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Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Bryan Kohberger’s Secret Life? Disturbing New Docs Reveal Chilling Words to Kaylee & More

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got new details about what Bryan Kohberger was doing in the hours right after the murders. And thanks to digital forensics… spoiler alert: it’s creepy. It’s unsettling. It’s a little… Norman Bates. We’re also learning about a book Kohberger owned and the passage he marked on page 118. NewsNation's newly obtained police documents reveal disturbing details about Bryan Kohberger’s life before the Idaho murders, including chilling words he allegedly spoke to Kaylee the night of the killings. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down what’s inside this 600-page trove, from roommate interviews to WSU professors warning he “would be a predator,” stolen underwear reports, and unsettling patterns in the classroom. 


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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious.

0:09.0

You know, it's been almost three years since four University of Idaho students were slaughtered inside their home at 1122 King Road.

0:17.4

And it's been almost three weeks since Brian Coburger was sent off to the Idaho

0:22.5

maximum security institution to begin serving a sentence for the rest of his natural life

0:27.2

for committing those murders. But tonight, we've got some new details about what Brian

0:33.4

Koberger may have said while he was inside that house as he was carrying out his slaughter,

0:40.3

specifically which victim he may have named.

0:44.7

We also have some information about what Kovberger was doing right after the murders.

0:50.0

Spoiler alert, he called his mommy.

0:53.6

He called his mother within two hours of butchering those kids, and he didn't just call

0:59.5

her one time.

1:01.3

Wait until you hear how many times and how many hours he spent on the phone with his mommy,

1:07.7

right after stealing those kids from their moms.

1:13.4

And thanks to digital forensics and an expert duo who was tasked with analyzing Koberger's phone and his electronics,

1:19.8

we have learned some very creepy details about Koberger and his relationship with his parents.

1:25.8

It is all very unsettling and and frankly, it is giving Norman Bates in the movie's

1:32.5

psycho vibes, through and through.

1:35.4

And we've just discovered some amazing details about what these forensic analysts found

1:40.0

and what they did not find in his electronics that the rest of us all have in hours.

1:46.9

Like you will not believe the number of contacts Brian Koberger had saved on his phone.

1:54.7

I don't know about you, but I have upwards of 5,000.

1:59.5

I use my phone for everything. I use it for work and I'm a journalist.

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