The Idaho Murders | The Case Against Bryan Kohberger

Kohberger said he was guilty. His DNA was on the knife sheath. His phone pinged the house over twenty times. His alibi has no witness. Now he wants his plea back, his judge wiped the calendar, and the attorney he accused has his sworn answers on tape. Meanwhile, Sandra Birchmore sent six hundred texts the day she died. Farwell's DNA is on the weapon. He walked in wearing a mask and left twenty-nine minutes later. She told eighty people about her baby and the defense says she ended her own life. Eric Faddis covers all of it with Tony across four segments  —  the vanished hearings, the evidence wall, the Anne Taylor backfire, and whether the Farwell case is open and shut. DNA, surveillance, and forty thousand recovered texts are in front of a jury.

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Kohberger's post-conviction petition accuses Anne Taylor of hiding exculpatory evidence, lying about what death row looks like, and telling him the plea didn't need to be truthful. He named Taylor, Elisa Massoth, and Bicka Barlow. Filing an ineffective assistance claim waived attorney-client privilege  —  every protected conversation from three years of defense work is now exposed. Taylor's team wrote a sealed memo before the plea warning the judge that Kohberger had difficulty comprehending adverse rulings. Hippler denied the continuance. Kohberger pleaded guilty weeks later. If Taylor testifies at an evidentiary hearing, she walks in with the transcript where Kohberger told the judge he understood the agreement, was satisfied with his attorneys, and was pleading guilty because he is guilty. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins Tony to break down how this accusation could expose Kohberger's defense strategy and whether the families could see something worse than a new trial.

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Kohberger's alibi was that he was out driving alone that night, looking at the moon and the stars. No corroborating witness. His phone was off during the killing window. Against him: DNA on the knife sheath, over twenty phone pings near the house, surveillance footage, and the Ka-Bar knife bought with a gift card. His car was meticulously cleaned. A roommate saw him inside the home. He took the plea to avoid the death penalty. Vacating it puts death back on the table  —  prosecutors already filed intent to seek it. Eric Faddis joins Tony to break down what defense Kohberger could actually mount and what a jury does with an alibi contradicted by cell data. Has the fight itself become the point for a man filing handwritten petitions from a maximum-security cell?

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Kohberger's team was set to argue that Judge Hippler should be removed from the post-conviction case. Hippler vacated the hearing the night before  —  and took every other date with it. The June status conference and June evidentiary hearing on the plea withdrawal are gone. The prosecution has asked Hippler to throw out the petition without any hearing, calling Kohberger's claims bare and conclusory. The defense cites Hippler's sentencing comments  —  that Kohberger was the worst of the worst and that nothing about him was redeeming  —  and wants the case moved back to Latah County. Family attorney Jason Goldman says this is the beginning of a longer fight. Eric Faddis, defense attorney and former prosecutor, joins Tony to break down what the judge's move means, what the prosecution is trying to kill, and whether the families of Kaylee, Maddie, Xana, and Ethan will ever see a final resolution.

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Bryan Kohberger's motion to remove Judge Steven Hippler for bias gets argued before Judge Steven Hippler on October 15, 2026. Kohberger pleaded guilty under oath on July 2, 2025; his handwritten petition now says Anne Taylor's team coerced him, and his appointed lawyer Greg Rauch quotes Hippler's "faceless coward" sentencing speech as the proof of bias. This combined episode sets that fight beside two others where someone decided early. Gypsy Rose Blanchard called Ken Urker's death an overdose the day after he was found on October 1, 2026, with toxicology still pending; a 2025 prison call has her describing a knife and his headboard. Massachusetts ruled Sandra Birchmore a suicide in 2021 and withdrew it in April 2026 while Matthew Farwell stands trial in Boston. Four listener Q&A segments. Your questions on who had the authority, and who used it.

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Judge Steven Hippler called Bryan Kohberger a "faceless coward" at sentencing, and Kohberger's new lawyer is using the sentence to argue Hippler can't judge him again. Greg Rauch's motion to disqualify gets argued October 15, 2026, in Hippler's courtroom. It says those remarks, plus Hippler's denial of a continuance six days before the July 2, 2025, guilty plea, show bias, and that a bench proceeding with no jury leaves no check on it. Rauch wants the case sent back to Latah County too. Kohberger told Hippler under oath he was guilty of killing Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. His handwritten petition says he was coerced and that Anne Taylor's team failed him. Prosecutors want it dismissed. An amended petition is due in November; the evidentiary hearing is reserved for June 17, 2027. Your questions on the standard Rauch has to meet, what Taylor can say now, and the families back in the gallery.

