Bryan Kohberger Wrote WHAT to the New York Times?! artwork

Bryan Kohberger Wrote WHAT to the New York Times?!

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

August 6, 2026

His first public words in three and a half years call the case against him fiction. He invites the state to seek the death penalty. He thanks his online supporters. He accuses his own lawyers of telling him guilt did not matter.
Speakers: Tony Brueski, Robin Drake, Shavaun Scott

Topics: True Crime, News, News Commentary

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brueski and Robin Drake.

**Tony Brueski** (0:08)
Let's move over to another case that we have been talking about, and another case that has some interesting writings coming out of it this week. Bryan Kohberger, thread said three words, you remember, last year at Saddening. I respectfully decline, before that, the only words anyone heard from him in the courtroom were yes, no and guilty. He has been silent for three and a half years, and then from a segregated cell at the Idaho Maximum Security Penitentiary, he sent a statement to the New York Times through his family. We're going to read that statement here today. There's also the actual filing that he wrote in his serial killer handwriting. That's another piece of writing. It's very similar in nature, but we're going to go through the one that was actually sent to the Times, directly from the Times. We're going to read directly from the text that Bryan Enten had posted. Your thoughts in the comment section as we work our way through this. Shavaun Scott, psychotherapist and author of The Minds of Mass Killers is with us. As is Robin Drake, retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. Okay, here we go. The words of Kohberger.
I feel like I should do this on the phone. I got a little prop here.
Because it just seems like over a year later...

**Robin Drake** (1:30)
He's on a bat phone.

**Tony Brueski** (1:31)
It is self-evident... I'm just going to read it normally. Over a year later, it is self-evident, because Kohberger likes to speak in big words as if he's, you know, oratoring something very important.
It is self-evident that in state V. Kohberger, justice was not served. Unanswered questions seem to multiply with each piece of discovery unleashed, and the public demands the truth. It's almost kind of like a movie trailer. Unfortunately, the truth shall never be derived from the state's myopic narrative, a work of fiction which has yet to evolve since the PCA was released nearly four years ago, and its faulty premises were never challenged at trial. Circumnavigated by a broken plea, the trial never provided the public the clarity conductive to closure, and justice shall remain abjectly miscarried unless that plea is withdrawn. Withdrawn, I tell you. I added that part. I hereby declare my intention to enter a not guilty plea and welcome the state the opportunity to prove their case at trial, as well as to again file for the death penalty. My actual innocence is my truth, and the plea hinged on by promises and blatant disinformation must be withdrawn.
Thank you for all who believe in my innocence and continue to critically analyze the case. I send my love to my family, who have never wavered in their belief in who I am, their belief in my innocence.
Thank you. Thank you. Bravo.
Shavaun, what the hell was that?

**Shavaun Scott** (3:39)
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. As I've said before, this use of language is how he got into a PhD program, right? Because they like to see applications where people write like that.
Yeah. I mean, it's BS thick. It's painful to listen to on one hand, very comedic, and on another hand, it's like, oh my God, the narcissism here, and the cluelessness that people are going to believe this at this point, although apparently there are some people who want to believe it.
Yeah, just glaring, putting the spotlight back on himself, the impression management of what a great person he is, and how unfair this whole thing has been, because of course, he's innocent. Not really, but that's what he wants to communicate, and he has too much time on his hands. This is what he sits around thinking about, is how can I craft this perfect, you know?

**Tony Brueski** (4:46)
Clarice, I see in the comment.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:48)
Clarice.

**Tony Brueski** (4:49)
Yeah, yeah. Robin, your thoughts on Little Bri's ramblings?

**Robin Drake** (4:58)
I feel so inhuman every time I take pleasure in him suffering, and every time I read something from him suffering, I just like rejoice.
I did a deeper search on it too, to see what language, because he's a copycat, he's not an original thinker in absolutely anything, and this entire thing, the title of it, and a lot of the language from it is derived from the book Broken Plea, because he is nothing in life but a copycat, a sub, not, I want to give kind of sub-human being again, you know, abhorrent genetic bucket of goo, as we've said, and as the Consolidates continually say as well, because everything he says in there was cut and pasted from something else, all to support his own personal narrative of how he's suffering behind bars. And someone wrote a book that was hearsay because he got it from someone else, didn't do due diligence on anything, and Kohberger ordered it from, because it's got to come directly from the publisher or someone sent it to him, one of his neocons that's like on his side, sent it, sent them a copy. He's like, here's my ticket to freedom, and I'm going to cut and paste and claim this as my laurels as to why I got to do this. So you can't even analyze it because to me it's just a, it's a cut and paste conglomeration of stupid goo.

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