Bryan Kohberger trying to buddy up with serial killers from behind bars, source says

Between filing complaints astir the situation nutrient and taunts from chap inmates, convicted slayer Bryan Kohberger has been trying to get successful interaction with serial killers from astir the country, according to a erstwhile homicide researcher with cognition of the situation.

Chris McDonough, the manager of the Cold Case Foundation and a retired detective, said helium has insider cognition of Kohberger's behaviour successful the Idaho Maximum Security Institution successful Kuna.

When asked if Kohberger has made immoderate friends down bars truthful far, helium said his root told him Kohberger's been making overtures to different high-profile killers and "sees himself supra everyone astir him."

"He’s tried reaching retired to different serial killers, but I don’t cognize whether immoderate relationships person formed," McDonough told Fox News Digital. "Both wrong and extracurricular — he’s trying to pass with radical extracurricular the walls."

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Bryan Kohberger appears astatine the Ada County Courthouse for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, successful Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing 4 University of Idaho students to death. (AP Photo/Kyle Green, Pool)

Kohberger was studying for a Ph.D. successful criminology astatine Washington State University erstwhile helium drove 10 miles distant for a 4 a.m. location penetration massacre astatine the adjacent University of Idaho. 

He stabbed 4 undergrads to decease successful an off-campus location – Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20. 

Madison Mogen, apical left, smiles connected the shoulders of her champion friend, Kaylee Goncalves, arsenic they airs with Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and 2 different housemates successful Goncalves' last Instagram post, shared the time earlier the 4 students were stabbed to death. (@kayleegoncalves/Instagram)

He near scant grounds down — but dropped a Ka-Bar weapon sheath with his DNA connected it. The lawsuit dragged connected for much than 2 years, and helium yet pleaded blameworthy erstwhile his attempts to person the imaginable decease punishment taken disconnected the array failed. 

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He received 4 consecutive sentences of beingness without parole, positive different 10 years, aft pleading blameworthy to debar the firing squad. 

The Pennsylvania autochthonal entered Idaho situation with a people connected his back, experts antecedently told Fox News Digital, owed to the notoriety of the transgression and the callous enactment of victims, whom helium had nary known ties to.

This inactive representation taken from surveillance video of an Albertson's supermarket successful Lewiston, Idaho, shows Bryan Kohberger buying hours aft the Idaho pupil murders. He is present reportedly complaining astir his situation food. (Moscow Police Department)

In a small implicit 4 months successful prison, he's already filed authoritative complaints claiming he's been mistreated, harassed and threatened by his chap inmates.

"He’s desperately trying to get transferred retired of J-Block due to the fact that of relentless taunting from different inmates," McDonough told Fox News Digital. "Recently, his large ailment has been food, particularly the bananas, due to the fact that he’s a vegan. He didn’t similar the benignant oregon prime of the nutrient being prepared."

However, complaining astir that won't help, with nutrient services tally by chap inmates, McDonough explained.

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This representation shows the recreation gait astatine the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, wherever Bryan Kohberger sees lone 1 hr of workout a time portion housed successful the facility's unafraid J Block unit. (IDOC)

"It wouldn’t beryllium astonishing if the inmates intentionally springiness him the worst bananas — 'Give this 1 to Kohberger,'" helium said.

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Although the J-Block compartment keeps Kohberger physically isolated for 23 hours a day, minimizing a hazard that immoderate different inmate could marque bully connected threats of violence, Kohberger doesn't similar it and wants to beryllium moved, McDonough said.

"His latest contented is that he’s implied that if they don’t determination him retired of J-Block—complaining his compartment is excessively tiny and truthful on—he’ll harm himself. No 1 knows what that means. It could beryllium a manipulation tactic, astir similar a toddler having a tantrum, to get himself into a amended unit."