Kohberger DATELINE BOMBSHELLS - Google History EXPOSED ‘Drugged,’ ‘Passed Out,’ and Ted Bundy Obsession & MORE!
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we break down NBC Dateline’s latest bombshell on the Bryan Kohberger case — and this one hits differently. We’re not just talking about a car circling a house. We're talking about damning details: texts sent moments before the murders, previously unseen photos from inside 1122 King Road, and chilling Google searches that reveal the twisted obsessions of an accused killer.
Dateline's new two-hour special gives us what court filings can't: a visceral timeline that shows how close Kohberger allegedly got to his victims — and how long it had been building. It opens with a jarring text from Kaylee Goncalves to her ex-boyfriend, sent at 2:52 a.m., just minutes before the murders began. A completely normal message. Except it would be her last.
Then, security footage. We now see, with eerie clarity, a white Elantra circling the house — again and again — before fleeing just 13 minutes later. It's the clearest visual evidence yet of what prosecutors say was predatory behavior. And Kohberger? He drove a 2015 Elantra.
But this Dateline episode doesn’t stop at the car.
We learn about search history from Kohberger's phone that includes terms like “Ted Bundy,” “forced,” “passed out,” “drugged,” and “sleeping” porn — a disturbing pattern that suggests a dark psychological undercurrent before and after the murders. This wasn’t a one-off. FBI cell tower data places Kohberger near the King Road home 23 times over a four-month span — always after dark.
There’s also the knife. A Ka-Bar, bought on Amazon eight months prior. A matching sheath, left behind at the crime scene, carrying Kohberger’s DNA. Prosecutors say it was recovered next to Madison Mogen’s body.
Dateline also exposes how Kohberger may have interacted with others before the murders — including one woman who received a bizarre, overly formal text after a brief chat at a party. Another student said Kohberger creeped her out after inserting himself into conversations about hiking and spirituality, only to text her the next day referencing their "connection."
We’re also shown the now-infamous police body cam from Indiana, where Kohberger was pulled over while driving cross-country with his father after the murders. Calm. Blank. Like nothing had happened.
This episode isn’t just evidence — it’s a psychological autopsy. It raises the question we’ll keep asking until the trial: Did Bryan Kohberger spend months preparing for the perfect crime? Or is the evidence just circumstantial noise?
Watch now as we dissect every disturbing frame, message, and digital breadcrumb from the Dateline special — and why this may be the most important piece of media released in the case so far.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case against Brian Koberger. |
| 0:08.3 | Got a text yesterday from a friend of mine over at Dateline saying you're going to really want to watch |
| 0:17.1 | Dateline Friday. I was intrigued. I'm like, what are we talking about here? |
| 0:22.2 | At first, I thought it was about the Karen Reed trial, because that's going on right now. |
| 0:26.1 | Oh, no, no, no, no. |
| 0:28.0 | It's about Brian Coburger. |
| 0:30.8 | And since I found out about it, I've been like, I cannot wait to talk about this. |
| 0:37.2 | They just dropped the trailer for what is going to be shown on Dateline this coming Friday. And it is pretty big. I'd say bombshell, if you will, in this case. What Dateline is going to be showing is for the first time, a lot of pieces of evidence |
| 0:56.0 | that are in the repertoire of the prosecution and will be used against him in court. We're talking |
| 1:04.8 | new video surveillance footage of the White Hyundai Alantra in high definition. Yeah, near the house on King Road, |
| 1:14.5 | going back and forth repeatedly. What's going on on the search history of Brian Coburger |
| 1:21.2 | before and after the killings. And what images did he have on his phone? |
| 1:32.0 | We're about to take a look at all of that in the next couple of seconds. |
| 1:36.8 | And some amazing reporting from our friends over at Dateline. |
| 1:40.1 | Shane Bishop, one of the producers on this. |
| 1:47.0 | Keith Morrison reports, here's a look, a preview of what to expect. |
| 1:50.4 | I know I'll be sitting there with my popcorn. |
| 1:52.6 | Take a look. |
| 1:56.0 | In this house, just steps from campus. In the early morning hours of November 13th, 2022, |
| 2:00.0 | four University of Idaho students, Maddie Mogan, |
| 2:02.7 | Kaylee Gonzalvis, Zanekernodal, and Ethan Chapin were stabbed to death. |
| 2:08.7 | Their accused killer, Brian Coburger, faces trial this summer. |
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