Accused Idaho Killer Bryan Kohberger Time and again Messaged One among the Victims on Instagram: Provide

Two weeks earlier than the slayings of four College of Idaho students final November, the man now accused of killing them despatched a series of messages to one of the vital victims on Instagram, an investigator accustomed to the case tells PEOPLE.

In slack October, an tale that authorities think belonged to Bryan Kohberger despatched a greeting to one of the vital female victims, the provision says. When he didn’t earn a answer, he despatched several extra messages to her.

“He slid into one of the vital girls’ DMs several times nonetheless she didn’t acknowledge,” the provision tells PEOPLE. “On the total, it was exact him saying, ‘Hi there, how are you?’ But he did it persistently.”

Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were all stabbed to death in an off-campus condominium home in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13. A masked intruder entered the home and killed the four students with a mounted-blade knife.

Better than a month later, authorities arrested Kohberger a 28-year-extinct graduate pupil and instructing assistant at Washington Articulate College. He was charged with four counts of execute and one count of criminal burglary.

Kohberger was arrested at his other folks’ Pennsylvania home on December 30. He waived his extradition to Idaho, which suggests he voluntarily agreed to return to the teach to face the charges against him. He was transported support to Idaho on Jan. 4.

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In step with the seemingly device off affidavit got by PEOPLE, one of the vital victims’ surviving roommates said she seen the killer. The roommate described “a figure clad in shadowy clothing and a disguise,” who walked previous her because the person left the crime scene.

The affidavit also alleged that Kohberger was linked to the crime scene from DNA and cell phone pings.

Authorities live tight-lipped about the alleged motive in the assault. They possess got not publicly mentioned the connection between Kohberger and the victims. Kohberger’s now-deleted Instagram tale — which was viewed by PEOPLE earlier than it was eradicated — adopted the accounts of Mogen, Gonclaves and Kernodle, nonetheless there was no public interaction.

It’s unclear why Kohberger didn’t earn a response to his messages, nonetheless authorities negate that the victim might presumably presumably well also goal possess overlooked them utterly.

“She might presumably presumably well also goal not possess viewed them, because they went into message requests,” says the investigation provide. (Instagram customers need to not notified when they catch a message from somebody they execute not apply support, and the messages high-tail into a special folder.) “We’re peaceable making an are trying to settle how mindful the victims were of his existence.”

“There’ll not be any indication that he was getting frustrated alongside with her lack of response,” the provision provides, “nonetheless he was definitely continual.”

Kohberger has not yet entered a plea. His subsequent listening to will not be always unless June 26. His criminal professional has not returned PEOPLE’s messages for comment.