Could Autism Impact Kohberger’s Fate? Robin Dreeke Discusses
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:04.8 | Brian Koberger's defense team making some bold moves in this last week. |
| 0:11.1 | And while not officially on the table as of our recording, by the time you hear this, it probably will be. |
| 0:18.1 | Looking at throwing autism, spectrum disorder, ASD into the mix as a potential |
| 0:23.9 | mitigating factor to likely avoid the death penalty. It's important to understand what that is |
| 0:29.8 | all about, what that means in the context of reality and this story. Here's a real question, |
| 0:36.4 | though, does this change the way we should analyze |
| 0:39.4 | his behavior, planning, and potential criminal intent? Coburger is on the spectrum. Does it actually |
| 0:46.1 | explain some of his behaviors, or is it just a legal smokescreen? To break it all down from a |
| 0:51.8 | behavioral analysis standpoint and law enforcement perspective, |
| 0:55.5 | Robin Dreek, retired FBI special agent and former chief of the counterintelligence |
| 0:59.3 | behavioral analysis program, Robin? |
| 1:02.8 | From a profiling type standpoint, when you look at his actions, all the actions attributed |
| 1:08.0 | to Koeberger, stalking the house, planning the attack allegedly, |
| 1:12.5 | attempting to cover his tracks. Did these seem consistent with someone who struggles with |
| 1:17.1 | impulse control and social awareness, or do they point to high functioning, deliberate decision |
| 1:22.1 | making? Well, you know, when we cover these really complex cases, which is the only thing that we do, there's always something new. And this one was something new I hadn't seen before. You know, it's like using autism as an excuse or mitigator in his behavior. I hadn't heard it before. So I had to actually do some digging on my own. Yeah. First of all, kind of go into the original question. |
| 1:49.3 | His behaviors are still much more in line with someone who's escalating their violence, you know, which is on a track to, again, if it's him or whoever was doing |
| 1:53.7 | us, you know, that serial killer in developmental kind of profile, or at least someone |
| 1:59.8 | who is on a track to continue to commit more |
| 2:02.1 | violence. And so on the autism question, I only found two slight things. And this kind of |
| 2:09.3 | goes to what I think, again, you know, the great defense attorney is doing. She's throwing everything |
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