Inside Kohberger’s Last Power Play: Why He Won’t Pay the Families He Destroyed-WEEK IN REVIEW
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3.3 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Convicted killer Bryan Kohberger, now serving four consecutive life sentences for the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, has found a new way to wound the families of his victims — by refusing to pay them the restitution the court ordered.
In a stunning October filing, Kohberger’s defense argued he shouldn’t have to pay because the victims’ families received donations through GoFundMe. That’s right — he’s trying to use the kindness of strangers as a legal loophole to get out of paying what he owes. His lawyers claim the families “did not suffer an economic loss” because they were “extensively funded” through public generosity.
It’s a move that feels less like a legal argument and more like one final act of control from a man who’s spent every step of this process refusing to take accountability. The same man who broke into 1122 King Road that November night and took four young lives is now arguing over dollars and decimals from his prison cell.
But here’s the deeper truth: this isn’t about money — it’s about power. About the narcissistic offender’s need to stay relevant, to twist the knife one last time, even when the world’s stopped listening. The Goncalves and Mogen families, who’ve already endured the unthinkable, are being forced to re-engage with a man who should’ve faded into the background of justice months ago.
This episode of Hidden Killers breaks down the legal, psychological, and moral layers of Kohberger’s final insult — how it exposes the pathology of control, entitlement, and complete emotional detachment that’s defined him from the start.
Because for Bryan Kohberger, the violence never really stopped. It just changed form.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Week in review. |
| 0:02.4 | I look back at the most prolific stories of the week. |
| 0:05.2 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:08.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:12.6 | There's a certain kind of cruelty that doesn't come with a weapon. |
| 0:19.1 | It's quieter, colder. |
| 0:20.3 | It shows up in court filings and legal motions. |
| 0:24.0 | Years after the crime. When the world has mostly moved on, it's the kind of cruelty that says, |
| 0:31.2 | I still get to control the narrative. Brian Coburger has always been that kind of cruel. |
| 0:38.8 | Even now, sitting in a maximum security cell for the rest of his life, he's still trying to dictate |
| 0:44.9 | the terms of his own accountability. |
| 0:46.9 | And this time, he's doing it with what can only be described as his final insult to the |
| 0:53.1 | families of the four young people, he murdered. |
| 0:57.6 | Let's get something straight up front. |
| 1:00.0 | Brian Coburger is not some sort of misunderstood academic who lost his way. |
| 1:04.9 | He is a convicted killer, a man who broke into an off-campus home on King Road in Moscow, Idaho on November, a late November night in 2022. |
| 1:16.4 | And he took the lies of four students, Kelly Gonzalez, Madison, Mogan, Zanernerkernotel, and Ethan Chapin. |
| 1:22.8 | He's not awaiting trial. |
| 1:24.5 | He's not alleged. |
| 1:25.4 | He's guilty. |
| 1:27.0 | And he's serving four consecutive life sentences plus 10 years. |
| 1:32.0 | He's done. |
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