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Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s ‘sick social experiment’ examined by experts: ‘Mind-blowing’
Experts discussed damning evidence posted to social media by the suspect of the Idaho murders on “Dr. Phil” Thursday.
University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death in the early hours of Nov. 13 in Moscow, Idaho. Bryan Kohberger, a Ph.D. student in criminology at nearby Washington State University, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary for the quadruple homicide.
Dr. Phil encouraged his guests to take a look at a survey written by Kohberger and posted on Reddit. In the survey, purportedly for his graduate program, Kohberger asked criminals about how they planned and executed their crimes, with some phrasing that made Dr. Phil and his guests balk.
He asked criminals to recount, “Did you struggle or fight the victim? How did you travel and enter the location that the crime occurred?” The suspect also asked, “What was the first move you made in order to accomplish your goal?”
Dr. Phil hosted an episode about the suspect of the Idaho murders.
IDAHO MURDERS: VETERAN DEFENSE ATTORNEY LAYS OUT CASE BRYAN KOHBERGER TEAM COULD MAKE, ‘HOLES’ IN AFFIDAVIT
Trial attorney Mercedes Colwin suggested the Reddit survey would be used against Kohberger in court.
“If you match up that survey against that affidavit, it’s mind-blowing,” she said. “The very first question he asked in that survey, where he’s trying to ask about the emotions that people are feeling when they’re committing crimes, is, ‘how did you target your victims?’ Well, you go back to the affidavit, and they go back to the 12 pingings of his phone in and around that [crime scene].”
She also noted a second time when he appeared to follow criminals’ advice.
“The second step, ‘but what did you do in preparation for the crime.’ Well, if he’s in fact the killer, obviously is only a suspect, he turns the phone off,” she noted. “We know in the affidavit it says that phone turned off for the duration of the time that he allegedly traveled to the home, committed the crimes. And then only until he was back on the highway, did the phone go back on.”
She observed, “All these steps that he asked these criminals in the survey, he seems to have duplicated in the affidavit, according to law enforcement,” but then she asked, if he is the killer, “What are we looking at? A sick social experiment?”
Dr. Phil speaks with his guests on an episode about the Idaho murder suspect.
IDAHO MURDERS SUSPECT BRYAN KOHBERGER WILL CHALLENGE EVIDENCE, LAWYER SAYS
Dr. Phil suggested, “I think part of it is he’s wanting to live vicariously through it, and part of it is he’s wanting to know what to expect, because ‘I don’t have normal emotions and I don’t want to panic, I need to know what to expect, what to think.’ That’s odd. He’s asking odd questions.”
Senior reporter for DailyMail.com Caitlyn Becker focused on the way the survey was phrased.
“The word ‘goal’ stands out for me, too. ‘How did you achieve your goal?’ I have goals, we all have goals, they’re positive things, they’re not crimes, for the most part,” she said. “So the fact that he is talking to criminals about their crimes, and describing them as goals, definitely struck me as odd, and that the person who’s writing that question finds crime to be something to aspire to.”
Dr. Phil said that Kohberger’s professor had said these are typical questions for a criminology student, but said, “in the context and timing in which he does them, I don’t believe in coincidence.”
Former FBI Special Agent Jonathan Gilliam said to Dr. Phil, “The absence of evidence is often proof,” to a degree, of “guilt,” because a criminal deliberately covered their tracks to make themselves appear innocent.
Dr. Phil shows his audience the Reddit survey posted by the Idaho murder suspect.
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“Because when he turned his cellphone off, when he turned it back on, those are the absence of the cellphone, but you still have the videotape of the car, is actually proof that he was structuring his behavior in a way as not to get caught,” he said.
Colwin suggested, “He just thought he was smarter than everybody else. I think that’s where it flows from.”
Idaho college murders – update: Police call logs show reports of ‘suspicious’ men as five vehicles examined
Video shows mystery man with slain Idaho students
Moscow residents have called 911 multiple times to report “suspicious” men and other disturbing incidents in the small, college town in the two weeks since four University of Idaho students were brutally stabbed to death in an off-campus home.
The Independent’s analysis of police call logs revealed chilling complaints including a man carrying a knife, a person “wearing a black ski mask”, a “male outside taking photos of the upper floors” of a home and reports from people believing that someone has tried to enter their home.
