Idaho Murders Suspect Bryan Kohberger Followed Female Victims on Instagram, Report Claims

Bryan Kohberger followed the three female victims killed in the Idaho quadruple homicide on Instagram, according to a new report.

people magazine claimed Thursday that an account associated with Kohberger followed Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Xana Kernodle, who were murdered along with Ethan Chapin in November.

However, none of the victims followed Kohberger, who has been charged with her murder.

It comes as investigators seek links between the alleged killer and the victims in the case, University of Idaho students who were stabbed to death in an off-campus home on November 13.

A variety of fake Instagram accounts claiming to be Kohberger have proliferated since his arrest late last month, but People cited a source who claimed to be familiar with the criminology grad student’s real account.

Kohberger allegedly followed Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle (left together) and Kaylee Goncalves (right) who were murdered along with Ethan Chapin in November.

The magazine did not name the account, but said it has since been removed from the service, a step Instagram’s parent company Meta typically takes for high-profile violent crime suspects.

According to Fox Digital NewsKohberger’s Instagram account may have been @crim.kohberger, due to the fact that it was removed from Instagram, while several obvious troll accounts remain.

Kohberger allegedly messaged one of the female victims repeatedly two weeks before the slayings, but she did not respond, an investigator familiar with the case previously told People.

“Slid into one of the girls’ DMs multiple times, but she didn’t respond,” the person said.. ‘Basically, it was just him saying, ‘Hello, how are you?’ But she did it over and over again.

The DMs were allegedly sent in October, just weeks before the November 13 murders.

Kohberger has maintained his innocence in the killings and has said through a lawyer that he hopes to be exonerated.

Kohberger, a criminology doctoral student at Washington State University, was arrested at his family’s home in Allbrightsville, Pennsylvania, on December 30.

He has maintained his innocence in the murders and has said through a lawyer that he hopes to be exonerated.

On Tuesday, unsealed court documents revealed that investigators seized stained bedding, locks of what appeared to be hair and a single glove, but no weapon, when they searched Kohberger’s student apartment at WSU.

Investigators found nothing noteworthy in Kohberger’s office at WSU, where he was a teaching assistant and criminology graduate student.

They took 15 items from his apartment on campus, including a black nitrite-type glove, scraps of a pillow with a reddish-brown stain, and a stained mattress cover.

Police searched Kohberger’s apartment in Pullman, Washington, looking for evidence about the ongoing investigation.

A new search warrant reveals that police found several strands of hair, including possible animal hair, a black glove, a computer tower, and an item that was a “collection of dark red spots.”

The Washington State University Police Department searched the apartment on December 30, the same day Kohberger was arrested at his parents’ home in eastern Pennsylvania.

Court documents show that eight strands of hair were recovered from the apartment, as well as a “possible” animal hair.

They also recovered a Fire TV device during their search. All items are now stored at the Washington State University Police Department.

Authorities reportedly said they wanted to see if any hair had been “transferred” to Kohberger and then back to her apartment, including from Kaylee Goncalves’ dog, Murphy.