Kohberger’s Final Power Play: Hijacking His Own Lawyers to Stay Relevant
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
You’d think that after pleading guilty and being sentenced to four consecutive life terms for the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, this case would finally be over. But it’s not. Kohberger is still managing to pull the strings from inside his cell — not through violence this time, but through bureaucracy.
In October, his defense team filed a motion arguing that he shouldn’t have to pay restitution to the victims’ families because they received money from GoFundMe. The move outraged the public — but here’s the hidden truth: his attorneys probably had no choice.
Under Idaho law, court-appointed attorneys like Anne Taylor and her team can’t simply walk away once a case is “over.” They’re bound by the rules of criminal procedure to continue representing their client until the court formally releases them. And the court almost never does — especially in a case this complex and public.
That means every time Kohberger wants to file another motion — no matter how manipulative or hollow it may seem — his attorneys have to sign it. They can advise him not to, but if he insists, and it’s not illegal or frivolous, they’re obligated to comply.
So what we’re seeing isn’t greed. It’s a broken system that traps everyone: lawyers forced to act as mouthpieces for a killer, taxpayers forced to keep footing the bill, and families forced to relive the case every time his name shows up on a docket.
This episode of Hidden Killers exposes how a justice system built to guarantee fairness ends up being hijacked by the very people it’s supposed to contain — and how Bryan Kohberger, even behind bars, is still finding ways to exert control.
Because sometimes, evil doesn’t end when the sentence is handed down. It just changes form.
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| 0:45.6 | Hey there, True Crime Podcasts. It's Patrick and Jillian from True Crime Obsessed. |
| 0:50.0 | Each week on TCO, we recap a true crime documentary everyone's talking about, and we do it with hearts, sass, and just the right amount of humor. So if you like the kind of podcast where two good friends chat about a case in a thoughtful way that centers the victims, you really got to check us out. Yeah, we cover the well-known cases that you hear about in the news and the underreported cases that desperately need more attention. For almost nine years, we've been one of the most popular true crime podcasts out there. |
| 1:13.7 | We have over 30,000 five-star reviews on Apple Podcasts, |
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| 1:28.3 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 1:31.7 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 1:35.1 | There is something deeply wrong with a system |
| 1:38.2 | that keeps giving Brian Koberger new ways to take up oxygen. |
| 1:42.3 | There is. |
| 1:44.4 | This is one of those stories. |
| 1:48.3 | It's not even so much about Koeberger. |
| 1:50.7 | It's again about how we have such a deeply flawed system that allows for monsters to thrive. |
| 2:00.7 | Even after they've admitted guilt, |
| 2:03.5 | after we've locked them away permanently, |
| 2:06.1 | the rights that we still allow them to have, |
| 2:09.8 | the manipulation, the tactics, |
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