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  • "Too Disturbing to See”: Judge Blocks Graphic Kohberger Crime Scene Photos

    "Too Disturbing to See”: Judge Blocks Graphic Kohberger Crime Scene Photos
    Oct 3 2025
    "Too Disturbing to See”: Judge Blocks Graphic Kohberger Crime Scene Photos

    Should the worst moments of someone’s life be public forever?

    In this gripping episode of Hidden Killers with Tony Brueski, we unpack a powerful new court ruling in the Bryan Kohberger case—one that challenges how far the public’s right to know really goes. Idaho Judge Megan Marshall has officially barred the release of graphic crime scene photos depicting the slain bodies of four University of Idaho students: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.

    Why does this matter? Because we’re living in an age where “transparency” often doubles as clickbait. The photos in question, described by the judge as “incredibly disturbing,” were requested under Idaho’s Public Records Act. But citing emotional trauma to the families and legal precedent around survivor privacy, the court drew a clear line: some truths don’t need to be seen to be known.

    We break down the legal framework behind the ruling, including the landmark National Archives v. Favish decision and the Ninth Circuit’s recognition of post-mortem privacy. We also explore the tension between legitimate public interest and pure morbid curiosity—especially in the digital age where true crime content gets instantly repurposed, decontextualized, and weaponized online.

    What gets lost when we treat victim imagery as “just another post”? And what do we actually gain when the system chooses dignity over spectacle?

    This is not just a legal story—it’s a cultural reckoning. One that asks: Is it justice if the families suffer more after the verdict is in?

    Watch now as we separate justice from voyeurism—and explain why this ruling may reshape the future of transparency in high-profile true crime cases.


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    #BryanKohberger #IdahoMurders #TrueCrimeNews #HiddenKillers #CrimeScenePrivacy #UniversityOfIdaho #KayleeGoncalves #XanaKernodle #EthanChapin #MadisonMogen


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    13 min
  • Inside Bryan Kohberger’s Murder-Morning Shopping Trip & What the Survivors Endured

    Inside Bryan Kohberger’s Murder-Morning Shopping Trip & What the Survivors Endured
    Oct 1 2025
    Inside Bryan Kohberger’s Murder-Morning Shopping Trip & What the Survivors Endured

    Two threads. One killer. And a behavioral trail that doesn’t lie.
    In this combined breakdown, I’m joined by Robin Dreeke to walk through two critical pieces of the Kohberger case:

    The post-murder shopping footage, where Kohberger casually walks the aisles at Costco and the grocery store—mere hours after the murders.
    The survivor interviews, where Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke describe confusion, fear, and sensory chaos inside the house that night.
    This isn’t about internet drama. It’s about how behavior—on both ends—tells the story.

    We look at how Kohberger re-entered public space like nothing had happened. Robin explains what the FBI looks for in footage like this: timing, movement, risk exposure, behavioral regulation.

    Then we shift to the interviews—two young women surviving something unspeakable. We walk through what they said, why they said it the way they did, and why the people attacking them online are dead wrong.

    This segment is about evidence, not ego. About listening, not twisting. About understanding what trauma sounds like—and what performance looks like.

    Bryan Kohberger is guilty. He’s in prison. But the story doesn’t end at conviction. These details matter. Because they show us the full anatomy of this case—from the killer’s fake calm to the survivors’ real fear.

    🔖 HASHTAGS
    #HiddenKillers #BryanKohberger #RobinDreeke #CostcoVideo #DylanMortensen #BethanyFunke #PostCrimeBehavior #TraumaInformed #Idaho4 #TrueCrimeBreakdown

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    56 min
  • Stop Blaming the Kohberger Survivors: Inside The Victim Interviews

    Stop Blaming the Kohberger Survivors: Inside The Victim Interviews
    Sep 29 2025
    Stop Blaming the Kohberger Survivors: Inside The Victim Interviews

    There’s a special kind of sickness in the way people have twisted the trauma of Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke into online conspiracy bait. Two young women lived through the unimaginable—and the internet turned them into suspects in their own survival.

    In this segment, I sit down with Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent, to walk through the actual police interviews of the surviving roommates in the Kohberger case. Not to dissect their words—but to understand them.

    Dylan heard noises. A dog barking. Someone say “someone’s here.” Bethany noticed light. Movement. A shift in the air. And none of it made sense until it was too late. That’s trauma. That’s shock. That’s the brain locking up to keep you alive.

    Robin helps us unpack how trained investigators read this kind of narrative:
    – Why fragmented memory doesn’t equal fabrication
    – How time distortion, confusion, and delay are common under threat
    – And why influencers trying to score clout off survivor pain are the real rot in the system

    We walk through the timeline without judgment. We connect their words to forensic markers. And we push back hard on the cruel, idiotic noise that keeps trying to turn their trauma into “evidence.”

