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