- Bryan Kohberger planned to call friends of the four University of Idaho students he murdered to testify for the defense at his trial, according to a recently unsealed court filing.
- This included Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, the two surviving roommates who were home that night and have openly spoke about the trauma they continue to experience.
- Friends Emily Alandt and Hunter Johnson were also on the list, as was the ex-boyfriend of Kaylee Goncalves, Jack DeCoeur.
What a sociopath. He gets off on inflicting pain.
The first 20 minutes of American Psycho answered for me all the questions I had about how BK got to be the monster he is. I finally got around to watching it for the first time last night.
He had stated (for some reason) that its his all time favorite movie. I really want to know how old/young he was when he first saw it. He was obviously titillated by it and if he began watching it repetitively at a pubescent or prepubescent age, it's likely he developed his sexual imprint from Bateman's example.
It explains his weird hair, his weird way of dressing (how odd especially for his age), his weird self-love selfies. I'd very much expect he had peel off facial masks in his cabinet along with other vanity products and worked out the way Bateman did, watched porn the way Bateman did, talked arrogantly to people the way Bateman did, treated women the way Bateman did and on and on. Id bet he looked in the mirror a million times and saw Bateman reflected back and was sexually aroused by the image. I think he was aroused by Bateman who over time morphed into himself.
Knowing of BK makes watching that movie hard but worthwhile if you want to see the making of a mad dog killer who for some odd reason thinks he's sexy,
And I'm convinced he was totally cosplayimg Bateman in his trips to Costco and the grocery store so shortly after his victory dance following his massacre spree. That was Bateman all the way.
While Bateman was in finance as a career, I saw on the menu screen that another Am Psycho movie was made 2 years later wherein the lead character and sociopathic killer became a criminologyy student and teaching assistant.
Ugh... this makes me glad that I was careful about what I let my kids watch when they were young and I still had the ability to do that. The amygdala, the part of the brain that regulates emotion and is stunted by trauma, is not fully grown until about 23-26 years of age. Young brains arent equipped to process horror properly. I understand lots of kids do see lots of human pathology and don't become psychopaths because of it but one can never know when a trauma-bond obsession might begin and be irretrievable.
What a relief BK will die a slow death in a cage though he does make me question whether some people are just a waste of oxygen.