In one particularly chilling call, a caller said that a man had given their daughter a note on the back of a receipt at her workplace with the warning: “You better watch out.”
In another, the caller said that a man was “walking around taking down the posters with the tip line information” – believed to be the tip line for the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kerndole and Ethan Chapin.
While several of the reports appear to be disturbing, they also reveal how the community is racked by fear as no arrests have been made and no suspects named in the case.
Man spotted taking down tip posters
A “suspicious” man was spotted taking down tip posters around Moscow, according to a 911 call.
In one 911 call, the caller told police that they had seen a “suspicious” man walking around removing posters with information about a tip line last Tuesday.
It’s not clear exactly what tip line that was, but there is a good chance it was the Moscow Police Department’s tip line at 208-883-7180, which has been advertised in connection with this month’s murders.
Rachel Sharp30 November 2022 05:00
Victim’s family fears killer will attend daughter’s funeral
The devastated father of victim Kaylee Goncalves has revealed the family’s fears that their daughter’s killer would show up at her funeral.
Steve Goncalves told ABC News that the family have so far declined to hold a funeral service for the 21-year-old as the killer or killers’ identity remains unknown.
“My wife’s biggest fear, part of the reason we didn’t have a funeral, is because she couldn’t be guaranteed that that monster was going to not be there,” he said.
Now, 16 days into the murder investigation, no suspects have been identified, no arrests made and the murder weapon has not been found.
The Independent’s Graeme Massie has more:
Megan Sheets30 November 2022 04:30
‘You can’t imagine sending your girl to college and they come back in an urn’: Victim’s father speaks out
The grieving father of victim Kaylee Goncalves has spoken of the horror of proudly sending his daughter off to college only for her to have her “come back in an urn”.
Steve Goncalves told ABC News: “You can’t imagine sending your girl to college and they come back … in an urn.
“You’re numb … you can’t absorb that amount of pain and agony.”
He paid tribute to Goncalves, 21, as his “bonus child” who was always there for people and also paid tribute to her best friend Madison Mogen who was part of the family.
“When you’re sick and you’re down and you’re out, you want to have that one great friend that’s always there for you – and that’s what they had,” he said. “There is no Kaylee without Maddie.”
HIs daughter was planning to move to Texas when she was killed, he said, adding that she had considered a move to Chicago but he and his wife worried it wasn’t safe enough.
“She was going places. She was highly motivated,” he said. “I hope people understand how all these kids … were doing everything right and they were going to be the type of people that you want to be your neighbour.”
Rachel Sharp30 November 2022 04:00
Campus security ramped up as students return
Campus security has been ramped up across the University of Idaho as students returned to Moscow on Monday following the Thanksgiving break.
Those who returned are changing their habits and ramping up security around their homes.
The Independent revealed how locksmiths have been facing increased demand in the wake of the murders and a former student has raised money for around 1,900 personal alarms for students.
The small college town had emptied out in the wake of the murders – and with no suspects identified, no arrests made and the murder weapon still not found many students are not returning.
Students have only two weeks of classes left before the university term ends for the winter recess.
College officials prepared for the fact that some students would continue to stay remote until at least the new year, vowing to take a flexible approach to learning.
“Faculty have been asked to prepare in-person teaching and remote learning options so that each student can choose their method of engagement for the final two weeks of the semester,” Scott Green, university president, said in a statement last week.
Rachel Sharp30 November 2022 03:30
University of Idaho alumna raises $20,000 for personal alarms for students
A University of Idaho alumna has raised almost $20,000 in donations to buy 1,900 personal alarms for terrified students living in Moscow with a murderer at large.
Kerry Ulhorn, a 37-year-old former member of the Delta Gamma sorority, told The Independent that she wanted to help students feel safe in the college town after four sorority and fraternity members were stabbed to death in a brutal knife attack back on 13 November.
“The hope is that these will give the students on campus a small sense of security and also just let them know that their alumni and others deeply care about keeping them and the university that we love a safe space for them to be,” she said.
Two weeks have now passed since Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were brutally murdered in the off-campus home that the three female students shared.
No suspects have been identified, no arrests have been made and the murder weapon is still nowhere to be found, leaving residents in the notoriously safe area on edge.
