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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

The Amazon Receipts and the Smiling Selfie: Why Bryan Kohberger Will Get The Death Penalty

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Bryan Kohberger’s alleged digital footprint is coming back to haunt him. In newly filed court documents, prosecutors say they will use evidence of an apparent knife purchase and a selfie they believe link him to the murders of four University of Idaho students.

Kohberger is charged with the brutal slayings of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves—four college students who were stabbed to death in the early hours of November 13, 2022, inside their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho.

At the time, Kohberger was a criminology PhD student at Washington State University in Pullman, just ten miles from where the killings took place. Now, nearly two years later, prosecutors are laying out the digital evidence they claim ties him directly to the crime.

Two key pieces of evidence have now been made public: a smiling selfie taken by Kohberger and his Amazon purchase history.

The selfie, believed to have been taken just hours after the murders, shows Kohberger appearing calm, collected, and even smug—a chilling contrast to what had just unfolded inside the King Road home.

Then there’s his Amazon history. According to prosecutors, back in March 2022—eight months before the murders—Kohberger purchased a Ka-Bar knife, a matching sheath, and a sharpener. And in the days after the killings, he allegedly searched for a replacement knife and sheath.

Investigators say this matters because a Ka-Bar knife sheath was found at the crime scene, right next to one of the victims. Touch DNA on that sheath allegedly came back as a “statistical match” to Kohberger. The actual murder weapon? Still missing.

But prosecutors argue that his online activity is enough to establish a pattern—one that puts him on a direct path from purchase to crime scene.

Kohberger, who was arrested in December 2022 at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania, has pleaded not guilty. His trial is set to begin in August, where he faces four counts of first-degree murder—and, if convicted, the death penalty.

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0:31.7

This is Murder in the Morning with Tony Bruske and Stacey Cole.

0:37.5

They say killers always make the mistakes.

0:40.5

And in Brian Kauberger's case, that mistake may have been a single snap, both in literal

0:50.2

form and on a knife sheath.

0:54.4

And the digital kind in the form of a selfie taken just hours after the University of

0:59.8

Idaho students were brutally murdered.

1:03.7

This is the biggest break in the case I think we have seen since they found Koberger.

1:11.0

Would you agree?

1:11.8

I mean, I think this is, this is, I mean, the DNA was a big thing.

1:17.7

That was, I would say, the biggest until now.

1:22.4

This, I mean, you don't even need DNA quite honestly at this point.

1:29.0

It certainly helps, and they will use it.

1:32.3

But this to me, it's telling.

1:36.7

This is something we did not know officially,

1:39.4

and it makes me wonder what else we don't know quite yet.

1:43.1

In the latest court documents released this week,

1:45.7

prosecutors have dropped what might be

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