New details have emerged following the City of Moscow’s release of investigative documents related to Bryan Kohberger, who was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of four University

The interview was conducted after Bryan Kohberger was taken into custody at his parents' home in Pennsylvania on December 29, 2022 .

Kohberger seemed particularly interested in three killers: Ted Bundy, the BTK Killer and Elliot Rodger. Through them, he identified with a narrative arc that "rejection moves to resentment moves to obsession moves to control moves to violence moves to infamy," Toles said.

Long before confessing to killing four college students, Mr. Kohberger wrote of being depressed as a teenager and became addicted to heroin.

Cara Northington, mother of victim Xana Kernodle wipes a tear at the sentencing hearing of Bryan Kohberger at the Ada County Courthouse, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death nearly three years ago.

Kohberger's victims' families may not be able to have this experience in court, but they can still find other ways to have it. "You cannot tell a person who's lost their child to move on," Lewis says.