New Kohberger Lawsuit Blows Open New Questions - Did WSU IGNORE RED FLAGS?
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The Goncalves family has officially taken the first major step toward suing WSU, and the claims are explosive. They’re arguing that the university wasn’t just a backdrop in Kohberger’s life — it was an institution with warnings stacking up in its hallways, complaints piling on desks, and a growing chorus of women saying the same thing: this man made them feel unsafe.
We now know multiple WSU faculty and graduate students reported Kohberger for intimidating conduct, blocking doorways, staring silently at women, hovering over desks, following people to their cars, and violating boundaries over and over. Some were so scared they asked for escorts at the end of the day. Others filed formal discrimination and harassment complaints. One professor even told colleagues she feared he’d go on to harm students someday.
And still — he remained in the program. Still teaching. Still representing the university. Still in university housing. Still collecting a paycheck.
The lawsuit argues that WSU had enough information to intervene long before Kohberger ever crossed into Idaho. Not because anyone predicted the crime — but because institutions have a duty to respond to patterns of harassment, intimidation, and escalating hostility. The families want answers, and they want every internal document: every HR complaint, every faculty meeting, every email where someone said, “Something is wrong with this guy.”
This case could reshape how universities handle red-flag students and employees. It could expose just how close institutions sometimes get to danger without ever stepping in. And it could finally tell these families whether the system that surrounded Kohberger ever tried to stop what so many people felt happening right in front of them.
Join me as we break down what this lawsuit means, what the families are fighting for, and why the truth matters now more than ever.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.1 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.7 | The criminal case against Brian Koeberger is over, technically. |
| 0:13.3 | But the story is nowhere near done. |
| 0:16.0 | Because when a crime like this happens, |
| 0:18.3 | especially one that devastates families the way the Idaho murders did, |
| 0:22.8 | the criminal sentence is only one layer. |
| 0:26.3 | Beneath that are all the questions about what could have been done to stop what took place. |
| 0:35.0 | Who saw what? |
| 0:36.3 | How many warning signs were quietly piling up long before anyone heard the name, |
| 0:43.8 | Brian Koberger, on the national news. |
| 0:48.6 | That's exactly what the Gonzalez family and potentially other families have now taken aim in another direction |
| 0:57.2 | other than Brian Coburger. |
| 0:58.4 | This time the aim is at Washington State University, WSU. |
| 1:02.7 | Not local police, not the University of Idaho, not the county, WSU. |
| 1:11.2 | The place that admitted him, employed him, supervised him, housed him, funded him, and watched him up close in the months leading to the murders. |
| 1:24.9 | This isn't guesswork. |
| 1:26.2 | This isn't a family looking for someone to blame. |
| 1:29.6 | This is a family saying, you had complaints, you had patterns, you had warnings, and you had power. |
| 1:36.8 | So the question becomes, did Washington State University use any of that power effectively, |
| 1:42.9 | or did they watch a situation deteriorate and convince |
| 1:47.1 | themselves it was just a difficult graduate student being awkward? |
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