New particulars in regards to the convicted assassin’s cellphone exercise within the days after brutally slaying 4 College of Idaho college students have come to mild — making it very clear he had serial killers on the mind, even on Christmas Day.
Bryan Kohberger had homicide on his thoughts within the days and weeks after committing it himself.
Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, had been all brutally murdered by the convicted assassin on November 13, 2022 — and, within the month that adopted, he not solely looked for and downloaded data on a ton of serial killers, however stored tabs on the investigation into the College of Idaho slayings.
This week, digital forensics skilled Heather Barnhart opened as much as PEOPLE about a number of the data gleaned from Kohberger’s cellphone after her crew was introduced onto the case. Per Barnhart, it appeared Kohberger cleared his desktop laptop and onerous drive of downloads, however did not do the identical along with his Android cellphone.
“Individuals suppose in the event that they obtain issues whereas their browser is in incognito mode it stays personal, but it surely doesn’t,” Barnhart added, revealing how they found his on-line conduct.
A couple of week after the murders, on November 19, Kohberger downloaded data on Danny Rolling. Often known as the Gainesville Ripper, Rolling killed 5 school college students over 4 days again in 1990, sneaking into their houses in the midst of the night time, sexually assaulting a few of his victims, and stabbing them to dying with a Ka-Bar knife.
Whereas there is not any proof Kohberger assaulted his victims, he additionally broke into his victims’ residence beneath dusk and used the identical knife.
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Then, on Christmas Day, got here a wave of extra downloads, all pertaining to killers. On the time of the murders, Kohberger was finding out criminology at Washington State College.
Per Barnhart, he regarded up and downloaded data on Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, BTK Killer Dennis Rader, Betty Lou Beets, Randy Kraft, William Lee, Cody Neal, Danny Rolling, Joel Rifkin, Altemio Sanchez, Glen Rogers, Cary Stayner, Harvey Glatman, Paul Bernardo, Rodney Alcala, Robert Hansen, Gary Ridgeway, David Parker Ray, Cleophus Prince and Ed Kemper.
Between November 26 and December 28, Kohberger additionally downloaded updates on the Idaho murders from the Moscow Police Division — together with 4 completely different updates that final day, three days earlier than his arrest.
Kohberger was sentenced to 4 life phrases in jail with out the potential for parole, after pleading responsible in a plea deal that spared him the dying penalty.
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