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From Murderer to Menu Critic: Kohberger’s Bizarre Prison Grievances

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

News, News Commentary, True Crime

4.3598 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

From Murderer to Menu Critic: Kohberger’s Bizarre Prison Grievances
It wasn’t enough for Bryan Kohberger to complain about harassment. He then filed a third grievance—this time about his food tray. Kohberger cited prison nutrition standards and demanded replacements for items that were missing at meal service. He signed the letter like a child, hoping the formal language would carry weight.

Prison officials didn’t budge. Their response was curt: disruptions happen, J-Block is calm, and no, B-Block won’t be any better.

In this segment, Robin Dreeke joins Tony Brueski to analyze what these letters really tell us about Kohberger’s mindset. Once a criminology PhD student, he believed prison would turn him into a case study, maybe even a figure of fascination. Instead, inmates taunt him, staff ignore him, and the public laughs at his pathetic attempts to manipulate the system.

Robin explains why Kohberger’s letters showcase his lack of emotional intelligence, his total social ineptitude, and why prison is exposing him as nothing more than an empty shell. Kohberger isn’t brilliant, he isn’t special—he’s a hollow man who can’t adapt, and prison is proving it.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. Here now, Tony Brucey.

0:06.3

As if Coburger's first two complaints weren't revealing enough, the harassment note and the

0:11.6

mush on the tray saga, we then get his third letter. And this one takes the cake. Or rather,

0:20.1

doesn't take the cake. Because Brian

0:22.3

Coburger's problem was that items on his tray were missing. And he wanted replacements per policy.

0:30.3

He literally cited nutrition standards. Like he was arguing a thesis. He positioned himself not as an inmate, but as an aggrieved customer demanding better service.

0:44.9

If it weren't attached to the brutal reality of who he is, it would almost be a parody.

0:49.9

The prison's response was blunt, almost dismissive.

0:52.7

Disruptions like flooding happened, but J2 is generally calm and B-block wouldn't be any better.

1:00.8

That to his other complaint about being picked on, people calling names, water being flooded into his cell.

1:11.2

And there was no response to the snacks.

1:15.5

It's just the submission.

1:18.9

So basically, sit down, shut up, and get used to it.

1:23.3

What fascinates me about this is what it says about his long game or rather his total lack of

1:28.9

game.

1:30.3

Coburger thought he'd be infamous yet.

1:34.9

But infamous in a way that still held some twisted prestige.

1:40.6

He imagined professors studying him, maybe even profiling him.

1:45.1

It's being next to Bundy or BTK.

1:47.8

What he's realizing now is that he doesn't have the charisma, the intelligence, or the social savvy of those killers.

1:55.4

Horrible as they were, used to avoid detection.

2:00.7

He's just as a husk facade, as Robin described, a movie set with nothing behind the walls.

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