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Hindustan Times
10 hours ago
- Hindustan Times
Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger's chilling obsessions revealed: American Psycho, Alex Murdaugh and more
Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger loved the violent movie American Psycho, his cellmate said during an interview with police, as reported by the New York Post. He was also fascinated by murderer Alex Murdaugh, an attorney who was found guilty of the 2021 murdersof his wife and son. Kohberger is serving life in prison for the 2022 murders of University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves. Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger's chilling obsessions revealed: American Psycho, Alex Murdaugh and more (Photo by Handout / Monroe County Correctional Facility / AFP) (AFP) Kohberger's cellmate told Idaho State Police that the Idaho killer had 'creepy' eyes and loved to psychoanalyze the people around him. 'Kohberger analyzed everything. He wanted to know why people had preferences on anything. He 'psychoanalyzes everything,'' the cellmate revealed. Also Read | Bryan Kohberger sentencing: Victim's sister rips suspect in scathing statement, 'The truth is, you're basic' | Watch While Kohberger refused to discuss the case with his cellmate, he did reveal that his favorite film was 2000's American Psycho, in which Christian Bale plays a psychopathic investment banker with a penchant for murder. He also revealed that he was a baseball fan, and that his favorite team was the New York Yankees. Kohberger had an obsession with the CourtTV channel, and was particularly interested in the trial of Murdaugh. Kohberger was also a fan of true crime grande dame Nancy Grace. A forensic expert revealed that screengrabs from her show, 'Crime Stories,' were found in his phone. Bryan Kohberger was a clean freak The cellmate revealed that Kohberger would be glued to the TV every time his news was discussed in the news, unless his friends and family were mentioned. The cellmate added that the Idaho murderer was also a clean freak, and would burn through three bars of soap every week during the long hours he spent showering. He constantly washed his hands, leaving his skin red. He would often ask for clean sheets and fresh clothes. Also Read | Idaho murders: Did Bryan Kohberger have any connection to the 4 victims? Investigators reveal details The cellmate said that despite his weird habits, Kohberger was 'very smart, easy to get along with.' In July, Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murders. The former PhD student of criminology is accused of stabbing the students to death in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, at a rental home near their campus in Moscow, Idaho.
Indian Express
14 hours ago
- Indian Express
Idaho Murders convict Bryan Kohberger was obsessed with this ‘creepiest' Hollywood movie, cellmate reveals his true-crime fixation
Bryan Kohberger's cellmate has come forward with new details about the criminology Ph.D. student convicted of brutally murdering four University of Idaho students. Now serving life in prison, Kohberger never spoke about his case but often revealed his obsessions and unsettling habits. Earlier, leaked prison footage of the convict sparked a security probe, after which Idaho state police released more than 500 pages of documents, including witness interviews, photos, and evidence collected before and after his arrest. Also read: Idaho Murders convict Bryan Kohberger's eerie prison video leaks with red-stained hands, sparks investigation In a new interview, it was revealed that Bryan's favourite movie is American Psycho. The 2000 film stars Christian Bale as a wealthy psychopath who murders people. The cellmate further revealed that Bryan always talked about true crime stories, especially Alex Murdaugh's trial, where the lawyer was convicted of killing his wife and son. He spent hours watching CourtTV, never missed an episode of Nancy Grace's Crime Stories, and even closely followed the development of his own case, though he tended to quickly change the channel whenever his family or friends were mentioned. 'Kohberger analysed everything. He wanted to know why people had preferences for anything. He 'psychoanalyses everything,'' the cellmate, whose name was not mentioned in the interview, said, according to the NY Post. Also read: HBO's new true crime documentary is so traumatic, filmmaker quit career, abandoned damaging footage, crew needed therapy The cellmate described Bryan Kohberger as obsessively clean, he'd spend an hour in the shower, scrub his hands raw, and go through three bars of soap at once. Earlier, leaked prison footage showed Bryan walking with red hands, which many found suspicious. He also had a habit of constantly asking for fresh sheets and clothes. Despite his strange routines and what the cellmate called his 'creepy eyes,' Bryan came across as smart and easy to get along with. Still, he never once revealed why he committed the murders. Bryan's disturbing behaviour, however, was visible long before the killings. During his time at Washington State University, students and staff filed over 13 formal complaints against him. Most of these were his offensive and discriminatory remarks (sexist, homophobic, ableist, xenophobic, most of which often targeted women.) A divorced woman said he told her he didn't date 'broken women.' A deaf classmate recalled him asking if she was 'comfortable having children with a disability.' Many female students reported that he humiliated them in class and often clashed with female professors, sometimes even following them to their cars, forcing them to arrange escorts for safety. His behaviour was so troubling that entire groups of students were made to attend discrimination training because of the things he said, though Bryan himself sat back, ignoring everything. Faculty members were alarmed as well. Some thought he was just simply socially awkward, but they later realised his behaviour was darker. A professor even warned colleagues that if he ever got his Ph.D., he could go on to harass or abuse his future students, calling him a predator in the making. His lack of empathy and obsession with the emotions behind committing crimes were often discussed by his classmates and professors. On November 13, 2022, Bryan drove from his WSU apartment to a rental home in Moscow, Idaho. Four students, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Xana's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, were inside their vacation home. That's when Bryan broke in during the night and brutally stabbed all four to death with a knife. The killings shocked the entire country. Prime Video recently aired a documentary on the same, uncovering how police traced his DNA, cell phone records, and surveillance footage. In July 2025, before going to trial, he struck a deal to avoid the death penalty by pleading guilty to four counts of murder and one count of burglary.
