Expert details eerie similarities between Bryan Kohberger and Ted Bundy
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: The suspect in the murder of the four University of Idaho students is being compared to serial killer Ted Bundy after mugshots were posted on the Internet Friday, Jan. 6. The disturbing resemblance between Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger and notorious serial killer Bundy was also by a body language expert.
Kohberger was arrested December 30 in connection with the University of Idaho murders, weeks after a thorough investigation that included FBI and local law enforcement. Four students, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were found dead with multiple stab wounds in their off-campus home on November 13, 2022.
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According to body language expert Patti Wood, the accused killer's face as he entered a courtroom in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, January 3, was uncannily identical to that of Ted Bundy, he told The US Sun. "What you're seeing is the facial expression of anger that shows 'I'm about to strike or I want to.'" Patti said, analyzing a photo of Kohberger making his way to court.
She highlighted how murderers like Ted Bundy can "freeze" the lower third of their faces in order to mask their feelings. The expert claims that the upper face is more "honest" and difficult to manage. "That's why somebody can't fake smile," she said, adding that the eyes and foreheads of both Bundy and Kohberger are "big tells."
Intriguing parallels in both of their interests suggested that they were criminals: Soon after his arrest, a Reddit post that belonged to Kohberger was discovered that looked to show him asking about how crimes are conducted, how victims were chosen, and how someone would leave a crime scene. At the time of his first killings, Bundy was around the same age as Kohberger. He later worked in Olympia, Washington, as the assistant director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Commission, where he developed a booklet for women on rape prevention, as reported by Newsweek. Their similarities, however, are the most terrifying comparison: In side-by-side comparisons of their social media-posted mugshots, both males had comparable eyebrows and hairstyles, narrow lips, lanky cheekbones, and matching ears.
Even while little is known about the reasons behind the Idaho killings, analogies to Bundy had already been made before Friday's photo release because of the crimes' character. Early in December, Bundy's former lawyer John Henry Browne told news organizations that he thought there were many parallels between the Idaho crimes and those carried out by his client, who had left virtually scant evidence at the beginning of his killing rampage that left almost three dozen people dead.