A teacher at Washington State University gave a warning relating to Bryan Kohberger weeks before he murdered four students of the University of Idaho in their home.
Kohberger’s crimes shocked the US when he broke into a rental property in November, 2022 and stabbed Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin to death before fleeing the scene.
He was arrested on suspicion of the murders a month later. Though to this day he has never provided a motive for the killings, Kohberger ultimately plead guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.
Last month Kohberger was handed four consecutive life sentences for his crimes.
According to new police reports, teaching staff at Washington State University had raised pointed concerns about Kohberger’s behavior just weeks before he committed the aforementioned murders.
One faculty member at WSU – where Kohberger was studying a criminology PhD course – suggested that the now-30-year-old could use his position to stalk and abuse future students should he ever become a professor.
According to a report from Idaho state police detective Ryan O’Harra, her fears were so grave that she urged colleagues to cut Kohberger’s funding, telling them: “He is smart enough that in four years we will have to give him a PhD. Mark my word, I work with predators, if we give him a PhD, that’s the guy [in] many years when he is a professor, we will hear is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing … his students at wherever university.”
The WSU faculty member also revealed to investigators that Kohberger would sometimes go into an office where several female grad students worked, before physically blocking the door. She would even hear one of the women say: “I really need to get out of here.”
The teacher was also of the opinion that he had been stalking multiple people, going as far as to break into the room of one graduate student.
As per The Guardian, an unnamed PhD student in the same program as Kohberger told police that he enjoyed conflict, was disparaging toward women and that he liked to talk about sexual burglary – his field of study.
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