'Unfriendly' and 'withdrawn' Bryan Kohberger worked as fish cutter years before being fired from WSU
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: Idaho quadruple murders suspect Bryan Kohberger worked as a "fish cutter" at a lake in Pennsylvania years before he was reportedly fired from his teaching job at Washington State University. Charles Conklin, the owner of Big Brown Fish and Pay Lakes in Effort, Pennsylvania, said that in 2011, Kohberger worked for him for four months as a seasonal employee. At the time, Kohberger was in high school.
Conklin, who trained Kohberger to cut and fillet raw fish with industry-standard knives, claimed he forbade the Idaho suspect from ever interacting with customers because of his demeanor. "He never warmed up and got friendly," Conklin told People. "Most kids that work here, we consider like family. He was withdrawn and didn't show improvement."
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Bryan Kohberger was fired from his job at WSU
Kohberger was reportedly fired from his job as a teaching assistant in WSU's Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology as many as 11 years later, a termination letter obtained by NewsNation said. The university cut ties with Kohberger effective December 31, 2022, after two separate alleged "altercations" with a professor, his failure to meet "expectations as a T.A.," and an alleged lack of "progress regarding professionalism." He was fired weeks after he stabbed the four University of Idaho students to death.
Kohberger, 28, has been accused of fatally stabbing Kaylee, 21, Madison, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in their off-campus three-story rented home on November 13, 2022. He was arrested in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, on December 30, 2022.
Bryan Kohberger had photos of victim on his phone
Meanwhile, months after the gruesome Idaho murders, it has been revealed that Kohberger had pictures of one of the female victims on his phone. A phone belonging to Kohberger was collected after his arrest, in which authorities discovered pictures of the victim. It is unclear if the photos were taken by Kohberger or downloaded from the victim's social media.
"He had more than one picture of her," a source told People, adding, "It was clear that he was paying attention to her." In the past that two weeks before the murders, Kohberger sent a series of messages to one of the victims on Instagram, as reported by People. He reportedly had a clean report apart from a drug problem. He was a PhD student in Washington State University’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology.
It has been revealed that Kohberger returned to the crime scene area and may even have stalked the home of his victims about 12 times before the attack. His cell phone pinged its location in the area of the house where the crimes were committed at around 9 am on November 13, which was just five hours after he killed the students. He now reportedly plans to fight the probable cause evidence in a June 26 preliminary hearing, according to his attorney Kootenai County Public Defender Anne Taylor.