Bizarre questions Idaho Student Murderer asked in 'mind of a serial killer' class

Bryan Kohberger has revealed that he plans to take back his guilty plea for the quadruple murder of Madison May Mogen, Kaylee Jade Goncalves, Xana Alexia Kernodle, and Ethan James Chapin in their home.

Kohberger revealed his plans just two days prior to the release of a brand-new Netflix documentary about his brutal killing, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare.

The true crime documentary is the latest in a spate of docs from the streamer focused on some pretty disturbing cases, including popular docs on Mackenzie Shirilla, Taylor Parker, and the Costa Concordia disaster.

Kohberger’s horrific crimes led him to be sentenced to four consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to the murder of the four students in their home, however Netflix’s new documentary reveals the scale of his clear fascination with murder ahead of the crime.

The killer, who was 28 at the time of his knife attack, was later revealed to have been working as a teaching assistant in the Criminal Justice and Criminology Department at Washington State University. He had previously studied Crimonology at Desailes University and, in this time, took a ‘Mind of a Serial Killer’ class where one of his classmates retroactively realised his odd behaviour.

Kohberger took a class on the ‘Mind of a Serial Killer’ from an expert on criminology and asked some unsettling questions

Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences (Kai Eiselein-Pool/Getty Images)

Kohberger took a class in university under Dr. Katherine Ramsland, an expert in criminology who has previously written a book alongside the BTK killer Confessions of a Serial Killer.

Lilly Karaban, a classmate of Kohberger’s, spoke in the documentary about how she shared the ‘Mind of a Serial Killer’ class with him.

She said: “The first day of class I just remember him asking a question about every single topic in that class. Everyone would roll their eyes and be like ‘ugh he’s asking another question’.

“[Professor Ramsland] was very well known in the forensic psychology world… we studied [in her class] every big killer, every little killer, killers that people have never heard of.”

Lilly claimed that he ‘adored’ the professor and that a ‘switch went off’ whenever she began teaching and stated that he was a ‘different person’, adding: “You can tell he was just thinking about everything she was saying.”

Dr Ramsland said she was 'horrified' to discover she had taught the killer, claiming that she may have inspired his horrible crimes

Speaking to NewsNation amid the sentencing of Kohberger, Dr Ramsland revealed that he seemed ‘eager’ to be in her class.

She said: “He was polite, he was intense and curious and there was no reason for me to think that it was anything other than someone who is really interested in this potential career.” The criminology expert stated she had no concerns and that were no red flags for what he would eventually be capable of.

Dr Ramsland taught him ‘Introduction to Forensic Psychology’, a death investigation class called ‘Psychological Sleuthing’, and ‘Dangerous minds, the psychology of anti-social behaviour’, the class Lilly referred to as ‘the Mind of a Serial Killer’. He then did a master’s where he took ‘behavioural criminology’ with her.

She stated that the ‘dangerous minds’ course saw them studying mass murderers and serial killers, adding: “Now, looking back I would look at some of the things that interested him as something that gives me pause.

“We know [in her field] there’s always a risk of that we’re attracting somebody who wants to do something terrible hoping we won’t ever have that, but in my case I did.

“I have to wonder if I inspired him, but I can’t second guess that because I may have inspired someone else to become an FBI agent.”

Dr Ramsland said that she was ‘disappointed, angry, and shocked’, claiming that she was ‘horrified’ by his crimes.