Bryan Kohberger kept bikini pics of students on phone, searched for disturbing porn — and a Britney Spears song
Bryan Kohberger’s phone contained pictures of bikini-clad students, Ted Bundy-esque selfies and searches for disturbing porn, according to a chilling new report.
The accused University of Idaho slasher also looked up the song “Criminal” by Britney Spears, NBC News’ “Dateline” reported.
In the weeks before Kohberger allegedly sneaked into an off-campus rental in Moscow, Idaho, and stabbed four students to death, he searched for dozens of photos of female students from Washington State and the University of Idaho in swimsuits. Pictures from some of those accounts were of pals or followers of Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Concalves and Madison Mogen, who were butchered in the middle of the night on Nov. 13, 2022.
Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, was also stabbed to death while sleeping — his legs “carved” with a blade, NBC News said.
In late September, Kohberger, who was a Ph.D. student in criminology from Washington State University, searched terms such as “Sociopathic Traits in College Student” and pornography containing keywords “drugged” and “sleeping,” the outlet said.
In October, he also searched “Can Psychopaths behave prosocially?” and in the days following the murders searched for “University of Idaho Murders,” the outlet reported.
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While authorities began the process of testing evidence from the scene in December, including DNA on the knife sheath in Mogen’s bedroom that pointed them to Kohberger, the accused killer took a jarring, creepy selfie inspired by a video of Bundy in a black hood, according to the outlet.
Kohberger also searched for the song “Criminal” by Britney Spears days prior to being caught.
He was arrested on Dec. 30, 2022 at his family’s home in Pennsylvania.
Newly revealed video also showed a white Hyundai Elantra resembling the one owned by Kohberger circling the block of the off-campus student house on the night of the murders.
A special segment airing the new evidence will premiere at 9 p.m. EST on NBC’s “Dateline.”
Kohberger faces four counts of murder and one count of burglary for the deaths of Goncalves, 21, Mogen, 21, Kernodle, 20, and Chapin, 20.
Two surviving roommates will testify at trial.
Kohberger has pleaded not guilty but could face the death penalty if convicted at his trial, set for August.
