By Associated Press’s REBECCA BOONE
Idaho’s Boise (AP)Fellow graduate students told authorities that in the months leading up to his 2022 murder of four University of Idaho students, Bryan Kohberger had established a reputation for being misogynistic and creepy while enrolled in a criminal justice program.
According to the records, his behavior was so bad that one faculty member at Washington State University warned colleagues that if he ever became a professor, he would probably stalk or sexually assault his future pupils. She pushed her colleagues to remove Kohberger from the program by reducing his funds.
According to Idaho State Police Detective Ryan O. Harra’s report, the woman informed her coworkers, “He is intelligent enough that we will have to give him a Ph.D. in four years.” Mark my word, I work with predators, she added. If we grant him a Ph.D., we will learn that he has been harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing his students at any university for many years.
In response to demands for public records, Idaho State Police this week disclosed over 550 pages of investigation materials, including summaries of the interviews with Washington State University teachers and students.
For the stabbing deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin at a rented house close to the Moscow, Idaho, campus early on November 13, 2022, Kohberger was given a life sentence without the possibility of release last month.
Investigators were informed by the WSU faculty member that Kohberger occasionally entered an office with multiple female graduate students working there and physically blocked the door. She would occasionally hear one of the women say, “I really need to get out of here,” and she would step in and let the student leave the office.
According to the faculty member, Kohberger was stalking individuals. She claimed to the police that in September or October, someone had broken into the residence of a female graduate student and taken underwear and perfume.
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According to an unidentified Ph.D. student in Kohberger’s program, he relished fighting, was derogatory to women, and particularly liked discussing sexual burglary, his area of research, with police.
She informed the officer that some department personnel believed he might be an incel and that he might be a potential future rapist.
“Whoever had committed the crimes must have been pretty good,” Kohberger told the Ph.D. student approximately three weeks after the murders, according to a report written by Idaho State Police Detective Sgt. Michael Van Leuven. According to Van Leuven, Kohberger also informed the woman that the killings might have been one-off events.
According to Van Leuven, the woman claimed she had never seen someone who behaved in such a patronizing way and questioned why the department’s higher-ups did not confront him about it. The manner he addressed the women in the department made them uncomfortable.
Police were informed by one instructor that she was tasked with assisting Kohberger with his doctoral program. She claimed that she started getting concerns about him from the criminal justice program’s personnel and students in late August 2022.
During disciplinary hearings, the instructor talked extensively about Kohberger, she admitted to police.
According to an investigator’s report, the discussions centered on Kohberger’s behavior around some of the criminal justice instructors and his interactions with other post-graduate students both inside and outside of the classroom.
According to a report written by Idaho State Police Detective Sean Prosser, the school received nine different complaints regarding his impolite and demeaning behavior toward women from teachers, administrative personnel, and other students. In response, the institution required all graduate students to attend a conduct expectations training session.
According to police sources, Kohberger’s involvement in the killings was not suspected by many of his other students and professors at WSU. However, after the killings, at least one classmate saw a change in his conduct.
According to the student, Kohberger used his phone a lot prior to the murders but ceased bringing it to class following the crimes. The student also told authorities that he seemed more unkempt in the weeks following the killings, and she found it strange that he never took part in discussions about the deaths in Moscow.
She eventually reported to a police tip line that she had seen Kohberger immediately before the killings, with bloodied knuckles and a hand that appeared to have been beating something.
Corey Williams, a correspondent for the Associated Press, provided coverage from Detroit.
