Kohberger's 13 Complaints at WSU: FBI Expert Explains Why Universities Fail to Stop Predators
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Bryan Kohberger wasn't invisible. He wasn't quiet. According to a new lawsuit filed by the families of his four victims, Washington State University received at least 13 formal complaints about his threatening, stalking, and predatory behavior in a single semester—and allegedly failed to act in any meaningful way.
Today on True Crime Today, former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke breaks down what these warning signs mean from a professional threat assessment perspective. Robin served 21 years with the Bureau, including as Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and he specializes in understanding the behavioral patterns that precede violence.
The lawsuit describes WSU faculty and staff creating informal warning systems because they felt the institution wouldn't protect them. A professor allegedly predicted Kohberger would sexually abuse students if given a PhD. Women reportedly needed security escorts to their cars. Students fled classrooms.
And according to the families' complaint, WSU chose not to remove Kohberger—allegedly because doing so might expose the university to a lawsuit. Robin explains why institutions make that calculation, what 13 complaints in one semester should trigger operationally, and how threat assessment programs are supposed to function when warning signs stack up this high. The families are calling these murders "foreseeable and preventable." Robin weighs in on whether they're right—and what needs to change so this doesn't happen again.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.5 | 13 formal complaints, security escorts for women who feared being followed to their cars, |
| 0:14.0 | a professor who looked at Brian Koberger and told colleagues, mark my words, |
| 0:19.3 | if we give this guy a PhD, we'll hear about him harassing, stalking, |
| 0:24.7 | and assaing students down the road. That professor didn't have a crystal ball. They had eyes. |
| 0:33.6 | And apparently so did everyone else at Washington State University who encountered Brian Koberger during his single semester on campus. |
| 0:40.2 | A tallyboard tracking his discriminatory comments, staff, emailing each other 911 when they needed help during interactions with him. |
| 0:52.9 | Women feeling classrooms in tears, fleeing classrooms in tears. |
| 1:00.9 | And what did the institution do with all of that information? Well, according to a new lawsuit |
| 1:06.3 | filed by the families of Kaylee Gonzalez, Madison, Mogan, Xanacernodal, and Ethan Chapin, |
| 1:13.7 | nothing, at least nothing commensurate with what they knew. |
| 1:19.6 | That's the allegation. |
| 1:20.7 | The lawsuit claims WSU exercise deliberate indifference in the face of escalating warning signs, |
| 1:26.7 | allowing Koeberger to retain |
| 1:28.0 | his position, his salary, his housing, and his access to students, while his behavior reportedly |
| 1:34.0 | grew more threatening by the week. |
| 1:36.1 | Seven miles away, four college students would be murdered in their beds. |
| 1:40.9 | Today, we're joined by former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreek and chief of the counterintelligence |
| 1:47.0 | behavioral analysis program. Robin, when you look at the behaviors described in the lawsuit, |
| 1:52.0 | the stalking, the spatial trapping, the blocking of exits, following women to their cars, |
| 1:58.6 | the rage outbursts in classrooms, there's a lot. I mean, |
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