(NewsNation) — Professors at Washington State University communicated via text about an “intervention” for Bryan Kohberger, due to concerns that his behavior unsettled female students.
This detail emerged in police documents that have been made public following Kohberger’s sentencing to four life terms for the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.
The supplemental narrative includes an officer’s summary of files he received, containing both meeting notes from Kohberger’s interaction with an unnamed professor and text messages exchanged between professors at the university.
Kohberger was attending Washington State University as a graduate student studying criminology. He also worked as a teaching assistant.
In one message thread, a professor whose name has been redacted texted an unknown person.
“Do you want to take Kohberger? He listed you and (redacted) as people he was interested in working with,” one text read.
“If I must,” the other person replied.
Another message thread showed professors discussing the need to have an “intervention” with Kohberger, saying he has been offending female students and information is being gathered about the situation.
Kohberger’s troubles with women surfaced earlier in the investigation. Sources told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo in 2023 that Kohberger was known for his sexism and poor treatment of female students in his classes.
They said Kohberger talked down to women in the classes where he was a TA and graded them unfairly when compared to men.
Kohberger was fired from his TA role a month after the murders.
This month, he pleaded guilty to all of the charges against him and agreed to waive all appeals and serve consecutive life sentences for the crime.
