Murder In Moscow: Did Bryan Kohberger Stalk Any Of His Victims Prior To The Murders?

Shortly after Bryan Kohberger’s arrest, a Daily Mail report cited an unnamed source who claimed investigators believed Kohberger had stalked at least some of the University of Idaho victims for weeks before the November 13, 2022 murders. According to the source, cellphone data allegedly showed Kohberger’s location overlapping with the movements of the victims on multiple occasions, leading the source to say that his phone had appeared to follow their “every move for weeks.” At the time, investigators had not publicly established whether Kohberger had ever directly interacted with Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle or Ethan Chapin, and no motive had been announced. The report therefore presented an early and potentially significant theory: that the killings might have followed a period of surveillance or fixation rather than having been completely random. The stalking claim, however, had been based on unnamed-source reporting and had not been independently verified at that point.

The same source also claimed that Kohberger had behaved as though he was extremely conscious of leaving behind fingerprints or DNA after the killings. While investigators had been surveilling him at his family’s Pennsylvania home, an officer reportedly followed Kohberger into a Giant grocery store and observed him wearing gloves throughout the visit. Other later reports described him wearing surgical or latex gloves around the house and handling trash in ways that investigators considered potentially significant. The Daily Mail source characterized Kohberger as careful and methodical, suggesting that he understood forensic evidence well enough to take precautions after the crime. At the time, those details had added to the emerging portrait of a criminology doctoral student who may have been applying his knowledge of criminal investigations to avoid detection, although the glove-wearing and alleged stalking behavior alone had not established what happened inside 1122 King Road or why the four students were killed.

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