Disturbing text messages Bryan Kohberger's mom sent him days after brutal Idaho murders

Bryan Kohberger's mom sent him an eerie text just days after he murdered four University of Idaho students.

In July, Kohberger, 30, pleaded guilty to one count of burglary and four counts of first-degree murder.

Kohberger took the lives of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodlem 20, and Madison Mogen, 21, who were killed in their home in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022.

He has since been sentenced to four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole or appeal. His plea deal meant he was not put forward for the death penalty, which is still legal in the state of Idaho.

Kohberger is currently being held at Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna but has requested to be transferred as he claims he's being sexually harassed by other inmates.

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the Idaho murders August (Frank-Pool/Getty Images)

While Kohberger admitted to the murders, almost three years later he has yet to give a motive for his barbaric actions. With this in mind, many questions remain about the tragic case that resulted in four young adults dying.

Evidence into the case against Kohberger is still coming to light as there's ongoing public interest in the matter and Heather Barnhart, Senior Director of Forensic Research at Cellebrite, and Jared Barnhart, Head of CX Strategy and Advocacy at Cellebrite, recently shared some new information about the criminal's text exchanges with his mom, Maryann Kohberger, after the murders.

"He was on the phone with her for hours (on Nov. 17, 2022), but that night, he received a link from his mom," Barnhart told NewsNation.

Apparently, the link was to a news article 'describing how Xana [Kernodle] had bruises on her body and how she had put up such a fight'.

Kohberger was sentenced to four consecutive terms of life in prison in July (Kyle Green-Pool/Getty Images)

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Barnhart went on: "Looking at the timeline a little bit, you can tell that they’re actually speaking on the phone. What that tells us, and we can assume, is that they were talking about the Idaho murders on that night, and then the next morning, there’s just kind of nothing."

After this, the mother-son duo seemingly didn't discuss the matter again. Instead, Maryann texted her son about a girl who was 'very sweet to the older lady customers' at a coffee shop.

"I have no idea what that is," Barnhart said of this. "But there's just no context between talking about the murders the night before and then this thing the next morning."

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