Alleged Idaho Killer Tried 1 Persistent Tactic To Contact Idaho Murder Victim – He Just Won’t Stop

Weeks before four University of Idaho students were killed in November, a man suspected of killing them tried to contact one victim on Instagram, according to a new report.

Brian Kochberger, a graduate student on the University of Washington’s Pullman campus about nine miles from Moscow, Idaho, is suspected of stabbing Kaylie Gonsalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.

To date, no firm link has been officially established between the suspect and the victims.

However, on Tuesday, People magazine, citing what it called “an investigator familiar with the case,” said the suspect sent multiple Instagram messages to one victim in late October.

The account said the account, which investigators believe belongs to Kochberger, sent a message to one of the female victims, who was not named.

No response was received, the source said, leading the account to send more messages.

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

People have reported that Kochberger’s Instagram account follows Mogen, Goncalves and Kernodle, according to the New York Post.

The source said that due to the way Instagram is set up, the recipient might not have known the messages existed.

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

“There is no sign that he was upset by her lack of response, but he was definitely pushy.”

Speculation about the motive for the crime ran rampant, with former FBI agent and security expert Pete Yachmetz saying, “The murders could have been … an attempt to assert some kind of dominance,” the Post reported.

“I believe continued stabbing of the victim indicates… uncontrollable rage and extreme rage.”

Jachmetz said Kochberger “may have developed some sort of incel complex,” using a term for men who fail to develop romantic or sexual relationships. Inchel is short for “unwittingly abstaining from celibacy.”

In an attempt to delve deeper into Kochberger’s personality, The New York Times pulled several posts about Kochberger’s adolescence from the website Tapatalk, once known as Yuku.

“I feel like an organic bag of meat with no self-respect,” a 2011 post read. “When I hug my family, I look at their faces, I don’t see anything, it’s like I’m watching a video game, but less.”

“Nothing I do is fun. I am empty, I have no opinion, I have no emotions, I have nothing. Can you link?” he wrote in another post.