A woman told police she matched with murderer Bryan Kohberger on a dating app in the weeks before he stabbed four University of Idaho students to death, but that she ultimately stopped all contact after their conversations about murder made her uncomfortable, newly released documents reveal.
The woman’s alleged conversations with Kohberger were detailed in a police report released by Idaho’s Moscow Police Department this week after the former criminology student was sentenced to life in prison for the November 2022 killings.
According to the report, the woman, whose name was redacted, called a police tip line in March last year to say that she recognized Kohberger after matching with him on Tinder in September or October 2022.
The woman told a police detective that Kohberger identified himself to her as a criminology student at Washington State University, which is located roughly eight miles from the murder scene, and that they made plans to meet over Christmas break when he came home.
Though the woman’s location was not identified in the report, authorities said Kohberger traveled to his parents’ home in Pennsylvania that Christmas, where he was ultimately arrested for the murders. The woman said she paid extra to expand her Tinder search results’ radius after not matching with anyone in her area.
