Bryan Kohberger: A Definitive Deep Dive

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong dives into the infamous case of Bryan Kohberger. In November 2022, four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered in their off-campus home, kicking off a six-week manhunt that captivated the world. When investigators traced DNA evidence and digital data back to Kohberger, a criminology PhD student studying the psychology of killers, the story took an even darker turn. Candice examines how Kohberger’s lifelong social isolation, feelings of rejection, and status as an outcast may have fueled a deep psychological need for power and control, and how his fascination with criminal minds may have ultimately led him to become one himself.

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0:00.0	Hey, Killer Psychey fans, curious what makes a killer tip?
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0:19.0	A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone. Please be
0:26.5	advised.
0:31.4	In Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller, Vertigo, a man named Scotty Ferguson falls in love
0:42.7	with a woman he does not really know.
0:45.8	He watches her from afar.
0:47.8	He follows her through the city, across bridges, into flower shops, through graveyards.
0:54.6	He studies her every move.
0:58.3	Until he is not just in love with her, he is obsessed.
1:03.7	When she dies, he does not grieve her.
1:07.4	He recreates her, dressing another woman in the same clothes, the same hair, the same perfume.
1:16.8	He commands her to become the ghost he cannot let go. Because to Scotty, love is not about connection.
1:27.3	It is about control.
1:30.9	But in forcing her to live as his fantasy, Scotty destroys her.
1:37.0	His obsession drives her to the edge, literally.
1:42.1	And in the film's final moments, she falls to her death.
1:48.0	Scotty's need for control kills the woman he claimed to love. That is fiction, of course.
1:57.6	A film about obsession, power, and the male gaze gone mad.
2:04.5	It is a warning about what happens when desire replaces empathy,
2:10.5	when a woman becomes a mirror instead of a person.
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