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The man accused of the gruesome murders of four University of Idaho students called into a podcast covering the murders while police were looking for him, a friend of the alleged killer believes.
The revelation from Casey Arntz, who grew up and attended high school with suspect Bryan Kohberger in Pennsylvania, came a day after the teaching assistant’s arrest shocked the world, and after more than a month of manhunts by from the police.
Taking to TikTok to address a clip from a podcast about the November murders in Idaho that has gone viral online, Arntz stated that he recognized the voice of the caller in the clip as Kohberger’s, after the audio caused a furor. In Internet.
On the call, the suspected killer, who gave his name as Dave, told the host that he “lives in a college town” and works with frat members who asked him how to commit the perfect murder.
Podcaster T-rev has since forwarded the audio to the FBI, and internet users are already reacting to the disturbing clip. It serves to compound the fervent speculation already surrounding the case, and now its only suspect, that some experts believe he used the information he learned while pursuing a doctorate in criminology to hone his killing skills.
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Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was arrested Friday and charged with the Nov. 13 murders of four University of Idaho students.
A former classmate, Casey Arntz, of the murder suspect said she recognized the voice as her own.
The call begins: The alleged killer told T-rev, which covers current and past true crime cases, that he “lives in a college town and I’ve worked with at least ten members of Sigma Chi.”
“I just found you today,” the caller says in a portion of the call that has been clipped and shared hundreds of thousands of times in the last 36 hours, since Kohberger’s sudden arrest at his family’s home in the Poconos.
I watched your live stream this afternoon and I was watching this one, and I, uh, what seems a little weird about all of this is that I live in a college town and I’ve worked with at least ten members of Sigma Chi.
The person then shockingly claimed that “every one of them has asked me if you’re going to kill someone, how you’re going to get away with it.”
The bizarre statement seems to catch the host off guard, but the caller, speaking in a breathy, breathy voice, continues, offering a bizarre theory of his own.
‘And, I wonder if, maybe, just maybe, this is just a frat boy trying to prove himself.’
The podcaster at this point stops the caller and tries to determine the situation.
“So you said you worked with five Sigma Chi kids and they asked you if you could kill someone and get away with it?” Listen well? he asks.
“Yes,” replies the caller, who Arntz later insisted that his former classmate is Kohbergerm.
Victims Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were murdered on November 13.
When the host asked the person why he didn’t call the police instead of a podcast, the alleged killer’s ramblings became more scattered as he posited on the mindset of the college students he described when asked that question.
“Yes,” he repeated, this time with more emphasis. “I don’t know if that’s just something people say, trying to have an interesting conversation, but, at least in my head, this is it: It’s always been these guys that were in the frat.
“It makes me wonder,” the caller continues, “if that’s something that’s in their culture.”
The caller then offers a particularly bizarre statement to the conversation, suggesting that the supposed students of Sigma Chi regularly ask that question just to test the person they’re asking.
The university where he worked was just over eight miles from the crime scene. Experts say the suspect potentially used information he learned while pursuing a doctorate in criminology to hone his killing skills.
“They ask to see how smart you are, and what kind of answer you come up with,” the caller theorized, his speech riddled with pauses and heavy breathing.
And someone took it too far.
T-rev, apparently disturbed by the caller’s words, responds by scolding him.
‘What kind of guys would ask you that? That’s crazy as fuck. Is that an outrageous statement, man?
As the video gained popularity across the internet over the weekend, Arntz took to TikTok on Friday night, visibly shaking as he posted photos of the suspect and his many encounters with him.
“The video caller on the podcast, I think it’s him,” Kohberger’s former Pleasant Valley High School classmate told followers. ‘Sounds exactly like him, in my opinion.’
Kohberger was arrested Friday, traced to his family’s home in the Poconos. He is charged with four counts of first degree murder.
He has a master’s degree in criminal justice and, at the time of the quadruple murder, was doing his PhD in criminology.
According to students in his class, Kohberger acted as if nothing had happened after the murders occurred.
WSU’s online directory shows that she worked as a teaching assistant for the university’s criminology and criminal justice program. She was also a PhD student in the department.
Multiple students in the program said seattle fox that Kohberger seemed no different after the murders of Goncalves, 21, Mogen, 21, Kernodle, 20, and Chapin, 20, in Moscow, Idaho, a 15-minute drive from WSU.
Ben Roberts, a criminology student, told the Fox affiliate that Kohberger was “confident” and “outgoing” but still seemed like he was “always looking for a way to fit in.”
Speaking about the horrific allegations against Kohberger, Roberts said: ‘It’s pretty much off the mark. Honestly, he had been pegged as super clumsy.
Roberts began studying at WSU in August at the same time as Kohberger.
“One thing he always did, almost without fail, was find the most complicated way to explain something,” he said.
BK Norton, a student in WSU’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, said Friday that they didn’t know Kohberger well, but they didn’t like him.
“We interacted in class, but personally I was not a fan of Bryan because of the comments he had made about LGBTQ+ people,” they said in an email to The Associated Press.
“He was a little out of place, but I always thought it was because he was weird and wanted to fit in.”
Before earning a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Kohberger attended DeSales in Pennsylvania.
While there, owner Jordan Serulneck, 34, claimed he had problematic interactions with the women at his bar, asking them who they were with and where they lived.
Kohberger memorably harassed the female staff at Seven Siren Brewing Company near her hometown. serulneck said nbc that employees tagged Kohberger in their system as a guy who “makes creepy comments” and said he once called a staff member “ab***h” for refusing his advances.
According to staff notes, Kohberger would “have two or three beers and then get too comfortable.” The behavior was so upsetting that the brewery owner approached his patron about it.
Kohberger denied the behavior, but never appeared at the bar again.