"Mark My Words": WSU Faculty Allegedly Predicted Kohberger Would Assault Students—FBI Analyst Responds
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
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Summary
A faculty member at Washington State University allegedly looked at Bryan Kohberger and told colleagues: Mark my words—if we give this guy a PhD, we'll hear about him harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing students. That wasn't hindsight. That was foresight. And according to a new lawsuit filed by the families of the four murdered Idaho students, it was one of at least 13 formal complaints WSU allegedly ignored before Kohberger drove seven miles to Moscow and killed four people in their beds. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Hidden Killers to analyze what this level of institutional awareness—and alleged inaction—means from a behavioral threat assessment perspective.
Robin spent 21 years with the Bureau, including time as Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and he's seen what happens when warning signs get buried by bureaucracy. The lawsuit details staff developing their own informal "911" alert system to warn each other when Kohberger was nearby. Women needing security escorts to their cars.
Students fleeing classrooms mid-lecture. A professor keeping a tally board of his discriminatory comments. Robin breaks down what these behaviors signal, how threat assessments are supposed to function, and why institutions so often choose perceived legal protection over actual safety. We'll discuss whether these murders were truly "foreseeable and preventable"—the exact language from the lawsuit—and what it takes to intervene before someone like Kohberger acts on what everyone around him allegedly saw coming. This is an essential conversation about accountability, institutional failure, and the cost of inaction.
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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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