Bryan Kohberger ‘Ironically’ Called Cops ‘Undertrained’ Before Idaho Murders: ‘Little Did He Know’

Bryan Kohberger severely underestimated the investigative abilities of local police departments, digital forensics experts Heather and Jared Barnhart told Fox News Digital in a story published on Monday, November 3.

“The extent to which local police officers are undertrained needs to be indicated in order to fully understand the needs of local police departments with respect to digital evidence,” the former criminology grad student, 30, wrote in a proposal for one his classes in fall 2022, around the time that he brutally murdered for University of Idaho students.

On the paper, which was included in photos from his apartment search released by the Idaho State Police earlier this year, Kohberger’s professor circled the word “undertrained” and wrote, “assumption or fact?”

“Little did he know, in his case, people with decades of experience and training would work his case and find the truth no matter how hard he tried to hide from it,” the couple — who worked on the case on behalf of Cellebrite, a major digital forensics firm — told Fox News Digital.

“It’s interesting to read this proposal specifically calling out digital evidence — knowing what we know now,” the Barnharts continued of the killer, who researched how to to delete damning data and even turned off his phone during the November 13, 2022 murders of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20 and Ethan Chapin, 20.

“Ironically, even in all his research, he left a damning digital footprint,” they told Fox News Digital. “If his device was doing normal things and not had a void in data at the exact time when those four precious souls were murdered, his device would have been of little significance in the case. But instead, that void in data screamed, ‘Everybody, look here!’ and helped build a solid case.”

Kohberger, who was arrested less than two months after the killings thanks to the tireless work of multiple forensic investigators in Idaho and other locations across the country, is now serving four consecutive life sentences at Idaho Maximum Security Institution.