The criminology graduate suspected of murdering four Idaho students tried to expose himself to a woman inmate in a nearby cell, she alleges. Bryan Kohberger, currently being held in Pennsylvania, has also been heard singing violent rap lyrics and threatened to cut guards, it is claimed. Fifty-year-old female inmate Valerie Cipollina made the explosive allegations after being released from her own cell in Monroe County Jail.
In an interview with dailymail.com, Cipollina claimed Kohberger yelled “I cut them, I’ll cut you” at prison staff. Cipollina had been held in a cell near Kohberger for six hours on a New Year’s domestic violence charge.
She claimed Kohberger repeatedly lifted his shirt and heard the guard tell him several times to put his trousers on. Cipollina believes he was trying to expose himself to her, claiming: “I couldn’t see his genitals because the glass wall only went down so far.”
He was wearing a regular orange prison jumpsuit and not the anti-suicide “turtle suit” he had on when his mugshot was taken on Friday, she said.
At first Cipollina said she didn’t realise who he was – but later heard jail employees discussing him.
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Cipollina, of Garnerville, New York, was arrested just after 3am on New Year’s Day in a hotel in Paradise Township, Pennsylvania, after a fight with her boyfriend.
She was booked into the Monroe County Jail at 6.20am before being released at 12.11pm the same day.
Cipollina claimed of Kohberger: “I could see him through the polycarbonate glass window of his jail cell. He was standing up right against it, yelling out violent rap lyrics.”
She added that “at one point he yelled out ‘F**k my enemies and foes” – a line from Lil Wayne’s song Multiple Flows.
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Kohberger is being held at the same jail pending his extradition to Idaho where he faces four counts of murder relating to the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21 at their Moscow, Idaho rental home on November 13.
However, it’s unclear where in the jail he is being held and if it is near other inmates — including female inmates.
Express.co.uk attempted to reach out to Monroe County Jail to verify Cipollina’s claims but have not got a response.
It comes after Kohberg’s public defender Jason LaBar said he is “eager to be exonerated of these charges and looks forward to resolving these matters as promptly as possible”.
The report also follows previous accounts portraying Kohberger’s behaviour as odd and erratic.
Jordan Selrulneck, the owner of a brewery in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – near where Kohberger was a student at DeSales University earlier in 2022 – said he had visited a few times that year and would sit at the bar by himself.
He told NBC News that Kohberger would make comments under his breath and staff added warning notes that would pop up when his ID was scanned.
“Staff put in there, ‘Hey, this guy makes creepy comments, keep an eye on him. He’ll have two or three beers and then just get a little too comfortable’,” he told NBC.
Kohberger is a PhD student in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University – a short drive to Moscow, Idaho.
