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Bryan Kohberger Targeted in Prison — Could It Last Forever?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

True Crime, News Commentary, News

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Kohberger Targeted in Prison — Could It Last Forever?
Bryan Kohberger’s life behind bars is shaping up to be as tense and volatile as his upcoming trial. In this Hidden Killers special, Tony Brueski and defense attorney/former prosecutor Eric Faddis combine two in-depth conversations to reveal the full scope of Kohberger’s prison reality — from organized harassment through the ventilation system to the looming possibility of spending the rest of his life in solitary confinement.

We examine reports that fellow inmates at Idaho Maximum Security Institution have been using the facility’s ventilation to direct threats and taunts straight into Kohberger’s cell — allegedly in shifts, around the clock. Eric explains how common (and legal) this kind of targeting is, the Eighth Amendment questions it raises, and why prison staff rarely intervene unless credible threats of violence are imminent.

From there, we dive into the long-term outlook: how high-profile inmates like Kohberger become permanent targets, why crimes against young women carry a special stigma behind bars, and the dangerous incentives for other inmates to attack someone with his level of notoriety. Could solitary last forever? Who decides when it ends? And what happens if Kohberger is moved into general population?

We also explore the limited legal recourse once the courts are done, the survival strategies inmates sometimes attempt, and why, for Kohberger, there may be no “safe” option at all.

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But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel

0:21.3

good. Because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

0:25.6

Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com.

0:29.5

A better help ad.

0:31.5

Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be.

0:36.8

I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever.

0:42.2

Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult.

0:46.6

But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good.

0:51.0

I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

0:54.8

Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com.

0:58.4

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

1:01.4

Here now, Tony Bruske.

1:05.6

Brian Koberger.

1:07.2

Behind bars, it's not going so well.

1:10.2

We're going to break all this down in terms of what is happening to him right now.

1:16.1

Is it common?

1:17.5

Is it legal?

1:18.9

And what happens from here with Koeberger behind bars?

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