I don't know that this is a particularly strange trajectory. It seems to fit together to me. If he was doing heroin in high school he may have been struggling academically and moved to a vocational track. That makes sense. We don't know if he did rehab, I don't think anyone has said for sure he did. Some have mentioned it in the context of if he had he may have been diagnosed with an abuse mental disorder, which would be an interesting detail.
As far as zipping through degrees fo all we know he took four or five years to do a two year associates. The school he got his BS and MS or MA from is not a particularly difficult school. And "honors" can be 3.5. I know plenty of people who did drugs in HS and did very badly, and then did extremely well in undergrad and grad. That he would cast about for some discipline and camaraderie considering military is very common.
The only thing that stands out with this guy as out there and highly unusual are that he was doing heroin in high school, which is a level above say smoking dope, even every day. And the text attributed to him, which is roughly 50% normal teenage angst and 50% something else.
I do believe there has been a jumbling of his background due to the mostly anecdotal statements coming from horrified friends and spotty investigative reporting. It’s one thing to not give oxygen to a criminal and quiet another, especially in this mind warping heart breaking case to not have a better handle in what makes BCK tick.
I would really like to know what led his Desales prof to believe he is brilliant.
He’s capable of “charming” everyone in a doctor’s office 4 days after the slaughter? Who is this guy?
I feel that it is important to have more insight into his adolescence, at least.
We do need to be able to do better at providing for unraveling youth for a myriad of reasons. IMO
I’ll see if I can find a clear timeline. I din’t think he went to the CC until 2018 and then completed his AA in 2020, as I recall.
He was a Sophomore in 2011, his friend said she was shocked at his weight loss when he came back for his Sr year and that he had started using. Would that he 2013 or 2014? I think 2013. He enrolled in CC in 2016.
She said she last saw him in 2017 at a wedding and he looked great and he said he was sober.
He was still pudgy in the push-up photo from 2011, that’s when he allegedly expressed an interest in the Rangers. No one has come forward to say he was involved in any military related comradarie. Or of any flavor. He did get into boxing or kickboxing. He started running.
Later, as I recall after what looks to be a 3-4 year break or absence of some sort after high school, perhaps a stint in rehab or some other kind of therapeutic program and while he worked in security at a school, he moved into Psychology at the CC then Criminology as a pathway into Academia.
…Kohlberger registered as a Libertarian in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania in 2013, public records show. He does not appear to have a criminal record, according to
FOX News Digital.
Kohlberger has two sisters and graduated from Northampton Community College in Pennsylvania with an associate of arts degree in psychology in 2018, said college spokesperson Mia Rossi-Marino.
He graduated from DeSales University in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with a bachelor's degree in 2020 and a master's degree in criminal justice in 2022….
Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was taken into custody by local police and the FBI early Friday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a law enforcement source told FOX News Digital.
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