Bryan Kohberger's Attorney Says the Real Story Is Different

On July 2nd, 2025, Bryan Kohberger stood in the Ada County Courthouse and pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder for killing University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. The judge asked if he was guilty. He said yes. Asked if anyone coerced him. No. Asked if he was promised anything. No. Three weeks later, he declined to explain why he did it.

One year after that, Kohberger filed a handwritten petition from prison claiming he was "convinced to falsely confess" by his own defense attorneys. He offered no new evidence. He didn't establish that any threats or promises were made. A judge granted him an evidentiary hearing anyway — June 17th, 2027.

Now his court-appointed legal team has added a New York attorney, Jason Goldman, who told PEOPLE magazine that the public should "caution against assuming" it knows the complete story. The public record includes phone data showing Kohberger near the victims' home twenty-three times before the killings, his DNA on a knife sheath left at the scene, a car cleaned spotless after the murders, and a thumbs-up selfie taken the morning after four people were stabbed to death in their beds. The Goncalves family called Kohberger a "narcissist" who got a deal that spared his life and now hates that life.

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