13 things about Albrightsville, Pennsylvania native Bryan Kohberger

Bryan Christopher Kohberger is an alumnus of Pleasant Valley High School in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, United States and DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania. He was born in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania to Michael Kohberger and MaryAnn Kohberger.

Michael was a maintenance worker. Maryann was a substitute teacher.

BIOGRAPHY

Bryan is a criminology buff and a registered libertarian voter who comes from a family of mental health workers. He has two older sisters namely Amanda Kohberger and Melissa Kohberger.

Growing up, Bryan was overweight and was bulled by other children. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. His parents filed for bankruptcy in 1995 and in 2010.
2. In 2006, his grandfather Michael Francis Kohberger Sr. died.
3. In 2013, he graduated from Pleasant Valley High School.
4. From 2013 to 2014, he attended Monroe Career and Technical Institute in Bartonsville, Pennsylvania but he dropped out without completing the course. 
5. In 2014, he was arrested and charged with misdemeanor theft.
6. He was sober by 2017.
7. In 2018, he earned his associate’s degree in psychology from Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
8. In 2020, he earned his bachelor’s degree from DeSales University where he studied in part under forensic psychologist Katherine Ramsland, the author of “The Mind of a Murderer“, “The Psychology of Death Investigations“, “How to Catch a Killer” and 65 other books. 
9. Until 2021, the Pleasant Valley School District in Brodheadsville employed him as a security guard.
10. In 2021, his uncle Ronald Ames Kohberger and his grandmother Henrietta Kathy Votino died.
11. In 2022, he killed Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, who were all attending the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, USA.
12. On November 21, 2024, he turned 31.
13. In 2025, he admitted to killing Goncalves, Mogen, Kernodle and Chapin and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

TIMELINE

In high school, Bryan started struggling with a heroin addiction. At the start of senior year in high school, he started taking boxing classes.

2014

• On February 8, 2014, he was arrested after being accused of stealing Melissa’s iPhone, which was approximately worth $400, and selling it at a mall for $200.

2022

• In May 2022, a user on Reddit using his name started posting, asking for information to help a “research project that seeks to understand how emotions and psychological traits influence decision-making when committing a crime”.
• In June 2022, he earned his master’s degree in criminal justice from DeSales University.
• In August, 2022, he began the fall semester as a PhD student in the criminal justice program of Washington State University’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology in Pullman, Washington, USA across the state border from the University of Idaho. During the semester, he was also a teaching assistant in a criminal law class.
• On November 13, 2022, he fatally stabbed Goncalves, Mogen, Kernodle and Chapin at an off-campus house in Moscow and fled the scene in a white Hyundai Elantra. His deoxyribonucleic acid matched DNA recovered at the crime scene.
• On December 13, 2022, he and his father arrived at their home in Indian Mountain Lake, a gated community in Chestnuthill Township, Pennsylvania, after their preplanned, end-of-semester cross-country road trip. That day, they were pulled over twice while driving in his white Hyundai Elantra from Pullman to Indiana for speeding and tailgating.
• At around 1:30 a.m. on December 30, 2022, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested him at their home in Indian Mountain Lake. Later that day, he appeared before a judge in Monroe County Court in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania and was charged with felony burglary and four charges of first-degree murder in Idaho.

2023

• On January 3, 2023, he appeared in Monroe County Courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania before Judge Margherita Patti-Worthington. He waived extradition from Pennsylvania to face murder charges in Idaho. The judge ordered he must be handed over to the custody of Latah County District Attorney’s Office in Moscow within 10 days.
• On May 22, 2023, he refused to enter a plea at his arraignment on burglary and four counts of first-degree murder.

2024

• On September 15, 2024, he was moved from a jail in Moscow to the Ada County Jail in Boise, Idaho.

2025

• On July 2, 2025, he pleaded guilty before Judge Steven Hippler at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise to four counts of murder in exchange for the U.S. government not pursuing the death penalty.
• On July 23, 2025, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murders of Goncalves, Mogen, Kernodle and Chapin and sent to the Idaho Maximum Security Institute in Kuna, Idaho.