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Police have issued more than 60 warrants to companies including Doordash, Verizon, Tinder, and Reddit while investigating Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger - but the findings remain under lock and key.
Shortly after the alleged murderer, 28, was extradited to Idaho for the November 13 murders of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, a gag order was put in place, barring attorneys, law enforcement agencies and others associated with the case from talking or writing about it.
Among the 750 pages of documents are warrants to more than 60 companies, including Doordash, Verizon, Reddit, Amazon, Match Group - which owns Tinder - and Meta, among many others.
Early on in the case, internet sleuths claimed they found a Reddit account that made accurate predictions about the case reportedly before the information was released publicly. He also allegedly used as student to conduct a study of criminals' decision-making.
The documents under the gag order 'contain highly intimate facts or statements…which would be highly objectionable to a reasonable person,' the judge said. The documents are also sealed due to the fact that it 'might threaten the safety of or endanger the life or safety of individuals.'
More than 60 warrants were issued to companies like Doordash, Verizon, Tinder, and Reddit while police investigated Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger, but what was found in the reports remains under lock and key due to the gag order
Shortly after the alleged murderer, 28, was extradited to Idaho for the November 13 murders of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, a gag order was put in place , barring attorneys, law enforcement agencies and others associated with the case from talking or writing about it
Goncalves' family's attorney Shanon Gray filed an appeal against the gag order earlier last month, calling it 'facially overbroad and vague' and unconstitutional, claiming it violated their right to free speech.
'As [an] attorney for one of the Victim's families, I am allowed to relay to the media any of the opinions, views, or statements of those family members regarding any part of the case,' Gray said.
Kohberger's lawyer, public defender Anne Taylor, filed an objection to the appeal, saying it doesn't violate First Amendment rights and is not 'facially vague.'
'If Mr. Gray truly intends only to voice his clients' thoughts and opinions, then the Court's previous exemption has already cured the supposed First Amendment infirmity – Mr. Gray's clients may voice these thoughts and opinions themselves – as they have clearly been doing,' wrote Jay Weston Logsdon, an attorney with Taylor's office.
Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson noted that the victims' families, particularly the Goncalveses, could take the stand.
'The members of the Goncalves family, who are represented by Gray, are potential witnesses in this case, including at trial and/or sentencing,' he wrote in an affidavit Wednesday.
Thirty news organizations have also asked the Idaho Supreme Court to overturn the gag order.
The coalition of news organizations contends that it violates the right to free speech by prohibiting it from happening in the first place.
'Justice cannot survive behind walls of silence. For that reason, "a responsible press has always been regarded as the handmaiden of effective
