, crime scene investigators were able to track Kohberger down to his parents home in Poconos region of Pennsylvania. Leaving the KA-BAR sheath at the Moscow, Idaho rental property bedroom of at least one of the victims gave detectives what they needed to track down the killer. Of Kohberger’s four victims knifed to death Nov. 13, 2022, 21-year-olds Kaylee Gonslaves and Madison Mogen and 20-year-olds Xana Kernodlie and Ethan Chapman, at least one of the three women had repeated contract by Kohberger. So, while conjecture, Kohberger’s repeated rejection could have triggered his murderous rampage, resulting in the deaths of four innocent victims. When you look Kohberger’s use of a KA-BAR military-grade knife, he saw himself on a hand-to-hand combat mission to rescue his shredded ego from repeated rejections on Instagram.
FBI agents helped Moscow, Idaho detectives track Kohberger’s movement, before, during and after the murders, tracking his 2013 Hyundai Elantra, in the days before the Nov. 13, 2022 killing spree, noting that Kohberger change to plates within days after the murder. FBI officials monitored Kohberger Dec. 15, 2022 when he left his apartment in Pullman, Washington on a cross=country trip with his father to the family home in Albrightsbville, Pa.. Moscow, Idaho police, working with the FBI, carefully tracked Kohbergers whereabouts on his cell phone records, placing him in the rented home at the night of the murders. Cell phone records also show Kohberger going in his Hyundai, Elantra close to the rental home several times before the before the Nov. 13, 2022 murders. New information, not yet verified, that Kohberger contacted one of the victims on Instagram was especially incriminating.
Because Kohberger’s arraignment is set for June 5, the judge has a gag order on any information coming from detectives associated with the case. After his arrest Dec. 30, 2022 at his parent’s home, Kohberger waived his right to a speedy trial, letting the judge push back the arraignment until June 5, giving prosecutors has Kohberger’s defense attorney plenty of time to build their cases. New information, if true, about Instagram, indicates that Kohberger tried to contact one of the victims before his deadly rampage. One of the victim’s roommates the night of the murder was awakened to crying, apparently kept silent during the incident. Surviving roommate said she saw a man in a black hood with “bushy eyebrows,” certainly matching Kohberger’s description. No one interviewed the surviving roommate to ask why she didn’t call 911 on the night of the killings.
New of possible contract with one of the victims fills in a blank when it comes to motive. “Basically, it was just him [Kohberger] saying, ‘Hey how are you?’ But he did it again and again,” said the unnamed source, not yet independently verified. It certainly makes sense that Kohberger would not have randomly selected the victims’s house but knew the identity or whereabouts of at one of the victims. Beyond casing the house before the murders, the fact that he had repeatedly tried to contact one of the victims suggests, at the very least, he was invested in the crime scene. Whether Kohberger actually talked or dated one of the victims is anyone’s guess. What’s known now, if true, is that he tried to reach one of the victims on repeat occasions. Detectives want to determine motive, something that could make a big difference to a jury when the trial eventually begins.
DNA, cell phone records, CCTV surveillance and other tracking means help crime scene investigators point to the identity and whereabouts of mass and serial killers. Shannon Gray, Gonsalves family attorney, said that “no one” knew about Kohberger before the killings, something now must be questioned. “Any information that the families gather regarding connections to any of the victims will be turned over to the Moscow Police Department,” Shannon told Fox News Digital. Given all the DNA, cell phone data, CCTV surveillance and the new reports point toward Kohberger’s guilt. Whatever a good defense attorney can do with the evidence, it’s hard to refute that Kohberger used a military-grade KA-BAR knife, whether found or not, to commit the gruesome killings on Nov. 13., 2022. Investigators have plenty of time before the arraignment to piece together a solid case.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
