'He looked sickly': Bryan Kohberger turned 'aggressive' after startling weight loss, says ex-classmate
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger underwent a massive transformation before senior year at Pleasant Valley High School in Brodheadsville, reportedly losing about 80 pounds. The suspect reportedly grew up in Poconos. Classmates said after his transformation, he became an aggressor from a victim.
Kohberger has been accused of stabbing to death University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in an off-campus three-story rented home in the early morning hours of November 13. Authorities have said that the gory scene where the students were killed was the “worst they’ve ever seen." Kohberger, 28, was arrested in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, on Friday, December 30.
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“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 He became more withdrawn,” Dominique Clark, who attended elementary and high school with Kohberger, told New York Post.
Kohberger was arrested more than 2,000 miles away from where the murders took place and agreed to be extradited to Idaho from Pennsylvania. His lawyer has said he is shocked at being arrested and is planning to deny the murders.
It has been reported that authorities tracked Kohberger all the way to Pennsylvania, surveilling him for several days before eventually arresting him. Kohberger was charged with four counts of murder in the first degree, as well as felony burglary in connection with the deaths of the four students, according to Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson, CNN reported.
Investigators have not publicly confirmed a motive for the murders. The suspect is a PhD student in Washington State University’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology. He reportedly lived just minutes from the scene of the massacre.