Never-before-seen photos have revealed Bryan Kohberger posing in creepy shirtless selfies after murdering four University of Idaho students.

One image holds a chilling clue to his stabbing frenzy — another shows him making a bizarre face straight of the horror classic The Shining.

The selfies, obtained by NewsNation from the Latah County Sheriff’s Office, reveal troubling details about the 30-year-old criminology PhD student’s actions following the tragic events.

In one image, a topless Kohberger stares coldly into the camera while giving a two-finger salute on his forehead.

A cut is visible on his ring finger – a potential wound obtained during the violent struggle with some of his victims.

Xana Kernodle, 20, was awake when Kohberger broke into the student home at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, in the early hours of November 13, 2022.

Graphic court documents have earlier indicated that Kernodle fought fiercely for her survival, sustaining over 50 stab wounds from a KaBar knife, the majority of which were defensive.

The other three victims—21-year-old best friends Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, along with 20-year-old freshman and Kernodle’s boyfriend Ethan Chapin—also endured multiple stab wounds during Kohberger’s deadly rampage.

In another released photograph, taken sometime post-murders, Kohberger appears staring at the camera with enlarged eyes and an animalistic snarl.

Never-before-seen photos have revealed Bryan Kohberger posing in creepy shirtless selfies after murdering four University of Idaho students

The pose looks eerily similar to Jack Nicolson’s character in The Shining

In a separate image, a topless Kohberger gives a cold stare into the camera while making a two-finger salute on his forehead. A noticeable cut on his ring finger raises suspicions of an injury possibly sustained during the attacks.

Another selfie shows the shirtless killer – who is wearing ear buds in all of the images – pulling a bizarre face.

Digital forensics experts, engaged by prosecutors to examine Kohberger’s electronic devices, uncovered numerous selfies where the defendant posed shirtless or flexed his muscles, as previously reported by the Daily Mail.

Heather Barnhart, Senior Director of Forensic Research at Cellebrite, and Jared Barnhart, Head of CX Strategy and Advocacy at Cellebrite, said the images had been found on his Android cell phone.

There was also a chilling thumbs-up selfie to the camera taken at around 10.30am on November 13, 2022 – just six hours after the murders.

At that point, the murders had not yet been discovered. 

In that image, released as evidence in court documents, Kohberger was seen smiling in front of the shower of his apartment in Pullman, Washington, hair wet, dressed in a white shirt and giving a thumbs up to the camera.

Behind him, there appeared to be the edge of a white shower curtain.

When his apartment was raided following his arrest, there was no sign of the curtain.

Prosecutor Bill Thompson said at his sentencing that Kohberger scrubbed his apartment free of any evidence prior to his arrest.

Another selfie shows the shirtless killer – who is wearing ear buds in all of the images – pulling a bizarre face

Best friends Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen (left) and young couple Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle (right) were murdered by Kohberger

Another selfie found on his phone, taken days before his arrest on December 30, 2022, showed Kohberger with a black hood over his head, staring emotionless into the camera.

The digital evidence was uncovered despite Kohberger’s best efforts to scrub his cell phone and laptop of anything incriminating.

In fact, the Cellebrite team told the Daily Mail they found a pattern where Kohberger went to extreme lengths to try to delete and hide his digital footprint using VPNs, incognito modes, and clearing his browsing history.

Kohberger had tried – unsuccessfully – to wipe a slew of disturbing porn searches from his phone, the Barnharts said.

But, despite scrubbing his search history, the team was able to find them in the autofill section.

The searches revealed a sickening porn fetish involving attacking and raping sleeping girls.

Search terms found on his devices included ‘sleeping’, ‘passed out’, ‘Voyeur’, ‘Forced ‘raped’ and ‘drugged’.

‘The easiest way to say it is that all of his terms were consistently around non-consensual sex acts,’ Jared Barnhart told the Daily Mail.

These chilling selfies were found on Bryan Kohberger’s Android cell phone following his arrest 

Kohberger’s sleeping and rape fetishes raise questions about what he may have planned to do the night of the murders.

The 30-year-old killer broke into his victims’ off-campus student home at around 4am, when most of the students were sleeping.

While prosecutors have said there was no evidence of a sexual component to the murders, Kohberger’s motive and connection to his victims remain a complete mystery.

As well as the porn searches, the Cellebrite team found a clear obsession with serial killers and home invasions.

On Kohberger’s laptop, Heather said they found searches for ‘serial killers, co-ed killers, home invasions, burglaries and psychopaths before the murders and then up through Christmas Day’.

There was one serial killer Kohberger showed a keen interest in that stood out to the team: Danny Rolling.

Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper, broke into the homes of University of Florida students at night and murdered five – four female and one male – in the fall semester of 1990. He raped the women during his attacks and decapitated one of his victims, posing her head on a mantle in her home.

Just like Kohberger, Rolling’s murder weapon of choice was also a Ka-Bar knife.

The Cellebrite team – who were set to testify as expert witnesses in Kohberger’s capital murder trial – found Kohberger had downloaded a PDF onto his phone about Rolling and had also watched a YouTube video about a Ka-Bar knife.

Kohberger had spent years studying crimes and criminals before carrying out his own quadruple homicide. 

In court documents, prosecutors cited one of Kohberger’s 2020 criminology essays about a woman’s murder as showing his extensive knowledge of and interest in crime scenes.

For another college assignment, Kohberger posted a survey on Reddit asking criminals questions including how they chose their victims and how they felt while committing their crimes.

Dr Katherine Ramsland, one of America’s top experts on serial killers, taught Kohberger at DeSales University, Pennsylvania.

She told the Daily Mail she was ‘horrified that I had a student capable of such violence’.

‘I don’t know why he did it. I just can’t even speculate why,’ she said.

‘I think the most important thing is we have four families with murdered kids and we don’t understand why this had to happen. I think they’re the focus, what they’re going through is horrifying.

‘I hate that I am in any way associated with it.’

Left to right: Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee’s shoulders) Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Bethany Funke

The home at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, where Kohberger carried out his murderous rampage

Dr Ramsland told the Daily Mail there is not yet enough information to determine Kohberger’s motive for the murders. ‘There’s so much we don’t know,’ she said.

However, Kohberger’s behavior around the time of the murders was setting off alarm bells at Washington State University, where he had enrolled on the criminal justice PhD program.

Several of Kohberger’s classmates and professors found him sexist and creepy – so much so that female students avoided being left alone with him and one faculty member warned he had the potential to become a ‘future rapist’.

Just weeks before Kohberger’s trial was slated to begin, Kohberger struck a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty.

Under the terms of the deal, he pleaded guilty to all charges and waived his right to appeal.

On July 23, he was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole in an emotional hearing, where the families and friends of the victims were finally able to confront the man who slaughtered their loved ones.

He has waived all right to appeal. 

Kohberger is now serving his sentence inside Idaho’s maximum security prison where he has already filed multiple complaints about his fellow inmates.