{"id":110,"date":"2022-12-31T23:35:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T23:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2022-12-31T23:35:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T23:35:48","slug":"suspect-in-idaho-student-killings-asked-ex-convicts-about-their-thoughts-and-feelings-before-committing-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/suspect-in-idaho-student-killings-asked-ex-convicts-about-their-thoughts-and-feelings-before-committing-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Idaho Student Killings Asked Ex-Convicts About Their &#8220;Thoughts and Feelings&#8221; Before Committing Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A graduate student at Washington State University was arrested in Pennsylvania on Friday for the murder of four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home last month, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/30\/us\/university-of-idaho-student-killings-investigation?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_newsbreak\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/30\/us\/bryan-kohberger-idaho-killings-suspect\/index.html\">Bryan Kohberger<\/a>, 28, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to law enforcement sources, Kohberger&#8217;s DNA was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/12\/30\/idaho-students-homicide-arrest\/\">matched<\/a>&nbsp;to material found at the crime scene, and his ownership of a white Hyundai Elantra seen in the area of the killings was traced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Genetic genealogy was also reportedly used to identify the suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kohberger recently completed his first semester as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/university-of-idaho-students-killings-arrest-b3b1ffd8138827f0bdad16d20e17cf83\">Ph.D. student<\/a>&nbsp;in the criminal justice program at Washington State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are allegations that he may have had a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/bryan-christopher-kohberger-survey-on-criminals-posted-to-reddit\/\">Reddit account<\/a>&nbsp;under the name Criminology_Student, where he made posts&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/idaho-student-killings-suspect-bryan-kohberger-once-studied-emotion-crimes-2022-12\">requesting<\/a>&nbsp;research participation for a research project centered around criminals, including asking people who had recently committed a crime about their &#8220;thoughts and feelings&#8221; before and after committing a crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Screenshots of the survey posted to Facebook showed that the questions asked focused on the respondent&#8217;s motives, logistics, and emotions related to a recent criminal offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the research topic questions asks: &#8220;Before you make your move, how did you approach the victim or target? Please detail what you were thinking and feeling.&#8221; Another question asks: &#8220;After arriving, what steps did you take prior to locating the victim or target (i.e., person or object)? Please detail your thoughts and feelings.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kohberger was also reportedly a part-time security officer in the Pleasant Valley School District. His job was to keep students safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graduate student at Washington State University was arrested in Pennsylvania on Friday for the murder of four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home last month, according to&nbsp;CNN. Bryan Kohberger, 28, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary. According to law enforcement sources, Kohberger&#8217;s DNA was&nbsp;matched&nbsp;to material found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[152,113,97,114],"tags":[109,151,93,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edenreports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}