Officials at the Idaho jail housing Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four college students, said they will try to accommodate the suspect’s vegan diet.
Latah County Sheriff Richard Skiles told NewsNation that the county jailhouse is willing to comply with Kohberger’s dietary needs.
The sheriff, however, said: ‘But we are not going to buy new pots and pans or anything like that,’ appearing to reference reports of the suspect’s ex-aunt saying she needed to buy new pans to feed Kohberger when she was cooking for him.
Kohberger is currently being held in the Latah County Jail after he was pictured smiling in court when a judge denied him bail.
Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger, pictured smiling at his bail hearing, is a vegan, so Latah County officials are working to accommodate his diet
Sheriff Richard Skiles (pictured), however, said the prison was ‘not going to buy new pots and pans,’ referencing a story about Kohberger’s veganism
Kohberger is one of 42 prisoners being housed at the Latah County prison (pictured)
Kohberger, 28, was charged with the murder of Ethan Chapin, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Madison Mogen, 21, and is being flown to Moscow, where the students were found dead in their off-campus home.
Amid the intense public scrutiny over his character, it was revealed Kohberger, a criminology graduate student, was a vegan who is very particular about what he eats.
A relative told The New York Post Kohberger is ‘OCD’ about his eating habits and forced his family to buy new pots that had never been used to cook meat.
‘It was above and beyond being vegan. His aunt and uncle had to buy new pots and pans because he would not eat anything that had ever had meat cooked in them.
‘He seemed very OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder)’ the woman, who wished not to be identified, said.
Prior to his transfer to Latah, where he is one of 42 inmates, Kohberger had his dietary requirements met while in Monroe, Pennsylvania, where he was held following his arrest.
Kohberger is shown in court on Thursday after being extradited to Idaho from Pennsylvania
Kohberger was seen smiling during a brief court appearance on Thursday, that came as police and prosecutors revealed their bombshell case against him, including how his DNA was found on a knife sheath at the scene.
Kohberger was denied bail Thursday during a brief court appearance in Moscow shortly after an affidavit detailing prosecutors’ case against him was shared online.
Kohberger spent most of the 10-minute hearing looking directly at Judge Megan Marshall as she read him his rights and the five counts and answered ‘yes’ when asked if he understood each count.
At one point, Kohberger was pictured smiling at his lawyer Anne Taylor. It is unclear what prompted the grin, which comes six days after he shot to notoriety as America’s most infamous alleged mass murderer.
Kohberger remained impassive throughout but briefly began rocking back and forth as the judge told him he was facing the death penalty. He will return to court on January 12 for a status hearing.
The Goncalves family leaving court on Thursday following the hearing. They said it was an ’emotional moment’ to come face to face with their daughter’s alleged murderer for the first time
The court papers included details on how Kohberger’s DNA was found on a knife sheath close to the bodies of Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves.
The documents also detailed how a surviving roommate, Dylan Mortensen, came face-to-face with a masked man believed to be Kohbegrer in the hallway of their shared home around the time of the killings, shortly after 4am on November 13.
Mortensen heard what she believed to be her roommate’s cries, left her room and saw a man in a black mask with bushy eyebrows. She froze with fear, and watched as he walked past, then waited six hours before calling cops.
Further details on Kohberger’s alleged stalking of his victims were shared. His phone was found to have been in the vicinity of their Moscow home 12 times before the November murders, starting in mid-August.
The family of Kaylee Goncalves was also in court, with her mother shaking her head and sobbing as the homicide charge related to her daughter was read out.
