Bryan Kohberger: How We Got Here - Episode 5: "Breaking News - The Arrest and Revelations"
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
True Crime Today
3 • 791 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Description: At 3:00 AM on December 30th, 2022, law enforcement surrounded a house in Pennsylvania where Bryan Kohberger was spending the holidays with his family, ending a 47-day manhunt that had captivated the nation. This episode details the carefully planned arrest operation and the shocking discovery of Kohberger wearing latex gloves while sorting trash, behavior suggesting consciousness of guilt. We explore Kohberger's academic background as a criminology PhD student who had studied criminal behavior and forensic techniques, creating the disturbing irony of someone who studied how criminals are caught allegedly committing brutal murders. The episode reveals how his behavior at Washington State University had become increasingly erratic after the murders, with students and colleagues noting inappropriate comments about the case and declining academic performance. We examine the DNA evidence that led to his identification, including the secret collection of genetic material from his family's trash that produced a 99.9998% match with DNA found on the knife sheath. The episode also explores the initial court proceedings and the emotional impact on victims' families as they saw their loved ones' alleged killer for the first time.
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:25.8 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:33.2 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. |
| 0:34.5 | Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. |
| 0:39.0 | The night will be wild and untamed. |
| 0:41.2 | Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. |
| 0:45.0 | By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:51.1 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:53.3 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:56.2 | Sun Express, nonstop sunshine. |
| 1:02.9 | At 3 a.m. on December 30th, 2012 in the quiet suburbs of Elbrightsville, Pennsylvania, |
| 1:13.5 | a team of law enforcement officers surrounded a modest two-story house where a family was sleeping peacefully. |
| 1:20.2 | The house sat on a tree-lined street in the Pocono Mountains, about 90 miles north of Philadelphia, |
| 1:25.5 | in a community where violent crime was virtually unknown. |
| 1:29.1 | What happened next would shock the nation and finally provide answers to a case that had captivated |
| 1:34.2 | America for nearly seven weeks. The suspect they were about to arrest wasn't hiding in some |
| 1:40.0 | remote location or living under an assumed identity. He was spending the holidays with his parents, 2,500 miles from the scene of the crime, |
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