Bryan Kohberger’s Calls to “Mother” and Christmas Day Serial Killer Search EXPOSED
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Within hours of the Idaho student murders, Bryan Kohberger called his mother — not once, but repeatedly — for conversations totaling over three hours that day. He addressed his parents formally as “Mother” and “Father,” even texting, “Father, why is Mother not answering?” Was this routine? Desperation? Or an emotional tether to the only people who might never question him?
Weeks later, on Christmas Day, Kohberger sat down and researched more than 20 serial killers — with a particular focus on Danny Rolling, the Gainesville Ripper. Rolling’s crimes bore unsettling similarities to the Idaho murders: KA-BAR knife, sliding-door entry, and a focus on college students. By then, Kohberger had been stopped twice on his drive home, was gloving up to bag trash, and knew police were looking for his car. Was this paranoia-driven damage control, or a compulsive “copycat” study session?
Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to connect these two behaviors. From emotional anchors and routine-seeking to mimicry of notorious killers, we explore how Kohberger’s post-crime actions reveal a man more concerned with validation and borrowed identity than originality.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.7 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.0 | Oh, Brian Koeberger and mom, that's what we're talking about today, |
| 0:11.6 | because it's come out that there seems to be, I don't know, |
| 0:17.1 | an unhealthy connection going on here, at least from Koberger's standpoint. I'm not trying to |
| 0:23.7 | criticize mom at all, but calling your mom for many, many hours within hours after you just |
| 0:32.4 | murdered four people. I think it might say something. I think it might say something about some weird connection |
| 0:39.4 | there in Koeberger's mind, but we're going to break all of this down. Joining me to discuss |
| 0:44.0 | Robin Drake, retired FBI special agent, former chief of the counterintelligence behavioral analysis |
| 0:48.9 | program. We knew that there were those phone calls. We didn't know how long they were. |
| 0:54.0 | We didn't know how many times it happened throughout the day. |
| 0:58.2 | It wasn't just right after the murders. |
| 1:00.3 | It's six something in the morning. |
| 1:02.0 | It happened in the afternoon. |
| 1:03.5 | And it happened for long stretches of time. |
| 1:06.2 | All this now just coming out. |
| 1:08.0 | When you first started hearing about this, |
| 1:09.8 | how did your mind start processing |
| 1:12.3 | it, Robin? That's a great question. My first impression was, of course, and then you start on the |
| 1:21.1 | overlays, because remember, we keep placing ourselves as best we can in his mind about what his |
| 1:26.5 | needs are. And again, this is purely conjecture, |
| 1:29.8 | non-scientific in the sense of, you know, non-psychologist side of things. They don't want |
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