Rachel Sharp30 November 2022 03:00
Victim was having ‘normal night’ before murder, says fellow student
A University of Idaho student has revealed that she saw one of the victims enjoying a “normal night” out just hours before she was brutally murdered in her rental home.
Madison Moye told Fox News Digital that Madison Mogen spent much of the night of 12 November at The Corner Club bar in downtown Moscow.
Ms Moye, a 21-year-old sophomore and fellow member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, said that she saw nothing out of the ordinary, with Mogen “laughing with all her friends” at the sports bar.
“It was just a normal night in Moscow,” she said.
“Moscow is a safe place. Nothing like this ever happens … I didn’t think anything of it.”
Ms Moye lives in a home behind the murder house and said that she knew the victims and had visited their house to “hang out” with them. Mogen and Xana Kernodle were both members of Pi Beta Phi
The close proximity from her home to the crime scene left her wondering if the killer might have passed through her yard, she admitted.
“It’s definitely something that’s crossed my mind and that’s really terrifying,” she said.
Rachel Sharp30 November 2022 02:30
Investigators still unable to rule whether Kaylee Goncalves had stalker
Investigators have still been unable to rule out the possibility that one of the victim’s – Kaylee Goncalves – had a stalker.
Goncalves, 21, reportedly confided in friends before her death that she believed she was stalked by someone.
The identity of the alleged stalker is not known.
Last week, police said that they were looking into the theory but had been unable to either confirm or deny it.
In an update on Sunday, Moscow Police revealed that – despite “hundreds” of tips about the suspected stalker – they are still at something of a loss.
“Investigators have looked extensively into information received about Kaylee having a stalker. They have pursued hundreds of pieces of information related to this topic but have not verified or identified a stalker,” police said in a press release.
“Anyone with information about a potential stalker or unusual instances is asked to contact the tip line.”
Rachel Sharp30 November 2022 02:00
Ethan Chapin’s friends’ touching floral tribute:
Friends of Ethan Chapin have been planting tulips in memory of the slain student who used to work in the fields in Skagit Valley.
Chapin’s former boss Andrew Miller and former coworker Reese Gardner told King5 that they are planting thousands of tulip bulbs across Conway and Mount Vernon where the 20-year-old grew up as well as at the University of Idaho.
The pair said that the gardens will be called “Ethan’s Smile” in his honour.
Mr Gardner said that he met the 20-year-old when they were colleagues on a local farm and said that he was struggling to comprehend his sudden death.
“He was one of the few people that there was nothing bad about him. He was 100% pure. He was honest, just a great person,” he said.
“It still is hard to believe, especially that something like that could happen. It’s an unbelievable thing that someone could do that.
“He made everyone’s lives a little bit better no matter what, and I just think something like that shouldn’t be forgotten,” he said, adding that his friend will now “always be here through the tulips”.
Mr Miller said that planting flowers in his memory is a way to “honor” and “remember” him every spring.
“Knowing I can be helping out and doing something that will help his remembrance is definitely helping me get through this,” he said, adding that he hopes it can help make “everyone’s lives a little bit better”.
Rachel Sharp30 November 2022 01:30
Moscow resident reported man with knife days after murders
A 911 call was made reporting a man with a knife just days after the four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their home while they slept.
The Independent’s analysis of police call logs revealed several chilling complaints had been made in the two weeks since the 13 November murders.
On 20 November – exactly one week on from the killings – a caller reported “a male on the side of the road carrying a knife in front of him, stretched out”.
Officers did not file a report about the incident.
Other 911 calls reported “suspicious” men being spotted in the areas.
Rachel Sharp30 November 2022 01:00
Lock shop can’t keep up with demand as Moscow residents ramp up security
Moscow Lock Shop can’t keep up with the demand for deadbolts.
The calls started coming in just hours after police discovered four University of Idaho students fatally stabbed on 13 November. Then the phone started ringing even more; by 17 November, the number of calls had reached 50 in a day.
“If you imagine that there’s two of us working, and then we’re going out and actually doing calls, and there’s 50 phone calls in one day … we’re not getting them all done,” locksmith Casper Combs, 28, tells The Independent, pointing out that it takes about an hour to install each deadbolt.
The Lock Shop has a waiting list “past Thanksgiving, that’s for sure,” he says. Most of the calls come from landlords and scared parents of students at UI, which is less than a mile away – “typically moms who are worried about their kids.”
