This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case against Brian Koberger.

What's interesting about this is Koberger himself put it out there when he was much younger in those internet postings,

about talking about the visual snow, about not feeling emotionally connected, about not having any sort of empathy,

about treating his dad like crap, as he put it, and saying that he doesn't know why he does it.

He can recognize that his dad has done so much for him and that his dad is a good guy and doesn't

deserve to be treated that way.

But Koberberger seems to

have difficulty not treating him that way. He seems to be kind of struggling with it and can't

quite figure out why. And to everybody on the outside, you go, well, just stop being an asshole to your

dad. You know, it's not that hard. But that seemed to be a really a bridge too far.

Why do you think that is?

Why would that be a struggle for someone?

What's going on in their brains that just being a decent human being to another person

that treats you with respect be so hard?

Yeah.

This is the lack of empathy.

And we do know that people with psychopathic personality, that there's a biological

component to it, a huge biological component to it.

And it has to do with the wiring between the amygdala and the ventral medial prefrontal

cortex.

That's the empathy center.

And in normal brains, those two parts of the brain are well connected, and that allows us to have empathic attunement and connection with other people. Some people are born without it, and we can't

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