Bryan Kohberger is serving four consecutive life sentences for butchering four University of Idaho students, and the press is still chasing clickbait theories about his motive instead of asking why multiple red flags were ignored before a single blade was drawn.

Skye Borgman, director of the Netflix docuseries "The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare," told Fox News Digital that Kohberger likely targeted the off-campus Moscow rental because five women lived there. "It seems quite clear that he targeted it," Borgman said. "It seems pretty likely that he had a very low regard, if not hatred, for women." She pointed to his apparent struggles with women and floated the incel angle: "We look at this incel movement and the question of whether or not he was an incel."

Both the New York Post and Fox News ran with the "unsettling theory" framing. The Post headlined the "unsettling theory" on why Kohberger chose the house; Fox played up the "targeted women" angle. Neither outlet led with the actual accountability failure buried in their own reporting.

Here's what matters: multiple people flagged Kohberger as dangerous before the murders, and nothing happened. Former Washington State University Police Chief Gary Jenkins recounted a student who felt cornered by Kohberger during an aggressive encounter and believed he followed her to her car. Kohberger was ultimately terminated from his teaching assistant position. But Jenkins admitted none of it was referred to police because "nothing that occurred rose to the level of a crime."

Moscow Police Chief Anthony Dahlinger acknowledged "strange incidents and strange behavior." Classmates called him "not particularly well liked," said he spoke down to women, became argumentative and aggressive, and made students feel uncomfortable. A former classmate described a "his way or the highway" attitude. All of it documented. None of it acted on in any meaningful way.

Meanwhile, the FBI's own investigator undercuts the sensational narrative. Special Agent Ed Jacobson stated plainly: "We never saw evidence that shows Bryan Kohberger is part of the incel movement." The caveat? "But Bryan Kohberger was very good at hiding his online activity." That's not evidence—that's an invitation to speculate, which is exactly what the press is doing.

The plea deal ensured Kohberger would never be forced to explain himself. Borgman conceded the families "wish so truly that he had been forced through the terms of his plea deal" to provide answers. That deal—struck by prosecutors who chose certainty over accountability—closed the door on the public ever understanding what went wrong.

The question isn't whether Kohberger hated women. The question is how many warning signs can pass through how many institutional hands—a university, campus police, a graduate program—and still produce zero intervention before four people end up dead.