“Little town Moscow doesn’t get a lot of drama, thank God,” says Mr Combs. “We’re lucky enough to live in a town where this type of thing is kind of so outlandish … everybody is just freaked out, and that’s all that they’re talking about.”
The Independent’s Sheila Flynn reports from on the ground in Moscow:
Guns, deadbolts and mass student exodus: Terror grips Idaho town after murders
Parents are ordering deadbolts, teens are asking for guns and the streets are empty in Moscow. There is a killer – or killers – on the loose, more than two weeks after four college students were murdered in their beds. Locals tell Sheila Flynn how fear is deepening as time goes by without any arrests and with little information from police
Rachel Sharp30 November 2022 00:30
Final minutes of Air France flight AF477 to be examined as trial opens | Plane crashes
The harrowing final minutes of the Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that went into freefall and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all 228 people on board, will be examined as a landmark trial opens in Paris on Monday.
Two aviation industry heavyweights – the airline Air France, and the aircraft maker Airbus – are being tried on charges of involuntary manslaughter for what was the worst plane crash in the French airline’s history.
It is the first time French companies have been directly placed on trial after an air crash, rather than individuals, and families’ lawyers battled for years to bring the case to court.
The crash on 1 June 2009 shook the world of air travel when flight AF477 disappeared from radars as it crossed the night sky during a storm over the Atlantic between Brazil and Senegal. The Airbus A330 had vanished without a mayday sign.
Days later, debris was found in the ocean, but it took nearly two years to locate the bulk of the fuselage and recover the “black box” flight recorders. The unprecedented French search effort involved combing 17,000 sq km of ocean bed at depths of up to 4,000 metres for over 22 months.
The plane had been carrying 12 crew members and 216 passengers from 33 different nationalities, all of whom were killed.
Planes most often crash on land and the AF477 ocean crash came to be seen as one of a handful of accidents that changed aviation. It led to changes in safety regulations, pilot training and the use of airspeed sensors.
The trial will hear extensive detail from the final, fatal minutes in the cockpit as the confused captain and co-pilots fought to control the plane.
As the plane approached the equator on its way to Paris, it had entered a so-called “intertropical convergence zone” that often produces volatile storms with heavy precipitation. As a storm buffeted the plane, ice crystals present at high altitudes had disabled the plane’s airspeed sensors, blocking speed and altitude information. The automatic pilot functions stopped working.
The 205-tonne jet went into an aerodynamic stall and then plunged.
“We’ve lost our speeds,” one co-pilot is heard saying in the flight recordings, before other indicators mistakenly show a loss of altitude, and a series of alarm messages appear on the cockpit screens. “I don’t know what’s happening,” one of the pilots says.
The historic trial will consider the role of the airspeed sensors and the pilots.
Daniele Lamy, president of the victims’ group, Entraide et Solidarité, told AFP: “We expect an impartial and exemplary trial so that this never happens again, and that as a result the two defendants will make safety their priority instead of only profitability.”
Air France and Airbus face potential fines of up to €225,000 – a fraction of their annual revenues – but they could suffer damage to their reputations if found criminally responsible.
Both companies have denied any criminal negligence, and investigating magistrates overseeing the case dropped the charges in 2019, attributing the crash mainly to pilot error.
That decision infuriated victims’ families, and in 2021 a Paris appeals court ruled there was sufficient evidence to allow a trial to go ahead.
“Air France … will continue to demonstrate that it did not commit any criminal negligence that caused this accident, and will request an acquittal,” the airline said in a statement to AFP.
Airbus, maker of the A330 jet that had been put into service just four years before the accident, did not comment before the trial but has also denied any criminal negligence.
Claim Tory Lanez Assaulted Singer August Alsina Being ‘Thoroughly Examined’ by L.A. Prosecutors – Rolling Stone
As Tory Lanez awaits trial on felony charges he allegedly shot at — and wounded — Megan Thee Stallion in her feet during an attack in Los Angeles two years ago, the rapper is now facing accusations he assaulted singer August Alsina in Chicago over the weekend.
Alsina’s allegations, shared online with multiple photos showing the Louisiana crooner’s bloody lip and other wounds, are now the subject of an out-of-state inquiry from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the firearm assault on Megan.
