Two Tragedies, Two Failures: FBI Expert on Kohberger WSU Lawsuit and Reiner Murder Warning Signs
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today on True Crime Today, we're covering two major cases that raise the same devastating question: What does it take for warning signs to translate into action? Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—21 years with the Bureau, former Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—joins us to analyze both the Kohberger and Reiner cases through the lens of threat assessment and behavioral analysis. The families of the four murdered Idaho students have sued Washington State University, alleging the school received 13 formal complaints about Bryan Kohberger's threatening and predatory behavior and failed to meaningfully intervene. The lawsuit describes faculty predicting Kohberger would assault future students, staff creating their own "911" alert systems, women fleeing classrooms. Robin breaks down what these behaviors signaled and why institutions often choose perceived legal protection over actual safety.
Then we turn to the Reiner case. Nick Reiner was under an LPS mental health conservatorship in 2020 that ended after one year. His medication was reportedly changed a month before his parents were found stabbed to death. Rob Reiner had publicly said they should have listened to Nick instead of professionals. Robin explains how trust gets exploited over decades, how families lose their ability to perceive danger, and what the Reiners may have stopped being able to see. Two cases. Two mechanisms of failure. One essential conversation about what it takes to act on what you see.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.5 | 13 formal complaints, security escorts for women who feared being followed to their cars, |
| 0:14.0 | a professor who looked at Brian Koberger and told colleagues, mark my words, |
| 0:19.3 | if we give this guy a PhD, we'll hear about him harassing, stalking, |
| 0:24.7 | and assaing students down the road. That professor didn't have a crystal ball. They had eyes. |
| 0:33.6 | And apparently so did everyone else at Washington State University who encountered Brian Koberger during his single semester on campus. |
| 0:40.2 | A tallyboard tracking his discriminatory comments, staff, emailing each other 911 when they needed help during interactions with him. |
| 0:52.9 | Women feeling classrooms in tears, fleeing classrooms in tears. |
| 1:00.9 | And what did the institution do with all of that information? Well, according to a new lawsuit |
| 1:06.3 | filed by the families of Kaylee Gonzalez, Madison, Mogan, Xanacernodal, and Ethan Chapin, |
| 1:13.7 | nothing, at least nothing commensurate with what they knew. |
| 1:19.6 | That's the allegation. |
| 1:20.7 | The lawsuit claims WSU exercise deliberate indifference in the face of escalating warning signs, |
| 1:26.7 | allowing Koeberger to retain |
| 1:28.0 | his position, his salary, his housing, and his access to students, while his behavior reportedly |
| 1:33.9 | grew more threatening by the week. Seven miles away, four college students would be murdered |
| 1:38.5 | in their beds. Today, we're joined by former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreek and chief of the counterintelligence |
| 1:47.0 | behavioral analysis program. Robin, when you look at the behaviors described in the lawsuit, |
| 1:52.0 | the stalking, the spatial trapping, the blocking of exits, following women to their cars, |
| 1:58.6 | the rage outbursts in classrooms, there's a lot. I mean, |
| 2:01.6 | does this read to you as a profile that fits a known threat pattern or are we connecting dots |
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