The families of the four students murdered near the University of Idaho in 2022 have filed a lawsuit against Washington State University, where their killer, Bryan Kohberger, had been pursuing his PhD in criminology. Kohberger was sentenced in July to four consecutive life sentences in prison after he confessed earlier that month to killing Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, 21-year-old best friends, as well as their housemate, Xana Kernodle, and her boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, both 20. On Nov. 13, 2022 all four victims were found fatally stabbed inside a Moscow home, not far from the University of Idaho campus, and only about 10 miles from WSU. Police said Kernodle and Chapin were in a bedroom on the second floor of the residence while Goncalves and Mogen were killed in a bedroom on the third floor. Kohberger was eventually arrested at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania on Dec. 30, 2022, after traveling home for winter break. He spent the seven weeks in between attending his classes as usual. In a new lawsuit obtained by the Idaho Statesman, the families of all four victims accuse WSU of remaining “idle in the face of known extreme and repeated instances of discrimination, sexual harassment and stalking by Kohberger occurring in its educational program.” “That ultimately culminated in Kohberger stalking and murdering the decedents,” claims the 126-page suit. According to the court documents, Kohberger was the subject of at least 13 formal complaints during his single semester at WSU, all of which were met with “deliberate indifference.” “There was no indication that WSU acted on these formal complaints, or that it acted in an urgent and decisive manner commensurate with the imminent and serious threat that Kohberger posed,” the lawsuit says. “WSU failed to exercise its supervisory power and disciplinary authority over Kohberger, despite having repeated notice of the high risk of serious misconduct.” The families are seeking unspecified monetary damages. ...read more read less