Bryan Kohberger’s Ex-Professor Fears Her Lectures Inspired Him to Kill: ‘Just Horrifying!’

The former professor of accused killer Bryan Kohberger relayed the fear that her lectures on serial killers may have inspired him to carry out the brutal murder of four University of Idaho students in 2022.

A leading forensic psychologist, Dr Katherine Ramsland taught Kohberger at DeSales University in Pennsylvania. The accused killer took multiple classes with her, some focused specifically on antisocial behavior, death investigations, and the psychological make-up of serial killers. The syllabus even included a book co-authored with BTK killer Dennis Rader.

Kohberger was later pursuing a PhD at Washington State University when prosecutors say he stabbed four students to death at an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.

In a NewsNation exclusive interview, just one day before Kohberger is expected to accept a plea deal, Ramsland spoke on her time as his lecturer for the first time since Kohberger’s arrest.

“I have to look at the framework of what I taught and wonder, did I inspire him in some way?” said Ramsland. “But I can’t second-guess that because I may have inspired somebody else to become an FBI agent.”

Pressed on her feelings that some of what she taught Kohberger may have inspired him, the professor replied: “Terrible, very hard. Not just because of what happened to the victims. I really thought Bryan Kohberger was a promising student who could have made a mark in this career in a very positive way. I’m disappointed, angry, and, you know, I’m very shocked that this is how it turned out. It’s horrifying for the victims and their families. Just horrifying.”

Ramsland remembered him as “respectful, intense and curious.”

“There really weren’t any red flags,” she said.

Still, she shared how the news of his arrest “completely floored” her, especially given his academic background in criminal justice.

“I really thought Bryan Kohberger was a promising student who really could have made a mark in this career in a very positive way,” she added.

Asked about whether she would consider interviewing Kohberger in prison for science, she said she would.

“I’ve been thinking about that for two and a half years. I mean, this is my work. If he wanted to do that, I would,” she said. “And now, within the framework of what we do – to try to look at trajectories, the triggers that led to that weekend – if we can see the red flags faster, we can prevent people like this from wreaking the havoc that they do.”

She continued: “So if he wanted to do that, I know he has the intellectual capacity to do it – to be self-reflective, to help think through how his life came to this. And I would definitely do it if he were willing. It would be hard, but I think because I have so much material from him, I have questions for him that maybe nobody else could ask.”

Kohberger, who previously pleaded not guilty, is expected to accept a plea deal Wednesday, trading the death penalty for life in prison.

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