Crime
13 Classmates Formally Complained About Bryan Kohberger’s Disturbing Comments and Behavior
In the months before he brutally murdered the Idaho Four, Bryan Kohberger was giving off creepy vibes at Washington State University, in nearby Pullman, Washington.
Shortly after Kohberger began his doctoral program in criminology on August 18, 2022, a fellow student filed the first of 13 formal complaints against him, according to newly unsealed documents obtained by People.
In the complaints, a divorced classmate reported to Idaho State Police that Kohberger told her he wouldn’t date “a broken woman.” A deaf woman claimed that he asked if “she would be comfortable procreating given the fact that she had a disability.”
A 19-year-old undergraduate alleged that after she declined his invitation to go on a date, Kohberger would “physically corner” her so often that she was nervous to travel home alone, especially after she learned he lived nearby. She revealed that a neighbor once saw a stranger outside her window.
Another student called him a misogynist and a “narcissist” who “never displayed empathy toward another person.”
While a staff member told police that she initially assumed Kohberger was just “socially awkward,” she eventually realized his alleged “outspoken discriminatory comments” in front of classmates and professors in and out of the classroom “were homophobic, ableist, xenophobic and misogynistic in nature.”
“He would also stare at people and stand uncomfortably close or ‘lean’ over women, making them very uncomfortable,” the staff member told police.
On November 13 of that same year, Kohberger brutally stabbed Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Madison Mogen, 21, to death at a home the three women shared in Moscow, Idaho, about nine miles from the Washington State campus where he studied. He was arrested six weeks later.
Kohberger pleaded guilty to the slayings in July, 2025, and is currently serving four consecutive life sentences at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.
