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Kim Kennelly, 27, contacted FBI agents after learning of former sixth grade classmate Brian Koberger’s arrest
FBI agents have interviewed high school sweetheart Brian Koberger in hopes of understanding the psyche of the man they believe is responsible for the gruesome murders of four Idaho students.
Kim Kennelly, 27, contacted the bureau shortly after learning that a former classmate of hers had been arrested for stabbing to death four roommates at a university just 15 minutes from where he studied in November.
The two were students in the sixth grade at Pleasant Valley Intermediate School in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, when Kohberger, 28, fell in love and began romantically pursuing the girl who would go on to be a high school cheerleader.
“She told the FBI everything she could tell them,” Keneally’s mother Sandra confirmed to DailyMail.com on Wednesday.
“It was so long ago.” I couldn’t imagine what he had to say to the FBI. I guess it was for the character’s purpose.
Kohberger attended Pleasant Valley Middle School in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, where he fell in love with fellow student Kenely and began to pursue her romantically. Both are pictured in their school yearbook photos
Kennelly, 27, now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she works as an occupational therapist in an assisted living facility
Kochberger, then a chubby, awkward misfit, became relentless in his pursuit, repeatedly leaving love letters in her locker and telling her he liked her, according to the mother.
“He always said, ‘Oh, Kim, I think you’re very beautiful.’ Just like weird comments. And she was saying, “Oh, God, leave me alone.”
“She didn’t give him time,” the mother noted. “When children are young, they are mean. They don’t say, “Oh, God, thank you, but no.”
Kenely would eventually tell Kohberger to buzz off, breaking his heart.
At the time, she was living in Sciota, in rural eastern Pennsylvania, 90 miles north of Philadelphia and a 30-minute drive from Koberger’s home in Albrightsville.
She has since left the area and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she works as an occupational therapist in an assisted living facility.
Kohberger seemed to turn his life around in high school, where he took up boxing and lost weight
In a yearbook photo, Koberger’s caption says he aspires to be an Army Ranger. Previously overweight and bullied, he lost about 100 pounds and transformed into a ‘completely different person’
Details of the suspect’s past are now emerging – including that he was an ‘isolated’ man who used his criminology studies to ‘try to understand people and understand himself’.
Kennelly’s awkward schoolyard encounters with Koberger are among several strange accounts from former friends and witnesses in recent days that paint a picture of a troubled, disaffected young man who doesn’t fit in at school.
He is accused of brutally killing students Ethan Chapin and his girlfriend Xana Kernodle, both 21, and childhood friends Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, both 21, at an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho on November 13.
Former classmates revealed that Koberger was heavy and was bullied and cruelly taunted in middle school.
“The whole clique of popular girls used to make fun of him at school. They were the cheerleaders and the ones every kid had a crush on,” another classmate, who did not want to be identified, told DailyMail.com.
“They literally tortured him, girls started making fun of him in middle school.”
But Kohberger seemed to turn his life around in high school, where he took up boxing and lost weight.
“He was a completely different person. He was training all the time and was super aggressive,” the friend said.
“He had a short fuse and was constantly trying to change his style and personality to fit in with cliques.”
A third former classmate added: “It’s interesting to me that the girls he’s accused of murdering were good-looking and popular, just like the ones who taunted him throughout his childhood.”
His theory supported that of former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, who told Newsweek before Koberger’s arrest that she believed the killer might be an “incel” — short for “involuntary celibate,” a term referring to men who are not able to attract women sexually.
Kennelly is believed to have told FBI agents about her meetings with Koberger in hopes of helping investigators understand the psyche of a suspected killer
In an interview with DailyMail.com, Keneally’s mother Sandra recalled how Koberger often left her daughter love notes in her locker before she finally rejected him for good
Coffindaffer speculates that Kohberger may have seen “all these beautiful girls coming in and out” of the house, and it’s possible that his rage and “personal, terrifying desires” got the better of him.
She postulated that the killer was “an individual with absolutely horrible, murderous desire against these women, a femicide-type case, and he reached a boiling point coupled with opportunity.”
Casey Arntz, who went to high school with Koberger, said he drove her around his hometown looking for drugs.
Her brother Thomas said Koberger would try to bully others to distract from her own weight problem.
“He was mean, he was a bully. I never thought he would do something like this, but at the same time, it doesn’t really surprise me,” Thomas said.
A woman named Haley posted a video on TikTok saying she was on a Tinder date with Kohberger about seven years ago.
After they went to see a movie, they returned to her dorm room and watched TV, and Kochberger continued to try to touch her, she said.
“Not like inappropriate, just like trying to tickle and like, rubbing my shoulder and stuff,” she said.
She kept asking him why he was touching her, causing him to get “super serious,” she said.
“I’m not,” he said afterward, according to her.
“You still are,” she recalled responding, saying at the time that Koberger was trying to “make me think he wasn’t touching me, which is weird.”
She clarified that she didn’t feel in danger and wasn’t “scared of him,” but she wanted him to leave after a while, which prompted her to pretend to throw up in the dorm bathroom.
She then claimed Koberger followed her into the bathroom and “stood in front of the door,” which she also found “strange.”
Former high school friend Casey Arntz (left) previously revealed that Koberger was bullied at school. TikTok user Hayley also posted a video recounting her awkward Tinder encounter with Kohberger
Koberger, 28, is accused of killing Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin on Nov. 13 in the quiet college town of Moscow, Idaho
Koberger studied criminology at Washington State University in Pullman, just a 15-minute drive across the state line from the University of Idaho
The vomiting incident apparently put Kochberger off and he left, and Haley said she was glad she never saw him again.
Kim Kenneally’s mother must be glad the alleged killer didn’t turn her daughter’s head when they were both so young.
“All those girls he allegedly killed were also blond,” Sandra noted. “She’s definitely freaked out, definitely.
“I think a lot of the kids who went to school with him are like that,” the mother continued. “They can’t believe that this boy could actually kill four people.”
Moscow police, along with state officials and the FBI, say they have interviewed hundreds of people since the investigation into the mass killing began.
They arrested Koberger, a doctoral student in criminology at Washington State University in Pullman, on Dec. 30 at his parents’ home. He and his father had driven his white Hyundai Elantra across the country for the holidays.
Police say a similar white Elantra has been seen near the house in King Road, Moscow, where the quartet were stabbed to death, and has returned repeatedly.
They say DNA found on the sheath the killer apparently left at the crime scene matched that of Koberger’s family members.
In an affidavit supporting the charges, investigators said Dylan Mortensen, 19, a sophomore at the university and roommate of the three dead girls, woke up when she heard noises in the house and saw a masked figure she described as 5-foot-10 or taller, a man, not very muscular but athletically built with bushy eyebrows.
The sight of the man froze her in shock and she locked her door and went back to bed.
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