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WSU Sued Over Kohberger: Lawsuit Alleges University Knew He Was Dangerous

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

True Crime, News Commentary, News

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Breaking down the new wrongful death lawsuit against Washington State University. The families of the four Idaho murder victims — Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin — have filed a 126-page suit alleging WSU knew Bryan Kohberger was a threat and failed to act. The allegations are staggering: thirteen formal complaints in three months, female students needing security escorts, staff creating secret warning systems, and a professor who allegedly predicted Kohberger would become a predator. According to the lawsuit, WSU's response was internal hand-wringing and fear of getting sued by Kohberger himself. We break down the key allegations, the Title IX implications, and whether this case settles or goes to discovery. The victims weren't even WSU students — they attended University of Idaho and were killed in Moscow. Does WSU argue they had no duty to students at another school? What happens when those internal emails see daylight? And what does accountability actually look like when four kids are dead because an institution allegedly chose self-protection over student safety? This is institutional failure laid bare.

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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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