What the Thanksgiving Menu Looks Like for Kohberger, Diddy & Donna Adelson
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we take you inside what Thanksgiving actually looks like in prison. Not the fantasy version, not the movie version — the real, stripped-down version served on plastic trays under fluorescent lights. Idaho, federal, and Florida prisons all have their own rhythms, but the holiday formula barely changes: turkey, potatoes, vegetables, a roll, something resembling cranberry sauce, and a pumpkin-style dessert. It’s the kind of “holiday cheer” that reminds you you’re not home.
For Bryan Kohberger, the man accused in the Idaho student murders, Thanksgiving happens alone in a maximum-security cell. No dining hall. No noise. No human contact. Just the vegan holiday tray delivered straight through a door — the same way every day does, only with slightly more starch.
For Sean “Diddy” Combs, once the king of lavish parties and over-the-top holiday spreads, Thanksgiving unfolds in a massive federal chow hall at Fort Dix. Hundreds of men. Metal tables. Guards barking orders. And a government-issued turkey entrée that’s about as far from a celebrity feast as it gets.
And for Donna Adelson — the former matriarch now serving life in Florida for her role in the Dan Markel murder plot — Thanksgiving is the Florida DOC classic: turkey slices, potatoes, corn, stuffing, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce. A tray identical to the women on her left and right, many of whom lost far more than she ever imagined.
Three people. Three scandal-ridden cases. One holiday that brings them all to the same reality: prison doesn’t stop for Thanksgiving… it just serves it on a tray.
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| 0:00.0 | is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:02.8 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.6 | Thanksgiving has a funny way of showing people exactly who they are. |
| 0:10.4 | Not in the Hallmark movie kind of way, not in the gather around the fire and share your gratitude fantasy. |
| 0:17.3 | But in the real way, the honest way, the way where your choices, land this year, kind of way. |
| 0:27.0 | Most people get a table, a seat, a place, and the chaos of a family meal, the warmth of tradition, |
| 0:34.4 | or at least the illusion of it. |
| 0:36.0 | But this year, three names. We've all talked |
| 0:38.9 | about endlessly. Brian Coburger, Sean Diddy Combs, and Donna Adelson will not be carving turkeys or |
| 0:45.2 | pouring wine or pretending not to notice the tension simmering three seats down. No, they're having |
| 0:50.8 | Thanksgiving behind bars. And Thanksgiving behind bars? |
| 0:55.3 | It's not a holiday. |
| 0:57.4 | It's a timestamp, a reminder. |
| 1:03.8 | A punctuation mark slapped under the end of a very different sentence than the one they thought they were writing. |
| 1:08.8 | Because once you're in the system, Thanksgiving isn't warmth. |
| 1:09.9 | It isn't family. |
| 1:11.2 | It isn't love. It's't family. It isn't love. |
| 1:12.1 | It's a tray. |
| 1:13.5 | It's a scoop. |
| 1:18.5 | It's a plastic fork in a moment when the world outside is celebrating, but you aren't. And the contrast between these three, who they were, where they lived, how they moved through the world makes this Thanksgiving almost poetic in the darkest way |
| 1:28.5 | possible. Let's start in Idaho with Brian Coburger and his Thanksgiving in a vacuum. |
| 1:34.0 | Brian Coburger, the man at the center of one of the most gut-wrenching murder cases in recent |
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