Vancouver Sun
31-07-2025
- Vancouver Sun
Killer who raped, decapitated 12-year-old girl has been paroled: police
According to Halifax Regional Police, 73-year-old high-risk offender Douglas Worth is living in Dartmouth. Worth, originally from the Pictou County area of Nova Scotia, was released after serving 35 years of a federal life sentence for the December 1987 second-degree murder of Trina Campbell in Brampton, Ont. National Post has contacted the Parole Board of Canada to obtain a copy of their decision to release Worth, who police say can have no contact with children or his victims, no drugs or alcohol, and must report all relationships. Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Worth has a criminal history dating back to 1968 that includes break-ins, motor vehicle theft and the 1978 rape of an Indigenous girl in Ontario, for which he was sentenced and served eight years, earning his release in June of 1987, about seven months before he killed Campbell. The circumstances surrounding that murder are detailed in multiple news articles from the time and are also explored in a 2005 episode of the television series Crime Stories. In the show, it notes that shortly before his release, Worth had said he planned to kill people and go on a rampage as retribution for his incarceration. Despite those concerns, he had served his limited sentence, and nothing in Canadian law at the time established safeguards around release. After Worth got out in the spring, however, police tracked him to Edmonton, where he reconnected with a woman named Mary Kelly and her teenage son from a different relationship, Shawn. Police said they lost track of Worth soon after, but believed he returned to Ontario. Police said Campbell, a Metis girl who'd had a troubled life, was living in a group home in the fall of 1987 after having run away from foster parents on several occasions. When she failed to return to the facility on Dec. 11, they thought at first she might have run away again. A months-long investigation into her disappearance ensued, but police didn't have any credible leads by the time February rolled around. Despite no evidence of foul play, the file was handed off to homicide detectives Edward Toye and Len Favreau. Meanwhile, Peel police were completely unaware that Worth was living in a downtown boarding house close to where Campbell was last seen by her school bus driver. 'We had no idea this sadistic predator had moved into our area,' Inspector Rod Piukkala said on Crime Stories. Authorities later learned Worth was soon rejoined by the Kellys, and in March of 1988, he asked Mary to rent a vehicle and accompany him so that he could move evidence related to an undisclosed crime. 'He left the car with a hockey bag and went into this ravine area. He then was seen by Mary to come from there carrying this hockey bag that was now laden with something,' assistant Crown prosecutor Al O'Marra said on the show. The two drove about an hour north of Brampton, where Mary said Worth took the bag into the woods and came back with it empty. Back in Brampton, he then ordered 14-year-old Shawn to clean up a stain left in the car's trunk. After the Kellys moved with Worth to his home province in April, Shawn asked his school's guidance counsellor and Stellarton Police for help escaping the violence he was experiencing at home, according to a 2005 article in The Evening News in New Glasgow. During that chat, Sgt. Hugh Muir, knowing Worth was wanted in connection with crimes in Ontario, asked Shawn about Brampton specifically, prompting the teenager to recount the stain story and that he had heard Worth tell other family members that he had killed a man there, not a girl. 'We were both stunned,' Muir said of himself and the guidance counsellor. 