What to expect from Bryan Kohberger’s sentencing: Will he have to reveal his motive?
As the Idaho murder case against Bryan Kohberger nears its final chapter, one pressing question lingers: will the convicted killer finally reveal his motive?
By accepting a plea deal, Kohberger avoided a lengthy trial in exchange for life in prison without the possibility of parole, effectively removing the death penalty from the table.
While the plea secured a swift resolution, it left one glaring omission: no official explanation for the motive behind the brutal stabbings of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.
James Patterson, the bestselling author with over 260 New York Times titles and 10 Emmy Awards, teamed up with investigative journalist Vicky Ward to write The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy, in which the pair explore Kohberger’s possible motivation.
Kohberger may have been inspired by one killer – Elliot Rodger. The 22-year-old was obsessed with exacting “retribution” after experiencing what he claimed was a lifetime of social and sexual isolation, The Associated Press reported.
In 2014, Rodger killed six people in a stabbing and shooting spree in Isla Vista, California, before turning the gun on himself.
“No one knows that, like Rodger, Bryan is a virgin who hates women,” the book claimed. “No one knows that Bryan copes with loneliness by immersing himself in video games. Like Rodger, he goes for night drives. Like Rodger, he visits the gun range. And, like Rodger, he goes to a local bar and tries to pick up women.”
“Elliot Rodger wrote that he kept trying to place himself in settings where he could pick up women,” the book continued. “But no one noticed him. Bryan must think that surely he’ll be noticed. Women must spot his looks, his intelligence, and they must want him. They don’t.”
Patterson pointed out that at the Seven Sirens Brewing Company in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Kohberger would push his way into unwanted conversations with female bartenders and patrons. He went as far as asking for their addresses. Some women, according to the book, started complaining to the brewery’s owner about “the creepy guy with the bulging eyes.”
Kohberger was adamant that women would notice him. But Patterson noted that to many, he was simply “off-putting.”
“He made people uncomfortable,” said Patterson. “The bartenders and owners remembered him as being this weird duck who would sit at a bar and just weird everybody out and talk inappropriately. He had a lot of trouble socializing.”
According to the book, Kohberger felt that by going to Moscow, Idaho, across the state border, he could find a girl willing to date him. He read about a place online called the Mad Greek where they sell vegan pizza – he’s vegan. When he walked inside, he noticed a blonde waitress – “Maddie” Mogen.
It’s been speculated by sources who spoke to Patterson that Mogen rejected Kohberger.
The book pointed out an eerie similarity.
“Elliot Rodger wrote of reuniting with a childhood friend named Maddy in the months before the day of retribution,” read the book.
“She was a popular, spoiled USC girl who partied with her hot, popular blonde-haired clique of friends,” Rodger wrote, as quoted by the book. “My hatred for them all grew from each picture I saw of her profile. They were the kind of beautiful, popular people who lived pleasurable lives and would look down on me as inferior scum, never accepting me as one of them. They were my enemies. They represented everything that was wrong with this world.”
Read the full report by Fox News Digital’s Stephanie Nolasco here.
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