My TA Looks Like a Murderer” Kohberger’s Student CALLED Him Out Before Murders!
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Before Bryan Kohberger was arrested for the murders of four University of Idaho students, he was known to many at Washington State University as a creepy, arrogant teaching assistant. Newly unsealed documents and firsthand student accounts are painting a disturbing picture of what it was like to work under him in the fall of 2022.
One student emailed a friend early in the semester with a chilling line: “My TA looks like a murderer.” At the time it was a joke, but weeks later, Kohberger would be in custody for one of the most notorious college-town crimes in recent memory.
Students describe Kohberger not as a helpful TA, but as a condescending figure who belittled classmates, made misogynistic and ableist remarks, and seemed obsessed with control. Complaints include him calling a divorced woman “broken” and asking a deaf student if she should even have children. Female students reported him blocking doors, leaning too close, and hovering in ways that felt intimidating. One undergrad was so uncomfortable she had to be escorted home.
In just three months, at least 13 formal complaints were filed against him. Some professors even worried aloud that if he became a professor, he would use his authority to harass or stalk students. His arrogance also spilled outside of class, with one peer saying Kohberger bragged in a parking lot for hours about how he could “pick up any woman he wanted.”
After the November 13 murders, students noticed Kohberger looked disheveled, avoided talking about the case, and bore cuts and bruises on his hands. At least one student reported those injuries to police.
In this video, we take you inside the classrooms and hallways where students experienced Kohberger firsthand — and show how their instincts, complaints, and even jokes now look like warnings in hindsight.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.4 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.4 | So this started out as kind of a joke, kind of an observational humor that someone threw out there, their friend. |
| 0:19.8 | Early in the semester, a female student at Washington State University, and yes, you guessed it, where Coburger was, someone who had Coburger as the teaching assistant in their class, fired off an email to a friend about her new teaching assistant. |
| 0:40.7 | Her exact words? |
| 0:42.8 | My TA looks like a murderer. |
| 0:45.9 | It was kind of flippant, you know, gallows humor line that students use about, a professor |
| 0:50.1 | who rubs them the wrong way or a classmate who comes across as too intense. |
| 0:55.6 | Nobody thinks much of it in the moment. |
| 0:58.9 | But in hindsight, that email reads less like a joke and more like a warning. |
| 1:03.7 | The teaching assistant in question, of course, was Brian Koeberger. |
| 1:06.3 | And just weeks later, in December of 2022, he would be arrested and charged with the murders of four University of Idaho students. |
| 1:15.7 | Most teaching assistants are forgettable. |
| 1:19.0 | Their job is to grade papers, lead review sessions, and be approachable enough between the professor and the students kind of be, you know, the go-between. |
| 1:31.5 | Years later, you might vaguely remember a TA who was kind or disorganized or generous with exam hints. |
| 1:39.4 | Koberger was memorable for different reasons. |
| 1:42.1 | Students recall his presence in classrooms, |
| 1:48.2 | not as reassuring or helpful, but unsettling. |
| 1:52.9 | He left people feeling uncomfortable, diminished, and even unsafe. |
| 1:59.2 | From the first weeks, Coburger carried himself with a stiffness and intensity that sent him apart. Instead of easing into discussions, |
| 2:01.6 | he came off as clipped and judgmental, |
| 2:05.5 | like he was evaluating everyone else from a perch of superiority. |
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