The Idaho murder suspect faces fresh allegations as a new report claims he broke into the apartment of a female colleague to have her ask him for help.
Bryan Kohberger allegedly entered the woman’s house a few months before the brutal murder of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
According to Dateline, Kohberger is suspected of having befriended his colleague at Washington State University in Pullman and then breaking into her apartment and moving items around before being asked for her help.
The unnamed woman allegedly called Kohberger following the break-in and he reportedly suggested she install a surveillance system with cameras in the apartment.
The NBC programme claimed the Idaho murder suspect personally installed the video network and that officials are now investigating whether he accessed the camera remotely after learning her Wi-Fi password.
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Former FBI profiler Greg Cooper claimed the alleged incident could have been a “step in the progression” and Kohberger could have been “upping the ante.”
Cooper claimed: “I would expect that he orchestrated the whole thing, he was not looking at her as a potential victim necessarily.
“But he orchestrated it so that she would come to him and that he would be able to help her. It is another level of power and domination and control over another person.
“The hero image that he can portray – you’ve got this problem I’m here to solve the problem for you and to make it better for you.”
In a special programme, Dateline sources also alleged Kohberger bought the knife with which he is suspected to have murdered the four University of Idaho students while he was still studying in Pennsylvania months before the slayings.
Cooper alleged: “He had a fantasy of thinking about committing crimes for a long time with that knife and he had to become familiar with it, feel at ease with it.”
The new allegations emerged days after Kohberger was indicted in connection to the November 13 murders. The indictment allowed prosecutors to do away with a planned preliminary hearing that was set for late June
Kohberger was arrested last December and charged with burglary and four counts of first-degree murder of Kernodle, her boyfriend Chapin and housemates Mogen and Goncalves at a rental home near the University of Idaho campus.
At the time, Kohberger was a graduate student studying criminology at nearby Washington State University, and the killings left the close-knit communities of Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Washington, reeling.
Court documents have already detailed much of the investigation that prosecutors say ties Kohberger to the slayings.
A white sedan allegedly matching one owned by Kohberger was caught on surveillance footage repeatedly cruising past the rental home on a dead-end street around the time of the killings.
Police say traces of DNA found on a knife sheath inside the home where the students were killed matches that of Kohberger.
Investigators also contend that a cellphone belonging to Kohberger was near the victims’ home on a dozen occasions prior to the killings, though it was apparently turned off around the time of the early-morning attack.
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