    Bryan Kohberger is guilty. He’s in prison. These women lived through hell. Let’s treat them like it.

    🔖 HASHTAGS
    #HiddenKillers #BryanKohberger #DylanMortensen #BethanyFunke #RobinDreeke #TraumaInformed #RoommateInterview #VictimShaming #Idaho4 #TrueCrimeCommunity

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    29 min
  • Costco, Coffee, and Cold Blood: Kohberger’s Post-Crime Behavior Decoded By FBI

    Costco, Coffee, and Cold Blood: Kohberger’s Post-Crime Behavior Decoded By FBI
    Sep 29 2025
    Costco, Coffee, and Cold Blood: Kohberger’s Post-Crime Behavior Decoded By FBI
    Let’s talk about what Bryan Kohberger did just hours after slaughtering four students in their sleep:
    He went shopping. Calm. Casual. Coffee aisle. Grocery store. Like it was any other day.
    In this segment, I’m joined by retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke to break down the now-infamous Costco/grocery store footage showing Kohberger moving through aisles post-massacre. We’re not here for shock—we’re here for behavior. Because what he does in that video isn’t about caffeine. It’s about control. It's about how a killer works to look normal while dragging the weight of four bodies behind him.

    Robin takes us through how investigators read this kind of post-crime public behavior:
    – Was he trying to cool off… or cover up?
    – What does risk tolerance look like under cameras?
    – Why does “acting normal” matter when it’s anything but?
    – And what does this reveal about how Kohberger planned—or didn’t?

    We also unpack how seemingly meaningless choices—like self-checkout, cart behavior, aisle time, or eye contact—can become behavioral data points when layered with phone records, receipts, and surveillance clocks.

    Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty. He’s in prison for life.
    But what he did in that store—how he carried himself—still tells us who he really is.

    🔖 HASHTAGS
    #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #RobinDreeke #KohbergerVideo #CostcoSurveillance #TrueCrime #PostCrimeBehavior #CriminalProfiling #CoffeeRun #BehaviorLeavesATrail

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    27 min
  • Fresh Breaks in the D4vd : Celeste Rivas Case & What We Hear in the Kohberger Tapes

    Fresh Breaks in the D4vd : Celeste Rivas Case & What We Hear in the Kohberger Tapes
    Sep 29 2025
    Fresh Breaks in the D4vd : Celeste Rivas Case & What We Hear in the Kohberger Tapes

    15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was missing for 17 months. Then her body was found wrapped in plastic inside a Tesla registered to music artist D4vd, abandoned in the Hollywood Hills.
    Bryan Kohberger stabbed four students to death—then calmly walked into Costco hours later, shopping like nothing happened.

    These are two of the most disturbing cases in recent memory. And in this full episode of Hidden Killers, I sit down with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke to analyze the behavior that reveals what’s really going on beneath the surface.

    We cover:

    🔪 The full Celeste Rivas timeline: from missing person to body in a trunk
    🔪 Grooming signs: matching tattoos, shared messages, and behavioral control
    🔪 Why no one has been charged in Celeste’s case—and what that means
    🔪 Kohberger’s post-murder shopping trip: what investigators read in "normal" behavior
    🔪 Survivor interviews: how trauma sounds vs. how the internet twists it
    🔪 Community silence: why people didn’t speak up—until it was too late
    🔪 What predators count on: your discomfort, your delay, your disbelief


    Celeste was visible in Discord chats, Twitch streams, and shared screenshots.     Kohberger’s every move was caught on surveillance. Yet in both cases, the public missed what mattered most: the behavior.

    Robin Dreeke brings the FBI’s playbook to the table—no fluff, no conspiracy nonsense, just how trained profilers decode grooming, concealment, and control.

    👉 Bryan Kohberger has pleaded guilty and is serving life in prison.
    👉 Celeste Rivas is dead. Her cause of death is still pending. No charges have been filed.
     But the signs were there. And we walk you through every one of them.

    If you're here for real analysis—not internet guesswork—this is the episode.

    🏷️ HASHTAGS

    #CelesteRivas #D4vd #BryanKohberger #KohbergerVideo #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #FBIProfiler #TrunkDiscovery #PostCrimeBehavior

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    1 h et 48 min
  • BIG BREAKDOWN - Bryan Kohberger's Pathetic INSECURITIES Exposed

    BIG BREAKDOWN - Bryan Kohberger's Pathetic INSECURITIES Exposed
    Sep 24 2025
    BIG BREAKDOWN - Bryan Kohberger's Pathetic INSECURITIES Exposed
    New revelations are pulling back the curtain on Bryan Kohberger’s life immediately after the Idaho student murders, and they raise disturbing questions about how this case may be understood.
    The night after the killings, Kohberger’s mother sent him a news article detailing the horrific injuries of victim Zana Kernodle — including bruises that showed she fought back. Was it a mother simply sharing a local crime story with her son? Or, knowing what we know now, was there something darker in the tone of those conversations? Investigators and analysts are asking whether Kohberger and his mother spoke in coded ways about the crimes, with his obsession shifting between gruesome details and a “sweet girl at the coffee shop” — eerily similar to the barista he allegedly made uncomfortable by stalking her.

