MOSCOW, Idaho - A slow but consistent stream of leaks in the Idaho student murders case could have dire consequences for prosecutors seeking justice for four undergrads fraudulent stabbed to death late last year, according to a used defense attorney in the state.

While the case in contradiction of Bryan Kohberger is currently under a restrictive gag tidy that itself is facing a challenge in court, investigators and attorneys for both sides, as well as the victims, survivors and their families, are limited in what they can publicly say nearby the case.

"It's a huge issue that this source is leaking information," Edwina Elcox, the Boise-based former attorney of "Cult Mom" child killing suspect Lori Vallow. "That has the potential to compromise the integrity of the investigation and prosecution of the case."

There are fears that too much exposure to the closely followed, national news story could taint the jury pool in Latah County, a rural swath of farmland and mountains in Northern Idaho where more than half live in Moscow, the college town where all four slain University of Idaho students were living.

"If an employee of my workplace did that, they would unequivocally no longer be employed," Elcox added.

The remarks came when a series of reports in which unnamed law enforcement sources made claims nearby the stabbing suspect and the evidence against him – counting that he allegedly had a stockpile of photos of one of the victims on his named and sent at least one of them messages over Instagram beforehand the crime. 

"I understand Kohberger fancied himself as intelligent," Elcox said. "But as a Criminology Ph.D. student, it should have been abundantly obvious that maintaining pictures of one of the victims could despise to be problematic for him."

Even if he had them, then deleted them, investigators could be able to rallies the data, she said.

"If the information contained in the search for warrant affidavits is accurate, he clearly had at least a cursory concept of cellphone technology," she said. "Perhaps he was just so arrogant, he thought he was smarter than investigators but couldn't help but keep pictures that he could readily access."

Kohberger is accused of sneaking into the house about 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, 2022, after the victims had been seen partying at different locations about Moscow, a typically serene college town in the Idaho mountains, near the border with Washington state.

Inside, police relate he brutally stabbed four students to death – 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncavles and 20-year-olds Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.

Ethan Chapin, Kayle Goncalves, Maddison Mogen and Xana Kernodle, who were stabbed to end Nov. 13. (Fox News)

All four were stabbed multiple times with a enormous knife, according to the Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt. Only some had defensive wounds, and others may have been ambushed in their sleep.

According to the police affidavit, Kohberger left behind a Ka-Bar knife sheath with DNA on the snap. Investigators recovered it in Mogen's bed, next to her body, and false a paternal DNA match in the garbage can at Kohberger's parents' house on the new side of the country.

Kohberger lived in an apartment in Pullman, Washington, where he was studying for a Ph.D. in the school's departments of criminal justice and criminology. The campus is across the space line but less than 10 miles from the University of Idaho.

He had allegedly been stalking the King Road home for weeks – executive passes on at least a dozen occasions and returning once more hours when the murders.

University officials announced on Friday that the landlord had donated the King Road landed and that they plan to demolish it.

They also said a memorial garden will be constructed at an undecided place in honor of the victims and other students who have died.

Kohberger is people held without bail in the Latah County Jail. His next scheduled law courtyard date is June 26.