The Idaho Murders | The Case Against Bryan Kohberger

Matthew Farwell's twin traded his testimony for immunity at the Sandra Birchmore trial. William Farwell admitted being intimate with Sandra while serving as a Stoughton officer on duty, and those words can't be used to prosecute him.
Her medical examiner testified the police paperwork already called Sandra's death a suicide before the autopsy.
Anna Kepner's stepbrother Timothy Hudson must plead by January 15, 2027, or stand trial January 25.
Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 to four University of Idaho murders and told the judge he was satisfied with his attorneys. His petition claims those attorneys coerced him. Judge Steven Hippler vacated every date on the calendar the night before a hearing on Kohberger's motion to remove him, which argues the judge's sentencing comments show bias. Prosecutors want the petition dismissed without a hearing as bare and unsupported.
Criminal defense trial attorney Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke, retired from the FBI, join me on whether Kohberger's fight goes anywhere.
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Prosecutors have requested the transcripts of Bryan Kohberger's July 2025 plea hearing, where he pleaded guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students.
That record has Kohberger saying yes, he's pleading guilty because he is guilty. His July 2026 petition says his attorneys coerced him, but at the plea he said he was satisfied with them.
Kohberger's team wants a new judge, arguing that what Judge Steven Hippler said at sentencing shows bias. Prosecutors' answer, citing State v. Beam, is that a judge can't sentence anyone without forming strong opinions.
The hearing on that request was scheduled for October 15, 2026. Hippler vacated it the day before, along with everything else on the calendar. Under the amended scheduling order, any new hearing dates have to be set by August 2027.
My guests, former FBI agent Robin Dreeke and Bob Motta of Defense Diaries, take on what that transcript does to his coercion claim.
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Bryan Kohberger named his former lawyers in his attempt to undo the guilty plea that spared him the death penalty. He claims Anne Taylor’s team misled him about prison conditions and withheld evidence he believes would have changed his decision. If a hearing eventually happens, those claims could be tested against records of the plea discussions.
Kohberger alleges ineffective assistance from Taylor, Elisa Massoth and Bicka Barlow. Lawyers are generally required to protect private client communications. A claim that hinges on what counsel did or said can create a limited exception, but the court would decide what information is relevant and what can be disclosed. It is not a blanket release of years of conversations.
At his July 2, 2025 plea hearing, Kohberger told Judge Steven Hippler he was guilty. Prosecutor Bill Thompson summarized DNA evidence involving a knife sheath, records of a Ka-Bar knife purchase, cell-phone connections and a white Hyundai Elantra shown on surveillance. Kohberger’s attorneys would have been able to contest the state’s interpretation at trial. Instead, the plea ended that trial and removed the death penalty under the agreement.
Former prosecutor and defense attorney Eric Faddis joins Tony Brueski to explore whether a former attorney might have to explain what happened behind closed doors, what a sworn plea admission proves and what Kohberger risks by challenging the bargain he accepted.
The October 14 court order canceled future hearings while the petition and prosecution’s effort to dismiss it remain unresolved. For Kohberger, reopening the case would require more than a new argument about the evidence.
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Bryan Kohberger wants another chance to challenge the guilty plea that sent him to prison for life. His new lawyer also wants the judge who took that plea off the case. On October 14, 2026, Judge Steven Hippler removed the October 15 recusal hearing from the schedule, along with the June 2027 dates set aside for a status conference and possible hearing on Kohberger's claims.
Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 to killing Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. He told Hippler he was guilty and later received four consecutive life sentences. The post-conviction petition he filed in 2026 alleges his former attorneys provided ineffective assistance and that the plea was not freely made. Prosecutors dispute his claims and seek dismissal without a hearing.
Greg Rauch, the attorney representing him in the challenge, argues Hippler's own words are a problem. At sentencing, the judge sharply condemned Kohberger, and Rauch says those remarks could impair an objective assessment of Kohberger's credibility. He also points to a refused request for more time shortly before the plea. His motion seeks disqualification and a transfer of the proceedings back to Latah County.
Hippler's new calendar does not decide the request to remove him. It gives Kohberger until January 13, 2027, to file an amended petition and sets a July 7 deadline for evidence gathering. Further hearing dates are dependent on what happens with the unresolved motions.
Tony Brueski and attorney Eric Faddis examine what the cancellation actually changes. If prosecutors succeed in having the petition dismissed, the fight could end without an evidence hearing. If it proceeds, the questions surrounding Kohberger's sworn admission and the judge's impartiality may return to the courtroom, with the victims' families drawn through another round.
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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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