Idaho suspect Brian Kochberger texted victim repeatedly weeks before murder: report

Accused University of Idaho killer Brian Kochberger slipped into one of the girl’s direct messages on Instagram just weeks before four students were killed in their beds, it said Tuesday.

The Instagram account, which belonged to Kochberger, repeatedly sent Instagram messages to one of the college students found dead, but she never responded to his advances, an investigator close to the case. told PEOPLE.

“He went into the private messages of one of the girls several times, but she did not answer,” said an anonymous source. “Basically, he just said, ‘Hi, how are you?’ But he did it over and over.”

The message was reportedly sent in October.

University of Idaho students Kayleigh Gonsalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were found stabbed to death in their off-campus home on November 13.

The source did not say which of the girls Kochberger corresponded with. The suspect followed the accounts of all three girls in social networks.

The messages from Kochberger’s account were sent around the same time that detectives claim the suspect was stalking the victims. His mobile phone data was found in the same location as four students in the weeks before the murder.

Kochberger, who was pursuing a PhD in criminology from the University of Washington, 10 miles from the University of Idaho, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary as part of a gruesome quadruple murder.

Authorities aren’t entirely sure why the victim didn’t respond to Kochberger’s repeated messages, but said it could simply be because she didn’t notice them.

“Maybe she didn’t see them because they went into message requests,” the source said, implying that the victim didn’t follow Kochberger on Instagram. “We are still trying to determine how much the victims knew of its existence.”

It is not yet clear if the girl’s lack of response was a motive for the murder, the source said.

“There is no indication that he was upset by her lack of response,” the source said. “But he was definitely persistent.

Kochberger’s relentless attempt to reach out to his intended victim may be symptomatic of the “incel complex” that the former FBI investigator believes he suffers from.

“The killings could have been… an attempt to assert some kind of dominance,” security expert Pete Yachmetz told The Post this week.

“I believe that continued stabbing of the victim indicates… uncontrollable rage and extreme rage… I think he may have developed some sort of incel complex.”

A preliminary hearing in the Kochberger case has been scheduled for June 26.

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