Prior Contact Between Accused Idaho Killer And One Of The Victims Is Revealed: Report

Four University of Idaho students were murdered by a 28-year-old suspect in late 2013 when he allegedly made contact via social media with one of them.

The Daily Wire policy does not allow the identity of the suspect to be revealed. killings Kaylee Goncalves (21); Ethan Chapin (20); Xana Kernodle (20; Madison Mogen (21) on November 13.

People Magazine was informed by an investigator who is familiar with the investigation that the killer reached out via Instagram to one of these girls in October. She did not reply, leading to a torrent of messages.

“He slid into one of the girls’ DMs several times but she didn’t respond,” Source said. “Basically, it was just him saying, ‘Hey, how are you?’ But he did it again and again.”

Ann Taylor, his public defense attorney, filed motions last Wednesday requesting “Any written or recorded statements by a co-defendant, and the substance of any relevant oral statement made by a co-defendant whether before or after arrest in response to interrogation by any person known by the co-defendant to be a peace officer or agent of the prosecuting attorney, or which are otherwise relevant to the offense charged.”

Inside Edition: The suspect asked law enforcement officers if they had ever arrested anyone else in connection to the crime. reported.

Taylor also filed 17 more requests for discovery. These included drug testing related to the case. “payments, promises of leniency, preferential treatment or other inducements or threats made to prospective witnesses,” Disclosures relating to electronic surveillance “Disclosure of whether a defendant, or any other person, was identified by lineup, show up, photo spread or similar identification proceeding relating to the offense charged, and production of any pictures utilized or resulting therefrom and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all identifying witnesses.”

The last request could refer to a section According to the probable cause statement, Dylan Mortensen (one of the survivors) saw a man walking away from the house just before the murders. Mortensen claimed that she opened her doors several times after hearing the upstairs noises. On the third occasion, she saw a man in black clothes and a mask covering his nose and mouth moving toward her. She said the man was 5’10” or taller, athletically built but not muscular, with bushy eyebrows. She stated that the man walked past her in a standing position. “frozen shock phase.” She claimed that he left the house and she locked her bedroom.

Police were able to match the suspect with a white Hyundai Elantra and a cell phone that could be traced back to the scene of the crime. They also learned that the suspect registered his vehicle in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.

Ashe Schow contributed to the report. 

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