The sad secret life of Ashley Biden: Her diary about 'showers with dad', her sex addiction and marriage confessions... as she files for divorce
But even on those occasional moments when the family couldn't avoid unflattering attention, the one consolation for other Bidens was that at least they weren't Hunter.
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Daily Mail
2 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Bryan Kohberger's graphic internet searches revealed in never-before-seen evidence
made sickening internet searches focused on attacking and raping sleeping girls before he slaughtered four students. The 30-year-old criminology PhD student was cruising the internet for pornographic content with searches that included appalling terms about non consensual sex acts. It was the early hours of November 13, 2022, when Kohberger broke into an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, and stabbed Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin to death. Prosecutors have said there was no evidence of a sexual component to the murders, leaving Kohberger's motive and connection to his victims a complete mystery. Now, the Daily Mail can reveal for the first time the exact porn searches made by the killer which may shed some light on his mindset and motivations at the time. The search terms were shared with the Daily Mail by the digital forensics experts hired by state prosecutors to dig into Kohberger's Android cell phone and laptop. Heather Barnhart, Senior Director of Forensic Research at Cellebrite, and Jared Barnhart, Head of CX Strategy and Advocacy at Cellebrite, joined the case back in March 2023 and were set to testify as expert witnesses in Kohberger's capital murder trial. However, just weeks before the trial was slated to begin, Kohberger struck a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. Under the terms of the deal, he pleaded guilty to all charges and waived his right to appeal. On July 23, he was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. Through their years-long forensic analysis of Kohberger's devices, the Cellebrite team was able to recover his searches. The terms they found included 'sleeping', 'passed out', 'Voyeur', 'Forced 'raped' and 'drugged'. 'The easiest way to say it is that all of his terms were consistently around non-consensual sex acts,' Jared told the Daily Mail. Kohberger's sleeping and rape fetishes raise questions about what he may have planned to do the night of the murders. The 30-year-old killer broke into his victims' home at 1122 King Road at around 4am, when most of the students were sleeping. Prosecutors believe he did not plan to murder all four victims that night and that either Mogen or Goncalves, both 21, was the likely target. Kohberger entered the home through the door leading to the kitchen on the second floor and went straight up the stairs to Mogen's room on the third floor. He found Mogen and Goncalves in the same bed and killed them both. Coming down the stairs, he encountered Kernodle who was still awake, having just received a DoorDash order. He killed her and her boyfriend Chapin, both 20. Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson said in an interview with ABC News that it's likely Kohberger did not expect to encounter Kernodle still up and about. But only Kohberger knows what exactly his plan was that night. So far, he has refused to reveal any details about his crimes. When given the opportunity to speak at his sentencing, he told Judge Steven Hippler: 'I respectfully decline'. But Kohberger's digital footprint around the time of the murders paints a picture of his interests - and possible inspirations. As well as the porn searches, the Cellebrite team found a clear obsession with serial killers and home invasions. On Kohberger's laptop, Heather said they found searches for 'serial killers, co-ed killers, home invasions, burglaries and psychopaths before the murders and then up through Christmas Day'. There was one serial killer Kohberger showed a keen interest in that stood out to the team: Danny Rolling. Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper, broke into the homes of University of Florida students at night and murdered five - four female and one male - in the fall semester of 1990. He raped the women during his attacks and decapitated one of his victims, posing her head on a mantle in her home. Just like Kohberger, Rolling's murder weapon of choice was also a Ka-Bar knife. The similarities between the crimes are eerie and the Cellebrite team found Kohberger had downloaded a PDF onto his phone about Rolling. He had also watched a YouTube video about a Ka-Bar knife. Kohberger's cell phone also contained many selfies where he was posing shirtless or flexing his muscles, Jared and Heather revealed. There was also the chilling thumbs-up selfie to the camera a few hours after the murders and a creepy hooded selfie days before his arrest. Both Rolling and Kohberger used a Ka-Bar knife (stock image above) as their chosen murder weapons The digital evidence was uncovered despite Kohberger's best efforts to scrub his cell phone and laptop of anything incriminating. In fact, the Cellebrite team found a pattern where Kohberger went to extreme lengths to try to delete and hide his digital footprint using VPNs, incognito modes, and clearing his browsing history. Three days after the murders - on November 16 - he ran an eraser software on his laptop. The software is used to wipe data from a hard drive. Heather explained that the team has been unable to determine if Kohberger actively ran the software to destroy evidence or if the killer innocuously ran it as part of a virus scan. That would have been for the jury to decide. What the digital experts did find was that Kohberger had tried - unsuccessfully - to wipe his disturbing porn searches from his phone. There was no record of them in his search history, which Kohberger had scrubbed. But, he hadn't done a good enough job. 'The searches were in autofill,' Jared explained. 'As a user, you can clear your search history. But when you choose to type text and press search, that text box depending on where you're searching and how, it can keep [the search terms]. 'So the next time you go to the same text box and search for something, it prepopulates and that's where these search terms were found.' Had they testified at trial, the digital experts would have presented both a wealth of data - as well as evidence of Kohberger's cleanup operation. 'He did his best to leave zero digital footprint. He did not want a digital forensic trail available at all,' Heather said. And, while he succeeded in part, she said that this abnormal behavior and the very efforts to hide his digital activities revealed more than he realized about his guilt.
