Did Bryan Kohberger Rewrite The Story In His Head?

A year after Bryan Kohberger admitted to the University of Idaho murders in open court, he wants the whole thing thrown out, and the way he says so is stranger than the fact that he says it at all.

His statement to the New York Times contains the line that his actual innocence is his truth. Not a denial. Not a claim of fact. A truth belonging to him personally, which is the sort of thing people write when the alternative has become unlivable.

Tony Brueski brings in psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, whose career spans private practice, community mental health, crisis teams, and forensic programs, to work through the psychology underneath the filing.

The petition itself claims ineffective assistance of counsel, claims he was convinced to falsely confess, and claims his lawyers told him a false plea would hand him a legal victory. Those are his allegations, and his former attorneys have not responded publicly to them. But strip the legal language off and one piece of the argument is simply that nobody explained how bad prison would be. He has had a year to find that out.

So which is it. A man discovering he made a terrible deal, or a man discovering he cannot live inside the version of himself that deal locked in permanently?

The conversation also goes to the silence. Given the floor at his own sentencing, with the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin sitting feet away, he declined to speak. A year later he picked up a phone. Same man, same voice, two completely different rooms.

Before any of that, he signed a nine-page questionnaire confirming he understood he was surrendering his right to appeal and might never be permitted to withdraw the plea later. He initialed his way through it in front of the judge.

Hidden Killers goes past the filings and into the people. Follow along for the full conversation.

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