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  • Law enforcement asking for help: Help identify barns and silos sketched by BTK killer!

    Law enforcement asking for help: Help identify barns and silos sketched by BTK killer!

    This reporting from CNN:

    A law enforcement team in northeast Oklahoma believes the prolific serial killer known as “BTK” may be responsible for several additional unsolved missing person and homicide cases. Now they’re hoping the public can help them identify barns and silos in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri that the self-proclaimed BTK killer Dennis Rader sketched in never-before-seen detailed drawings.

    Last month, the Osage County Sheriff’s Office publicly confirmed it was investigating Rader as the “prime suspect” in a 1976 cold case in their jurisdiction and several other unsolved crimes across three states.

    The investigators believe the killer may have buried 16-year-old Cynthia Dawn Kinney in a barn near the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Kinney was last seen at a laundromat in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, in 1976. Her body has never been found.

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    CNN obtained images of Rader’s drawings, which were first recovered by law enforcement after his arrest in 2005.

    Rader pleaded guilty to 10 murders that took place from the 1970s to the 1990s in Wichita, Kansas, for which he’s serving 10 consecutive life sentences in a state prison. He suggested in a letter found long before his capture that he should be called “BTK,” short for “bind, torture, kill.”

    In recent prison interviews, Rader told Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden and other local area authorities he did not commit any other murders.

    An attorney for the serial killer declined to comment to CNN.

    RADAR reporting that his daughter, Kerri Rawson, believes many more cases may be connected to her father.

    Also this weekend, Kerri Rawson released new information that was not seen publicly prior.. New images of her father in bondage photos..

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  • Grisly crime scene: Human remains decorated around man’s home.. a part of nationwide human remain trade that law enforcement was investigating..

    Grisly crime scene: Human remains decorated around man’s home.. a part of nationwide human remain trade that law enforcement was investigating..

    Grisly scene | FBI finds stolen human remains ‘decorated’ around Mount Washington man’s home

    When police arrived at the apartment, an FBI agent asked James Nott if anyone else was in the home with him. “Only my dead friends,” he resp

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    His names is James Nott.. the inquiry began after a Cumberland County Pennsylvania man named James Pauley was found to be involved with a human remain trade..

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    The FBI began investigating Nott after it was discovered he had chatted with Jeremy Pauley, a man from Pennsylvania who was also being investigated for his role in a nationwide scheme to purchase and sell stolen human remains.

    Authorities said Pauley provided federal investigators with information on a network of individuals in the scheme, including Cedric Lodge, the morgue manager for the Harvard Medical School who was charged last month.

    Police said a Harvard Medical bag was also found in Nott’s home.

    Within the past year, authorities said, Pauley was communicating with someone named “William Burke” on Facebook about purchasing skulls and spines.

    The two exchanged PayPal information and the information “Burke” had sent was linked back to a PayPal account registered to Nott.

    Law enforcement officers viewed Nott’s public Facebook profile and saw him posting about human remains for sale on Facebook as recently as June 2023, according to the document.

  • Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger stands silent at arraignment, not guilty pleas entered

    Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger stands silent at arraignment, not guilty pleas entered

    The trial set for October start date..

    When Judge asked Kohberger to enter a plea at the arraignment, defense attorney Anne Taylor stood up and declined on behalf of her client.

    “Your honor we will be standing silent,” she told the court.

    That prompted Judge to enter not guilty pleas on the defendant’s behalf.

    During the highly procedural 15-minute hearing, Judge read all the counts and possible prison sentences for each before asking Kohberger if he understood.
    — Read on www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/idaho-college-students-slaying-suspect-bryan-kohberger-set-arraigned-rcna85544

  • Seven bodies found during search for two missing Oklahoma teens

    Seven bodies found during search for two missing Oklahoma teens

    This is a shocking story..

    Authorities have discovered the bodies of seven people during a search for two missing teenagers and they were believed to include the girls and a convicted sex offender.

    The bodies were discovered Monday on a rural property near the town of Henryetta. Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice says the bodies are believed to include those of 14-year-old Ivy Webster and 16-year-old Brittany Brewer and a man they seen traveling with, convicted sex offender Jesse McFadden. However, the sheriff says the state medical examiner will have to confirm their identities. Rice won’t say how they died or provide other details.
    — Read on apnews.com/article/missing-girls-oklahoma-bodies-found-okmulgee-035ca34f2f524077e60562eee4750be8

  • Clumsy move or beginnings of a potential Kohberger defense

    Clumsy move or beginnings of a potential Kohberger defense

    All eyes will be on Bryan Kohbergher’s trial this coming summer.. until then legal experts are actively opining online and other forums about what move the defense will make to poke holes in what seems to be a solid prosecution theory..

    One criminology expert thinks it will be a focus on DNA evidence and those now famous cell phone pings..

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    During an appearance on ITV’s This Morning, David Wilson, a Professor Emeritus of Criminology and founding Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University was asked about the knife sheath found and how the DNA found on it was linked back to Kohberger’s father. The 28-year-old Ph.D. student was arrested shortly after the DNA was found.

    This Morning host, Phillip Schofield said that leaving the sheath was a “clumsy move”; however, Wilson interrupted suggesting it could have also been “a remarkably clever move.”

    “Because one of the things that’s really struck me about the person that’s been arrested and accused of this is he is intelligent and high-functioning,” Wilson said. “Would a highly-skilled, intelligent student who is teaching criminology, a Ph.D. student, have made such a basic error?”

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    “I could have your DNA,” Wilson said, motioning to co-host, Holly Willoughby. “Your DNA is on me. I could go wherever I wanted to go in the next hour and your DNA would be where I go to. So the defense is clearly going to present issues that will suggest that Kohberger is innocent.”

