Bryan Kohberger: The Selfie, The School Paper, and The Psychology of a Killer | 2025 Year in Review
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3.3 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this special combined episode, Tony Brueski brings together a powerful mix of expert voices — retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, behavioral expert Robin Dreeke, and defense attorney Bob Motta — to unpack how two seemingly separate pieces of evidence might expose the psychology and planning behind one of the most disturbing crimes in modern memory.
The selfie, allegedly timestamped 10:31 AM on November 13th, 2022, shows Kohberger clean-shaven, wearing a white button-up, giving a calm thumbs-up in front of a shower — while the victims still lay undiscovered just miles away. It’s an image that feels ripped from American Psycho, echoing both Patrick Bateman’s narcissism and Norman Bates’ eerie detachment. Was it a subconscious taunt? A digital trophy? Or simply the reflection of a man who couldn’t tell the difference between performance and reality?
Then comes the academic paper that prosecutors now want admitted as evidence: “Crime-Scene Scenario Final.” Written in 2020 during Kohberger’s criminology studies, the 12-page essay describes — in chilling detail — how to secure, process, and control a murder scene without leaving trace evidence. He even wrote about wearing “fiber-free protective gear” and checking neighbor alibis — years before a masked intruder allegedly slaughtered four students while leaving behind only one trace: DNA on a knife sheath.
The episode breaks down what prosecutors call a pattern of preparation, bolstered by other alleged evidence — a balaclava receipt, phone pings near the crime scene, and the now-infamous Amazon purchase of a knife, sheath, and sharpener.
Is the paper proof of intent, or just twisted irony? And could that mirror selfie — equal parts arrogance and emptiness — be the moment his mask slipped for good?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Year in Review. |
| 0:02.7 | A look back at the biggest stories of 2025. |
| 0:06.9 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:11.3 | He stood in front of the shower, freshly groomed, wearing a crisp, tightly buttoned up shirt. |
| 0:21.6 | Can anybody ever see anybody wearing shirts this tight anymore, ever? |
| 0:26.6 | Suppose if you're wearing the tie, |
| 0:28.6 | you'd probably button it up there, but there's no tie. |
| 0:31.6 | It's just awkward. |
| 0:35.6 | Brian Coburger, flashing the thumbs up with this little smirk. |
| 0:44.2 | It was 10.31 a.m. on November 13th to 2022, and that date is very noticeable for this conversation, |
| 0:50.9 | and notable, not just noticeable, but notable, because just hours earlier, |
| 0:56.2 | the University of Idaho, four students, they've been murdered, and they're off-campus home. |
| 1:02.8 | No one knew who knew who Brian Koberger was at that moment in time or suspected him at that |
| 1:08.0 | moment in time. |
| 1:09.7 | But here he was taking a selfie. |
| 1:12.6 | That very morning. |
| 1:15.6 | If someone had nothing to do with this, okay. |
| 1:18.3 | Sometimes people take selfies. |
| 1:20.2 | A lot of times people take selfies. |
| 1:22.6 | Brian Coburger doesn't strike me as a selfie kind of guy. |
| 1:26.3 | I could be completely off on that assumption. |
| 1:31.2 | At first glance, the photo might seem like nothing more than an awkward mirror shot. |
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