Sister warned Bryan Kohberger about 'psycho killer' on the loose before his arrest: 'Be careful'

Bryan Kohberger’s younger sister says she warned her member that a "psycho killer" was connected the escaped aft 4 University of Idaho students were killed, unaware she was speaking to the antheral aboriginal convicted of the brutal murders.

Mel Kohberger, Bryan's sister, recalled the speech with her member during a caller interrogation with The New York Times, saying she felt a consciousness of alarm aft proceeding astir the murders successful Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger pleaded blameworthy to murdering Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Kaylee Goncalves, who were killed connected November 13, 2022.

"Bryan, you are moving extracurricular and this psycho slayer is connected the loose," she remembers telling her brother. "Be careful."

Bryan thanked her for checking successful and assured Mel that helium would beryllium safe. Mel said that Bryan was the benignant of idiosyncratic who would spell connected late-night jogs and permission his doorway unlocked, prompting her to cheque in.

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Bryan Kohberger appears astatine the Ada County Courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, successful Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing 4 University of Idaho students to decease astir 3 years ago.  (AP Photo/Kyle Green, Pool)

Mel recalled however Bryan was perpetually bullied arsenic a teen arsenic friends antecedently said helium was overweight and had a standoffish personality. In online posts portion Bryan was a teenager, according to the outlet, helium said that helium had nary emotion, small remorse, and felt similar helium was "an integrated sack of nutrient with nary self-worth."

Bryan, who was addicted to heroin arsenic a teenager, erstwhile stole Mel's telephone and sold it astatine a promenade truthful helium could bargain much drugs, the sister said. Mel said her household was disquieted Bryan was connected a pathway to an aboriginal death, thing that happened to 1 of his friends. However, Mel said Bryan received attraction and was doing better.

"We were each truthful arrogant of him due to the fact that helium had flooded truthful much," Mel said.

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Maryann Kohberger, (wearing sunglasses) parent of Bryan Kohberger, on with her daughter, Amanda Kohberger, exit Ada County Courthouse successful Boise, Idaho, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. The brace were successful attendance for Bryan Kohberger's sentencing for the murders of 4 University of Idaho students successful 2022. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

After treatment, Mel said portion Bryan remained socially awkward and abrasive astatine times, she ne'er saw him arsenic a convulsive person. 

Bryan did not sermon the Idaho murders portion staying astatine his parents’ Pennsylvania location successful the days earlier the FBI raid, but Mel recalled him mentioning the lawsuit once, noting investigators were inactive searching for a suspect.

When Bryan was arrested Dec. 30, 2022, Mel recalled getting a telephone telephone from her older sister, Amanda.

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Police person named the 4 victims of an evident quadruple homicide astatine the University of Idaho arsenic Maddie Mogen, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and Kaylee Goncalves. (Instagram: @maddiemogen, @kayleegoncalves, @ethanchapin4)

"She was like, ‘I’m with the FBI, Bryan’s been arrested,’" Mel said. "I was like, ‘For what?’"

"The Idaho murders," Amanda responded. 

Mel initially thought her sister mightiness person been pranking her earlier becoming nauseous astatine the thought that her ain member was down the murders of 4 assemblage students.

Overnight, Mel said her satellite was flipped upside down. Bryan's sister said she was grooming to commencement her caller occupation arsenic a intelligence wellness counsellor successful New Jersey, but agreed to measurement down aft the caller leader became inundated with inquiries.

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Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced to beingness successful situation without parole for the murders of 4 University of Idaho students. (The Idaho Department of Correction)

Mel said she became aggravated aft seeing online posts from radical who speculated that her household whitethorn person known that Bryan had killed the 4 University of Idaho students.

"I person ever been a idiosyncratic who has spoken up for what was right," Mel said. "If I ever had a crushed to judge my member did anything, I would person turned him in."