Students and staff at Washington State University detailed “creepy” interactions with Bryan Kohberger in the weeks before he snuck into the off-campus home of University of Idaho students and slaughtered four people inside.

The disturbing witness accounts were included in more than 500 pages of documents from the investigation that were recently released by Idaho State Police following Kohberger’s July sentencing after pleading guilty to the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.

The documents, compiled from multiple law enforcement agencies, also revealed details about a surviving roommate’s account of the early morning attack and reports that Goncalves believed she had a “stalker” before her death.

In the fall of 2022, Kohberger, a native of Pennsylvania, was working at Washington State University as a teaching assistant while pursuing a doctorate in criminology. Those who worked closely with him reported that multiple complaints were made about his behavior toward women during that semester.

Bryan Kohberger wanted people to know he was “smartest guy” in room

According to the witness accounts, Kohberger was often domineering during classroom discussions, with one student describing Kohberger as wanting his classmates to know that he was “the smartest guy in the room.”

Others stated that Kohberger was known to intently stare at women, block their exit from rooms, or follow them out to their cars at the end of the day as part of a pattern of “rude and belittling behavior toward women,” according to Idaho State Police.

One employee, who reportedly received at least nine different complaints about Kohberger’s behavior, told police that the university was forced to hold a mandatory training class for all graduate students to lay out their behavioral expectations as a result of the complaints. 

According to one female graduate student at the school, Kohberger would “intensely stare at people even when he wasn’t having a conversation with that person,” and had a reputation for being “dominant and disrespectful to female instructors.”

One faculty member at the university told law enforcement that Kohberger seemed to take a particular interest in her female graduate assistant that semester and would “simply stand at her desk, including behind her staring over her shoulders as she worked and stare at her.” Kohberger’s behavior had been so concerning that a professor was asked to escort the woman to her car at the end of the workday, according to the records.

Bryan Kohberger looked “disheveled” after murders 

Another graduate student told authorities that after the University of Idaho murders on November 13, 2022, Kohberger often appeared “disheveled” in class, while others reported seeing him with scratches or other injuries in the weeks after the murders.

Kohberger was also a topic of conversation at a meeting of WSU faculty members just before winter break as the staff discussed whether they should end his position as a teaching assistant due the problematic complaints.

“Mark my word, I work with predators, if we give him a PhD, that’s the guy that in many years when he is a professor, we will hear (he) is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing… his students,” one of his teacher’s remarked at the meeting.