Bryan Kohberger was at the end of his first semester as a doctoral student in Washington State University’s criminal justice program when he allegedly broke into a home in Moscow, Idaho, and stabbed four college students to death on November 13.
The brutal murders reportedly did not stop Kohberger from attending classes at WSU’s Pullman campus, where he worked as an assistant and was described as a tough student whose disposition and teaching style changed in recent weeks.
This photo provided by the Monroe County (Pa.) Correctional Center shows Bryan Kohberger, who was being held for extradition in a criminal homicide investigation for the murder of four University of Idaho students.
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“Definitely back then, he started rating everyone out of 100. Pretty much if you turned in something, you’d get high marks. He stopped leaving notes. He seemed concerned,” Hayden Stinchfield, a student in one of Kohberger’s classes, told CNN.
“The couple of times he came after, or around that time frame, he had a little more facial hair, a beard, less grooming. He was a little bit calmer.”
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Another criminology student in one of Kohberger’s classes, Joey Famularo, told the Spokesman-Review that Kohberger “always seemed a little nervous.”
“We just assumed he was a bit shy,” Famularo told the local newspaper.
Investigators search Bryan Christopher Kohberger’s home in Pullman, WA after dark on December 30, 2022.
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Kohberger received a bachelor’s degree in 2020 and a master’s degree in Criminal Justice in 2022 from DeSales University, located in eastern Pennsylvania.
The FBI and local police arrested him around 1:30 a.m. Friday at his parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania. He had driven home with his father in mid-December and was stopped twice on the way, according to his public defender.
A split photo showing the crime scene and victims, including University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21.
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Front view of the house where four Idaho students were murdered in November 2022.
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Kohberger’s office and home are on the WSU campus in Pullman, which is about eight miles from the Moscow, Idaho, home where Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle , 20, were stabbed to death between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on November 13.
Idaho authorities charged him with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary. He is expected to waive extradition during a court hearing on Tuesday afternoon.
Fox News’ Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
