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Profiler looks for ‘trigger event’ months before killer slaughtered four college students in Idaho

Amid all the speculation about what motivated accused murderer Bryan C. Kohberger to butcher four college students in Moscow, Idaho, a former FBI profiler said that whatever triggered the attack could have happened months ago.

Clint Van Zandt, a former profiler, was intrigued that police said location data from Mr. Kohberger’s cellphone showed had driven past the victims’ residence at least a dozen times between late June and the night of the killings.

“If he had started driving by their house six months ago, what happened six months and one day ago that caused him to do that?