(Washington Insider Magazine) – Valerie Cipollina, who was incarcerated in the same jail as Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the murder of 4 University of Idaho students, said the man threatened guards and behaved erratically.
The suspect in the murder of four University of Idaho students allegedly sang violent songs and threatened guards in a Pennsylvania jail cell, according to an insider.
A fellow prisoner told the Daily Mail accused murderer Bryan Kohberger displayed strange and unstable behavior at the Monroe County jail.
Valerie Cipollina, 50, told the outlet that she saw Kohberger during his six-hour jail stay after she was arrested for domestic violence on New Year’s Day.
“Come in here and I’ll cut you down. I’m going to pee on your face. Do what you want with me, I don’t give a shit,” Kohberger yelled at a guard, according to Cipollina.
She told the Daily Mail that she was held in a cell across from the accused murderer in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and she could see her upper body through the glass.
Ella cipollina said that she did not recognize him, but another inmate informed her that “that’s the guy who killed those college students.”
Cipollina, who was arrested after fighting with her boyfriend at a Pennsylvania hotel, according to the outlet, claimed that the man she believed to be Kohberger repeatedly lifted up her shirt.
She said she also heard a guard tell the inmate to put on his pants, but she couldn’t see the bottom half of him.
“I couldn’t see his genitals because the glass wall only allowed a little view,” he told the Daily Mail, adding that he believes he tried to expose himself to the guard.
The Garnerville, New York, woman said the man yelled violent rap lyrics with expletives and yelled threats at guards.
She also said that he yelled “Jo… my team and enemies,” a line from the Lil Wayne song “Multiple Flows.”
She said a guard told her to shut up and he responded with threats, according to the outlet.
Kohberger reportedly yelled, “Go ahead, you son of a bitch. Come here, let’s talk,” Cipollina said.
“Then she yelled at the top of her lungs: ‘Go ahead, all of you. You are afraid of me? They should be afraid of me. They are not going to do anything to me because I am going to cut them into pieces,’” she said.
In her interview with the Daily Mail, she claimed that he too yelled: “Come in this cell and I’ll show you I’m a creeper. Step into this cell and I’ll cut you down too.
Cipollina was booked into the Monroe County Jail at 6:20 a.m. Sunday and she was released at 12:11 p.m. the same day, the outlet reported.
Kohberger is being held in the same jail as he awaits extradition to Idaho, where he faces four counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of 20-year-old Ethan Chapin; Xana Kernodle, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, in their Moscow, Idaho, rental home on November 13.
However, it is not clear where in the jail he is being held and if he is close to other inmates, including women.
Departure From Washington State University
The shocking behavior is a departure from earlier descriptions of the doctoral student at Washington State University.
Previous teachers and classmates called him clumsy in his behavior, but very smart in his learning.
Kohberger, 28, was arrested Friday at his family’s Pennsylvania home and is expected to be extradited to Idaho in the coming days.
Police have not revealed a motive for the killings or said how he was connected to the four slain students.
However, once Kohberger appears in court in Idaho, officials can legally release the probable cause affidavit used by police to authorize his arrest.
The document is likely to reveal details about what led to his arrest nearly seven weeks after gruesome murders rocked the small college town.
A Monroe County public defender said Kohberger “is looking forward to being exonerated” of the four murder charges.
This article is authored by Alejandro Gonzalez.