Did accused University of Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger have an ‘incel complex’?

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In the digital realm, troubled young men are all-powerful gods of masculinity.

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The reality is that they are grey-throbbing muscles of resentment far from their own twisted self-perceptions.

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Now, it appears accused University of Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger may be among the young men popularly identified as incels — or involuntarily celibate.

A former FBI agent told the New York Post that Kohberger may be the embodiment of the “incel complex.”

“The murders may have been … an effort to assert some type of dominance,” Pete Yachmetz told the Post.

He added: “I believe a continued stabbing of a victim indicates … an uncontrollable rage and extreme anger. (Kohberger has been described as) socially awkward with a long history of interpersonal problems.

“I think he may have developed a sort of incel complex.”

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Kohberger, 28, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the Nov. 13 massacre in Moscow, Idaho that claimed the lives of students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.

The crimes occurred at an off-campus home where three of the victims resided.

Incels are an online community of young men who have difficulty with romantic or sexual relationships with women. Their musings are often misogynistic — and sometimes turn violent.

That was the case with Toronto van attacker Alek Minassian, who mowed down scores of people on a busy stretch of Yonge St. killing 11. He was convicted and is serving life in prison.

The “movement’s” patron saint is Elliot Rodger.

On May 23, 2014, the 22-year-old murdered six people and injured 14 others near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, before killing himself.

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Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman told CourtTV last week she believed that Kohberger fit the incel profile.

“I’ve been saying from the beginning that he’s an incel,” Lieberman said, adding that “choice of victims” and his alleged return to the scene of the crime pointed her in that direction.

“Incels like to be known for when they kill people, or when they have a conquest like this,” she said.

“On the one hand, he wanted to commit the perfect crime and not be caught, but on the other hand, he did want to be caught, and be proud, in a sense, of what he did.”

A doctoral criminology student at nearby Washington State University, views of Kohberger varied. Some classmates called him “gregarious,” and people in his home state of Pennsylvania said he was a bullied loner who struggled with drug addiction.

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One hometown classmate said their high school’s cheerleaders were among Kohberger’s biggest tormentors.

“The whole clique of popular girls made fun of him in school. They were the cheerleaders and the ones that every kid had crushes on,” the classmate told the Post.

For his part, the accused killer wrote on social media in 2011 he felt “like an organic sack of meat with no self-worth.”

Kohberger is being held without bail but has not entered a plea to four counts of murder and one of felony burglary. He is expected back in court on June 26.

If convicted of the murders, he potentially faces the death penalty.

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