Idaho murder suspect Kohberger’s Pennsylvania classmates say he was ‘bright,’ awkward, bullied in school

ALBRIGHTSVILLE, Pennsylvania – Former Pennsylvania classmates of Idaho homicide suspect Bryan Christopher Kohberger mentioned he was an mental who “was very thinking about the best way the thoughts works” however bullied for his weight and socially awkwardness.

Kohberger was arrested hundreds of miles from Idaho, in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, early Friday morning and charged with 4 counts of homicide for the deaths of College of Idaho college students Ethan Chapin, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Madison Mogen, 21.

Police mentioned he was a graduate scholar at Washington State College and that he had been dwelling in Pullman on the time. He’s in Monroe County, Pennsylvania jail whereas ready to be extradited to Idaho.

In his house state, he was often called a genius who was socially awkward and had a tricky time choosing up on social cues, a few his former classmates instructed Fox Information Digital.

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Sarah Healey, who went to Nice Valley Excessive Faculty with Kohberger, mentioned he was shy and saved to himself and a small group of associates, however a few of their classmates – particularly ladies – mocked Kohberger and threw issues at him.

“It was unhealthy,” Healey mentioned. “There was positively one thing off about him, like we could not inform precisely what it was. I bear in mind one time after I was strolling within the hallway, and he stopped me and was like, ‘Do you need to hang around?’”

At that time, they did not know one another or run in the identical social circles, mentioned Healey. 

“It was simply bizarre,” she mentioned. “However Bryan was bullied rather a lot, and I by no means obtained an opportunity to say one thing to defend him, as a result of he would all the time run away.”

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Healey mentioned she heard different ladies inform Kohberger of their highschool to “go away, creep” or “I do not need to hang around with you.”

“I actually suppose that is what led as much as this, as a result of he did not get the correct assist, and it was primarily females that bullied him,” Healey mentioned.

Regardless of the bullying, she mentioned Kohberger’s grades had been all the time good, and he “was very into his books.” 

That continued at Pennsylvania’s Northampton Neighborhood School, in response to one in every of Kohberger’s associates, who requested to stay nameless due to her job.

“He is actually, actually clever. A vibrant child . . . somebody who stood out even in honors and high-level lessons,” his NCC good friend mentioned. 

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This photograph supplied by Monroe County (Pa.) Correctional Facility reveals Bryan Kohberger.
(Monroe County (Pa.) Correctional Facility by way of AP)

Healey and Kohberger’s NCC good friend each used the phrase “shocked” to explain their reactions once they heard about legislation enforcement’s early Friday morning raid on his mother and father’ Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, house and his subsequent arrest. 

Kohberger’s NCC good friend mentioned she discovered that he was in custody whereas she was at work, and she or he took a number of moments to herself, as a result of she started to tear up.

He was “awkward and clever, however not somebody you’d peg for violent,” she mentioned.

“I need to speak to him now and ask him what occurred? What went improper? What was going by your head? What had been you feeling? What was occurring? , why did this happen?” 

His good friend mentioned that he did not work together with many individuals on campus however was pleasant along with her, they usually talked “for hours” about his struggles with heroin dependancy and his weight and saved in contact after they graduated. 

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The final time she spoke to him was on Fb a bit of over two years in the past. They talked about their futures and what they wished to do. 

“I used to be my grasp’s program, and he was speaking about whether or not he was going to do the forensic psychology or criminology or each, however he knew he was going for a Ph.D.,” she mentioned.

“And I wasn’t positive if I must do my Ph.D. program, if I used to be going to do a grasp’s or Ph.D., so we had had a complete dialog about that, and that was our final dialog.

“For me, I simply really feel like he was by no means listened to or heard by his friends. So, you realize, the truth that I sat and listened to him and heard him and talked with him, that was totally different.

“And he was all the time apt to have these conversations with me. And our conversations, whether or not they had been within the hallways at college, or on Messenger, they’d final, you realize, an hour, two hours.”

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She obtained to know and perceive him throughout their talks and lessons the place she would nearly translate for him. 

She defined that he was “genuinely curious” and believed that he lived a sheltered life, so he requested questions or mentioned issues to different those that they construed as being offensive.

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“It wasn’t meant to be offensive,” she mentioned. “It was like childlike curiosity from an grownup, who you’d suppose would know higher than to ask a query, but it surely was such a real curiosity. And that is why I believed he was so sheltered, that he simply had no thought about these items. And I actually simply do not suppose he knew higher.”

These feedback had been echoed by a classmate at Washington State’s criminology and prison justice graduate program. 

“I had actually simply pegged him as being super-awkward,” Ben Roberts instructed The Tribune Democrat. Roberts, mentioned that he took a number of programs with Kohberger, who sought to be seen as mental and “was all the time in search of a method to slot in.”

“One factor he would all the time do, nearly with out fail, was discover essentially the most difficult method to clarify one thing,” Roberts instructed The Tribune Democrat. “He needed to be sure to knew that he knew it.”