The alleged killer of four University of Idaho students taunted prison guards, rapped violent lyrics and exposed himself to a female inmate in a nearby cell while waiting in jail to appear Tuesday in a Pennsylvania court on Tuesday for an extradition hearing.
Bryan Kohberger is due to be sent back to Idaho to face charges of first-degree murders of childhood best friends Kaylee Goncalves and Maddie Mogen — both 21 — their roommate, Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20.
A fellow inmate, Valerie Cipollina, described what things were like during the days after Kohberger arrived at the Monroe County Jail.
“I cut them, I’ll cut you,” he repeatedly yelled to the guard, Cipollina told the Daily Mail. “You come in here and I’ll cut you.”
Cipollina said she didn’t know who he was until another inmate told her: “That’s the guy who killed those college students,” according to the Mail. None of the allegations against Kohberger have been tested in court.
She also claimed he kept lifting his shirt and heard the guard tell him several times to put his pants back on.
She believed he tried to expose himself to her but she “couldn’t see his genitals because the glass wall only went down so far,” she told the outlet.
“I could see him through the polycarbonate glass window of his jail cell,” she recalled of her short time near him. “He was standing up right against it, yelling out violent rap lyrics.”
She added: “At one point, he yelled out, ‘F*** my enemies and foes,'” and also allegedly sang violent and misogynistic lyrics, Cipollina claimed.
One jail employee told Kohberger to stay quiet and he allegedly taunted him, too, screaming, “Come on in, motherf*****. You come in here – let’s talk,” and threatened to “cut all of you up.”
He added: “Come in all of you. You scared of me? You should be scared of me… Come into this cell and I’ll show you I’m a creeper. Come in this cell, and I’ll cut you up, too,” Cipollina alleged.
Kohberger is a doctoral student and teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. He had previously graduated from DeSales University in Pennsylvania with a master of arts in criminal justice.
His arrest came after a seven-week investigation that left the Moscow Police Department facing a barrage of criticism.
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