What Does Bryan Kohberger's Childhood Tell Us About The Person He Became?
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 20 February 2025
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Summary
What happens when someone who studies crime allegedly becomes the criminal? That’s the eerie question swirling around Bryan Kohberger, a criminology student now accused of one of the most brutal mass murders in recent history. With his psychiatric and medical records now in the hands of prosecutors, the debate deepens—was this the work of a methodical mind with severe personality pathology, or could an underlying mental illness play a role in his fate?
Psychotherapist and author Shavaun Scott joins to analyze what, if anything, these records might reveal about Kohberger’s psychological makeup. Could they influence sentencing? Do they hint at early struggles that went unnoticed? And does any of it change the weight of personal accountability in crimes like this?
At the end of the day, is it nature, nurture, or just a cold, calculated choice?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:04.0 | There is a reason. |
| 0:06.0 | Cases like Brian Koberger captivate the public like they do. |
| 0:12.0 | It's not just the crime. |
| 0:14.0 | It's about what's going on behind the crime, the mind behind the crime, if you will? |
| 0:22.3 | How do someone go from studying criminology to being accused of one of the most gruesome mass murders in recent history? |
| 0:30.6 | What role, if Annie, does mental health play in shaping a person capable of such acts? |
| 0:37.4 | With new revelations about Koberger's psychiatric and medical records, mental health play in shaping a person capable of such acts. |
| 0:42.8 | With new revelations about Koberger's psychiatric and medical records, we may be getting closer to understanding his psychological makeup. |
| 0:46.9 | While Idaho law doesn't allow in insanity defense, those records could have a huge impact |
| 0:53.0 | on sentencing, determining whether he receives |
| 0:56.1 | life in prison or a firing squad. What could we learn from those records? Could they confirm |
| 1:02.3 | early struggles with undiagnosed mental illness, or do they tell a different story? And does it |
| 1:07.5 | matter? One of the things we're very aware of is his methodical actions. |
| 1:17.1 | Today we're joined by psychotherapist and author Chavon Scott, who specializes in criminal |
| 1:20.8 | psychology and understanding the minds behind violent crime. Chavon, when we're looking at a case |
| 1:26.4 | like Koeberger here, particularly with the |
| 1:29.9 | emergence of medical and psychiatric records, which now are in the hands of the prosecution, |
| 1:36.4 | what are the key things you'd look for in assessing someone's mental state at the time of a |
| 1:41.2 | crime like this? Well, the thing that carries weight in a court is, was the person psychotic? |
| 1:49.1 | Were they having delusions and hallucinations that rendered them unable to know what they were doing |
| 1:55.3 | or they had no idea that what they were doing was wrong? |
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