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Bryan Kohberger’s post-conviction fight now turns in part on what Judge Steven Hippler knew before accepting the plea that ended the University of Idaho murder case without a trial. A May 20, 2025 defense filing told Hippler that Kohberger was having difficulty comprehending adverse rulings and understanding their effect on the case as a whole. 

Anne Taylor’s team did not tell the court Kohberger was legally incompetent. The lawyers expressly denied that conclusion. They wanted more time to investigate his ability to rationally assess the case, make consequential choices, and receive expert help communicating about a possible resolution. Hippler denied the continuance on June 26. Kohberger pleaded guilty six days later. 

At the July 2 hearing, Kohberger admitted killing Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. He also pleaded guilty to burglary, told Hippler he understood the agreement, denied coercion, and said he was pleading guilty because he was guilty. He is serving four consecutive life sentences without parole plus a ten-year burglary sentence. 

Kohberger now alleges ineffective assistance, pressure, false promises, and withheld evidence. One example he raised was hair from Ethan Chapin’s hand. Defense expert Ruth Ballard had already examined a hair from that location, found it morphologically consistent with Chapin’s reference hair, and Taylor filed the analysis before the plea. 

Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to examine the question the unsealed memo creates without answering it for the court: whether the concerns Taylor raised before the plea can support Kohberger’s effort to undo the sworn answers he gave six days after Hippler denied more time. 

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On July 2, 2025, Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin at the University of Idaho. Weeks earlier, his defense attorney Anne Taylor had filed a sealed memo telling Judge Hippler that Kohberger was struggling to rationally understand what was happening to him. She wrote that he couldn’t comprehend adverse rulings or make consequential decisions about his defense.

Hippler denied Taylor’s request for more time on June 26, six days before the plea. At the hearing, Taylor told the judge she was satisfied she’d had enough time, and Kohberger answered every safeguard question the court put to him.

The sealed memo is now public. Kohberger has filed a post-conviction petition arguing the plea should be vacated. He claims Taylor and his defense team concealed evidence and pushed him toward a deal he didn’t grasp.

He specifically alleges hair evidence pointing to an unknown attacker was withheld. His own defense expert, Ruth Ballard, examined that hair and found it physically matched Ethan Chapin. Her report was completed a month before the plea deal was signed.

Taylor’s team explicitly denied concluding Kohberger was incompetent, saying they needed more time to investigate. Forensic criminologist Brent Turvey, who served on Kohberger’s defense team, has said Taylor and co-counsel will need to answer “very difficult questions.”

Disqualification arguments are set for October 15. An amended petition is expected in November. The evidentiary hearing, if it goes forward in June 2027, puts Anne Taylor on the witness stand.

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The sealed memo in the Bryan Kohberger case is out, and it shows what his defense team told Judge Steven Hippler six weeks before the guilty plea. On May 20, 2025, Anne Taylor's team wrote that Kohberger was struggling to rationally understand the rulings in his case and fold them into an assessment of where it was headed. They asked for time to get expert assistance communicating with him about how the case could end, and they expressly denied he was incompetent. Hippler denied the continuance on June 26, 2025. On July 2, Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Greg Rauch filed the memo with his August 27, 2026 motion to disqualify Hippler, arguing the judge knew before accepting the plea. Kohberger's petition claims threats and unkept promises from his own lawyers. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins me on whether any of it gets him out of his plea.

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Bryan Kohberger's post-conviction case now includes a document the public did not have when he pleaded guilty. The newly unsealed filing says his former defense lawyers told Judge Steven Hippler that Kohberger was having trouble rationally processing adverse rulings and understanding how those rulings changed the risk of going to trial. 

His lawyers asked for additional time and expert assistance so they could communicate with him about major case decisions, including whether to testify or resolve the case with a plea. They expressly denied that Kohberger was legally incompetent. Hippler denied the additional time, and six days later Kohberger admitted guilt to four first-degree murders and burglary. 

Kohberger's new attorney Greg Rauch is now using that sequence as part of a broader effort to remove Hippler from the post-conviction case and challenge the plea. Rauch says the timeline does not automatically prove the plea was invalid. His argument is that it raises a factual issue about whether Kohberger had enough time and expert assistance to meaningfully participate in the decision. 

Kohberger's family has now entered that fight publicly. His parents and sisters say they support his effort to obtain post-conviction relief and want the full truth aired through a trial. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to examine the family system around that decision, including what public support can mean when a convicted relative reverses course and claims his confession was false. 

Kohberger is serving four consecutive life sentences without parole plus ten years for burglary. The court will hear his request for a new judge and venue on October 15, 2026, and the post-conviction evidentiary hearing is scheduled for June 17, 2027. The sealed filing does not answer whether the plea survives. It gives the court one more record to test against what Kohberger swore to when he entered it. 

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