Ted Bundy Obsession, DNA on Knife Sheath, and 23 Visits: Kohberger Exposed By Dateline
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3.3 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we unpack Dateline NBC’s newest special on the Bryan Kohberger case — and this one drops bombshell after bombshell. From never-before-seen surveillance footage of the white Elantra, to chilling Google searches, to a haunting 2:52 a.m. text from Kaylee Goncalves just moments before her death — this isn’t a recap, it’s a psychological breakdown of a killer’s digital trail.
Joining us is retired FBI Behavioral Analyst Robin Dreeke, who helps decode the disturbing patterns behind the evidence. What does it mean that Kohberger’s phone pinged near the King Road home 23 times, always after dark? What can we learn from his searches for "drugged," "passed out," and “Ted Bundy” before and after the murders? This isn’t just forensic analysis — it’s a look into the possible fantasy life of an alleged predator.
We explore how prosecutors say Kohberger bought a Ka-Bar knife from Amazon eight months before the murders — the same model found at the scene with his DNA on the sheath. And we dive into his strange social behaviors, including unsolicited texts to women, overly formal messages, and a reported break-in tactic where he allegedly installed surveillance equipment for someone he had frightened.
Robin Dreeke lends his behavioral expertise to connect the dots. Are we looking at an individual who escalated from obsession to action — or can the defense’s “alternate suspect” theory still hold water?
This is your full forensic breakdown — all the texts, searches, photos, and behavior — with FBI-level insight.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case against |
| 0:06.5 | Brian Koberger. |
| 0:08.7 | There's some big stuff coming out in the case against Brian Koberger. |
| 0:13.8 | In fact, if you're watching this today as we are dropping it, it's going to be this evening. There's some big things |
| 0:22.5 | coming up against Brian Koeberger, at least Friday night. Again, Friday the night of May |
| 0:30.9 | 2025 is when it's going to drop and there's a lot in it. I heard about it yesterday. I got a text from the producer and was like, oh, this is going to be interesting. |
| 0:41.5 | And I just saw the preview and you're about to see the preview. |
| 0:44.1 | And oh my gosh, Robin, this is, there's some stuff in here. |
| 0:49.0 | There's some stuff in here that we have not seen from new footage, high definition footage of the vehicle that's not grainy and really questionable. |
| 0:58.0 | There's allegedly some text messages, there's search history, there's images on the phone, there's stuff no one has seen before. |
| 1:09.0 | Things that we've been going, it'll come out in court. |
| 1:11.6 | Well, as things do here in the United States, they come out on Dateline first. |
| 1:16.8 | And here is a little preview of what you're going to be seeing and we'll discuss some of this on the other side. |
| 1:25.1 | This is Dateline. |
| 1:26.5 | I'm going to be airing on Friday the 9th, |
| 1:29.1 | 2025. Keith Morrison reporting. Let's take a look. |
| 1:34.5 | In this house just steps from campus. In the early morning hours of November 13th, |
| 1:39.3 | 2022, four University of Idaho students, Maddie Mogan, Kali Gonzalez, Xanekernodal, and Ethan Chapin were stabbed to death. |
| 1:48.0 | Their accused killer, Brian Coburger, faces trial this summer. |
| 1:52.0 | He's pleaded not guilty. |
| 1:54.0 | For the last two and a half years, Dayline has been on the ground, reporting, gathering, and learning from people with direct knowledge of the case. |
| 2:02.6 | We've obtained things that have never before been seen publicly, like these security videos from a camera on a house near the murder scene, |
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