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4 hours ago
- News.com.au
Bryan Kohberger's disturbing porn searches ahead of gruesome student murders revealed
Twisted murderer Bryan Kohberger made disturbing internet searches for women being raped and sexually assaulted while asleep, according to digital forensics experts who were due to testify at his trial. Kohberger's search history included terms like 'raped,' 'forced,' 'sleeping,' 'passed out' and 'voyeur,' according to Heather and Jared Barnhart, who were hired in 2023 to help investigate the psychopath who broke into an off-campus university house in the middle of the night and slaughtered four students, the New York Post reports. 'The easiest way to say it is that all of his terms were consistently around nonconsensual sex acts,' Jared Barnhart told The Daily Mail. Although Kohberger did not sexually assault any of the victims, the father of one of those killed, Kayla Goncalves, believes the killings were motivated by Kohberger's 'weird sexual fetishes.' Others have speculated that his sick plans were forced to change when he was unexpectedly confronted. Kohberger cowardly refused to reveal his plans or motives when he unexpectedly admitted the slayings. The Barnharts' forensics company, Cellebrite, was tasked with going through Kohberger's phone and laptop for any evidence connecting him to the murder of the four roommates knifed in their beds at their off-campus home in 2022. Kohberger had tried to wipe the search history from his devices — even running a data-erasing software on his laptop three days after the killings — but he was not thorough enough, the experts said. While there was no record of the search history, the terms were still found his autofill data on his search engines, Heather said. 'He did his best to leave zero digital footprint. He did not want a digital forensic trail available at all,' she told the Mail. The Cellebrite team also discovered a PDF file about another serial killer and rapist, Danny Rolling — also known as the 'Gainesville Ripper' — whose horrific murders targeting University of Florida students decades ago is eerily similar to Kohberger's heinous crimes. Rolling, who was the inspiration for the slasher classic 'Scream,' murdered five UF students — four women and one man — after breaking into their homes during a four-day spree in 1990. He raped all his female victims, and killed two of them with a Ka-Bar knife — the same weapon Kohberger used, prosecutors said. Rolling was executed in 2006. Kohberger's cell phone additionally contained creepy selfies of the killer posing shirtless and flexing his muscles, the experts said. He also snapped the chilling selfie of himself giving the thumbs-up just hours after he murdered the four University of Idaho students. Heather, Senior Director of Forensic Research at Cellebrite, and Jared Barnhart, Head of CX Strategy and Advocacy at the company, were prepared to testify as expert witnesses at Kohberger's trial before he pleaded guilty last month. Kohberger was sentenced to four life sentences for killing roommates Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.
News.com.au
7 hours ago
- News.com.au
Belinda Carlisle on The Go-Go's and THAT wild night with Ozzy Osbourne
It's been a year of mixed blessings for Belinda Carlisle. There have been plenty of positives for the singer, who turns 67 today: a rapturously received set with her former band The Go-Go's at Coachella in April, her first English-language solo album in 29 years, and perhaps most importantly, 20 years of sobriety. But there has also been sadness. Carlisle admits she cried when she heard rock great Ozzy Osbourne had died last month. She knew the singer socially, and wasn't shocked to hear that he had passed away, after decades of hard living followed by a Parkinson's disease diagnosis in 2019. However, it served as a reminder of her own wilder days. When The Go-Go's played alongside the Black Sabbath frontman at 1985's Rock In Rio festival, pianist Charlotte Caffey was kicked out of Osbourne's dressing room for being too rowdy – which, as Carlisle points out today, 'is a really hard thing to accomplish. 'They were really fun,' Carlisle says of the mega-selling post-punk outfit, over Zoom from her home in Mexico City. 'The thing is, we were doing the same thing as the guys. But because you're women – or girls – everybody was like, 'That is scandalous.' 'Rock In Rio was something else. It was quite the pinnacle of The Go-Go's partying. I'm so glad I did all that. I have really funny memories … until it started to not be funny, when it got to be a big problem. We were young, we were single, we had money, we were famous. And we took advantage of every single minute, as any young rock band should.' Even more poignant for Carlisle was the death in June of Beach Boys creative force Brian Wilson. Despite his years of ill health, she still wasn't prepared to farewell the artist she says influenced her musical tastes more than any other, from her childhood in '60s Los Angeles to today. She guested with The Beach Boys on stage, and describes Wilson agreeing to sing backing vocals for her 1996 song 'California' as 'one of the best days ever. My first album was Pet Sounds,' she continues. 