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Court documents have revealed that police are probing to see if there was any contact between suspected murderer Bryan Kohberger and his three female victims over a year before the slayings.

Authorities have submitted several search warrants to social media companies, including TikTok and Google, which date back to January 2021 – more than a year before the brutal killings.

Kohberger, 28, is accused of murdering Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, 21,  Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle, 20, in their home on Kings Road, in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2023.

The Facebook and Twitter search warrants all have a start date for the search of June 2022, five months before the killings.

But authorities have been looking over a longer period to see if Kohberger ever interacted with Maddie, Kaylee or Xana over TikTok in the 22 months prior to the killings.

The search warrant requested messages, records, files and logs for their accounts as well as those which have been deleted.

Police were also looking at the images linked to the accounts, location data including geotags and all of the people who they followed, unfollowed and blocked.

Authorities have since made a bid for the findings to remain sealed until a future court date, but former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer has questioned if Kohberger could have come across his alleged victims at a much earlier date.

She said that cops were trying to 'look for a nexus', meaning a series of connections, between Kohberger and the three female victims.

Posting the documents on Twitter she said: Interesting how far the SWs went back in time? Why 1/2021?

'Did Bryan Kohberger somehow meet Kaylee or Maddie on a possible school visit early on?

'What made Kohberger choose WSU? Did Kohberger have a nexus with his victims sooner than we thought?'

The criminal justice major attended Washington State University – which is less than a 10-minute drive from the University of Idaho.

Coffindaffer implied that Kohberger could have met one of the girls at an early school visit, and questioned if that could have been a reason for him to attend WSU.

It comes after it was revealed that the sisters of Kohberger have list their jobs – despite the family refusing to visit him in jail.

Kohberger's arrest for the killings has severely impacted his family, who are struggling financially, the source told News Nation.

His sisters, Melissa and Amanda, have been let go from their jobs because of their relationship with the accused killer.

Kohberger was arrested at his parents' home in Pennsylvania after driving cross-country with his father from Idaho.

In January, his family issued a statement that said they would be standing by him, adding: 'We will love and support our son and brother.'

The statement was released just days after the former Washington State University criminology student was arrested and charged with four counts of murder in the first degree, as well as felony burglary.

Minster's who have been meeting with the suspected killer in the Latah County jail are preaching the gospel that even the greatest sinners can be forgiven by God.

But they recognize even Jesus Christ can't save the accused quadruple murderer from the criminal justice system.

'We do not tell folks that this will relieve them of their responsibility for their crimes,' pastor Mike Hall, head of the group that sends lay ministers to the jail, told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.

'Regardless if you're in for some offense like that, or some drug offense, we're all on the same plane in terms of our need for grace and forgiveness from God.'

He sits down for one-on-one sessions with members of Project Hope Idaho, a local Christian organization that dispatches about a dozen lay ministers to county jails and prisons to provide gospel services and classes on Sunday nights.

Kohberger leaves his cell at 7pm on Sundays to meet with the minister who leads him in prayer in the prison library.

Steve Otto, a board member of Project Hope, said the decision to share the gospel with Kohberger is 'challenging stuff, for sure.'

'I found myself praying quite a bit about truth and justice,' he said. 'My heart goes out to the victims' parents. I can't imagine the pain they're feeling. We want justice done.'

Kohberger spends most of his time alone in a private cell, kept apart from other inmates who share cells.

He rarely if ever chats with jail mates, who typically only see him when he walks past them.

They say he maintains a steely stare when he steps out to meet his lawyers or to visit the library, and that he's always flanked by several correction officers who escort him wherever he goes.

Kohberger could also face an execution by firing squad following the state's decision to pass a bill aimed at reviving the controversial punishment earlier this week.

It is unclear if the prosecutors in the case will be advocating for the death penalty, but Kohbergers lawyer is trained to work those kind fo cases.

It comes after DailyMail.com revealed that their suspected killer is obsessed with following his own case behind bars in Latah County Jail.