    But that’s not all. Newly released images from Kohberger’s apartment offer a rare look inside his private world. Far from the clutter of a normal graduate student, his space was stripped down to bare walls, minimal belongings, and an almost sterile environment. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins us to break down what that could mean: Was it evidence of a personality detached from normal human connection, or a deliberate “scrubbing” to hide traces of blood and evidence — just like how investigators said he dismantled his car after the murders?

    Perhaps most startling: investigators discovered a prescription in his apartment for levothyroxine, a thyroid medication. While commonly used and safe for millions, in the context of Kohberger’s other self-reported conditions — autism spectrum, OCD, ADHD, ARFID — it raises questions about whether he was properly medicated, mismedicated, or even taking it at all. Could untreated or poorly managed health conditions have fed into his volatile state of mind?

    From his mother’s unsettling messages to the sterile emptiness of his apartment, each new detail deepens the puzzle of Bryan Kohberger. Was this careful planning, psychological unraveling, or both?

    Subscribe to Hidden Killers for the latest unfiltered true crime analysis and let us know your take in the comments.

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    #BryanKohberger #Idaho4 #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #KohbergerTrial #MoscowMurders #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrimeCommunity #KohbergerEvidence #TrueCrimePodcast

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    42 min
  • Big Breakdown - How Many People Was Bryan Kohberger Stalking?

    Big Breakdown - How Many People Was Bryan Kohberger Stalking?
    Sep 23 2025
    Big Breakdown - How Many People Was Bryan Kohberger Stalking? This episode of Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brueski, Stacy Cole, and Todd Michaels dives deep into one of the most unsettling new drops in the Brian Kohberger case — hundreds of images pulled from his phone, including bizarre selfies that paint a disturbing picture of the accused Idaho student killer’s state of mind.
    From mirror shots in his bathroom to unsettling poses with strange “codes” written on scraps of paper, the photos raise serious questions. Was Kohberger documenting himself for vanity, or leaving cryptic clues tied to the murders of four University of Idaho students? Viewers will see images that range from awkward, almost staged modeling attempts to chillingly deliberate shots that seem to hint at hidden meaning.

    But it doesn’t stop there. Newly obtained reports detail how Kohberger allegedly stalked women at Washington State University long before the murders — knocking on windows, watching them through doors, even following them to their homes. His behavior pushed boundaries of fear and control, blurring the line between creepy intrusions and escalating predatory patterns.

    Tony, Stacy, and Todd dissect the evidence in real time: Was this narcissism? A ritual? Or another way Kohberger fed his obsession with power and control? The team also asks the bigger question — why do red flags like this so often get ignored? From the lack of follow-up on stalking reports to the way predators slip through cracks in schools and workplaces, the conversation turns toward the systemic failures that allow these warning signs to fester until it’s too late.

    This is not just about photos. It’s about the psychology behind them, the danger of dismissing “creepy” behavior, and what society can do when the next Brian Kohberger starts showing the signs.

    Want more unfiltered analysis and raw breakdowns of today’s most disturbing true crime cases? Subscribe now and join the discussion in the comments.

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    1 h et 2 min
  • BIG BREAKDOWN - Why Did Bryan Kohberger Do It?

    BIG BREAKDOWN - Why Did Bryan Kohberger Do It?
    Sep 20 2025
    BIG BREAKDOWN - Why Did Bryan Kohberger Do It?
    In one of the most haunting true crime cases of our time, the question still hangs heavy: Why did Bryan Kohberger do it? In this Big Breakdown, Tony Brueski and the Hidden Killers team explore the possible motives, psychological profiles, and investigative revelations surrounding the Idaho student murders.

    Drawing from court filings, expert commentary, and newly surfaced details, we examine the theories about Kohberger’s state of mind. Was it obsession? A need for control? A violent compulsion? Or some combination of all of the above? While the evidence against him points to planning and methodical behavior, the bigger question is why — what inner drive could push someone from thought to action in such a brutal way?

    This breakdown doesn’t speculate wildly — it digs into what’s documented and what experts say about criminal psychology, Kohberger’s academic writings, and his online behavior. By connecting the dots between his past struggles, his studies in criminology, and his alleged actions, we ask the question that matters most: what led Bryan Kohberger from theory to practice, from fascination to murder?

    Hashtags:
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    42 min