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University of Idaho murder case takes bizarre twist thanks to Reddit post allegedly written by suspect
Twitchy ^ | Posted at 1:33 pm on December 30, 2022 by Sarah D

Posted on 12/30/2022 1:24:38 PM PST by Red Badger

After an intensive search, law enforcement has finally taken a suspect in the murder of four University of Idaho students.

The suspect has been identified as Bryan Christopher Kohberger, and he was arrested in Pennsylvania, in the Poconos.

Here’s hoping that police have the right man in custody — and that, if he is indeed guilty of committing these heinous murders, Kohberger will face justice.

For what it’s worth, Kohberger has reportedly exhibited some bizarre, arguably disturbing behavior since being taken into custody:

And it should come as no surprise to you that Kohberger apparently has a pattern of odd, arguably disturbing behavior.

Except Bryan Kohberger is not just any graduate student, but a graduate student in criminal justice:

And, if you can believe it, it’s about to get even weirder:

“Research Participation Needed.” Just looking for some people to participate in some research, guys.

Talk about things taking a turn. Holy moly.

“Uhhhhhh…” is exactly right. If the Bryan Kohberger who wrote that Reddit post is in fact the same Bryan Kohberger who was just arrested in connection with a quadruple homicide, then … wow. What happened, exactly? Did Kohberger not get a satisfactory number of responses from criminals to his inquiry? Was he just not impressed with the quality of the responses? Did he decide that he could just save himself a lot of time and effort by going out and committing a crime himself? After all, what better way to understand how emotions and psychological traits influence decision-making when committing a crime than to go out and commit a crime? And what better crime to go out and commit than murder?

That’s really how it’s looking, yes.

Granted, the Reddit post isn’t quite as damning as, say, a Facebook post or TikTok video talking about how you’re going to go shoot up a school (you know, the sorts of stuff that law enforcement often gets alerted to and chooses to ignore until someone actually does go out and shoot up a school and then it’s “Gosh, we had no clue that something like this could happen! If only someone had brought this person to our attention earlier!), but still. Looking back at the post in light of Kohberger’s arrest, it’s hard not to feel like maybe there might have been other clues that something about this guy was just really, really off.

“Diabolical” is such a great descriptor. Seriously, what the hell? Did a future quadruple-murderer really go on Reddit less than a year ago to ask for input from criminals on what motivated them to commit their crimes? This is honestly just so insane. On so many levels.

Or it would’ve been … fortunately Kohberger, if he’s the murderer, probably won’t get a chance to do it. And what a tremendous loss for criminal justice scholarship that will be.


TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: autism; bryankohberger; idaho; pennsylvania; visualsnow; washington
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To: Peter ODonnell

No prior criminal history.


101 posted on 12/30/2022 7:13:09 PM PST by TexasGunLover
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To: Round Earther

Yes, billionaires like Soros, Gates, Bloomberg, Wexner, Bezos FUND Antifa/BLM and they are mad at someone who had nice things? The crazy is real.


102 posted on 12/30/2022 7:50:36 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....l)
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To: 4Liberty

I wonder about that, also. And I hope that any animal cruelty crimes are fully investigated.


103 posted on 12/30/2022 7:52:08 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: TigerClaws

I read they were able to link the DNA at the crime scene to a DNA sample profile on one of those ancestry databases - like 23 and me. Apparently one of his relatives had a DNA test done through one of those services and the FBI was able to link it. Then, maybe it’s a matter of which of the relatives has a white Elantra


104 posted on 12/30/2022 8:10:55 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Round Earther
What is an "ANTIA" ?

Leni

105 posted on 12/30/2022 8:14:11 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal

I think from the context it was supposed to read ANTIFA.


106 posted on 12/30/2022 10:01:52 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (If Arizona held the Olympic Games, Usain Bolt would lose to Joe Biden)
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To: Peter ODonnell; All; flaglady47
Thanks very much.

ANTIFA (murder suspect's affiliation) is a "FAR LEFT-WING anti-fascist political movement.....".....(source Wikipedia and CNN).

Watch for the Left and the media to try to make him out as a right-wing nutcase !

Leni

107 posted on 12/31/2022 3:06:19 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Ann Archy

I thought there were 22k white ones.


108 posted on 12/31/2022 3:16:33 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: wac3rd

Antifa communists I have met are upper middle class and very angry and entitled.

True haters.


109 posted on 12/31/2022 3:18:40 AM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Red Badger

Stupid post.

Just like the psychologically screwed up are most likely to become psyche majors, the criminally inclined are most curious to study and understand the criminal mind.

Freud might talk about successfully sublimating urges in a societally useful direction, but even then the line between the two can be tenuous.


110 posted on 12/31/2022 4:29:01 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: virgil

I heard the FBI was watching him for 4 days in Pennsylvania. I imagine they waited for him to throw a cup away or some other item that could contain DNA.

Once they arrested him. It could be confirmed.


111 posted on 12/31/2022 4:34:54 AM PST by dforest
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To: Peter ODonnell

There is a girl he knew in middle and high school posting info about him on YouTube. She had photos of him in their home and other places.

She said as he got into high school he became a heroin addict. He supposedly got clean, bur she never knew if it was true or not.


112 posted on 12/31/2022 4:40:09 AM PST by dforest
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To: Red Badger; bitt; rodguy911
SOCIOPATH! The sociopath sees the world through their personal values; thinks everyone sees the world just like they do; they are considered to be without a conscience. There is no moral component to their thinking. Such is evident in his posting of his study parameters; there is zero moral judgment apparent. I suspect this guy thought he could do a doctorate thesis on the scope of his crime - his hypothetical crime. (Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment.)

By some little understood phenomenon our society has become riddled with sociopaths. It is less of an issue than it should be!

113 posted on 12/31/2022 4:59:39 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: V_TWIN

“...but he wasn’t smart enough to get rid of the white car that’s been in the news for weeks......not only that he had it parked in front of his apartment.”

Has the car been processed yet? The last I heard is that car was on a cctv, with passengers, if it was his car on the cctv.

News is still forthcoming. After extradition and the alleged is back in Idaho, it is my understanding that more details will be released.


114 posted on 12/31/2022 7:12:34 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: EEGator

Yup, that is the one. I didn’t know it was that short as I had listened to it but it is an interesting piece of literature.


115 posted on 12/31/2022 9:52:07 AM PST by Sawdring
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To: Bob Ireland
By some little understood phenomenon our society has become riddled with sociopaths.

Satan.....................

116 posted on 01/02/2023 6:08:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: shotgun

That is most likely.

Coupled with the fact that he was ‘researching’ crimes, he was acting out his fantasy for his thesis....................


117 posted on 01/02/2023 6:11:09 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

prayer forbidden in schools about 1960 or so ...


118 posted on 01/02/2023 6:19:02 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: bankwalker

As long as there are ‘tests’ there will be prayer in schools.........

Stop Standardized Testing in Schools:

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-house-of-representatives-and-u-s-senate-and-barack-obama-stop-standardized-testing-in-schools


119 posted on 01/02/2023 6:29:34 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: 9YearLurker

This has all the makings of a ‘Silence of the Lambs’ type movie or novel................


120 posted on 01/02/2023 6:35:09 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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