Is The Kohberger Defense Trying To Persuade Possible Jurors With Baseless Claims?
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🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
How does a criminology PhD student allegedly go from studying crime to being the center of one? Bryan Kohberger, accused in the tragic Idaho student murders, may have thought he had every detail planned—until the knife sheath said otherwise. Is this a case of overconfidence meeting modern forensics?
In this episode, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke dissect the alleged missteps, from touch DNA on a knife sheath to cell phone data that paints an incriminating picture. As defense attorneys try to sow doubt with conflicting expert interpretations, the real battle emerges: simplifying complex science for a jury that holds someone's fate in their hands. Was Kohberger's alleged planning undone by his own hubris, or is there more to the story than we've seen?
What else is hidden beneath the surface, waiting to come to light?
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| 0:25.9 | You're tuned in to Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:28.5 | Featuring retired FBI special agent and chief of the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program, Robin Dreek. |
| 0:36.2 | Are they going at it hard because they think they truly have a legal argument, or is this |
| 0:40.4 | more so another, let's throw this into the ether of the public. |
| 0:44.5 | We don't have a jury yet. |
| 0:46.0 | Let's throw everything we can possibly put out there and get it into somebody's mind, because |
| 0:50.6 | all you need is one, that this is not a reliable source in any way, shape, or |
| 0:56.0 | form that they can, whether saying it's junk science, whether it was captured illegally or |
| 1:00.7 | wrongly or unethically or whatever they're going to try and say, get that out there. |
| 1:04.9 | It doesn't have to be a legal argument right now. |
| 1:06.6 | Just get it in people's minds that this is not a reliable, reliable source of evidence. |
| 1:12.0 | Is that what you think they're kind of doing here more so than they really think this will get thrown out? |
| 1:17.0 | I think that's the hope and the prayer that people are going to think that, even though that's really implausible. |
| 1:22.0 | If you dive even just like one inch below the surface on understanding how reliable this data point is. |
| 1:28.6 | So I think that's that's plan B is to sow some seeds of doubt. |
| 1:32.3 | Plan A is to really try to get it out of, to use it to get it hell out so so defense doesn't |
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