Former student of Idaho murder suspect says his demeanor changed after killings: ‘He seemed concerned’
Bryan Kohberger was at the end of his first semester as a doctoral student in Washington State University’s criminal justice program when he allegedly broke into a home in Moscow, Idaho, and stabbed him in died four students on November 13.
The brutal killings reportedly didn’t stop Kohberger from attending classes at WSU’s Pullman campus, where he worked as a TA and was described as a tough grader whose disposition and teaching style have changed in recent weeks. .
This photo provided by Monroe County Correctional Facility, Pennsylvania shows Bryan Kohberger, who was being held for extradition in connection with a criminal investigation into the murder of four University of Idaho students.
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“Certainly around that time he started grading everyone just 100. Pretty much if you turned in something, you got good grades. He stopped leaving grades. He seemed concerned,” Hayden Stinchfield said, a student in one of Kohberger’s classes, told CNN.
“The few times he came after, or around this time, he had a little more facial hair, stubble, less well maintained. He was a little calmer.”
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Another criminology student in one of Kohberger’s classes, Joey Famularo, told the Spokesperson’s Review that Kohberger “always seemed a little nervous.”
“We just assumed he was a bit shy,” Famularo told the local newspaper.
Investigators search the home of Bryan Christopher Kohberger in Pullman, WA after dark on December 30, 2022.
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Kohberger earned a bachelor’s degree in 2020 and a master of arts in criminal justice in 2022 from DeSales University, located in eastern Pennsylvania.
The FBI and local police arrested him around 1:30 a.m. Friday at his parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania. He had returned home with his father in mid-December and had been arrested twice along the way, according to his public defender.
A split photo showing the crime scene and the victims, including University of Idaho student Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; and Kaylee Gonçalves, 21.
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Front view of the house where four Idaho college students were killed in November 2022.
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Kohberger’s office and home are on the WSU campus in Pullman, about eight miles from the home in Moscow, Idaho, where Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle , 20, was stabbed to death between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on November 13.
Authorities in Idaho have charged him with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary. He is expected to waive the extradition at a court hearing on Tuesday afternoon.
Fox News’ Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
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