The Idaho Murders | The Case Against Bryan Kohberger

She saw it coming. A professor at Washington State University looked at Bryan Kohberger in the fall of 2022 and told her colleagues exactly what she believed: "Mark my word, I work with predators. If we give him a Ph.D., that's the guy we will hear is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing his students."She urged them to cut his funding. They didn't.According to a 126-page lawsuit filed by the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, at least 13 formal complaints were filed against Kohberger in just three months. Women built survival systems around him — tally boards, "911" emails, security escorts, door strategies to avoid being alone with him. Five days before the murders, WSU held mandatory discrimination training for his cohort. Because of him. Less than two weeks before, faculty met with him about his behavior.The lawsuit alleges WSU calculated that a discrimination lawsuit from Kohberger was a bigger threat than the violence he might commit.Now Bryan's sister Mel has broken her silence. In a New York Times interview, she describes Christmas 2022 — warning her brother about the "psycho killer on the loose" near his Pullman apartment, never knowing she was talking to the suspect. She reveals the "creepy drawing" tabloids mocked at his sentencing was actually a heart she made for him. Bright colors. A message of love.Mel talks about Bryan's childhood bullying, his heroin addiction, his recovery — and the impossibility of reconciling the brother she knew with the crimes he's accused of committing.The warning signs weren't missed. According to this lawsuit, they were documented, escalated, and ignored.#BryanKohberger #WSULawsuit #IdahoMurders #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #MelKohberger #WashingtonStateUniversity #IdahoFourJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

The lawsuit the families promised has arrived — and it's worse than anyone expected.All four families of the Idaho murder victims have filed a 126-page complaint against Washington State University, alleging the school knew Bryan Kohberger was dangerous and did nothing to stop him. The filing details at least 13 formal complaints made against Kohberger between August and November 2022 — stalking, harassment, blocking doorways, following women to their cars, and behavior so alarming that female students built their own emergency warning systems.One professor told colleagues directly: "Mark my word, I work with predators. If we give him a Ph.D., that's the guy we will hear is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing his students." She urged them to cut his funding. They refused.The lawsuit alleges the employee responsible for handling complaints never even spoke with Kohberger. It alleges a supervisor feared firing him could expose WSU to a lawsuit — from the predator himself. So they kept him on payroll, in university housing, with access to students.Five days before the murders: mandatory discrimination training. Less than two weeks before: a faculty intervention meeting.The families call what happened "foreseeable — and, in fact, predictable." They're demanding transparency, accountability, and answers. This episode covers every detail from the complaint.#BryanKohberger #WSULawsuit #Kohberger #IdahoMurders #KayleeGoncalves #MadisonMogen #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #IdahoFour #KohbergerCaseJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

This is the interview the Kohberger family never wanted to give — until now.In a bombshell exclusive with The New York Times, Mel Kohberger finally breaks three years of silence about her brother Bryan, the man who pleaded guilty to murdering Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin in November 2022.She takes us inside Bryan's troubled youth: the relentless bullying, the undiagnosed autism the family now believes shaped his personality, the heroin addiction that nearly killed him, and the moment he stole her phone to buy drugs — prompting their parents to call police on their own son.She describes the last Christmas before the arrest: vegan cookies their mother baked, TV party games, Bryan helping bandage a cut on her finger. Days later, FBI agents shattered the windows and took him away in handcuffs.And she finally explains the "creepy drawing" that went viral during Bryan's sentencing hearing. It wasn't dark. It wasn't a symbol of evil. It was a vibrant heart she drew for her brother — a reminder that even after everything, he was still loved.Mel also reflects on her own history as a true crime fan — and why she now regrets it.This episode contains new details about the Kohberger family's experience, their ongoing prayers for the victims, and what it's like to be dragged into the center of America's most scrutinized murder case.#BryanKohberger #MelKohberger #KohbergerFamily #KohbergerInterview #IdahoMurders #IdahoFour #KohbergerSister #KohbergerNews #KohbergerUpdate #MoscowIdahoMurdersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISDOES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

In this chilling Hidden Killers deep dive, we confront two disturbing revelations about Bryan Kohberger — the kind that point to hidden behavior far beyond what happened on King Road. Retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Program Chief Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to break down the unsettling possibility that Kohberger maintained secret stashes of weapons, stolen items, and trophies — and that investigators may have only scratched the surface.First, we explore the “hidey hole” theory: a private cache where Kohberger may have stored the missing KA-BAR knife, clothing, stolen items, or other evidence he didn’t want to destroy. Dreeke draws direct parallels to BTK, Israel Keyes, and Robert Hansen — offenders who built entire systems of hidden drop sites to revisit, relive, and maintain control over their crimes. Kohberger’s shovel with tested soil, his repeated trips to remote parks, and a long pattern of break-ins and petty theft suggest this behavior may have been developing for years.But the story gets darker.We also examine the two mystery ID cards found in Kohberger’s possession — IDs belonging to women who were not his victims and who may not even know he ever had them. These weren’t discovered in plain sight. They were tucked away, hidden in a glove box inside a box. Dreeke explains why offenders sometimes keep items like this: not as accidents, but as trophies, leverage, fantasies, or souvenirs of earlier intrusions.Why would a man who meticulously cleaned his car miss two IDs? He probably didn’t. He simply didn’t believe they were important to the crime he was trying to erase — a psychological compartmentalization common among escalating offenders.Together, these findings raise chilling questions: • Did Kohberger have a cache? • How many items were hidden? • How many women were surveilled, targeted, or intruded upon? • And how much evidence — or truth — is still buried?This is the behavioral blueprint investigators fear the most: escalation, souvenirs, and secrets carefully tucked away.#BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #Idaho4 #FBIProfiler #EvidenceStash #TrophyBehavior #TrueCrimePodcast #CriminalPsychology #KnifeCache #RobinDreekeWant to comment and watch this podcast as a video?Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872

🔍 Feel the raw agony of the Idaho murder victims' families as they confront Bryan Kohberger in court with impact statements that shatter souls – in this emotional powerhouse from Hidden Killers 2025 Year in Review – a look back at the biggest cases of the year. During the July 23, 2025, Boise sentencing, where Kohberger copped his guilty plea for four life terms, the #Idaho4 kin unleashed unfiltered fury: Kaylee Goncalves' dad Steve slamming the "cowardly" stabber who stole futures, Xana Kernodle's mom Kristi detailing shattered dreams and endless therapy voids, and Ethan's sister Jazz sobbing over a brother's erased laughter. No dry eyes as they demanded he stare into the abyss he created – premeditated horror via Amazon knives and sheath DNA that no autism plea could erase.This Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today deep dive captures the catharsis: Why these words weren't just closure, but weapons piercing his narcissistic shell, echoing FBI profiler warnings of zero empathy. Families' pleas for death row dodged, but the pain fueled yesterday's November 19 Goncalves WSU lawsuit, ripping into university lapses on Kohberger's creepy surveys and prowls. Restitution rages on too – $30K victim fund holdups and urn payback battles from the November 5 hearing, proving scars outlast sentences.True crime heart-breakers, this is visceral: Statements that humanize the lost and haunt the locked-away killer. Did Kohberger flinch, or feast on the spotlight? Your 2025 essential on grief's grip in the Idaho inferno, where words wound deeper than blades.#BryanKohberger #IdahoMurders #VictimImpact #FamilyStatements #TrueCrime #KohbergerSentencing #Idaho4 #HiddenKillers2025 #CrimeYearInReview #WSULawsuit #TrueCrimePodcast #CourtroomTearsWant to comment and watch this podcast as a video?Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872