Bryan Kohberger’s warped requests from behind bars leave prison guards sickened… as new pictures of Idaho murders reveal full extent of his barbarity
Prison staff are so fed up with murderer Bryan Kohberger’s ‘diva’ antics, they are considering drastic measures, the Daily Mail has learned.
It can be exclusively revealed the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) is now ‘aggressively’ trying to ship Kohberger, 31, off to a prison in another state.
Insiders say Idaho officials have approached several states to see if they will take the mass killer off their hands.
A transfer could happen as soon as next month.
Chris McDonough, a retired homicide detective with inside knowledge of Kohberger’s situation, told the Daily Mail: ‘They are fed up with him so they’re trying to move him out of Idaho by making an agreement with another state.
‘They’re trying to make it happen. So it wouldn’t be surprising if within 30 days Kohberger has been transferred elsewhere or a decision has been reached whether or not to get him out of there.’
Kohberger has been complaining about his living situation and the quality of his food since the very start of his incarceration last July at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, which is located near Kuna.
McDonough, who now works for the Cold Case Foundation, said: ‘[The prison move] is in motion, and they used the word ‘aggressively’. So they’re figuring out, ‘what are we going to do with this guy?”
Bryan Kohberger is seen inside a prison cell in Idaho’s maximum security prison in Kuna
Crime scene photos show inside 1122 King Road after Kohberger’s killing rampage
Kohberger left this knife sheath behind at the scene of the murders. DNA on the sheath was traced back to Kohberger using Investigative Genetic Genealogy
It is also understood that there is every chance Kohberger himself could have requested the prison move, in a latest ridiculous demand to guards.
The push for relocation comes just days after the Daily Mail exclusively published a series of previously unseen photos from the crime scene Kohberger left behind.
In the early hours of November 13, 2022, he snuck into an off-camus home in Moscow and killed four University of Idaho students in their beds: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.
Last week, nearly 3,000 images, many from inside the victims’ home on 1122 King Road, were quietly uploaded online by Idaho State Police before being swiftly taken down.
The Daily Mail downloaded the images in full before they disappeared, but chose not to publish the most graphic.
It is not yet clear if another state will agree to the proposal to move Kohberger, but there are several options as to where he could end up next.
Idaho is part of the Interstate Corrections Compact, an agreement allowing states to transfer inmates to other member states.
It is an agreement that Indiana recently used to relocate one of its own high-profile inmates, Richard Allen, who was convicted of the 2017 Delphi murders of teenagers Abby Williams and Libby German. Last year, Allen was transferred from Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana to a prison in Oklahoma.
At the time, the Indiana Department of Corrections said that no specific threat against Allen had prompted the move. Instead, the state cited its interstate agreements with 22 other states ‘to transfer individuals such as those who are high profile, for their safety and to offer that same level of safety to other states in return.’
In recent years, Idaho has sent hundreds of its inmates to Texas, Colorado and Arizona under the agreement.
The IDOC did not respond to the Daily Mail’s requests for comment.
Kohberger has been in the Idaho Maximum Security Institution since last July.
While awaiting trial, he was held in local prisons. But, after feigning innocence for two years, he finally pleaded guilty to all charges on July 2, 2025, under a deal to spare him from the death penalty.
He has since been held in solitary confinement in a restrictive housing unit of ‘J-Block’ at the supermax.
For his own safety, Kohberger spends 23 hours a day alone in his cell, with justan hour for exercise, and has no face-to-face contact with other inmates.
Left to right: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee’s shoulders), Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle
The student home at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, where the murders happened
Kohberger could soon be sent to another state ‘due to his prison antics’
The former criminology PhD student – who turned 31 on November 21 – has been held on J-Block inside Idaho’s maximum security prison in Kuna since July
But fellow prisoners have still managed to get to him in other ways.
Back in August, the Daily Mail revealed that Kohberger had been relentlessly tormented since he arrived at the prison.
Inmates in nearby cells were said to be shouting through the vents into his cell at all hours of the day and night.
Kohberger was instantly rattled by his new living situation, filing the first of a string of formal handwritten complaints to the prison guards on only his second day there.
In the complaints, he wrote of ‘minute-by-minute verbal threats/harassment’ and requested a transfer to another part of the prison.
Days later, he filed another complaint – alleging he was the victim of sexual threats after another inmate allegedly told him ‘I’ll b*** f*** you.’
Kohberger requested a move to protective custody and a housing placement hearing was held mid-August. Both Kohberger and the committee agreed he should remain segregated from other inmates for the time being.
But the complaints from the former criminology PhD student turned killer continued.
In total, he filed five formal complaints in so many weeks.
As well as his new neighbors, Kohberger took issue with several other aspects of prison life, including his access to commissary items and the quality of the food. In particular, he took issue with the ‘type’ of bananas he was being served.
In December, Kohberger then took the extreme step of threatening to harm himself if prison guards didn’t move him away from the inmates tormenting him.
Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen (left) and Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle (right) were murdered on November 13, 2022. The killer inflicted more than 150 stab wounds on them in total
Now, six months into his new life inside and the torment from his fellow inmates – along with Kohberger’s growing list of quibbles – are showing no signs of letting up, McDonough said.
The prison guards and staff are ‘fed up’ of the former criminology student and his ‘prima donna’ antics and want ‘to get rid of him’ – and not least because his ongoing diva-like behavior is eating up a lot of time and resources inside an already-stretched facility, McDonough added.
Holding inmates in restrictive housing units, like Kohberger, requires more resources, staff and money. And the prison was already grappling with staffing shortages.
Staffing challenges would be one reason to justify a transfer of Kohberger to another prison.
‘They have limited resources within the system for someone who is constantly complaining. And he cannot be put in general population because it would be too dangerous for him so they have to keep him in isolation,’ McDonough explained.
Footprints in the snow are documented by investigators outside the student house at 1122 King Road after Kohberger’s killing spree
The three-story home at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, has since been demolished
Ultimately, it will be down to the receiving state whether or not to accept Kohberger as an inmate.
And, as is typical, Kohberger would likely only find out he was being transferred on the day. His parents MaryAnn and Michael and sisters Amanda and Melissa, based in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, would learn about it retroactively.
Yet, given Kohberger’s reputation for making the lives of prison staff more difficult, McDonough said he wouldn’t be surprised if Idaho ‘can’t get anyone to take’ its most notorious inmate.
Regardless of where he ends up seeing out his dying days, McDonough said he expects Kohberger will still face a difficult time inside.
