This is Hidden Killers Year in Review.

A look back at the biggest stories of 2025.

This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case

against Brian Koberger.

If the phone call was the first crack in the facade, then what came next was the slow

collapse.

In this part of our conversation, we're turning the lens towards the man who found himself sitting shoulder to shoulder with the accused for nearly

2,500 miles. Brian Koeberger's father, Michael. Now, most of the media has focused on

Brian, his behavior, his crimes, his

alibis, his psychology. But what Howard Bloom uncovered and what we dig into here is just

how much his father may have been reckoning with on that drive from Washington to Pennsylvania.

We're not just talking about suspicion.

We're talking about a man who might have been realizing in real time

that he had a suspect in his car,

the suspect everyone in America was looking for,

and it just happened to be his son.

Imagine that.

Howard lays it out. A father in his late 60s, scraping money together for a flight out west, not for vacation, but because he's worried about his son.

Not just any son, but one with a history of heroin addiction, social dysfunction, violent

outbursts, and a deep psychological darkness that

had never fully gone away, no matter how put together Brian seemed on the surface.

Another factor to a white Hyundai Alantra, the white Hyundai Alantra, that one, the one the

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