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Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

A Deal with the Devil? Megyn Kelly and Ashleigh Banfield on the Kohberger Bombshell

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Kohberger has just dropped a legal bombshell in the Idaho student murders case that completely wipes the death penalty off the table. What does it mean for justice? And is there more behind this deal than the public knows? Megyn Kelly joins Ashleigh Banfield for an explosive conversation about the courtroom twist that sent shockwaves through Idaho and beyond. Note: This podcast was recorded before jurors in Sean Combs' trial reached a partial verdict, indicating that they were deadlocked on Count 1.

Megyn Kelly is a renowned journalist and the host of The Megyn Kelly Show, available on YouTube at youtube.com/MegynKelly and wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious and I have never been more

0:09.4

drop dead serious than this very moment because we are on the eve of finally hearing Brian

0:17.0

Koberger, if all goes according to plan, tell us that he's guilty.

0:22.6

Tell us that he actually killed four University of Idaho students.

0:28.5

Confess publicly after stringing us along for two and a half years, after spending the money of the people of Idaho for Anne Taylor to defend him to the 11th hour,

0:40.8

we're not even 30 days away from the beginning of the trial, right?

0:44.1

We're on the eve of finally hearing this monster, if all goes according to plan,

0:49.5

and he keeps up his end of the bargain and he pleads guilty.

0:52.9

Monster, admit it.

0:55.6

Admit it.

0:57.5

Admit that you did this horrifying thing.

1:00.9

If he's guilty of this crime and he admits to it tomorrow that he planned it in advance, premeditated four of the most sadistic killings of the most vulnerable people,

1:16.9

young people in the prime of their lives, studying in college, having a fun night out and

1:21.7

coming home to go to bed. I mean, really, when are you the most vulnerable when you're lying in your

1:26.9

bed going off to sleep?

1:29.3

And that is who this man is.

1:33.3

If he finally admits it tomorrow, like the plan says he will, a plea bargain that gets him off the death penalty,

1:40.3

that gets him away from the brand new firing squad shooting chamber that Idaho is

1:45.5

building almost for him, right? Maybe he's too scared to be in pain. Maybe he's too scared to be

1:52.9

shot to death. Maybe he's too scared to be put to death. And he's accepting this deal.

2:03.8

The deal is death is off the table,

2:09.5

but so are appeals. You're going to go away and live in a box, four consecutive life sentences for the four lives that you took. Kaylee Gonzalez, Maddie Mogan, Ethan Chapin, and Zana

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