Kohberger's Writings From Jail Expose What Guilty Plea Hid
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
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Summary
Bryan Kohberger's guilty plea closed the criminal case. It did not close the questions about who he is. A new book on the Idaho murders has published, for the first time, three letters Kohberger wrote from the Latah County Jail in October 2023 — to his dog, his sister, and his family. The content is striking not for what it says, but for what is entirely absent: any connection to reality.
He claimed telepathic communication with his dog. He addressed his sister in the plural and invented a capitalized philosophical term. He wrote his family about "triumphantly ascending to new peaks" while awaiting a potential death sentence. And in that family letter, two words sit in the middle of the text: "A four." He was charged with killing four people — Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.
Combined with his mother's FBI interview the night of his arrest — where she repeatedly called him her angel, described a man with virtually no social connections, and turned to comfort the family dog mid-interrogation — and inmate observations of obsessive compulsive rituals, the psychological picture is far more complex than a simple guilty plea suggests. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of "The Minds of Mass Killers," breaks down what this body of evidence reveals about the mind behind the Moscow murders.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Dree. |
| 0:09.5 | I've been wanting to talk about this element of this new Koberger book for a while. |
| 0:14.8 | The new book is out, by the way. |
| 0:16.5 | You may have heard of it. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm not even going to say the title of it because I think it's a waste of time, |
| 0:20.0 | and I think it's not a book worth reading because a lot of it is focusing on debunked |
| 0:24.5 | DNA claims and crime scene forensics that are easily disprovable. It very much does feel like a cash |
| 0:30.1 | grab, in my opinion. But buried inside it is something far more unsettling than almost nobody is talking about. |
| 0:40.0 | Brian Koberger's own words from jail, three letters written from the Laidaw County Jail in October |
| 0:47.0 | of 2023 addressed to his dog, his sister, and his family, published for the first time. And we're going to read each and every letter published for the first time. |
| 0:54.3 | And we're going to read each and every letter here on the program today and break it down. |
| 0:59.4 | Because when you read them alongside what his mother told the FBI, |
| 1:02.9 | the night of his arrest, and what two inmates independently observed about his behavior, |
| 1:06.8 | the psychological portrait is unlike anything we've seen in this case. |
| 1:10.5 | Psychotherapist, Shavon Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers, and her memoir, Nightbird, which is available right now, wherever books are sold, is joining us to help break this down. |
| 1:21.4 | When I first saw these letters, Shavon, I was like, ooh, we got to talk to Chavon about this. |
| 1:27.1 | This is interesting. |
| 1:29.2 | And then I emailed you and Robin right away to, you know, we're talking about this. |
| 1:35.5 | Let's just kind of dive in here to it. On October 9th, 2023, 10 months interfacing the death penalty |
| 1:42.9 | for four murders. I think it's important to understand the timetable at which these were created. |
| 1:48.8 | So he's in jail at this moment. |
| 1:52.1 | Brian Koberger writes a letter to his dog. |
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