Bryan Kohberger: Idaho murders suspect was a bully, tried to punch through window as teen
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: A woman who knew Bryan Kohberger, the criminology student charged with the murders of four College of Idaho students, Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, in the early morning hours of November 13, claims she once saw the suspect try to break a window as a teenager. She said there were disturbing signs and she saw a dark side emerge in him.
According to TMZ, the anonymous woman told how her two children grew up with Kohberger in Effort, Pennsylvania, in the 2010s. And went on to explain how by 2017, she saw him turn into a bully towards her children, but never saw him get physical with them. Talking about the aggressive side that began to develop in him, she said that at the same time Kohberger began using heroin, he allegedly tried to punch through an "unbreakable" glass window. He couldn't break the glass, but the attempt shocked her.
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After a few years, when the woman and her daughter ran into Kohberger at a wedding, he told them he'd gotten clean. Dominique Clark, who attended elementary and high school with Kohberger, said, as quoted by New York Post, "I remember seeing him and thinking it was a new student. He was so heavy and he lost so much weight, he almost looked sickly or like it was an obsession. Around the same time, he became more aggressive and I think he became more of an outcast at that point. He became more withdrawn."
Another former Pleasant Valley High School classmate said that Kohberger was a heavy heroin user back in high school. Casey Arntz said in a series of videos, “I really didn’t have ‘Old Friend of a Murderer’ on my 2022 bingo list." She showed a clip of her posing for a photo from 2017 with her friend Brandon, his wife, and Kohberger standing off to the right. “Obviously that’s Bryan. Still had the dead face," she explained. She said when she had spoken to him at the time, he told her that he was “clean from drug use." And added, "It was nice to see him clean up. He seemed like he was better. Obviously, that wasn’t true."
The arrest of Bryan Kohberger
Kohberger, who graduated from DeSales University in Pennsylvania in May 2022 with a master of arts in criminal justice and is a PhD student in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, was arrested by the FBI and Pennsylvania State Police on Friday, December 30, arraigned by a Monroe County judge and ordered to be held without bail, as previously reported. He faces four counts of first-degree murder for the brutal stabbings of four students, as previously reported.