Ted Bundy and Bryan Kohberger similarities emerge as survivors of 70s serial killer draw parallels to Idaho murders
Michael Hansen
Published Sep 07, 2026
PARALLELS have been drawn between alleged University of Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger and the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy.
Both men may have a pattern of targeting young female college students.
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That similarity is explored in Fox Nation's new program Parallels of Evil: The Bundy and Idaho Killings.
It features clips from an interview with Karen Pryor, who survived Bundy's attack at Florida State University in 1978, the New York Post reported.
Two Chi Omega sisters, Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy, were bludgeoned to death by Bundy when he broke into their sorority house.
Two others were gravely assaulted in the rampage before Bundy fled the house.
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He then broke into the duplex where Pryor lived, and attacked her as she laid in bed.
Like Kohberger, it took authorities weeks to arrest Bundy in the wake of the high profile attacks.
“There have been a lot of mass murderers, but (Kohberger) seemed to almost pick a murder that mirrored one of Bundy’s murders," Pryor told Nancy Drew for the program.
"Is that a coincidence? I don’t know."
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Kohberger, 28, is accused of breaking into an off-campus apartment near the University of Idaho last November.
While there, he allegedly stabbed four college students to death.
Roommates Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, and Xana Kernodle were all killed in the rampage.
Kohberger also allegedly killed Kernodle's boyfriend Ethan Chapin, who was also the apartment with her at the time.
When Pryor heard reports about the slayings, she was brought back to her own near-death experience.
"I could relate," she said.
In the program, private investigator Bill Warner said he initially heard about the Idaho killings he thought were carried out by a Bundy copycat.
Bundy's former lawyer John Henry Browne was also interviewed for Parallels of Evil.
"It’s so random. And the manner of homicide was so brutal," he said.
"I’ve done probably 50 murder cases in my career, maybe more. And these are the only two that have those similarities.
"Almost all of them involve weapons, guns mostly, or fistfights, things like that, or in self-defense.”
"This is just downright brutal. It’s rage. Whoever did this was full of rage."
Kohberger remains incarcerated in Idaho after he was indicted earlier this month.
He's expected to face a six-week trial in October.
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The FSU killing was one of many Bundy was convicted of committing across the country.
He was sentenced to the death penalty and executed in 1989.
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