'We had no inkling whatsoever that this was coming.' Armed with new information, Toye and Favreau located the rental car with the dark stain. Testing quickly revealed it to be not only human blood, but decomposed human blood. They also discovered the rare blood type is common among Indigenous persons, leading police to think there could be a 'loose chance' of a Campbell connection. The Peel detectives travelled to N.S. to begin surveilling Worth, but had little evidence to act on. Before long, Sharon and Wade Lewis, Worth's sister and brother-in-law, agreed to interviews, during which they spoke about the murder admission overheard by Shawn and Worth's growing paranoia that someone would find the body and connect it to him. 'They advised us that Doug had approached them requesting assistance to get back to Brampton so that he could retrieve the head of the victim,' Favreau said on Crime Stories. 'Doug told them that if you can get the head of the victim, it would prevent anyone from being able to identify the victim.' Armed with that knowledge, police devised a plan whereby they would provide money and a rented car to Sharon that she would give to Worth and urge him to hit the road and deal with his problem. Worth took the bait, and police discreetly tailed him back to Brampton, where he and Mary arrived on the night of May 7 under constant surveillance. Worth gave police the slip overnight, but officers fanned out and eventually located the pair exiting the woods. 'I'll never forget that sight and that immense wave of relief that washed over me when we saw the car parked there and saw Doug coming out of the bush carrying a gym bag. He didn't seem to pay us any mind,' Peel Det. Mike Cederberg told producers for Crime Stories. To eliminate any chance of an alibi that he had found the remains and was returning them to police, officers allowed Worth to drive past two police stations before stopping him in Brampton. In the gym bag, forensics officers found a decomposing skull wrapped in garbage bags, which they soon confirmed was that of the missing girl. The rest of her body was recovered from the area north of the city later that day. 'He broke her leg, fractured her skull, her body was butchered, he snapped off her forearms and dumped her body,' O'Marra told the court during Worth's 1990 trial, according to the Windsor Star. When first apprehended, Worth told police he'd grabbed Campbell in a supermarket, and raped and beat her before leaving her to die in a ravine. During the trial, however, he pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Defence lawyer Damien Frost asked the jury to accept an insanity plea, arguing Worth was hallucinating and believed Campbell was a female prison guard from his previous time in prison. It took jurors under an hour to reject that argument and present their guilty verdict to Justice Coulter Osbourne, who handed Worth a life sentence with no chance of parole for 23 years. Worth unleashed a confusing and contradictory rant after his sentencing, per the Star. 'I did not kill her,' he said before adding, 'I'm not saying I'm not to blame for the cause of her death.' He went on to add that people who commit crimes like this against children 'should be shot.' 'That goes for me, too,' he said. He also told O'Marra that he is 'not the cold-hearted son of a b—-' he was made out to be during the trial. 'They say I'm mentally ill, but I don't want to go on living like this if there's no hope. . . I'll put a bullet through my head.' Halifax police said its advisory this week is meant to inform the public of Worth's presence and is 'not intended to encourage any form of vigilante activity or other unreasonable conduct.' High-Risk Offender Notification: Douglas Worth Halifax Regional Police is advising citizens, particularly those in Dartmouth, that a high-risk offender is residing in the community. Douglas Worth, 73, is a federal offender who has been serving a life sentence for second-degree… Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here .
