Bryan Kohberger’s Unsealed Interviews Reveal Complaints From WSU Students

Unsealed documents on Bryan Kohberger have shed new light on his troubled time at Washington State University.

The convicted murderer was enrolled as a student at the university when he brutally killed four students from the University of Idaho. According to the documents, Kohberger had a strained relationship with many of his colleagues and some students.

Just a few months into the start of Bryan Kohberger’s program, more than a dozen complaints had already been filed against him, mostly centered on “discriminatory comments” he allegedly made during conversations with these individuals.

One of the many revelations that emerged during Bryan Kohberger’s murder case was that he was a PhD student studying criminology at Washington State University.

Now, unsealed interviews from authorities have pulled back the curtain on his time there, revealing that the convicted murderer did not have the best reputation during the few months he spent at the school prior to the slayings.

In fact, according to documents obtained by People magazine, one of his colleagues filed a complaint against him with administrators just days into Kohberger’s first semester of the doctoral program in criminology in August 2022.

Over the next three months, Kohberger had even more run-ins with members of the WSU community that led to 12 additional complaints of various kinds.

At the time Kohberger’s murders were being investigated, one student told authorities that he was known for “being a d-ck,” which further hinted at how widespread his bad reputation had become.

Many of the complaints filed against Kohberger came from women in the WSU community.

In one instance, he allegedly told a divorced woman that he didn’t date “broken women.” In another, he reportedly asked a deaf classmate if “she would be comfortable procreating given the fact she had a disability.”

A staff member who was aware of these complaints also told authorities that Kohberger’s behavior became a point of concern during disciplinary meetings, particularly regarding his interactions with classmates and some of his professors.

The individual went on to reveal that Kohberger’s issues were centered on his alleged making of “outspoken discriminatory comments which were homophobic, ableist, xenophobic, and misogynistic in nature.”

“He would also stare at people and stand uncomfortably close or ‘lean’ over women, making them very uncomfortable,” she remarked, adding that Kohberger said his “comments had been misunderstood” during a one-on-one inquiry she had with him.

In one of the unsealed documents, a WSU undergraduate recounted how she was seemingly stalked by the convicted murderer.

She claimed that the former PhD student would repeatedly approach her in her office and refuse to leave without her talking to him. On some occasions, he also cornered her as she left work, leaving her with no choice but to engage in conversation.

At one point, Kohberger asked her on a date, which she turned down and also informed him she was in a relationship. Still, the convicted murderer continued harassing her and may have once stalked the then 19-year-old to her home, as she also recalled an incident in which her “neighbor saw someone very close outside her window.”

The woman later learned that Kohberger lived nearby, which might have prompted her to take rides from her boss to avoid going home alone during closing hours, as stated in the docs.

A female student in Kohberger’s doctoral program gave a detailed description of her view of the convicted murderer.

She described him as a misogynist who made her feel “deeply uncomfortable” during his time at WSU.

The student also branded Kohberger a “narcissist,” adding that he “never displayed empathy toward another person.”

She further described him as someone who wanted “to be seen as the strongest, smartest, most important person in the room.”

At one point, Kohberger’s behavior had become so expected that a group of classmates reportedly kept a board tracking each incident he had with fellow colleagues and criminology professors.

According to the documents, administrators even had to organize a discrimination training for first-year doctoral students, which many of them later confirmed in interviews with the ISP.

It is unclear if Kohberger was present at the training, which fell on the same week he fatally stabbed Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20.