Episode Details

The Goncalves family said they had uncovered what they believed was a digital connection between Bryan Kohberger and two of the University of Idaho victims after his arrest. Steve and Kristi Goncalves said they searched Kohberger’s name online shortly after learning his identity and found an Instagram account they believed belonged to him. Screenshots they provided showed that the account appeared to follow both Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen. Kristi Goncalves also said the account appeared to have liked multiple photographs on Madison’s Instagram page, which the family viewed as evidence that Kohberger had been actively looking at her profile. The account later disappeared shortly after Kohberger’s arrest, around the same time the family attended a celebration of life for Kaylee and Madison.


The claim was potentially significant because Kohberger’s defense had argued that there was no known connection between him and the victims, an argument intended to undermine the prosecution’s theory and raise questions about motive. But the Instagram evidence remained unverified: CBS News said it had not been able to independently confirm that the account actually belonged to Kohberger. That distinction mattered because screenshots and social-media accounts could not, by themselves, establish authorship or prove a direct relationship between Kohberger and the victims. Still, the Goncalves family believed the account undercut the idea that Kohberger had no prior awareness of Kaylee or Madison and raised the possibility that he had been viewing at least one victim’s social-media activity before the murders.


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