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.

What happens when the victim takes the power back?

Not just in a statement, not just with tears, but with tactics.

What we witnessed in the Idaho courtroom during Brian Koberger's sentencing wasn't just grief.

It was strategy.

And it was brutal.

The Gonzalez family didn't ask for sympathy. They came armed with precision. Olivia Gonzalez didn't beg for justice. She dismantled

Coburger's ego in real time publicly, deliberately, and according to many observers, successfully.

Now, victim impact statements aren't usually known for this. They're raw, often heartbreaking, sometimes chaotic, but this, this was something

else. This was targeted psychological warfare. And the new reporting and reaction suggests it may

have landed harder than any piece of evidence ever did.

Joining me is Robin Drake, retired FBI special agent and former head of the behavioral analysis program for counterintelligence.

He's trained to spot what most of us miss, what's real, what's performative, and what cuts through the armor of someone like Koberger.

Today, we're breaking down not just what Olivia and her family said, but how they said it,

why it worked, and what it may have done to a man who prides himself on being untouchable.

From clinching jaws and unblinking stairs to the long-term

psychological shrapnel, these words may have embedded. We're going inside the room and inside

the mind with one of the country's top behavioral profilers. So, Robin, when you watch those

statements, especially Olivia's, what stood out to you immediately?

Like you, Tony, I'm watching this live with you, and I've watched victim witness statements before,

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