Mercedes Colwin: Legal expert says Idaho suspect Bryan Kohberger is savvy, fits mold of a mass killer
MOSCOW, IDAHO: Fox News legal analyst Mercedes Colwin details what the suspect in the Idaho killings, Bryan Kohberger, the criminology student charged in the murders of four University of Idaho students is like. Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, were found stabbed to death in the early morning hours of November 13. Colvin says he "fits the mold of a mass killer."
Talking about his background, Colwin said, “It’s so interesting, especially, that letter report that is not fully confirmed yet but the fact that there is some study out where he was seeking participants in that study. So what was this? We are going to delve pretty deeply into it as details of the crime emerge." “But we are looking into the social experiment by someone who studied criminology so deeply, especially as a PhD student where he presumedly studied some of the worst criminals in history. Ted Bundy is one of them," tells the legal analyst, reports Fox News interview.
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"So all of these things fit sort of a mold when you look at a mass killer. Someone who is isolated, someone with a troubled background, who has been bullied, who had trouble with interpersonal skills." Narrating further on why suspect wants to waive extradition hearing to expedite return to Idaho, Colwin explains, "He has studied this extensively. In his studies, he has learned how individuals who were accused of crimes were ultimately found exonerated of the crime."
Describing him, Colwin tells, "This is someone who is very savvy and if a defence attorney is going to have to speak to him and say, do you really want to have the prosecution in that location where there’s been such extensive media interest, presumably everyone who would be the prospective jurors would know about this, about the allegations that he’s facing in the trial." She also said that he will not have the due process in that location "because trial will be affected with individuals who already have a preconcieved notion of what took place when four kids were butchered."
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.
