Bryan Kohberger's Professor Sounded Stalking And Sexual Abuse Alarm Before Murders
By Afouda Bamidele on August 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM EDT
The felon's sinister tendencies were picked up on by a very observant school staff who predicted likely sexual abuse in his future endeavors, before he embarked on his murderous voyage in 2022.
Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison last month after he pled guilty to killing four University of Idaho students in a home off campus in November 2022.
Inside Bryan Kohberger's Reported Problematic Behaviors Before The Murders
The convicted felon reportedly exhibited tendencies to be sexist and creepy, according to his fellow graduating students, in their statement to investigators. Kohberger's behavior even caught the attention of a faculty member at Washington State University.
The faculty member reportedly told her colleagues that if Kohberger rose to the position of a professor, he would stalk or put his students in harm's way by sexually abusing them. She reportedly urged her co-workers to cut off his funding to get rid of him from that environment for good.
"If we give him a Ph.D., that's the guy who in in those many years when he is a professor, we will hear is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing ... his students at whatever university," the faculty member noted.
According to AP News, the faculty member's account was just one out of numerous narratives by several people who have encountered Kohberger in any way, as collated by Idaho State Police.
More Details About Kohberger's Conduct Towards Female Students
The investigator recalled an instance where Kohberger would sometimes enter into a space where female grad students worked. He would reportedly block the exit door, leaving the women begging to be let out of the building, and she would sometimes be forced to intervene.
The WSU faculty member believed the convicted felon was also stalking people as he allegedly broke into a female grad student's room last year, carting away perfume and underwear.
Some people in the department also felt he acted like an incel who had the tendency to rape women. A PhD student who was a coursemate of Kohberger told officers that he particularly enjoyed creating conflict.
The felon also loved to talk down on women and often talked about sexual burglary, which was his area of specialization in school. An instructor also detailed cases of receiving complaints about his attitudes towards staff and students in the criminal justice program.
The Complaints About Kohberger Were Right From The Beginning
A few months into the start of the program at WSU, Kohberger's name was mentioned in about 13 complaints bordering on discriminatory comments during his interaction with the aggrieved reporters.
As seen on The Blast, official sources confirmed that the first set of reports trickled in around August 2022, which was a few days into the first semester of his doctoral program in Criminology.
Twelve more reports followed three months after the first complaints, with one student alleging that he held the reputation for being a naughty person in the department.
The felon once told a divorced woman that he did not fancy "broken women," and also offended a classmate who was deaf by asking her if she would ever bear children due to her disability.
The faculty member detailed how his name came up in disciplinary meetings and how she often condemned his actions towards classmates and his professors.
"He would also stare at people and stand uncomfortably close or 'lean' over women, making them very uncomfortable," she noted. Kohberger's usual line of defense during the point of inquiry was that people often misinterpreted his comments.
The Former PhD Student Admired The Idaho Killer's Skills
Three weeks after Kohberger carried out the killings, he struck up a conversation with his colleague, of course feigning ignorance of what he had done, and praised the murderer for doing a pretty good job.
Details from the unsealed documents revealed that he had engaged in a conversation with his female classmate, who was about to go on winter break.
The Blast shared that he declared that the killer's timing to carry out the murders was perfectly chosen. He also hinted that the murderer probably planned for it to be a one-and-done thing.
Luck ran out for the murderer as his arrest came nearly a month after he committed the murders. Law enforcement officials reportedly utilized a combination of DNA evidence, cell phone tracking, and surveillance footage to bring him to book.
Kohberger's complicated relationship with his mother was also revealed in the unsealed documents after it was confirmed that the case would no longer go on trial.
Bryan Kohberger Was A Staunch Supporter Of The Death Penalty
The 30-year-old, during his criminology classes, often expressed his inclination towards the adoption of the death penalty as punishment for known crimes.
Information from the unsealed documents showed that he not only spoke in favor of the death penalty, but he also agreed that the victim's family should hold the right to determine its application or otherwise.
He would go the extra mile by using gory examples to defend his perspective, including asking a classmate during a debate to visualize her daughter becoming a victim of a heinous crime.
Kohberger reportedly asked the classmate if she would then support the death penalty if her daughter were violently assaulted and then killed in cold blood.
