EXCLUSIVE Childhood secrets that made Bryan Kohberger slaughter strangers: Sick comments, drugs, his crazy diet and the telling nickname that reveals so much, exposed by TOM LEONARD
In fact, his attention was focused on a student house in the university town of Moscow, where the night was about to get immeasurably darker. Kohberger slipped in through an unlocked door and slaughtered four of the occupants in their beds with a combat knife. The four friends were aged 20 to 21 and all students at the University of Idaho.
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