Mega Edition: Bryan Kohberger And The Snapchat, Google And Verizon Tower Warrants (9/13/26)

The Snapchat and Google warrants showed investigators digging deeply into Bryan Kohberger’s digital life as they tried to determine whether he had communicated with the victims, researched them, followed their online activity or left behind evidence of planning. Search warrants were issued for Snapchat records connected to the victims and later for Kohberger-related accounts, while Google was asked to turn over a broad range of account information including emails, chats, Google Drive files, search and browsing history, contacts, calendar information, Google Play activity and Google Pay transactions. Investigators were looking for anything that could help establish a connection between Kohberger and Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle or Ethan Chapin, as well as evidence that he had searched for the victims, the King Road house, knives or other information potentially relevant to the murders. The warrants reflected how important digital evidence had become to the case because investigators still had major unanswered questions about motive, targeting and whether Kohberger had ever interacted with the victims before November 13, 2022.

The Verizon warrant was part of the equally broad effort to reconstruct cellphone activity around 1122 King Road. Just days after the murders, investigators sought records from Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Inland Cellular identifying devices that connected with towers within roughly a half-mile of the house between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. on November 13. That allowed police to examine which phones had been active near the crime scene during the critical window and compare those records with surveillance footage, witness accounts and later information connected to Kohberger. Additional Verizon warrants remained heavily sealed or redacted, but the larger purpose was clear: investigators wanted to map cellular activity before, during and after the murders and identify devices that might correspond with the movements of the white Hyundai Elantra. Taken together, the Snapchat, Google and Verizon warrants showed investigators attacking the case from three directions at once: social connections, online behavior and physical movement through cellphone networks.


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