Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger’s mental health records given to prosecutors as he fights death penalty

Medical and intelligence wellness records for Bryan Kohberger, the fishy successful a quadruple execution astatine the University of Idaho, and his household members person been provided to prosecutors, recently unsealed tribunal documents reveal.

Prosecutors and lawyers for Kohberger had some agreed to support the protective bid referencing the records sealed, but Ada County Judge Steven Hippler unsealed it past week, uncovering determination was "no compelling basis" to support the nationalist successful the dark. 

The contents of the records, however, stay confidential. 

The unsealed protective bid states that "medical and intelligence wellness records of the Defendant and his household members," which were fixed to prosecutors by the defence connected Jan. 9, are not to beryllium shared beyond the prosecution team.

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Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom for a proceeding astatine the Latah County Courthouse connected June 27, 2023 successful Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger is accused of sidesplitting 4 University of Idaho students successful November 2022.  (August Frank-Pool/Getty Images)

"It’s absorbing that the Order specifically references intelligence wellness records – a much generic, little telling, word could surely person been used," said Edwina Elcox, a Boise-based defence lawyer who has been following the case.

"I would ideate those records were fixed to the prosecution due to the fact that determination is thing the defence wants them to consider. Obviously, determination is nary insanity defence successful Idaho. So, immoderate those records amusement is apt arsenic immoderate benignant of mitigation."

The tribunal records amusement the intelligence wellness records were initially handed implicit connected Jan. 9, astir 2 months aft Hippler ruled Kohberger, 30, can look the decease penalty if convicted.

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Read the unsealed protective order:

The unsealing marks the 2nd large determination successful favour of transparency Hippler has made successful caller days. 

Last week, the justice ordered the transcript of a closed-door proceeding regarding the defense's absorption to investigative familial genealogy grounds to beryllium made public, astatine slightest successful part.

At the clip of the murders, Kohberger was studying for a Ph.D. successful criminology astatine adjacent Washington State University. If the slayings had happened connected the Washington broadside of the authorities line, the fishy would not look the decease punishment and could invoke an "insanity" defense.

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Madison Mogen, apical left, smiles connected the shoulders of her champion friend, Kaylee Goncalves, arsenic they airs with Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and 2 different housemates successful Goncalves' last Instagram post, shared the time earlier the 4 students were stabbed to death. (@kayleegoncalves/Instagram)

Kohberger's intelligence wellness could beryllium a imaginable mitigating origin that spares his beingness successful specified a scenario, Elcox told Fox News Digital.

John Kelly, a transgression profiler and president of the System to Apprehend Lethal Killers, said Kohberger's alleged past maltreatment of heroin could person been an flight mechanics from terrible bullying and puerility ostracization.

"Based connected the media reporting of his abuse by kids, boys and girls alike, particularly young girls teasing and making amusive of him, I deliberation this could person been precise traumatic for him as a child," Kelly told Fox News Digital. "I judge helium had a batch of anxiousness and depression."

A yearbook photograph of Bryan Kohberger successful a precocious schoolhouse instrumentality enforcement people doing a pushup. (Stephanie Pagones/Fox News Digital)

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Former classmates person described Kohberger arsenic "bright" but awkward and told Fox News Digital helium was bullied increasing up.

"It was conscionable weird," a classmate from Pennsylvania's Pleasant Valley High School named Sarah Healey told Fox News Digital a time aft his apprehension successful December 2022. "But Bryan was bullied a lot, and I ne'er got a accidental to accidental thing to support him, due to the fact that helium would ever tally away."

She said helium was routinely mocked, particularly by girls, and that bullies threw things astatine him. He was besides allegedly bullied for being overweight, but yearbook photos amusement helium slimmed down successful precocious schoolhouse aft getting into carnal fitness. He claimed to person mislaid 130 pounds successful a twelvemonth with a rigorous boxing and moving regular while applying for a job arsenic a schoolhouse information defender successful 2015. 

A broadside by broadside examination of Bryan Kohberger's Pleasant Valley High School yearbook photos for his sophomore and elder years. He claimed to person shed 130 pounds aft taking up boxing and running. (Stephanie Pagones/Fox News Digital)

His employment determination came to an extremity connected June 22, 2021, erstwhile helium submitted a resignation letter, acknowledging that "I recognize that if I bash not resign, I person a close to a schoolhouse committee proceeding to find if I should beryllium dismissed from employment with the School District."

School officials antecedently told Fox News Digital that further accusation regarding Kohberger's disciplinary grounds was exempt from nationalist disclosure.

Redacted documents they did supply, however, amusement that Kohberger was placed connected permission without wage for astatine slightest 1 time successful February 2021 owed to "expired clearance."

His allegedly awkward behaviour continued aft precocious schoolhouse and into his Ph.D. programme astatine Washington State University, astir 10 miles from the Idaho transgression scene.

At 1 point, a TikTok idiosyncratic named Hayley Willette claimed she went connected a Tinder day with Kohberger and decided to pretend she was vomiting to get him to permission her apartment. An hr later, according to a bid of selfie videos she posted online, helium texted her, telling her she had "good birthing hips."

Latah County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson, center, speaks with investigators extracurricular the King Road location successful Moscow, Idaho, wherever 4 assemblage students were killed connected Nov. 13, 2022. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

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Kohberger is accused of sidesplitting University of Idaho undergrads Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, some 21, arsenic good arsenic Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, some 20, successful a location penetration massacre astatine an off-campus rental location connected Nov. 13, 2022. Police arrested him astatine his parents' location successful the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania connected Dec. 30 of that year.

He could look the decease punishment if convicted, and authorities lawmakers are presently looking to marque the firing squad the superior means of execution.

According to tribunal documents, investigators allegedly generated a extremity that led them to Kohberger's household aft recovering DNA from a weapon sheath near nether Mogen's body.

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Fox News' Chris Eberhart contributed to this report.