Man charged in Idaho student murders to waive Pennsylvania court appearance

[jgo]

Source: The Guardian

Suspect, 28, accused of killing four students will waive his extradition hearing and will be brought to Idaho to face charges.

Bryan Kohberger, the 28-year-old criminology graduate student charged first-degree murder in the macabre killings of four University of Idaho students, plans to waive an appearance in court in Pennsylvania on Tuesday where Idaho prosecutors will request his extradition, his lawyer indicated on Saturday.

Pennsylvania’s Monroe county chief public defender, Jason LaBar, said on Saturday that he plans to tell a judge there on Tuesday that Kohberger will waive his extradition hearing there so that he can be quickly brought to Idaho to face the charges and is eager to be exonerated.


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/31/idaho-student-murders-suspect-arrested-pennsylvania-court

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Narcissist-Sociopath-Borderline Criminal Justice student?

These personality types go to occupations where they can do the crime they like to do. I'm thinking of embezzlers, too.

[dem4decades]

2. Just out of curiosity, why wouldn't this guy fight extradition?

[oldsoftie]

3. Maybe he knows it would be a waste of time?

Its not like he's in another country where he might get more favorable treatment

[NBachers]

8. I think this whole thing is a movie that he's directing in his own demented mind. He's ready to move

on to the next big segment.

[cstanleytech]

9. More than likely it's because he knows it would be futile.

Now if he had been able to flee to the UK he would have a shot if the death penalty was potentially on the table.

[oldsoftie]

4. I really want to know what the hell this guy was thinking.

[kaotikross]

5. I dunno

From the sounds of things this guy was brilliant, had a supportive family and an upcoming career that pays well. No priors? He's IS a prime age for schizophrenia to set in though. This is an odd one and should be interesting to watch.

[StClone]

12. Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

According to WebMD, schizophrenia—a wide-ranging (and often misdiagnosed) mental illness—lists symptoms ranging from hallucination and delusions to emotional flatness and catatonia. It is one of the most common mental disorders diagnosed among criminals, especially serial killers:

David Berkowitz, better known as the “Son of Sam” killed six people in the 1970s claiming that his neighbor’s dog had told him to do it. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Ed Gein, gruesome inspiration for fiction’s Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill, and Leatherface, murdered and mutilated his victims often keeping grisly “trophies.”
Richard Chase—”the vampire of Sacramento”—killed six people in California and drank their blood.
David Gonzalez killed four people in 2004 and claimed he’d been inspired by “Nightmare on Elm Street.”
Jared Lee Loughner, convicted of killing six people and wounding 13 including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
James Eagan Holmes, currently on trial for the 2012 “Batman murders” in Aurora, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia by 20 doctors.

[magicarpet]

6. Guilty of the crime of murder (4) as alledged..

But he thinks he is so smart and excels at criminal justice. He can easily get himself off and free of any charges.

[lapfog_1]

7. I have a theory, based on almost absolutely nothing

he was fascinated by mass killers or serial killers...

he planned this for some time. He chose the university because it was nearby but over the state line from where he was a grad student.

I think he followed the two girls back to their place with the intent on killing both... and accidentally found they lived in a house with 4 other people... he waited a while for the girls to go to bed, slipped in through the open door and killed the two roommates on the first floor, went to the second floor where I think the two girls had their rooms, killed them... and was either spooked because at least 1 or more victims cried out (defensive wounds)... and left OR just didn't bother checking the top floor.

It is unlikely that he ever met these people before, despite there being some classes offered by one university taught at the other university.

I think he believed he would get away with it.

When the trial starts we will find out more, and I could be completely off here, maybe he did meet and fixate on one the two girls that got food at that food truck and was stalking her.

anyway it works out, I understand they have DNA that ties him to the crime scene... and I rather imagine that will be hard to explain away.

[Effete Snob]

13. You shed DNA everywhere you go

"I understand they have DNA that ties him to the crime scene... and I rather imagine that will be hard to explain away"

It's not up to him to explain anything away. Obviously just how the DNA was found is probably key, but being able to prove someone was at a crime scene is not the same thing as being able to prove someone committed the crime.

It's kind of weird how the police are certain they have the killer, but keep asking the public for information.

[Cattledog]

10. He didn't say he was innocent but that he will be exonerated.

I'm sure that his defense will be that one or more of the victims caused his actions.

[ailsagirl]

11. Maybe it's just because he's likely...

a mass murderer, I couldn’t help noticing he’s got a strange/creepy look in his eyes.