“We are aware of the allegations that the defendant attacked artist August Alsina and are investigating these claims. The allegations are serious and will be thoroughly examined,” the DA’s Office says in a statement to Rolling Stone.
It was Sunday that Alsina claimed in a series of graphic Instagram posts that Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, attacked him at the “Fall Back In Love Comedy & Music Jam” show held at the Arie Crown Theatre in Chicago Saturday night.
Alsina, 30, described Peterson as a hyperactive “leprechaun” who rushed him with eight “oversized” bodyguards to ask why the singer didn’t “dap him up,” meaning shake his hand. Alsina says he replied that he didn’t think the two were friends and that he’s been advised by his doctor to avoid shaking hands amid ongoing concerns with Covid and Monkeypox. (Video of Alsina leaving Peterson hanging made the rounds on social media.)
The singer shared more photos showing pink, fleshy wounds on the inside of his lip, near an elbow, and on a knee. He claims he was the victim of a “sneak attack” by Peterson, who then allegedly ran “back off into the building.”
Chicago Police confirmed to Rolling Stone that a 30-year-old man was allegedly “punched in the face” by another 30-year-old man at around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, listing a location that matches the theater.
“Detectives are investigating,” the department says, declining to name the victim. The department says offenders are identified by name only after they are charged or an arrest warrant has been issued.
Peterson’s criminal lawyer in Los Angeles did not immediately return Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.
Prosecutors on Megan’s case, meanwhile, had no problem jumping into the fray. They previously asked the judge hearing her felony assault case to revoke or raise the rapper’s bail amid allegations he violated protective orders.
Peterson, 30, had his bail hiked to $250,000 in September 2021 after a judge found he violated the stay-away order prohibiting him from coming within 100 yards of Megan or harassing her in any way. Prosecutors said he attended the Rolling Loud Festival in Miami in July 2021 and “attempted to rush the stage” while Megan was performing. Disguised in a costume, he also hopped onstage with DaBaby while Megan was still in the venue and her song “Cry Baby” was playing, prosecutors said in their bail motion obtained by Rolling Stone.
Peterson’s bail was increased again in April, to $350,000, after a judge found the “SKAT” rapper violated protective orders prohibiting him from harassing Megan or discussing discovery in the case with outside parties.
The start of Peterson’s criminal trial in Los Angeles was delayed again last week, with a judge setting a new return date of Nov. 28. Prosecutors say they expect jury selection to begin Dec. 5.
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents already examined by FBI, Justice Dept. tells judge
The new government filing says prosecutors will provide more information later this week. But in the meantime, it notes that even before the judge’s weekend ruling, the filter team “identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information, completed its review of those materials, and is in the process of following the procedures” of the search warrant to handle any privilege disputes.
Trump’s legal team filed the request two weeks after the Aug. 8 search, calling the court-approved law enforcement action a “shockingly aggressive,” politically motivated raid. The former president’s lawyers claimed that federal authorities seized records to which they had no legal right.
Although the judge, who was nominated to her position by Trump in 2020, said she was inclined to appoint a special master, she also said her order “should not be construed as a final determination on Plaintiff’s Motion.”
Federal authorities took about two dozen boxes of materials from Mar-a-Lago during the search, including 11 sets of classified documents, several of them categorized as top secret. Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, told lawmakers Friday that U.S. intelligence analysts will conduct a review of the classified materials to determine the potential risk to national security if their contents were disclosed.
Trump’s lawyers want a special master to return any information taken from Trump’s property that went beyond the scope of the search warrant, and to set aside any material that should be shielded from government review because of executive privilege.
In her ruling Saturday, Cannon instructed the Justice Department to submit under seal a more detailed list of the materials taken by the FBI. She also asked for an update on the federal government’s review.
In the past, special masters have generally been appointed in cases of attorney-client privilege, not executive privilege.
According to a partially redacted affidavit unsealed on Friday, the agents who conducted the search of Mar-a-Lago were seeking all “physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of three potential crimes,” including a part of the Espionage Act outlawing gathering, transmitting or losing national defense information. The warrant also cites the destruction of records and concealment or mutilation of government material.
The search is part of a criminal probe into whether Trump and his aides took secret government papers and did not return all of them, despite demands from senior officials.