How Important Is Bryan Kohberger's Essay On Getting Away With Stabbing Crime To The Case? Ret FBI Coffindaffer Breaks It Down
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
What happens when your college homework sounds suspiciously like a real-life murder manual?
Turns out, Bryan Kohberger’s 2020 final for his criminal justice class wasn’t just a routine academic exercise—it might be the most damning piece of "fiction" sitting in a courtroom today. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer dive deep into the eerie overlap between Kohberger’s so-called crime scene analysis and the alleged murders he’s now accused of. We're talking detailed notes about hair nets, fiber-free overalls, and how to leave no trace—right down to the kind of gloves to wear. It’s not just creepy, it’s disturbingly meticulous.
But if it was so well-planned, how did he botch it by leaving behind a knife sheath? Jennifer breaks down how impulse, rejection, and a lack of empathy might’ve led to the unraveling of what some could call a “near-perfect” crime. And then there’s the digital trail—was Kohberger obsessively Googling himself after the murders? How much did he plan—and how much was a split-second decision he couldn’t take back?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:05.0 | Ever write a college essay that comes back to haunt you? |
| 0:10.0 | Most of us just gotta be minus and move down with life. |
| 0:14.0 | But Brian Koberger's crime scene scenario final from 2020, |
| 0:19.0 | a mock investigative report for his criminal justice class, |
| 0:22.9 | is now sitting in the courtroom. |
| 0:27.1 | Potentially, as one of the prosecution's more chilling pieces of evidence, |
| 0:30.9 | what happens when your academic work eerily mirrors real-world crimes and you're accused of committing them? |
| 0:37.5 | Joining us, retired FBI special agent, host of the Break the Case podcast, Jennifer Coffendaffer, |
| 0:43.7 | with decades of experience analyzing crime suspects, behavioral patterns, she's a perfect person |
| 0:50.2 | to help us unpack this one. |
| 0:52.1 | Jen, when you see a suspect who's literally written the step-by-step guide on how not to get |
| 0:57.0 | caught at a murder scene, does that automatically raise red flags, or is it just another life |
| 1:03.3 | in the day of a criminology PhD student? |
| 1:07.5 | Well, I think it's so important to bring this up to the jury. |
| 1:11.6 | The jury is going to want to understand why he actually committed almost the perfect crime, |
| 1:18.2 | but for that sheath that led them, you know, to him, geez, this, he did so well, really. |
| 1:25.8 | He covered up well. He even talks about in his paper, Tony, about how he would use a hairnet. |
| 1:33.3 | I keep wondering if he used a hairnet in this scenario. |
| 1:37.1 | We don't know because there's so much evidence that they still don't have, including his clothing and the murder weapon. |
| 1:43.6 | But he talks about all the details of not leaving any fingerprints and very specific on how to get |
| 1:52.6 | out of a crime scene without being detected. |
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