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Teacher made eerie warning about Bryan Kohberger weeks before quadruple murder of students

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Published 20:58 20 Aug 2025 GMT+1

Teacher made eerie warning about Bryan Kohberger weeks before quadruple murder of students

The revelation was made in a newly surfaced police report

Brenna Cooper

Brenna Cooper

A Washington State University faculty member gave a chilling warning about Bryan Kohberger just weeks before he killed four University of Idaho students at their home.

In November 2022, Kohberger broke into a rental property where Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were asleep and stabbed the group to death before fleeing.

Kohberger was arrested on suspicion of killing the four students a month later and remained in custody ahead of his trial. He would ultimately accept a deal which saw him plead guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary to avoid the death penalty.

To this day, the 30-year-old has not revealed a motive for the killings.

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It has now been revealed that teaching staff at WSU had raised concerns about Kohberger's conduct just weeks before he murdered Goncalves, Mogen, Kernodle and Chapin.

Bryan Kohberger is serving life in prison for the murders four University of Idaho students (Kyle Green-Pool/Getty Images)
Bryan Kohberger is serving life in prison for the murders four University of Idaho students (Kyle Green-Pool/Getty Images)

According to police reports, one faculty member had suggested Kohberger could potentially use his position to stalk and sexually abuse future students if he ever became a professor.

Kohberger had undertaken a criminology PhD course at WSU in the summer before the killings and was based in the city of Pullman, which is about 15 to 20 minutes away from the University of Idaho campus in Moscow.

The unnamed woman's concerns were so significant that she'd urged her co-workers to consider cutting his funding and removing him from the programme.

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"He is smart enough that in four years we will have to give him a PhD," the woman reportedly told her colleagues (via The Guardian).

She continued: "Mark my word, I work with predators, if we give him a PhD, that’s the guy [in] many years when he is a professor, we will hear is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing … his students at wherever university."

Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were found deceased in a rental home in Moscow, Idaho (Instagram/@Kaylee Goncalves)
Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were found deceased in a rental home in Moscow, Idaho (Instagram/@Kaylee Goncalves)

The faculty member went on to recall incidents where Kohberger would supposedly block the door to a room where female PhD students were working, and that she'd sometimes hear one of the students say: "I really need to get out of here."

She also believed he'd been stalking multiple people, even breaking into the room of one graduate student in September or October.

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Meanwhile, another student who was studying on the same programme as Kohberger claimed he was disparaging towards women, while others believed he may have been an 'incel'.

Following his guilty plea, Kohberger was sentenced to life without parole. He also received an additional sentence of 10 years for the burglary charge.

Featured Image Credit: Kyle Green-Pool/Getty Images

Topics: Crime, US News, Bryan Kohberger

Brenna Cooper
Brenna Cooper

Brenna Cooper is a journalist at LADbible. She graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in History, followed by an NCTJ accredited masters in Journalism. She began her career as a freelance writer for Digital Spy, where she wrote about all things TV, film and showbiz. Her favourite topics to cover are music, travel and any bizarre pop culture.

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