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Bryan Kohberger: How We Got Here - Episode 7: "Evidence Battles and Death Penalty Debates - 2023-2024"

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Bryan Kohberger: How We Got Here - Episode 7: "Evidence Battles and Death Penalty Debates - 2023-2024"

Description: The year 2023 transformed the Idaho murders case from a shocking crime story into a complex legal chess match as prosecutors decided to seek the death penalty and defense attorneys mounted aggressive challenges to cutting-edge forensic evidence. This episode explores the pre-trial battles over genetic genealogy evidence, marking its first major courtroom test in a high-profile case. We examine how the defense challenged the constitutional implications of using family DNA to identify suspects, raising fundamental questions about privacy rights that courts had never addressed. The episode details the extensive mitigation investigation that revealed Kohberger's autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, creating both opportunities and risks for the defense strategy. We explore how both sides prepared for the massive logistical challenges of a death penalty trial, including evidence leaks that prompted judicial concerns about trial fairness. The episode also examines the prosecution's "convergence theory" strategy, arguing that while individual pieces of evidence might be challenged, their combination creates an overwhelming case for guilt that transcends any single piece of forensic evidence.

Hashtags: #DeathPenalty #GeneticGenealogy #AutismSpectrum #LegalBattles #ConstitutionalLaw #PrivacyRights #Mitigation #ForensicScience #PretrialMotions #EvidenceLeaks #ConvergenceTheory #DefenseStrategy #CourtRulings #CapitalCase #LegalPrecedent

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0:00.0

My fact this week is that Andy Warhol would regularly have his wig cut by a barber and then return the following month wearing a new longer wig.

0:10.0

Hello, we are no such thing as a fish. We are a British podcast all about facts and trivia and everything interesting in the whole wide world.

0:18.3

We cover everything from pufferfish rectums to the moon,

0:22.9

to mangrove forest. What else do we do, James? Oh, well, what about the fact that in 1936,

0:27.8

a robot in California shot its inventor in the head? There you go. If you're intrigued to hear

0:32.9

more, peppered with some bad puns and some crude jokes, then check us out we are no such thing as a fish.

0:40.6

My fact this week is that Andy Warhol would regularly have his wig cut by a barber

0:46.2

and then return the following month wearing a new longer wig.

0:50.2

Hello, we are no such thing as a fish.

0:52.3

We are a British podcast all about facts and trivia and everything interesting in the whole wide world.

0:58.5

We cover everything from pufferfish rectums to the moon to mangrove forest. What else do we do, James?

1:05.7

Oh, well, what about the fact that in 1936 a robot in California shot its inventor in the head.

1:11.5

There you go. If you're intrigued to hear more, peppered with some bad puns and some crude jokes,

1:16.9

then check us out. We are no such thing as a fish.

1:20.5

The year 2023 would transform the Idaho murders case from a shocking crime story into a complex legal chess match between some of the

1:28.4

most experienced prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Pacific Northwest.

1:34.5

As the initial shock of Brian Koberger's arrest began to fade, the real work of building

1:39.3

and challenging a potential death penalty case was just beginning.

1:49.6

What emerged over the following 18 months was a masterclass in modern criminal litigation,

1:54.2

where cutting-edge forensic science met constitutional law,

1:59.2

where genetic genealogy techniques faced their first major courtroom challenge,

2:06.5

and where the question of life or death would hang in the balance of legal arguments that pushed the boundaries of criminal justice.

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