“Father, Why Is Mother Not Answering” — Inside Kohberger’s Odd Family Texts
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
True Crime Today
3.3 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On the morning of the Idaho student murders, Bryan Kohberger placed a 36-minute call to his mother. Later that same morning, while driving back toward the crime scene, he called her again — this time for nearly an hour. By the end of the day, he’d spent more than three hours on the phone with his parents, addressing them in oddly formal terms: “Mother” and “Father.”
In this revealing conversation, former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke breaks down what those calls could mean. Were they simply part of Kohberger’s daily routine, or were they a desperate bid for emotional validation after committing an unthinkable crime? Why does his choice of words — “Father, why is Mother not answering?” — sound so detached? And could this be part of a broader pattern where routine phone contact was his emotional safety net, even in the most chaotic moments of his life?
We explore the psychology of an accused killer leaning on the one person who might never question him, the role of family routines in maintaining a façade of normalcy, and what wasn’t said during those calls. This isn’t about demonizing a parent — it’s about understanding the behavioral dynamics between a murder suspect and his closest emotional anchor in the hours after the crime.
#BryanKohberger #Idaho4 #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #PhoneCall #CriminalPsychology #Mother #IdahoMurders #BehavioralAnalysis
Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video?
Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/
Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod
X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod
Listen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | In today's fast-changing digital world, proving your company's trustworthy isn't just important for growth. |
| 0:06.6 | It's essential. That's why Vanta is here. Vanta helps companies of all sizes get compliant, fast, |
| 0:13.0 | and stay that way with their proprietary AI, automation and continuous monitoring. |
| 0:17.8 | So whether you're a startup tackling your first SOC 2 or ISO-27-001 or an enterprise |
| 0:24.6 | managing vendor risk, Vanta's trust management platform makes it quicker, easier and more scalable. It even |
| 0:31.3 | helps you complete security questionnaires up to five times faster, so you can close bigger deals |
| 0:36.7 | sooner. And the impact? According to a |
| 0:39.3 | recent IDC study, Vanta customers cut over $500,000 a year in costs and boost productivity by three |
| 0:46.9 | times. Establishing trust isn't optional. Vanta makes it automatic. Visit vanta.com slash go to sign up for a free demo today. That's va.com |
| 0:58.2 | slash G-O. |
| 1:00.1 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 1:06.4 | It's one thing for a murder suspect to have a close relationship with their parents. |
| 1:11.2 | It's another to place three hours of phone calls to your mother within moments of butchering four people. |
| 1:18.9 | But that's exactly what we've just learned about Brian Koeberger. |
| 1:23.4 | Newly unsealed records don't just confirm the calls we've already heard rumors about. |
| 1:28.1 | They put timestamps, durations, and frequency to them. |
| 1:31.8 | A 36-minute call not long after returning home to Pullman. |
| 1:35.8 | A 54-minute call later that morning while he was driving back towards the crime scene. |
| 1:40.7 | More calls throughout the day, all adding up to more than three hours of contact with one |
| 1:46.2 | person. Mommy. We're not here to demonize a parent for answering the phone, not at all. |
| 1:56.2 | But what does this pattern tell us about Brian Koberger? |
| 2:05.9 | Is it just habit the way some people text their spouse or parent every day? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from True Crime Today, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of True Crime Today and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.