vi lerio reporting. hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we re learning new details about the actions of the man accused of killing four idaho college students in the weeks before the murders. people magazine reports that bryan kohberger followed all three of the female victims on instagram but they didn t follow him back. that s according to an investigator familiar with the case combined with the magazine s review of the now-deleted account. the 28-year-old is also alleged to have repeatedly messaged one of the young women about two weeks before the killings. kohberger faces four counts of first-degree murder and he has yet to enter a plea. cnn national correspondent camila bernal is following the latest developments for us. camila, what more can you tell us? reporter: hey, fred. this is important because police have not given us a link between the victims and bryan kohberger. they haven t said whether they knew each other, whether th
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