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Who is Bryan Kohberger? What we know about the Idaho murder suspect

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Leroy N. Soetoro

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Dec 31, 2022, 4:17:17 PM12/31/22
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The man arrested over the brutal murders of four University of Idaho
students is a crime expert who was studying for a Ph.D in criminal justice
just 10 miles from where the slayings took place.

Bryan Kohberger, 28, was arrested after a SWAT team made a raid at the
location in Chestnuthill Township, Pa., where he was staying at around 3
a.m. Friday.

Police also seized a white Hyundai Elantra matching the description of a
car they had being trying to locate and Kohberger’s DNA has been matched
to samples recovered at the scene of the killings, according to CNN.

Kohberger was pursuing a doctorate in criminal justice at Washington State
University in Pullman, a short drive from Moscow, where the murders took
place. He completed his first semester earlier this month.

Shortly after his arrest, the university took down a grad student page
listing his name and police were pictured raiding the apartment where he
had stayed.

He also received a master of arts in criminal justice from DeSales
University in Center Valley, Pa., in 2022. The university later put our a
statement saying they were aware of his arrest and “devastated by this
senseless tragedy.”

While at DeSales, Kohberger posted in a Reddit community for former
prisoners to ask for help with a research survey about “how emotions and
psychological traits influence decision-making when committing a crime.”

In the post “student investigator” Kohberger wrote his project “seeks to
understand how emotions and psychological traits influence decision-making
when committing a crime.”

Questions he asked respondents took on eerie new significance in light of
his alleged crimes, including: “Before making your move, how did you
approach the victim or target?” “After committing the crime, what were
you thinking and feeling?”

“Did you prepare for the crime before leaving your home? What were you
thinking and feeling at this point? And “why did you choose that victim or
target over others?”

Kohberger had appeared to evade the combined efforts of the Moscow Police,
Idaho State Police and FBI for over six weeks following the slayings
during which authorities offered little information beyond saying they
were looking for a knife, which was the murder weapon.

However, CNN reported an FBI surveillance team from the Philadelphia had
been tracking Kohberger for four days before his arrest.

A motive for Kohberger’s crimes or whether he’d had any previous
relationship to any of his victims had not emerged late Friday. Little has
emerged about his personality, beyond his obsessive-compulsive eating
habits.

A former school friend told the Daily Beast Kohberger started boxing in
his senior year of high school and had taken criminal justice classes with
a view to potentially becoming a cop.

“He always wanted to fight somebody, he was bullying people. We started
cutting him off from our friend group because he was 100 percent a
different person,” Nick Mcloughlin told the outlet.

Records showed Kohberger appeared briefly in a Monroe County court where
he was ordered held without bail and is due to be extradited after a
hearing on Jan. 3.

His arrest comes almost seven weeks after Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison
Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death
in their beds as they slept in their off-campus home on Nov. 13.

The murders were the first in Moscow in seven years and have rocked the
small college community. Earlier this week, police confirmed they were
sifting through 20,000 tips in connection with the case.

Police say the four students were murdered sometime between 3 and 4 a.m.
but they were not discovered until hours later, after roommates Dylan
Mortensen and Bethany Funke became worried they could not reach their
friends and called police, who made the grim discovery.



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