Accused Idaho Killer Bryan Kohberger Time and as soon as more Messaged Surely one of the most Victims on Instagram: Source

Two weeks sooner than the slayings of four College of Idaho college students final November, the man now accused of killing them sent a sequence of messages to at least one among the victims on Instagram, an investigator conversant within the case tells PEOPLE.

In late October, an memoir that authorities imagine belonged to Bryan Kohberger sent a greeting to at least one among the female victims, the source says. When he did now not obtain a reply, he sent a lot of more messages to her.

“He slid into one among the ladies’ DMs a lot of cases however she did now not acknowledge,” the source tells PEOPLE. “Fundamentally, it changed into exact him asserting, ‘Hiya, how are you?’ Nevertheless he did it many cases.”

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

More than a month later, authorities arrested Kohberger a 28-year-outmoded graduate student and teaching assistant at Washington Express College. He changed into charged with four counts of abolish and one rely of prison burglary.

Kohberger changed into arrested at his folks’ Pennsylvania home on December 30. He waived his extradition to Idaho, that formula he voluntarily agreed to come to the dispute to face the expenses in opposition to him. He changed into transported support to Idaho on Jan. 4.

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In keeping with the doable reason affidavit received by PEOPLE, one among the victims’ surviving roommates said she noticed the killer. The roommate described “a figure clad in sad garments and a conceal,” who walked past her because the person left the crime scene.

The affidavit furthermore alleged that Kohberger changed into linked to the crime scene from DNA and cell phone pings.

Authorities remain tight-lipped about the alleged motive within the attack. They’ve now not publicly talked about the relationship between Kohberger and the victims. Kohberger’s now-deleted Instagram memoir — which changed into seen by PEOPLE sooner than it changed into eradicated — adopted the accounts of Mogen, Gonclaves and Kernodle, however there changed into no public interaction.

It is unclear why Kohberger did now not obtain a response to his messages, however authorities sing that the sufferer would possibly perhaps well fair accept as true with overlooked them entirely.

“She would possibly perhaps well fair now not accept as true with seen them, because they went into message requests,” says the investigation source. (Instagram users are now not notified as soon as they safe a message from any individual they end now not practice support, and the messages promenade into a particular folder.) “We’re soundless making an try to determine how conscious the victims accept as true with been of his existence.”

“There would possibly perhaps be no indication that he changed into getting pissed off with her lack of response,” the source provides, “however he changed into surely chronic.”

Kohberger has now not but entered a plea. His next listening to is now not till June 26. His attorney has now not returned PEOPLE’s messages for comment.