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The suspect in the Idaho murders, Bryan Kohberger, dined at a Greek restaurant where two of the students he is accused of killing worked as waitresses, according to reports.
Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle, who were stabbed to death at their off-campus home in November along with two other University of Idaho students, had worked at the Mad Greek restaurant in Moscow for years.
A former employee has now revealed that Kohberger, who was arrested and charged with the murders, visited the restaurant in the lead up to his death at least twice and ate vegan pizza.
The revelation is the latest in a series that suggests Kohberger may have been harassing the students. An Instagram account apparently associated with the suspect emerged Thursday who had followed three of the victims: Mogen, Kernodle and Kaylee Goncalves.
The three girls were killed along with Ethan Chapin on Nov. 13 after an intruder wearing a mask entered the home at night and attacked them with a fixed-blade knife.
Bryan Kohberger visited Mad Greek restaurant on at least two occasions and ate vegan pizza
Madison Mogen (left) and Xana Kernodle (right) had worked at the restaurant for years.
The former employee said People that Kohberger’s visits to the restaurant weren’t suspicious, but noteworthy because he wanted to make sure no animal products had come into contact with his food.
At the end of December a relative told him the new york post office Kohberger is ‘OCD’ for his eating habits and forced his family to buy new pots that had not been used to cook meat.
“I was beyond being vegan. His aunt and uncle had to buy new pots and pans because he wouldn’t eat anything that had meat cooked in it,” the relative said.
In early January, the Latah County Jail in Idaho said it would try to accommodate his dietary preferences but was “not going to buy new pots and pans.”
Kohberger is known to have an “OCD” attitude towards food and often does not eat food that has come in contact with pots and pans used to cook meat.
The restaurant’s owner, Jackie Fisher, said her staff are “shocked” after learning of their colleagues’ deaths.
“All I can say at this time is that we are all deeply saddened by the loss of Maddie and Xana,” restaurant owner Jackie Fisher told Fox News, “All the workers are in shock right now.”
It’s unclear if any of the girls served Kohberger during any of her visits to the restaurant.
An investigator confirmed to People that authorities are aware of those visits and have interviewed restaurant staff. They also reportedly requested surveillance footage of both the restaurant and nearby businesses.
Mad Greek restaurant is on Main Street in the center of Moscow. Earlier in the week, four white candles, one for each of the victims, were placed on a table outside the restaurant.
A table outside the restaurant had four white candles, one for each of the victims.
The connection between Kohberger and the restaurant appears to have been established as investigators scramble to identify any possible interaction between him and the victims.
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.
The magazine did not name the account, but said it has since been removed from the service, an action Instagram’s parent company Meta typically takes against 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.
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.”
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 and said through a lawyer that he hopes to be exonerated.
On Tuesday, unsealed court documents revealed that investigators had seized stained bedding, locks of what appeared to be hair and a single glove, but no weapon, when they searched her WSU student apartment.
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.