# Four Students Dead, Zero Answers — Kohberger Gave No Motive

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Podcast: [The Idaho Murders | The Case Against Bryan Kohberger](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-idaho-murders-the-case-against-bryan-kohberger-6008349)
Published: 2026-05-05T13:00:00+00:00
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Kaylee Goncalves was twenty-one. Madison Mogen was twenty-one. Xana Kernodle was twenty. Ethan Chapin was twenty. They were University of Idaho students who went to sleep in a house on King Road and never woke up. Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty. He gave no motive. He offered no explanation. He waived his right to appeal. Their families never got to sit in a courtroom and hear the full story told under oath. They never got to face him during a trial and ask the question every parent in their position would need answered: why. And now a retired FBI agent has written a book arguing the case against Kohberger might not have survived trial. Broken Plea reveals alleged chain of custody problems with the knife sheath that carried his DNA. A hair found near one of the victims reportedly does not belong to Kohberger and has allegedly never been fully tested. Female students at WSU filed formal complaints about his behavior — stalking, intimidation, women needing security escorts to their cars. The university’s response is now the subject of a lawsuit filed by the victims’ families. Your questions about this case are raw. You’re asking whether a plea deal without a motive is justice. You’re asking what it means that a university allegedly received over a dozen complaints and called it “good faith.” You’re asking whether anyone has an incentive to keep investigating now that the case is technically closed. Robin Dreeke and I sit down with the questions you’ve been carrying about what these four families actually received — and what they were denied. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izOD…

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