    David Wilson continues on the cell pings:

    “Moscow isn’t so far away from Washington State University, so it would be natural that there would be some of those towers that might ping,” Wilson said. “There will be a defense.”

  • Law enforcement was tracking Bryan Kohberger’s trek around the country

    Law enforcement was tracking Bryan Kohberger’s trek around the country

    • Law enforcement were ‘told’ to pull over Bryan Kohberger so the FBI could get a clearer image of his arms and hands 
    • The alleged killer, 28, looked concerned after he was pulled over for a second time within nine minutes in Indiana
    • He arrived back in Moscow, Idaho, last night after a 12-hour flight from Pennsylvania
    • Kohberger is expected to appear in court in Latah County charged with the four murders and a felony burglary 
  • DNA HELPED SNAG KOHBERGER

    DNA HELPED SNAG KOHBERGER

    News reports of how law enforcement used unique methods to catch Bryan Kohberger

    “Sometime right before Christmas we were zeroing in on him being in or going to Pennsylvania,” an unnamed law enforcement source told CNN.

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    Authorities started trailing Kohberger during the drive east, CNN reported, and an FBI surveillance team tracked him for four days as law enforcement and prosecutors worked to obtain an arrest warrant, two sources said..

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    Police apparently took DNA from the scene, ran it through a public database, and then used genetic genealogy techniques to connect the DNA to Kohberger through his family members, CNN said…

    Was he the alleged stalker?

    Cellphone data revealed that Kohberger, 28, was often in the same location as students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, who were murdered on Nov. 13, a source close to one of the case’s investigators told The Daily Mail.

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  • CNN reporting that authorities were tracking Kohberger; Public defender appointed

    CNN reporting that authorities were tracking Kohberger; Public defender appointed

    He drove cross-country in a white Hyundai Elantra and arrived at his parents’ house in Pennsylvania around Christmas, according to a law enforcement source. Authorities were tracking him as he drove and were also surveilling his parents’ house, the source said.

    An FBI surveillance team tracked him for four days before his arrest while law enforcement worked with prosecutors to develop enough probable cause to obtain a warrant, the two law enforcement sources said.

    Genetic genealogy techniques were used to connect Kohberger to unidentified DNA evidence, another source with knowledge of the case tells CNN. The DNA was run through a public database to find potential family member matches, and subsequent investigative work by law enforcement led to him as the suspect, the source said.

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    Kohberger was arraigned Friday morning in Pennsylvania and is being held without bail, records show.

    Kohberger intends to waive his extradition hearing to expedite his transport to Idaho, Monroe County Chief Public Defender Jason LaBar said in a statement to CNN on Saturday.

    “Mr. Kohberger is eager to be exonerated of these charges and looks forward to resolving these matters as promptly as possible,” LaBar said.

    Even with a suspect charged, law enforcement’s work is far from over, prosecutors said.

  • Bryan Kohberger’s classmates begin to speak out

    Bryan Kohberger’s classmates begin to speak out


    Classmates of the Idaho quadruple murder suspect have said he became more chatty in their criminology class after November’s quadruple-slaying – but turned silent when the killings themselves were discussed.

    Bryan Kohberger, 28, was taken into custody by the Pennsylvania State Police on Friday morning more than 2,000 miles from where four university students were killed in their beds on November 13.

    Students who attended Washington State University with Kohberger were shocked to learn that the quiet man in their classroom was the prime suspect in the brutal slaying.

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    BK Norton, who was in the same criminal justice graduate program with Kohberger, said her classmate appeared more animated and talkative following the murders. 

    ‘He seemed more upbeat and willing to carry a conversation,’ she told the New York Times.

    But Norton noted all his enthusiasm would go away and he would become ‘quiet and deadpan’ when the class would discuss the Idaho murder case. 

    Another video that has made rounds declares Kohberger was a heroin user..

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  • Man arrested in Pennsylvania in connection to University of Idaho stabbings!!

    Man arrested in Pennsylvania in connection to University of Idaho stabbings!!

    Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was taken into custody by local police and the FBI at 3 a.m. in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the law enforcement source said Friday.

    Kohberger was being held for extradition in Monroe County Court for first-degree murder issued by the Moscow Police Department and the Latah County Prosecutor’s Office in connection to the slayings of Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21.

    The suspect is a graduate student at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, according to the college’s website. Pullman is a 15-minute drive from the rental home where the four students were stabbed to death.

    This is current police and news media activity at Indian Mountain Lakes in Pennsylvania in connection to the arrest of Bryan Christopher Kohberger..

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    A reporter Brian Entin: I am told when Idaho quadruple homicide suspect Bryan Christopher Kohberger was in custody — he “asked if anyone else was arrested.” I’m told he had a “quiet, blank stare.”

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    Arrest paperwork filed by Pennsylvania State Police in Monroe County Court said Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was being held for extradition in a criminal homicide investigation based on an active arrest warrant for first degree murder issued by the Moscow Police Department and Latah County Prosecutor’s Office.

    Some outlets are reporting that Kohberger is a criminology student at the University of Washington..

    There are reports that he was active on REDDIT asking former criminals to tell him what their mindset was before they committed a crime and how they felt afterwards..

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    He graduated from DeSales University in Pennsylvania in May 2022 with a master of arts in criminal justice. 

    As part of his research Kohberger posted an appeal for help on social media with his research – which was looking at how ‘emotions and psychological traits influence decision-making when committing a crime.’ 

    According to NBC News, a white Hyundai Elantra was towed from the home where the suspect was arrested.