Daily Mail
2 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Louisiana attorney general calls wildly popular online platform 'the perfect place for pedophiles'
Louisiana 's top prosecutor has sued popular gaming platform Roblox, saying they have created the 'perfect place for pedophiles' due to a lack of safety protocols. Attorney General Liz Murrill has accused the California company of facilitating the distribution of child sex abuse material and the sexual exploitation of children. The suit claims the company intentionally or recklessly designed a platform with no age verification process, allowing millions to make accounts with fake birthdays. According to the filing adults can pose as children, and kids can bypass controls meant for those under the age of 13. Citing the company's own annual report, it adds that around 20 percent of its 82 million active users were under the age of 9. The 42-page suit points to alleged incidents on the platform involving sexually explicit 'experiences'. This includes an 'Escape to Epstein Island', 'Diddy Party', and 'Public Bathroom Simulator Vibe'. In an attempt to illustrate their point, the suit points to the arrest of an individual in July of this year in Livingston Parish in Louisiana. According to the filing adults can pose as children, and kids can bypass controls meant for those under the age of 13 They say that officers conducting a search warrant found child sexual abuse material, with the unknown suspect actively using Roblox. It adds: 'Notably, the individual was in possession of and had employed voice-altering technology designed to mimic the voice of a young female.' The suit says that this was done to allegedly lure and sexually exploit minor users of the platform. It adds: 'Defendant is fully aware that grossly inappropriate, sexually explicit, and dangerous experiences pervade Roblox. 'It allows them to continue to exist unchecked, despite the ability to control and/or eliminate them.' According to the suit predators don't even hide their intentions, with the filing highlight usernames including '@RavpeTinyK1dsJE' and '@EarlBrianBradley'. Pedophile Earl Bradley, a former pediatrician, was jailed for life in August 2011 for abusing dozens of children which took place over a decade. They did say that they have dedicated 'substantial resources' to help detect and prevent inappropriate content. A spokesperson said: 'While no system is perfect, Roblox has implemented rigorous technology and enforcement safeguards, including restrictions on sharing personal information, links, and user-to-user image sharing. The safety of our community is a top priority.' In a statement, Murrill said: 'Due to Roblox's lack of safety protocols, it endangers the safety of the children of Louisiana. 'Roblox is overrun with harmful content and child predators because it prioritizes user growth, revenue, and profits over child safety. 'Every parent should be aware of the clear and present danger poised to their children by Roblox so they can prevent the unthinkable from ever happening in their own home.' The suit is seeking a permanent order barring the game from violating the state's unfair trade practices act or promoting its safety features as being adequate.
The Independent
3 hours ago
- The Independent
DC homeless camps cleared out in Trump takeover as Bondi replaces police commissioner with DEA chief
Homeless camps in Washington, D.C., have been cleared in President Donald Trump 's crime-fighting takeover as Attorney General Pam Bondi replaced the city's police commissioner with the Drug Enforcement Administration chief. Trump announced Monday he was placing the D.C. police department under direct federal control and deploying the National Guard to 'rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse,' despite violent crime declining in recent years. Mayor Muriel Bowser has criticized the federal takeover, calling the move 'unsettling and unprecedented,' and even 'authoritarian.' Troops started hitting the streets of Washington Tuesday evening, and by Thursday, all 800 soldiers that had been deployed were mobilized, The New York Times reported, citing the Pentagon. Also on Thursday, Bondi named DEA head Terry Cole as D.C.'s 'emergency police commissioner.' With Cole in this role, local police must get his approval before issuing any orders. Some of D.C.'s homeless population started to pack up their belongings Thursday as they braced for encampment sweeps. An earth mover was seen scooping away the remains of encampments near the Institute of Peace building, the Associated Press reported. Members of the city's Health and Human Services department began clearing an encampment near the Kennedy Center Thursday morning, per The Washington Post. 'I'd like to invite the president to spend some time here in a tent with us,' William Wilson, 66, told the publication, adding, 'We're nice people.' On Sunday, Trump wrote on Truth Social, "The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY.' "We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don't have to move out. We're going to put you in jail where you belong,' he said. Roughly 70 homeless encampments in D.C. have been removed since March, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Homelessness has decreased by 9 percent since 2024, according to a May press release from Bowser. While outreach workers have helped the homeless population pack up their belongings, issues are being raised about what happens next for these people. Amber Harding, executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, told The Washington Post, 'Shelters have a two-bag maximum, so people might not want to go to a shelter if they don't want to throw away their stuff that can't fit into two bags.' Harding also pointed to the location of the government shelters as another issue, since they are not downtown. 'That means people will have to be transported there, which means moving away from where they are currently staying, from the people they know and the places where they are currently getting services,' she said.