'He's part of my DNA.' Memories of Carlisle's home state were also the driving force for her new album Once Upon A Time In California, which features covers of songs by artists such as Dionne Warwick, Harry Nilsson and The Carpenters. Their music offered her an escape from her 'dysfunctional family' – a religious mother and an alcoholic, abusive stepfather – and spurred a life-changing notion. 'I lost myself in the pop music on the radio,' she recalls. 'Every day after school, I'd go to my best friend's house. We'd listen and sing along. And I thought, 'Maybe one day I want to be a singer.' That was a fantasy I had as a little girl.' After The Go-Go's broke up in 1985, Carlisle had a run of enduring solo hits including 'Heaven Is A Place On Earth', 'Summer Rain' and 'Leave A Light On'. But the '90s and 2000s brought diminishing returns as her addictions took hold and music tastes changed. She was dropped by her record label a day after turning 40, but Carlisle says she now feels liberated by 'not being on a treadmill anymore' trying to recreate her chart heyday. Plus, she adds with a laugh, 'All the good songs are going to be taken up by younger artists like Miley.' Last year, Carlisle finally made good on her long-awaited tour of Australia, and says she enjoyed it so much that she plans to return in early 2027: 'I did discover Tim Tams, and I can't wait to come back and get some more.' The Go-Go's and their perennially difficult intra-band relationships remain on hiatus, but she has learnt to 'never say never with that band. It's a really complicated dynamic, and it's been complicated for 40-odd years. We all keep in touch. Everybody is civil. There was a lot of healing and love going on this time, which was nice.' Next year, Carlisle will celebrate 40 years of marriage to producer husband Morgan Mason. It's one of her proudest achievements, she says, along with the couple's son (writer/commentator James Duke Mason, 33), The Go-Go's 2021 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction, and the ubiquitous 'Heaven Is a Place on Earth'. So too is the sobriety she says turned a life that was shrinking into something that is 'so huge now. It was probably the most important thing I've ever done in my life,' she adds. 'Because I wouldn't be here if I didn't. That's when the most interesting part of my life began.' Once Upon A Time In California (Demon Music) is out August 29. Read the full interview with Belinda Carlisle in tomorrow's issue of Stellar.
News.com.au
8 hours ago
- News.com.au
Eerie leaked videos of Bryan Kohberger with red hands inside cell being probed by maximum security prison
Chilling new leaked footage appears to show convicted University of Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger with red hands pacing his concrete cell – prompting the maximum security prison where he's locked up to probe the video's source. The eerie 10-second video, which mysteriously surfaced on social media on Thursday, captured the murderer in his convict garb walking toward a wire rack in his cell, carefully placing an item down, then staring at his crimson hands before awkwardly lingering in place for several seconds. Kohberger, 30, is rumoured to wash his hands dozens of times a day, likely leaving them red and irritated, the New York Post reports. In another short clip, the murderer, who was hit with four life sentences in the slayings of four University of Idaho students, is seen standing ominously in the middle of his lockup, slowly cleaning his shoes. While it remains unclear when the videos were taken, it appears that someone used their phone to record the surveillance footage on a TV screen inside the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna. 'We are aware of the videos circulating online and are investigating the matter,' the Idaho Department of Correction said in a statement Friday. 'While we cannot yet confirm the veracity of the videos, if verified, they are a clear violation of IDOC policy and the parties responsible will be held accountable, up to and including termination. We caution that some videos may be fake or AI-enhanced.' Officials said the prison issued multiple emails last month reminding staff of their expected professional conduct and proper policies, which prohibit the sharing of any security footage. 'Videotaping and publicly sharing security footage is prohibited conduct and we will be reviewing all legal options, including criminal prosecution,' correction officials said. 'The safety and security of our staff and incarcerated population remains our top priority.' Kohberger last month took a surprise plea deal just weeks before his highly anticipated trial was set to kick off. The deal saw him skirt the possibility of the death penalty, enraging some of the families of his victims and leaving loved ones with no explanation for why he committed the heinous murders. He copped to killing Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, and Ethan Chapin on Nov. 13, 2022, in their off-campus house in Moscow.
