Convicted killer Bryan Kohberger received 13 formal complaints from college classmates for his lewd, offensive comments and creepy behavior while attending Washington State University, according to a report.
Kohberger, 30, was only days into his first semester at the doctoral criminology program when he received his first complaint, earning him a reputation for “being a d–k,” members of the WSU community said in unsealed documents and interviews obtained by People.
Among the complaints were accusations from several women that Kohberger made sexual comments about them, including asking a deaf classmate if “she would be comfortable procreating given the fact she had a disability,” the outlet reported.
Upon starting the fall term in 2022, a staff member told Detective Gary Tolleson from the Idaho State Police that Kohberger had received a complaint soon into his first month in the program.
The quadruple murder then became a topic of weekly discussion in disciplinary meetings, specifically in regard to his “interactions with fellow postgraduate students, in and out of the classroom, along with his behavior around some of the Criminal Justice Professors,” the outlet reported.
Though the staff member initially took him as simply socially awkward, she later realized that he often made “outspoken discriminatory comments which were homophobic, ableist, xenophobic and misogynistic in nature,” toward students and staff, she said in the interview.
“He would also stare at people and stand uncomfortably close or ‘lean’ over women, making them very uncomfortable,” she added.
One 19-year-old undergraduate student who worked in the criminology department also told police that Kohberger would constantly come into her office to pester her and sometimes physically corner her as she tried to leave work.
He once asked her out on a date, but she rejected his advance by telling him she had a girlfriend, according to the interviews.
But Kohberger was not deterred by her rejection and continued to pester her, so the undergrad began to get rides home from her boss out of fear of Kohberger.
At least one person close to her expressed concern about “how many precautions she perceived were being taken because of Kohberger.”
Another female student in Kohberger’s program described him as a misogynist who made her feel “deeply uncomfortable.”
Several documents obtained by the outlet showed he often spoke down to women and mistreated his female professors by showing up late. The antics prompted a group of classmates to keep a board tracking each of his transgressions.
That same student described Kohberger as a “narcissist” who “never displayed empathy toward another person” and wanted “to be seen as the strongest, smartest, most important person in the room,” the outlet reported.
A male graduate student also recalled being “verbally kidnapped” by Kohberger when he was forced into a three-hour conversation with him in a parking lot, where the killer told the student “he could pick up any woman he wanted in bars and clubs.”
Several first-year doctoral students in the criminology program were eventually required to take blanket discrimination training because of Kohberger’s unhinged behavior, according to the report.
The training took place on Nov. 8, 2022 — just days before Kohberger killed Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle on Nov. 13, 2022, in their off-campus house in Moscow.
Weeks before his trial was set to begin, Kohberger accepted a plea deal that allowed him to avoid the death penalty.
After his sentencing, Kohberger was transferred from jail to a prison where his fellow inmates have been psychologically tormenting him by yelling into the vents that lead to his cell at all hours of the day.
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