The Idaho Murders: The First 72 Hours Of Kohberger’s Chaos
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Using the Bryan Kohberger case as a case study, Tony dissects how the earliest reporting on the University of Idaho murders quickly spiraled into misinformation, emotional panic, and public certainty based on little more than vague police statements and internet rumor. From “no threat to the community” to “unconscious person” to the infamous white Hyundai ask—almost everything the public believed in the first three days either changed or was clarified later. But by then, the narrative had hardened.
In this longform breakdown, we expose how the fog of breaking news forms, why the media often isn’t lying (even when the facts change), and how psychologically we cling to early stories even in the face of hard evidence. We explore the myths that formed—victims tied and gagged, the skinned dog rumor, the DoorDash driver, stalker theories—and show exactly what was reported when and why the facts didn’t stick.
This is not a hit piece on the press. It’s a sharp, fact-driven guide to how public perception gets hijacked during active investigations, and why it matters—especially in a case as emotionally loaded and legally complex as the Kohberger trial.
If you followed this case from the beginning, you need to hear this. Because chances are, some of what you still believe was never true to begin with.
🎧 Listen now for a reality check that’s long overdue—and a reminder that sometimes, certainty is the most dangerous lie of all.
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| 1:06.8 | Never wonder where certain pieces of information come in a case, pieces of information that you look back on going, |
| 1:19.2 | oh, how does that fit into the puzzle? |
| 1:20.9 | Why are people saying this? |
| 1:23.1 | Why are people stuck on this or fact or piece of information or accusation or rumor or whatever |
| 1:32.2 | it may be? How did that get in there? We see it with every case that we cover. In this piece, |
| 1:38.9 | we're going to be talking about Brian Coburger and the Idaho murders in the first 72 hours, because that really is your |
| 1:47.3 | answer to a lot of those questions. What came out in the first 72 hours? Because there's a lot of |
| 1:56.1 | misinformation that comes out. It's not because people are trying to deliver fake news or trying to persuade you |
| 2:02.5 | this way or that way, although in some cases, that can happen. But that's not most cases. |
| 2:10.4 | Most of the time, that is, that's the fog of war. When there's chaos going on, information, even from some of the most credible sources and the |
| 2:21.7 | most well-meaning people can be incorrect that is how it's always been that's nothing new |
| 2:29.7 | that's not a product of modern communication or social media. |
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