Bombshell Claim: Bryan Kohberger's Mom Secretly Torpedoes Defense
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
As Bryan Kohberger’s trial approaches, his defense team continues to file a series of motions aimed at removing the death penalty as a possible outcome.
Sources now allege that the decision to plead not guilty came at the urging of his mother, Maryann Kohberger, who reportedly believes he should fight the charges. A conviction could put him on a path toward capital punishment.
In court, an Idaho judge denied Kohberger’s request to allow defense experts to testify against the prosecution’s claims about his movements and Amazon purchase history. Prosecutors say evidence shows Kohberger bought a knife and sheath online in the months leading up to the killings. Court filings also state he searched for a replacement knife after the murders.
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- Chris McDonough - Director At the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective, Host of YouTube channel, "The Interview Room." www.coldcasefoundation.org/chris-mcdonough
- Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan", @JoScottForensic
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:06.7 | A bombshell claim is Brian Coburger's own mother secretly torpedoing his defense. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:23.1 | Tonight on the long location of your emergency. |
| 0:25.7 | Hi. Something just happened here. |
| 0:27.7 | Something happens in our health. We don't know what. |
| 0:30.3 | What is the address of the emergency? |
| 0:32.9 | 1122C. |
| 0:35.6 | Joining us an all-star panel, but straight out to the author who has written that definitive book on the Koberger trial. |
| 0:43.2 | Howard Bloom joining us. Howard Question, what is the report all about that Koberger's own mother is sabotaging his defense? |
| 0:53.2 | Brian Kohlberger's mother does not want to admit that her son |
| 0:57.1 | is guilty. She is telling him and everyone involved in the defense team, she has no intention |
| 1:04.4 | of settling this case. She wants it all to go to trial. Even though, two things are looming over the case. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm very curious, Howard Bloom, why the mother would gamble with her son's life since he is |
| 1:19.5 | facing the firing squad. |
| 1:22.1 | First, this is the death penalty, which is now going to end in a firing squad. |
| 1:27.0 | Idaho has passed a law requiring that the death penalty be which is now going to end in a firing squad. Idaho has passed a law requiring |
| 1:28.8 | that the death penalty be serviced by a firing squad. The second thing is that the evidence |
| 1:36.7 | against Brian Kohlberger is pretty convincing. You just have to go to this one salient fact. They have DNA from the knife sheath that |
| 1:49.3 | matches DNA taken from a cheek swab after his arrest. So the defense is doing everything they |
| 1:56.2 | can to save Coburger, not just from a guilty verdict, but from the death penalty. |
| 2:03.2 | And hovering over all this is Kohlberger's mother, trying to say, putting down her foot and |
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