Convicted assassin Bryan Kohberger didn't delete photographs from his cellphone previous to his arrest for the killings of 4 College of Idaho college students.
Investigators found that Kohberger's picture roll contained shirtless selfies in addition to downloaded photographs of ladies who have been both totally nude or sporting bikinis, digital forensics skilled Heather Barnhart instructed People in a narrative revealed on Friday, August 15.
“Plenty of him posing half bare within the mirror whereas flexing,” Barnhart mentioned, noting that she didn't know if Kohberger, 30, had despatched these photos to anyone.
He had additionally photographed his 2016 white Hyundai Elantra, which he drove the evening he murdered Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin on November 13, 2022.
“Very useless, like American Psycho,” Barnhart remarked of the photographs, referencing the 2000 movie starring Christian Bale as a serial killer.
In one other selfie, Kohberger gave the thumbs-up whereas standing within the toilet of his condo on the Washington State College campus. That picture was taken after he had stabbed the scholars to loss of life for unknown causes.
Barnhart mentioned that Kohberger's picture assortment featured no photographs of the victims nor any of family and friends.
The previous criminology pupil was sentenced in July to 4 consecutive life sentences — one for every murder — and an extra 10 years for housebreaking.
He had been arrested in December 2024 and charged with the murders after police discovered proof together with a knife sheath left on the crime scene that contained contact DNA that led again to him.
He initially pleaded not responsible, however later submitted a responsible plea in trade for eradicating the loss of life penalty as punishment.
On Friday, Idaho jail officers responded to his complaints of being bullied in jail.
“We're conscious of Kohberger's complaints about what he considers taunting,” an Idaho Division of Corrections spokesperson instructed People in a press release. “Incarcerated people generally talk with one another in jail.”
The spokesperson added that Kohberger is “housed alone in a cell” on the Idaho Most Safety Establishment in Kuna, Idaho, and famous that “safety employees keep a protected and orderly setting for all people in our custody.”
Earlier this week, Chris McDonough, a retired murder detective, alleged that Kohberger's fellow inmates have been “driving him loopy” and “tormenting him at evening and nearly all hours of the day — taunting him by means of the vents in his cell. They're actually getting up into the grate and yelling at him. The inmates are taking it in turns doing it. It's relentless.”
