01 January 2023 , 04:23
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The man accused of stabbing four university students to death allegedly frightened female staff at a brewery near his hometown just months before the massacre.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, was detained at his parents' home in Monroe County, Pennsylvania on Friday, which is located more than 2,500 miles from Moscow, Idaho, where the students were found stabbed to death.
He had been studying for his PhD at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, roughly 10 miles west of Moscow.
Kohberger often visited the Sever Sirens Brewing Company and harassed the women who worked there, according to business owner Jordan Serulneck.
The brewery scans everyone's IDs and has a system that allows staff to write accompanying notes about customers that then pop up whenever the ID is re-scanned.
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Bryan Kohberger, 28, has been charged with four counts of murder in the first degree (Monroe County Correctional Facil)"Staff put in there, ‘Hey, this guy makes creepy comments, keep an eye on him. He’ll have two or three beers and then just get a little too comfortable,” Serulneck told NBC News.
Kohberger would allegedly ask female staff invasive questions such as where they lived.
If they weren't interested, “he would get upset with them a little bit," Surelneck added.
Serulneck recalled a time when Kohberger called an employee a “bitch” when she refused to answer his questions.
The owner said he confronted Kohberger on his last visit to the brewery.
“I went up to him and I said, ‘Hey Bryan, welcome back. We appreciate you coming back. … I just wanted to talk to you real quick and make sure that you’re going to be respectful this time and we’re not going to have any issues,’” he recalled.
The final photo of the victims, taken just hours before they were killed: Madison Mogen, 21, top left, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, bottom left, Ethan Chapin, 20, center, and Xana Kernodle, 20, right“He was shocked that I was saying that, and he said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about. You totally have me confused.’”
Serulneck said the interactions took place months ago, when Kohberger likely was a student at nearby DeSales University.
Following his arrest, one of Kohberger's former school classmates told Fox News that there was "something off" about him.
"We couldn’t tell exactly what it was," she said. "I remember one time when I was walking in the hallway, and he stopped me and was like, ‘Do you want to hang out?’”
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Kohberger is being held without bond in Monroe County, Pennsylvania (ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock)
Victims Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21 (Instagram)“But Bryan was bullied a lot, and I never got a chance to say something to defend him, because he would always run away,” she added.
Kohberger has been charged with the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, who were found stabbed to death in their beds on November 13.
Autopsies suggest that each victim was asleep when they were attacked.