Brian Kohberger, the Ph.D. in criminology. student accused of stabbing to death four University of Idaho students in November, he applied for an internship in the fall with the local police department in Pullman, Washington, according to a recently released probable cause affidavit.
Kohberger worked as a teaching assistant at Washington State University and lived in Pullman, a college town just a few miles from the crime scene in Moscow, Idaho.
She applied to the police department sometime during the fall semester, when she took her first semester of classes at WSU after graduating from DeSales University with a master’s degree in psychology and cloud-based forensics in June 2022.
“Kohberger wrote in his essay that he had an interest in assisting rural law enforcement agencies in how to best collect and analyze technology data in public safety operations,” an arrest affidavit states.
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Brian Kohberger in the Latah County Courthouse on January 5, 2023.
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A Pullman Police Department spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment on the request.
As part of his graduate studies at WSU, Kohberger also posted a survey on Reddit, asking potential participants to provide information on “how emotions and psychological traits influence decision-making when committing a crime,” according to the statement. sworn.
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While at DeSales University, he studied under serial killer expert Dr. Katherine Ramsland, who co-wrote a book with BTK killer Dennis Rader.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, is pictured in a mugshot after he was extradited to Moscow, Idaho, on January 4.
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Kohberger received an associate’s degree from Pennsylvania’s Northampton Community College before studying at DeSales and WSU.
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A former friend of Kohberger’s from Northampton, Pa., who asked to remain anonymous because of her job, said she doesn’t think Kohberger wanted to be a police officer, but was interested in studying crime.
“He was very interested in psychology and, you know, criminology and stuff like that. So he was very interested in the way the mind works,” the friend told Fox News Digital. “Just people in general, what makes things work.”
A yearbook photo of Bryan Kohberger in a high school law enforcement class doing push-ups.
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Kohberger’s interest in law enforcement dates back to his younger years at Pleasant Valley High School in Pennsylvania, when he also aspired to go into the military. A 2011 yearbook shows Kohberger in a law enforcement class doing push-ups with a badge dangling from his left pocket.
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The yearbook said Kohberger used the class to “help him reach his goal of one day serving in the Army Rangers,” an elite special operations force.
Kohberger was arrested December 30 at his parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvaniaand extradited to Idaho on Wednesday, where he faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony robbery.
A split photo showing the crime scene and the victims: University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21.
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The front view of the house where four Idaho students were murdered in November 2022.
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Authorities allege that Kohberger broke into an off-campus apartment near the University of Idaho in the early morning hours of November 13 and killed Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
He allegedly left behind a tan leather knife sheath that was stamped with “Ka-Bar” and the United States Marine Corps eagle and anchor globe, according to the affidavit. Investigators wrote that they found DNA belonging to Kohberger on the pod.
Chris Eberhart, Michael Ruiz, Stephanie Pagones and Audrey Conklin of Fox News contributed to this report.
