(NEW YORK) -- As part of his studies in the fall of 2022, then-criminology Washington State University Ph.D. student Bryan Kohberger proposed researching criminals' emotions and how they made decisions. In November, the scholar of crime would go on to stab four college students to death.
They are among the thousands of pages of records now being released in the wake of Kohberger's decision to plead guilty to killing Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in July.
In another paper, Kohberger described how "imprudent application of prosecutorial power" fostered mass incarceration. He wrote about a 2005 murder case involving a woman who was convicted of her mother's murder, and who later won her release. Kohberger wrote how the prosecutor "behaved highly unethically" and the woman was "forced" to "accept the evidence against her."