Bryan Kohberger WSU Lawsuit: The University Knew — Your Questions Answered
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
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A professor allegedly told colleagues to "mark my words" — if they gave Bryan Kohberger a PhD, he'd eventually stalk and abuse students. Thirteen complaints filed in one semester. Women so scared they needed security escorts to their cars. And according to a new lawsuit, WSU's biggest concern was getting sued by the stalker, not protecting the students he was allegedly terrorizing. The families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin have filed a 126-page wrongful death suit against Washington State University, and the allegations are devastating. We're breaking down your questions: How do thirteen complaints result in nothing? What does Title IX actually require? Why was Kohberger finally fired right around the time of the murders — and what changed? The lawsuit reveals staff created secret email chains to warn each other when he was around. Students kept a tally board of his discriminatory comments. He was literally studying sexually motivated burglars while allegedly exhibiting predatory behavior himself. And four kids who didn't even attend WSU are dead because this university allegedly looked the other way. We discuss whether this case settles or goes to discovery, what Steve Goncalves is really fighting for, and whether lawsuits like this ever actually change institutional behavior.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.3 | Let's move on to another case that certainly a lot of people are talking about. |
| 0:14.8 | Four families, one lawsuit in a university that allegedly knew exactly what Brian Koberger was before he killed anyone on January 7th, |
| 0:22.8 | the families of Kaley Gonzalez, Madison Mogan, and Zanekernodle, and Ethan Schapen filed a |
| 0:27.9 | 126-page wrongful death lawsuit against Washington State University. And the allegations are brutal. |
| 0:38.2 | 13 formal complaints against Koeberger. |
| 0:41.0 | In a single semester, women so terrified. |
| 0:43.7 | They needed security escorts to their cars. |
| 0:46.6 | Staff creating secret email systems to warn each other when he was around. |
| 0:51.6 | A professor who allegedly told colleagues that if they gave this man |
| 0:55.6 | a PhD that eventually hear about him stalking and essaying his students. And according to the lawsuit, |
| 1:01.2 | WSU didn't do anything meaningful to stop him, at least not quick enough, according to the |
| 1:07.1 | lawsuit. They did, in fact, eventually fire him at the end of the semester. |
| 1:11.9 | So he did last about one semester. They kept paying him through that semester, kept housing him, |
| 1:18.3 | kept giving him access to the students until four kids were dead in a house eight miles away. |
| 1:23.7 | Is it as simple as that? I know it sounds lovely in a soundbite. I can make it real exciting |
| 1:29.4 | and real like, damn you, WSU. But at the end of the day, I got to be honest on this one. |
| 1:39.0 | And I said it in a video yesterday. I don't know how responsible WSU is for any of this. |
| 1:45.0 | I mean, to prove that they could have foreseen him murdering for people at a different university |
| 1:52.0 | with students that were not part of WSU simply because he was creepy on their campus, |
| 1:59.0 | because he was making people uncomfortable on their campus, |
| 2:02.6 | I think that's quite a bridge to cross. Could you have fired him? Could you have done something |
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