"I Work With Predators" — The WSU Professor Who Tried To Stop Bryan Kohberger Before The Murders

She saw it coming. A professor at Washington State University looked at Bryan Kohberger in the fall of 2022 and told her colleagues exactly what she believed: "Mark my word, I work with predators. If we give him a Ph.D., that's the guy we will hear is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing his students."

She urged them to cut his funding. They didn't.

According to a 126-page lawsuit filed by the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, at least 13 formal complaints were filed against Kohberger in just three months. Women built survival systems around him — tally boards, "911" emails, security escorts, door strategies to avoid being alone with him. Five days before the murders, WSU held mandatory discrimination training for his cohort. Because of him. Less than two weeks before, faculty met with him about his behavior.

The lawsuit alleges WSU calculated that a discrimination lawsuit from Kohberger was a bigger threat than the violence he might commit.

Now Bryan's sister Mel has broken her silence. In a New York Times interview, she describes Christmas 2022 — warning her brother about the "psycho killer on the loose" near his Pullman apartment, never knowing she was talking to the suspect. She reveals the "creepy drawing" tabloids mocked at his sentencing was actually a heart she made for him. Bright colors. A message of love.

Mel talks about Bryan's childhood bullying, his heroin addiction, his recovery — and the impossibility of reconciling the brother she knew with the crimes he's accused of committing.

The warning signs weren't missed. According to this lawsuit, they were documented, escalated, and ignored.

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