This is Hidden Killers Week in review.

I look back at the most prolific stories of the week.

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski.

Here now, Tony Bruske.

This one starts with an image that feels kind of cinematic in its eeriness.

Christmas night, going all the way back to 2022.

Well, most people were winding down from family dinners and wrapping themselves and the

comfort of routine.

Brian Coburger sat alone at a computer clicking.

And what he was clicking through is what makes this the real creepy part.

One of the bleakest corners of the internet, a clunky site cataloging serial killers by name and timeline.

He wasn't casually scrolling. He was downloading file after file. Biographies of infamous murderers.

Like literally keeping them on his computer.

Among them, one name came up more than once.

Danny Rowling, it was known as the Gainesville Ripper.

Koeberger didn't just skim Danny Rawlings' information.

He downloaded Rawlings' information. He downloaded Rawlings case twice in one sitting,

as if the story of a man who knifed his way into history wasn't just information, but something worth revisiting, having a rerun of the same story right after you just watched it.

Studying, maybe even modeling.

And this is where the questions start to get uncomfortable.

Was Koeberger simply indulging in academic interest?

After all, he was a PhD student in criminology.

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