Kohberger's Own Evaluation Made THIS Finding About Him

**Tony Brueski** (0:01)
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**Tony Brueski** (0:11)
Big piece of information just released in the Alec Murdoch case, the psychological breakdown of Bryan Kohberger that was done by the defense. What did they find?
Basically, what is wrong with this guy? That's what we're going to try and answer for you today, now that this new piece of information has come out. I'd love to get your thoughts in the comment section on Substack and YouTube. I will say this, having gone through it a bit, it makes sense. It makes sense in all the ways that Bryan Kohberger is incapable of seeing. I think that's the interesting way of looking at this, because it describes him to a T in all the ways that he does not see himself, in all the ways that that ignorance, that inability to self-reflect so evidently shows up in people with his personality type. And it's such an inner frustration and inner rage, frustration, contempt for the outside world, because of how his brain simply is not compatible with it.
And on folks that don't go and do these horrible sort of things, folks who are just trying to struggle to get through life, folks like Bryan Kohberger primed it prior to what he did, prior to going to that length, which is a lot of people. That's most people with these sort of conditions don't go this far. They live very frustrated lives, and you almost have some empathy to a certain extent. If you could just see things this way, and that's the sad and scary part with folks like this is they can't.
If they could just, yeah, dot, dot, dot, life would be so much easier. But at certain points in life, once you've gone so far, the dog ain't going to learn no treks. It's just who the dog is.
Not everybody is capable of everything. The neuropsychologists noticed it almost immediately. Bryan Kohberger had a restricted range of facial expression.
That's where we begin. Stoic at baseline, his social smiling was either inconsistent or absent. He furrowed his eyebrows during casual conversation, which Orr noted contributed to awkward engagement.
His speech cadence was atypical. He lacked descriptive or empathic gestures, Orr described his interaction style as having poor reciprocity, meaning he very frequently refocused conversations back to his own experiences. She noted, reduced social quality at times without awareness, primarily through matter of fact comments or directives. When she prompted him during a cognitive test with anything else, he answered firmly, I'll tell you when I'm done.
He carried jokes past the point where anyone was still engaged. He violated testing rules and rushed through tasks. Orr described an occasional intense gaze. Dr. Rachel Lawson Orr, a board certified neuropsychologist, spent three months with Kohberger across six sessions ending in February 25 Defense attorney Ann Taylor hired her to block prosecutors classifying Kohberger's mental health conditions as death penalty aggravators. The evaluation was never presented to a jury. It was now unsealed just this last week in August of 26 The legal context is not the story here. What Orr found inside that evaluation room is the story because every behavior she documented is something the public has been watching for three years. Orr diagnosed Kohberger with four current conditions, Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1, OCD, ADHD, and ARFID. ASD Level 1 means high functioning with no intellectual or language impairment, but it carries difficulty reasoning social cues and rigid fixed thinking patterns. Orr wrote that Kohberger has met the criteria for ASD since childhood, and that's not a convenient diagnosis giving his legal situation. A separate neuroimaging analysis of Kohberger's brain conducted by Dr. Lennie supported the diagnosis. The unsealed evaluation adds four more conditions from his past. Developmental Coordination Disorder, which affects motor skills and unspecified depressive disorder, anorexia nervosa and opioid use disorder. The opioid disorder is tied to a heroin addiction. Kohberger developed as a teenager or described it as in sustained remission or also documented the visual snow syndrome, that rare neurological condition where the visual field is permanently clouded by static like flickering. Kohberger began experiencing it at 14 It never went away. Eight diagnoses across a lifetime and none of them operate alone. OCD means intrusive, repetitive thought loops that cycle without resolution. ADHD means impulsivity without pause, action before the brain catches up with the consequences. ARFID in adults often maps into broader rigidity about environment and control. Stack them all together and you get a person who thinks in straight lines, misses social signals, acts before reflecting and loops back to the same fixed positions. That's not a theory about Kohberger. That's what Orr documented in the Evaluation Room. Behavior by behavior across six sessions. Kohberger was describing this exact pattern about himself at 16