Overview
- In her first public interview, published by The New York Times, Mel Kohberger recalls warning her brother after the November 2022 stabbings that a “psycho killer” was on the loose, not knowing he was responsible.
- She rejects speculation that relatives knew anything beforehand, saying she would have turned him in if she had any reason to suspect him.
- Mel says she left a mental‑health counselor training role after a flood of inquiries and has seen strangers try to profit by using her name on a book.
- She describes her brother’s history of bullying and heroin addiction followed by recovery and graduate studies, which the family had viewed as a turnaround.
- Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 to avoid the death penalty and received four consecutive life sentences without parole after his December 2022 FBI arrest in Pennsylvania; he is held at Idaho’s maximum‑security prison.