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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Why Is 30-Year-Old Bryan Kohberger’s HS Guidance Counselor Called As A Witness In His Trial

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This was recorded BEFORE Bryan Kohberger's Plea Deal-
Why Is 30-Year-Old Bryan Kohberger’s HS Guidance Counselor Called As A Witness In His Trial

Description:
As Bryan Kohberger’s defense scrambles to humanize him ahead of his August murder trial, one of the more head-scratching decisions they’ve made is calling his former high school guidance counselor as a character witness. He’s 30. This isn’t recent insight—it’s someone who knew him a decade ago, before he was ever a criminology student, before his weight loss transformation, before the alleged crimes. So, why now?

Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to unpack the strategy behind this move. Is this witness meant to generate sympathy? Lay the foundation for a death penalty mitigation phase? Or is it simply a sign that the defense has nowhere else to go? We dig into what this counselor could say, why it probably won’t land with jurors, and what it signals about where Kohberger’s legal team is putting their energy as trial day approaches.

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0:00.0

This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske and continuing coverage of the case against Brian Koberger.

0:07.7

The defense team representing Brian Koberger is cornered. And now they're seeing exactly how they plan to fight their way out.

0:19.2

With Judge Hippler recently shutting down two of their biggest

0:22.4

plays blocking their third-party culprit theory and refusing to delay the trial any further.

0:29.6

Their roadmap has narrowed dramatically. So what's left? What do you do? When you can't blame anybody else, you're running out of time,

0:42.7

and you need to make this person appear human, to put it quite bluntly, a peer human. At least a peer.

0:54.5

Maybe not, but a peer.

0:57.8

I know we've already heard the arguments.

0:59.4

Oh, it's autism.

1:00.5

It's this, it's that, it's everything.

1:02.2

You know, what do you do?

1:05.4

We're going to dive into this with Jennifer Coffendaffer in just a second.

1:08.0

Before we do, though, please, I want to hear what your

1:11.3

thoughts are on this case. And if you think he's innocent, I'm all open to hearing your arguments.

1:17.5

But an argument is not, he's innocent. He's being railroaded. That's not an argument. That's just

1:24.6

a statement. Okay. So I could go, he's guilty. He's a horrible person.

1:30.2

And if I don't say anything else, there's no context, there's no argument, there's no,

1:33.8

that's just a statement. So if you want to argue from the other side, you are more than welcome

1:39.3

to, but you have to bring evidence, receipts, something other than just your emotional hyperbole.

1:47.8

Okay?

1:48.7

That's the rule.

1:50.7

We don't do the, let's just say loud statements and run away.

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