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The man charged with the gruesome murders of four University of Idaho students allegedly stalked students in the weeks leading up to the murders and wore gloves in public places after the murders.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, worried about leaving his fingerprints after the murders, even wearing gloves when entering a grocery store, according to a source contacted one of the police officers assigned to follow him there.
“He’s not stupid and he’s been very careful,” the anonymous source said.
They also allege that the prime suspect was stalking his victims prior to the murders, with their cell phone locations matching up on multiple occasions.
“I’m not sure if they ever interacted, but their cell phone beeps followed their every move for weeks.”
Kohberger was arrested at his family home Friday after an investigation that spanned more than a month.
Bryan Kohlberger, 28, the suspect in the University of Idaho murders, was a teaching assistant at nearby Washington State University.
After the murders, he first returned to teaching at the University of Washington, but then drove 2,000 miles from Idaho to Pennsylvania to hide out in his parents’ Poconos home.
Police followed him during the cross-country road trip and continued to follow him in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, where he was eventually apprehended.
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 Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in Moscow, Idaho, a 15-minute drive from WSU.
The university where he worked was just over eight miles from the crime scene.
Victims Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were murdered on November 13.
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.
Kohberger allegedly stalked the students in the weeks leading up to the murders. Pictured is the house where the murders occurred, just over eight miles from where she worked as a doctoral student and teaching assistant.
Moscow Police Chief James Fry said Friday that officers had searched Kohlberger’s office.
On Friday, Moscow Police Chief James Fry confirmed that the suspect was a resident of Washington State University at the time of his arrest.
Fry said campus officials at the Pullam School where he worked cooperated by allowing investigators to execute a search warrant at his office and apartment on campus.
The WSU Pullman campus and WSU Chancellor Elizabeth Chilton said in a statement: “On behalf of the WSU Pullman community, I want to offer my sincerest thanks to all of the law enforcement agencies that have been working tirelessly to solve this crime.”
Chilton continued: “This horrible act has shaken everyone in the Palouse region.”
The Moscow Police Department continues to encourage anyone to come forward as they are ‘still piecing together’.
The police chief could not reveal much about the case until Saturday, as Idaho state law prohibits officers from releasing information until the crime student has first appeared in court in Idaho.
However, he said it was “disappointing” to learn that the alleged killer was studying criminology, as this is “not something we want in our profession.”
“We hold ourselves to a higher standard, we hold ourselves to an ethical standard,” he told Fox News. ‘But we can’t pick and choose what people study.’
Bryan Kohberger’s attorney said Saturday that his client “expects to resolve these matters.”
Kohberger’s attorney said Saturday that his client “expects to resolve these matters.”
‘Mr. Kohberger is eager to be cleared of these charges and looks forward to resolving these matters as soon as possible,’ said Monroe County Chief Public Defender Jason LaBar, who only represented the suspect until his extradition. CNN.
He added that the suspect will agree to forego his extradition hearing, which was scheduled for Tuesday, to be sent to Idaho.
Previously, fellow students who attended high school with Kohberger said he became aggressive when referred to as overweight.
Schyler Jacobson, pictured here, said in an interview: “I would text him [Kohlberger] and be like ‘Hey, do you want to go for a run?’ We were going to run six or seven miles at night, so when I saw who it was I was like, in complete shock, it was so close to home.”
In an interview with NBC Philadelphia, Kohberger’s former friend, Schlyer Jacobson, said the couple were close about 10 years ago and that during their careers, they had “all these positive conversations.”
Jacobson described the murder suspect as a “cheerleader” and often spoke of wanting to get in shape. He said there was nothing worrisome about Kohberger’s behavior.
In a separate interview, Jacobson spoke about their friendship saying WBRE, “I’d text him and say ‘Hey, do you want to go for a run?’ We were going to run six or seven miles at night, so when I saw who she was I was like, in complete shock, she was so close to home.
Ramsland has written books including, How to Catch a Murderer, The Mind of a Murderer, and The Human Predator: A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation.
Before studying and teaching at WSU, he finished his criminology studies at DeSales University, in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, in June.
While there, Kohlberger studied with one of the country’s most renowned forensic scientists, Dr. Katherine Ramsland.
the daily beast reports that one of the courses taught by Ramsland is Psychology of Death Investigations.
Ramsland has written books including How to Catch a Murderer, The Mind of a Murderer, and The Human Predator: A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigations.
The Michigan native is a professor of criminal justice and forensic psychology at DeSales. His published works focus on murder, the supernatural, and other aspects of true crime.
A classmate of Kohberger’s described him as “well-spoken” and “highly intelligent”, but also “seemingly aloof”.
The murders of the four students in Idaho is the kind of gruesome situation with which Ramsland is all too familiar.
Ramsland spoke about the dark subjects he writes about in a 2009 interview saying, ‘It’s clear that everything I do that really involves me has this dark, edgy quality. Vampires, ghosts, corpses, serial killers, death investigations, cemeteries: they all lead me into the shadows where most people fear to tread.
In a separate 2018 interview, Ramsland said he has consulted on several television shows on forensic science. She said that when programs say they have scientific consultants, it means they have paid a scientist to give them some ideas.
Ramsland has consulted on the shows NCIS, Bones, and The Alienist, as well as writing a biography of famed horror novelist Anne Rice.
The author said in the same interview: “I also resent the way that forensic psychologists are often portrayed as psychoanalysts.” [on TV.] This is simply not true for those who consult police departments. Furthermore, psychologists are not detectives and should not be portrayed as such.’
He offered his advice on how people could avoid becoming statistics by saying, ‘Stay tuned. Do not accept the stereotypes of the media, which make you more vulnerable. Don’t think like a victim. Send signals to predators of your vulnerability.