A veteran defense attorney in the state claimed that a slow but persistent trickle of leaks in the Idaho student murders case might have severe ramifications for prosecutors pursuing justice for four undergraduates discovered stabbed to death late last year.
While the case against Bryan Kohberger is now subject to a gag order being challenged in court, detectives, attorneys, victims, survivors, and their families are restricted in what they may say publicly about the case.
Idaho College Murders Investigation
"It's a major concern that this person is leaking information," said Edwina Elcox, the former attorney for "Cult Mom" suspect Lori Vallow, located in Boise, Fox News reported.
Too much exposure to the carefully watched national news story may leak the jury pool in Latah County, a rural area of farms and mountains in Northern Idaho where more than half of the population lives in Moscow, the college town where all four killed University of Idaho students resided.
The comments followed a series of reports in which unnamed law enforcement sources made claims about the stabbing suspect and the evidence against him, including that he allegedly had an extensive collection of photos of one of the victims on his phone and had sent at least one of them Instagram messages prior to the crime.
Many unidentified authority sources have released information about the suspect and the evidence against him. It was also revealed that Bryan Kohberger had a collection of images of one of the victims on his phone and had sent at least one of them an Instagram message before the incident.
Kohberger is suspected of slipping into the murder home early on November 13, at 4:00 a.m., after the victims were spotted partying in Moscow. Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, all 21, and Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, both 20, were reportedly stabbed to death by him, according to authorities.
According to the Latah County coroner, Cathy Mabbutt, all four were stabbed with a big knife many times. While some attempted to protect themselves during the horrifying assault, others may have perished while sleeping.
The police affidavit said Kohberger left behind a Ka-Bar sheath with his DNA on the snap. Authorities discovered a paternal DNA match in a garbage can at Kohberger's parents' residence on the opposite side of the nation. Kohberger is being detained at the Latah County Prison without bond. His next court hearing is scheduled on June 26, as per Meaww.
Idaho Murders Suspect Bryan Kohberger Had Addiction
Meanwhile, classmates of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger have disclosed how he fell prey to addiction, including convincing one of them to drive him to acquire heroin and needles. One alienated buddy stated that heroin "goofed him fairly badly," while others asserted that he was seeking "validation" in the drug scene while losing half his body mass and becoming more violent.
The suspect had no known connection to the victims, but when police checked his phone, they discovered many photographs of one of them. Casey Arntz, who graduated two years before Kohberger, said that the alleged killer began using drugs as an attempt to fit in since prior reports said he was an overweight outcast in high school.
Casey, 29, who belonged to the same circle of friends as Kohberger along with her younger brother Thomas, stated that the alleged murderer had exploited her to obtain narcotics. Kohberger attended school in Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania, a location with one of the highest overdose fatality rates and one of the states hardest-hit by the US opioid epidemic.
Kohberger's personality altered once he began taking narcotics, first with marijuana and then progressing to heroin. Simultaneously, he got obsessed with what he ate and began daily kickboxing, allowing him to lose more than 150 pounds from his 300-pound body.
Due to his rapid weight loss, he needed to get a belly tuck. Neighbor Jeremy Saba is claimed to have introduced heroin to Kohberger. In an August 2016 Facebook snapshot, Saba and Kohberger can be seen posing together, as per Daily Mail.
It had been around four months since Saba was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and possessing drug paraphernalia. It was previously disclosed that Kohberger used heroin with 31-year-old former classmate Rich Pasqua.
In December, Kohberger was caught at his parents' house in Chesnut, Pennsylvania, almost 2,500 miles from the location of the crime. Before his arrest, he was pursuing a PhD in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, located nine miles west of the University of Idaho in Moscow. He is no longer attending WSU.
Kohberger has not yet had the opportunity to enter a plea. Latah County Magistrate Judge Megan Marshall has imposed a blanket gag order on all attorneys and parties engaged in the case. The suspect is set to have a preliminary hearing on June 26, at which the judge will determine if there is sufficient evidence to support the criminal accusations.
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