Bryan Kohberger's 'shocked' ex-classmate claims Idaho murder suspect used heroin in high school
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: A woman claiming to be Bryan Kohberger's former classmate has reportedly spoken out about how shocked she was to learn that she knew him and had even spoken to him in the past. Casey Arntz shared images of the suspect in the Idaho murders and screenshots of several interactions with him on her TikTok page on the night of December 30, appearing genuinely shaken by the news.
Kohberger, 28, was arrested in Pennsylvania on Decemer 30 after being sought on suspicion of the first-degree murders of four students from Idaho. "My brother was really good friends with him. I'm shaking," Arntz explained in the video. She mentioned that she had last spoken to Kohberger five years earlier, when they ran into one another at a wedding and he appeared to be doing well after supposedly using drugs as a high school student. "Back in 2017 when I spoke to him he was clean. He was doing security detail at a school, I believe, but he seemed like he was better. Obviously that wasn't true," Arntz said, per Daily Mail.
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Arntz shared pictures from the wedding, mentioning how she sat next to him during the entire event. "At the same wedding he was sitting at the same table as me and my mother. I sat next to him and we talked," she said in the video. Later on in the video, which has since been taken down from TikTok, she described how Kohberger had contacted her at random and asked her to take him around the Pennsylvanian Pocono Mountains so he could supposedly pick up drugs, as per Daily Mail.
"He nonchalantly decided to meet me driving round the Poconos for heroin and I had no idea. I thought I was doing a nice deed because he needed something [else]," Arntz reportedly said. Her brother, Thomas, described Kohberger as a "bully" who took pleasure in pointing out the "flaws and fears" of his friends in order to divert attention away from his own weight issues.
"He did that to me all the time," Thomas told The Daily Beast, adding, "He would go after my intelligence. He would basically insinuate that I'm kind of slow-witted and that I'm forgetful and that I lack the intelligence to be his friend." After months of bullying, Thomas ultimately ended his friendship with Kohberger. He mentioned how his mother, a substitute teacher, and his father, a maintenance worker, were "genuinely kind people." "He was mean-spirited, he was a bully. I never thought he would do something like that but at the same time it doesn't really surprise me," Thomas said.
More than a month after four college students were murdered in their beds, SWAT troops swooped in on a quiet residential area in Pennsylvania early on Friday, December 30, where Kohberger was captured. Investigators, according to Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson, think he entered the students' home "with the intent to commit murder." Police reportedly said that Kohberger was connected to the scene via DNA evidence. The University of Idaho is just a short drive across the state line from Washington State University, where Kohberger was a PhD candidate in the department of criminal justice and criminology.