Bryan Kohberger's 'sociopathic stare': Expert says Idaho murders suspect shows suppressed anger
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MONROE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA: A body language expert Patti Wood has detailed the “sociopathic stare” by accused murderer Bryan Kohberger, who allegedly killed four students of the University of Idaho, as he arrived in court in Pennsylvania for his extradition hearing on Tuesday, December 3 – four days after his arrest on December 30, 2022. She said, “You immediately feel uncomfortable, and that's because it's a sociopathic stare. What [mind is] doing, it's alerting your limbic brain that there's danger.”
Talking to The Sun, Wood analyzed pictures posted by Fox News of Kohberger, staring at cameras with wide eyes, walking to court and said the expression was that of someone trying and failing to suppress anger. "You would think that they would say, 'I need to look like this poor little victim and look innocent,' but [psychopaths] can't control it. They can't help themselves." Wood clarified that while she's not a psychologist and can't diagnose him as a psychopath, she does have the ability to identify a sociopathic stare.
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Explaining further, Wood mentioned that Kohberger showed the same disturbing stare in his mugshot. "[Psychopaths] stare because it gives them sort of a high that it unsettles you - they're manipulating you into a response that feeds their narcissistic supply," she described.
Kohberger waived extradition
Bryan, 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, arraigned by a Monroe County judge. He faces four counts of first-degree murder for the brutal stabbings of four students. At a court hearing on December 3, Kohberger waived extradition as he agreed to be extradited from Pennsylvania to Idaho in his first court hearing, as previously reported by MEAWW.