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A criminal investigation into leaks that violated a gag order in the Bryan Kohberger murder case is open and ongoing after it was previously referred to law enforcement, according to a report.
A criminal investigation is focused on the possible source of the alleged leak to NBC’s “Dateline,” which produced an episode about the murders with information not known to the public, sources told the Idaho Statesman. An Ada County Sheriff’s Office investigator, the agency investigating the source of the leak, has requested interviews with people who had access to digital files from the May 2025 episode of the murder, the newspaper reported.
Brent Turvey, a forensic scientist who worked with Kohberger’s defense team, told Fox News Digital that he has been asked twice to interview investigators.
“An Ada County sheriff’s office investigator contacted me twice for an interview – saying he was assigned to investigate the NBC leak. Anne Taylor also gave me permission via email to speak with law enforcement just a month after they started contacting me – by phone and email,” Turvey said. “Yes, they are investigating his office for related crimes.”
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Bryan Kohberger appeared at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, on July 23, 2025, to be sentenced in the University of Idaho murder case, where prosecutors relied heavily on cell phone location data and digital evidence. (Kyle Green-Pool/Getty Images)
Sy Ray, a digital forensics expert and former police officer who worked on Kohberger’s defense team, told the Statesman that he spoke with investigators looking into the alleged leaks more than once.
“It’s probably the most expensive misdemeanor case in Ada County history,” Ray said. “Trying to investigate this was probably difficult.”
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Another Sheriff’s Office investigator reached out in April to an attorney for two of the victims’ families, according to the Statesman.
An administrative investigation by the court into the leak was conducted last summer.
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University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and two colleagues took the last photo shared by Goncalves on Instagram before four students were stabbed to death in November 2022. (Kaylee Goncalves/Instagram)
The timeline for Nov. 13, 2022:
- 4am: The suspect arrives at the house
- Between 4 and 4:17: Time to kill
- 4:19: The roommate calls three victims; no one answers
- 4:22 to 4:24: The surviving roommates text each other inside the house
- 4:27: The roommate calls the victims again; no one answers
- 4:32: Private text Kaylee Goncalves, “Pls answer”
- 10:23: Survivor’s roommate lists victims; no one answers
- 11:39: His roommate calls his father
- 12 pm: 911 call made from roommate’s phone
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A May 2025 episode of “Dateline” included surveillance video near the home where four University of Idaho students were killed, photos from Kohberger’s phone and some details about the crime.
FBI cell phone records obtained by “Dateline” allegedly show that Kohberger’s cell phone rang about a dozen times from the tower that serves the area within 100 feet of 1122 King Road, where four University of Idaho students were killed. Alleged late-night driving began in July 2022 and continued through mid-August 2022.
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Public defender Anne Taylor walks into the trial of Bryan Kohberger in Latah County District Court in Moscow, Idaho, May 22, 2023. Kohberger is accused of murdering four University of Idaho students in November 2022. (Zach Wilkinson/Moscow-Pullman Daily News)
The “Dateline” special also reported that a white Hyundai Elantra similar to Kohberger’s was seen swerving on King Road several times in the early hours of Nov. 13, 2022, when this murder occurred.
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Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders of Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Kaylee Goncalves in a July 2, 2025, plea deal that avoided the death penalty. Four University of Idaho students were found dead on Nov. 13. 2022, at their home in Moscow, Idaho, which is close to campus.
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Bryan Kohberger shakes hands with defense attorney Elisa Massoth after his sentencing hearing at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, July 23, 2025. Kohberger was convicted in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students nearly three years earlier. (AP Photo/Kyle Green, Poole)
Steve Goncalves, the father of Kaylee Goncalves, said the “Dateline” leak helped reach a settlement, which he opposed, and supports the criminal investigation.
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“They’re working to figure this out, and I hope they have more than they’re letting on,” he told the Statesman. “I think it’s lost on us. It really took away the focus from the trial and seating the judges.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Taylor, the Ada County Sheriff’s Office and the Latah County District Attorney’s Office for comment.
