Boyfriend of suspected killer claims Crime Podcast caller is Bryan Kohberger

The man accused of the horrific killings of four University of Idaho students was taking to a podcast covering the killings when police officers searched for him, a friend of the alleged killer believes.

The revelation of Casey Arntz – who grew up with suspect Bryan Kohberger in Pennsylvania and attended high school – came a day after the teaching assistant’s arrest shook the world, and after a search by police for more than a month.

Arntz took to TikTok to address a clip from a podcast detailing the November killings in Idaho that had gone viral online, explaining that she recognized the caller’s voice in the clip as Kohberger’s after the audio threw the internet into an uproar.

In the call, the alleged killer, posing as Dave, told the host that he “lives in a college town” and works with fraternity members who asked him how to pull off the perfect murder.

Podcaster T-rev has since sent the audio to the FBI, and netizens are already reacting to the disturbing clip. It serves to add to the intense speculation already surrounding the case – and now its only suspect, who some Experts believe he used information he learned while earning his PhD in criminology to hone his killing skills.

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Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was arrested Friday and charged with the November 13 murder of four University of Idaho students

A former classmate of the murder suspect, Casey Arntz, said she recognized the voice as his

The call begins when suspected killer T-rev – who reports on current and past true crimes – says that he “lives in a college town and I’ve worked with at least ten members of Sigma Chi.”

“I found you today,” says the caller in part of the call that has been cut and reshared hundreds of thousands of times in the past 36 hours since Kohberger’s sudden arrest at his family home in the Poconos.

“I saw your live stream this afternoon and this one, and I, um, what strikes me as kind of weird about all of this is that I live in a college town and have worked with at least ten Sigma Chi members.

The person then shockingly claimed that “every single one of you asked me if you were going to kill someone, how you were going to get away with it”.

The bizarre statement seems to catch the host off guard, but the caller – who speaks in a breathy, rambling voice – goes on and offers a strange theory of his own.

“And I’m just wondering if maybe, just maybe, this is nothing more than a frat boy trying to prove himself.”

The podcaster stops the caller at this point and tries to determine the situation.

“So you said you worked with five children from Sigma Chi, and they asked you if you could kill someone and get away with it? Did I hear that right?’ he asks.

“Yes,” replies the caller, who later insisted his former classmate was Arntz Kohbergerm.

Victims Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and 20-year-old Ethan Chapin were killed on November 13

When the host questioned the individual about why he didn’t call the police instead of a podcast, the alleged killer’s chatter became more dispelled as he posited the mindset of the college students he described when asking him such a question.

“Yes,” he repeated, this time more forcefully. “I don’t know if maybe that’s just a thing people say when they’re trying to have interesting conversations, but at least in my mind it’s like that — it was always these guys who were in the fraternity.

“I wonder,” the caller continues, “if that’s something in their culture.”

The caller then offers the conversation a particularly odd statement that suggests the supposed Sigma Chi students regularly ask this question just to test the person they’re asking.

The university where he worked was just over eight miles from the crime scene. Experts say the suspect may have used information he learned while earning his PhD in criminology to hone his killing skills

“You’re asking how smart you are and what kind of answer you get,” the caller suggested, his speech punctuated by pauses and heavy breathing.

“And someone took it too far.”

T-rev seems troubled by the caller’s words and responds by reprimanding him.

“What kind of guys would ask you that? This is crazy as shit. That’s an outrageous statement, man?’

As the clip gained traction online over the weekend, Arntz took to TikTok on Friday night, visibly shaking as she posted images of the suspect and her many encounters with him.

“The video of the caller on the podcast — I think that’s him,” Kohberger’s former classmate at Pleasant Valley High School told his followers. “To my mind it sounds just like him.”

Kohberger was arrested Friday and tracked down to his family’s home in the Poconos. He is accused of four counts of murder.

He has a master’s degree in criminal justice and a PhD in criminology at the time of the quadruple homicide.

According to students in his class, Kohberger acted as if nothing had happened after the murders.

WSU’s online directory shows that he worked as a teaching assistant for the university’s criminal justice and criminology program. He was also a graduate student in the department.

Several students on the program told Fox Seattle that Kohberger looked no different after the murders of Goncalves, 21, Mogen, 21, Kernodle, 20, and 20-year-old Chapin in Moscow, Idaho, a 15-minute drive from WSU .

Ben Roberts, a criminology student, told the Fox affiliate that Kohberger was “confident” and “outgoing” but still appeared like “he was always looking for a way to fit in.”

Of the horrifying allegations against Kohberger, Roberts said: “It’s pretty much out of left field. To be honest, I had just classified it as super awkward.

Roberts began his studies at WSU in August at the same time as Kohberger.

“One thing he almost invariably did was find the most complicated way to explain something,” he said.

BK Norton, a student in WSU’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, said Friday that they don’t know Kohberger well but don’t like him.

“We exchanged views in class, but personally I wasn’t a fan of Bryan because he made comments about LGBTQ+ people,” they said in an email to The Associated Press.

“He was a bit off the mark but I always thought it was because he was awkward and trying to fit in.”

Prior to his PhD at the University of Washington, Kohberger attended DeSales in Pennsylvania.

While there, owner Jordan Serulneck, 34, has claimed he’s had problematic interactions with women at his bar, asking women who they’re dating and where they live.

Kohberger memorably harassed female employees at Seven Siren Brewing Company near his hometown. Serulneck told NBC that employees referred to Kohberger in their system as a guy who “makes creepy comments,” and said he once called an employee “ab***h” for rejecting his advances.

According to staff notes, Kohberger would “have two or three beers and then just get a little too comfortable.” The behavior was so annoying that the brewery owner confronted his patron about it.

Kohberger denied the behavior but never showed up at the bar again.