Bryan Kohberger's new mugshot tantalizes his twisted fans

Bryan Kohberger's twisted fans, who are infatuated by quadruple murder suspect, have descended into a frenzy after his new mugshot was published this week. 

The 29-year-old criminology lecturer is accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in 2022 in a crime that shocked the nation. 

Kohberger was transported 300 miles from Idaho's Latah County to Ada County last week after a judge ruled it would be unfair to hold his murder trial where the stabbings occurred due to the communities' emotional ties to the horrific case.

New video footage shows the moment he boarded a plane wearing an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs to fly to Idaho's capital Boise on Sunday. He was later photographed being transferred in a black SUV to Ada County jail.

The Ada County Sheriff's Office has since published his new mugshot showing Kohberger with an unkempt beard and bloodshot eyes.

But members of troubling Facebook groups set up to support the accused killer - who has already built up a horde of female fans - have since leapt to his defense and praised how he looks. 

One Facebook user creepily commented on his mugshot: 'Hot! Like a Movie Star.'

'That scruff is looking good on him,' a second added to a group named 'Updates On Idaho Murders - Bryan Kohberger (Trial Updates Will Be Included)'. 

A third questioned: 'This is real? He looks handsome.'

Another wrote: 'He looks like he’s been on holiday, relaxed, calm and well looked after.' 

'I'm not seein' any stress,'  someone else observed.

In another group called 'Justice For Bryan Kohberger' one person claimed: 'He has no murderous eyes man, because I do believe old chap that he is innocent!!'

The accused murderer had already built up a disturbing fan following, with previous reports that he had received handwritten love letters in colored envelops while in custody in Latah County. 

An employee at the jail, who did not reveal their name but claimed to have frequent contact with the inmate, told the press 'it's disturbing.'

'He gets these letters a couple of times a week...they're usually handwritten with hearts and stars...colored envelopes,' he said.  'Everyone in the jail talks about how weird it is.'

It is unclear what these letters said, but it appears that many are from people who believe he is innocent or are confessing their love, a source said.

Brittney Hislope, a 36-year-old single mother from Kentucky, previously penned love letters and sent revealing photos to Kohberger.

Hislope called Kohberger her 'divine masculine counterpart' and 'twin flame,' and would often express her infatuation with him on her Facebook page.  

At one point she wrote: 'I don't want to say disrespectful things about my love interest when I hold him in high regard like I do as being my divine masculine counterpart, but it's understandable how without me personally knowing him that I'd not know if he would, in fact get with a female that just wants to steal my wish fulfillment, although if he is like that I definitely wouldn't hold him in high regard anymore since I'd think a lot less of him, and I have a strong faith that my true love wouldn't ever do that. 

She continued: 'I've already been down that road with my son's dad as well, who definitely showed signs of how he's not my twinflame considering the toxicity from him that doesn't exist within the twinflame connection, and the wrong ways he did me. 

'I just want to remember the emotional ways I've felt about my love interest Bryan and how they've been authentic in terms of loving and caring him and his well-being. 

'I want to remember how I felt when I seen his first mugshot from the jail he's currently in, as well as how I felt seeing him at his last court appearance, which were both loving and caring ways, as well as concern for his well-being.

The Ada County Sheriff's Office's declined to comment on whether Kohberger's fans had already started sending him mail at his new jail.  

Kohberger is accused of stabbing University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, 21,  Kaylee Goncalves, 21,  Xana Kernodle, 20 and Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20 to death on November 13, 2022. 

The students were living at an off-campus house near the university in Moscow. 

Kohberger was eventually arrested in Pennsylvania after a six-week manhunt and charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary. 

After a survey revealed that the residents of Latah County may riot in the streets if Kohberger is acquitted, judges decided to move his jury trial to Ada County. 

According to reports, one resident reportedly told a defense expert in a phone survey of hundreds of potential jurors that they would 'burn the courthouse down' if Kohberger walked free. 

'There would likely be a riot and he wouldn't last long outside because someone else would do the good ole' boy justice,' another said.

Kohberger has maintained his innocence since his arrest in December 2022 - more than a month after the bloody murders. 

Prosecutors have claimed his DNA was discovered on a Ka-Bar knife sheath recovered from the victims' home, though no murder weapon has ever been found.   

They have also said that cell phone data and surveillance put Kohberger's car at the crime scene - though the defense has disputed those claims.

The defense has instead said that Kohberger was miles away from the off-campus house where the students were murdered, and in an official alibi in May 2024, they claimed Kohberger was 'driving alone' on the night of the murders 'to look at the moon and stars.'

His trial is scheduled to run from June 2 to August 29, 2025.