Edmonton Journal
31-07-2025
- Edmonton Journal
Killer who raped, decapitated 12-year-old girl has been paroled: police
Article content A months-long investigation into her disappearance ensued, but police didn't have any credible leads by the time February rolled around. Despite no evidence of foul play, the file was handed off to homicide detectives Edward Toye and Len Favreau. Article content Meanwhile, Peel police were completely unaware that Worth was living in a downtown boarding house close to where Campbell was last seen by her school bus driver. Article content 'We had no idea this sadistic predator had moved into our area,' Inspector Rod Piukkala said on Crime Stories. Article content Authorities later learned Worth was soon rejoined by the Kellys, and in March of 1988, he asked Mary to rent a vehicle and accompany him so that he could move evidence related to an undisclosed crime. Article content 'He left the car with a hockey bag and went into this ravine area. He then was seen by Mary to come from there carrying this hockey bag that was now laden with something,' assistant Crown prosecutor Al O'Marra said on the show. Article content The two drove about an hour north of Brampton, where Mary said Worth took the bag into the woods and came back with it empty. Article content Back in Brampton, he then ordered 14-year-old Shawn to clean up a stain left in the car's trunk. Article content After the Kellys moved with Worth to his home province in April, Shawn asked his school's guidance counsellor and Stellarton Police for help escaping the violence he was experiencing at home, according to a 2005 article in The Evening News in New Glasgow. Article content During that chat, Sgt. Hugh Muir, knowing Worth was wanted in connection with crimes in Ontario, asked Shawn about Brampton specifically, prompting the teenager to recount the stain story and that he had heard Worth tell other family members that he had killed a man there, not a girl. Article content 'We were both stunned,' Muir said of himself and the guidance counsellor. 'We had no inkling whatsoever that this was coming.' Article content Article content Armed with new information, Toye and Favreau located the rental car with the dark stain. Testing quickly revealed it to be not only human blood, but decomposed human blood. They also discovered the rare blood type is common among Indigenous persons, leading police to think there could be a 'loose chance' of a Campbell connection. Article content The Peel detectives travelled to N.S. to begin surveilling Worth, but had little evidence to act on. Before long, Sharon and Wade Lewis, Worth's sister and brother-in-law, agreed to interviews, during which they spoke about the murder admission overheard by Shawn and Worth's growing paranoia that someone would find the body and connect it to him. Article content 'They advised us that Doug had approached them requesting assistance to get back to Brampton so that he could retrieve the head of the victim,' Favreau said on Crime Stories. 'Doug told them that if you can get the head of the victim, it would prevent anyone from being able to identify the victim.' Article content Armed with that knowledge, police devised a plan whereby they would provide money and a rented car to Sharon that she would give to Worth and urge him to hit the road and deal with his problem. Article content Worth took the bait, and police discreetly tailed him back to Brampton, where he and Mary arrived on the night of May 7 under constant surveillance. Worth gave police the slip overnight, but officers fanned out and eventually located the pair exiting the woods. Article content 'I'll never forget that sight and that immense wave of relief that washed over me when we saw the car parked there and saw Doug coming out of the bush carrying a gym bag. He didn't seem to pay us any mind,' Peel Det. Mike Cederberg told producers for Crime Stories. Article content To eliminate any chance of an alibi that he had found the remains and was returning them to police, officers allowed Worth to drive past two police stations before stopping him in Brampton. In the gym bag, forensics officers found a decomposing skull wrapped in garbage bags, which they soon confirmed was that of the missing girl. Article content Article content The rest of her body was recovered from the area north of the city later that day. Article content 'He broke her leg, fractured her skull, her body was butchered, he snapped off her forearms and dumped her body,' O'Marra told the court during Worth's 1990 trial, according to the Windsor Star. Article content When first apprehended, Worth told police he'd grabbed Campbell in a supermarket, and raped and beat her before leaving her to die in a ravine. Article content During the trial, however, he pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Defence lawyer Damien Frost asked the jury to accept an insanity plea, arguing Worth was hallucinating and believed Campbell was a female prison guard from his previous time in prison. Article content It took jurors under an hour to reject that argument and present their guilty verdict to Justice Coulter Osbourne, who handed Worth a life sentence with no chance of parole for 23 years. Article content Article content Worth unleashed a confusing and contradictory rant after his sentencing, per the Star. Article content 'I did not kill her,' he said before adding, 'I'm not saying I'm not to blame for the cause of her death.' Article content He went on to add that people who commit crimes like this against children 'should be shot.' Article content 'That goes for me, too,' he said. Article content He also told O'Marra that he is 'not the cold-hearted son of a b—-' he was made out to be during the trial. Article content 'They say I'm mentally ill, but I don't want to go on living like this if there's no hope. . . I'll put a bullet through my head.' Article content High-Risk Offender Notification: Douglas Worth Halifax Regional Police is advising citizens, particularly those in Dartmouth, that a high-risk offender is residing in the community. Douglas Worth, 73, is a federal offender who has been serving a life sentence for second-degree… — Halifax_Police (@HfxRegPolice) July 30, 2025
Fox News
23-07-2025
- Fox News
Nancy Grace slams Kohberger prosecutors: 'He needed the death penalty'
'Crime Stories' host Nancy Grace weighs in on the sentencing of Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger as families read victim impact statements.
