US EditionBryan Kohberger’s Ex-School Sued by Victim’s Family over Red Flags
The Goncalves family seeks damages from Washington State University for failing to act on warnings about Bryan Kohberger’s behavior before he killed four students, aiming for accountability.
- On the long ago, the Goncalves family, through attorney Shanon Gray, plans to file a tort claim seeking damages from Washington State University, seeking accountability and transparency.
- Investigative documents show WSU students and faculty raised concerns about Bryan Kohberger's misogynistic behavior while he attended as a Ph.D. student in criminal justice and criminology and lived in Pullman, Washington near the University of Idaho.
- Court and investigative documents show a professor at WSU warned that awarding Kohberger a Ph.D. would lead to `harassing, stalking and sexually abusing` students, and May 2023 tort notices filed by the families reserved the right to seek civil damages.
- WSU declined to comment in detail, citing the impending lawsuit, while Elizabeth R. Cantwell, President of Washington State University, extended condolences; it remains unclear whether other victims' families, including Madison Mogen's family, will join the Goncalves family's civil action.
- Months after Bryan Kohberger's guilty plea, the Goncalves family seeks accountability and transparency from Washington State University following a restitution order last week and the three-year anniversary of the Nov. 13, 2022 killings.
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Moscow murder victim’s family to sue university Bryan Kohberger attended
At least one of the families of the four victims in the Moscow college student murders plans to sue the nearby university where the man who admitted to the killings attended graduate school.
Goncalves family sues WSU over prior reports against Kohberger, convicted U of I murderer
The Goncalves, family of Kaylee Goncalves, one of the four University of Idaho students murdered in 2022, is suing Washington State University over reports made against convicted murderer Brian Kohberger while he was a student there.
Goncalves family plans to file lawsuit against Bryan Kohberger's school
MOSCOW, Idaho (Court TV) — At least one of the families of the victims killed by Bryan Kohberger now plans to sue the school the killer attended at the time of the murders, according to reports. Steve Goncalves consoles Kristi Goncalves, mother of victim Kaylee Goncalves speaks at the sentencing hearing of Bryan Kohberger at the Ada County Courthouse, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho stude…
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