Kohberger: The Questions His Plea Was Supposed to End

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Bryan Kohberger's plea deal and the ongoing questions surrounding the evidence in the case.

Four families were told it was over. Bryan Kohberger said guilty. He got four consecutive life sentences. No parole. No appeal. And the courtroom went dark. But the questions didn't stop — they multiplied. The forensic expert Kohberger's own defense team hired is now publicly claiming the knife sheath that carried his DNA had a flawed chain of custody that could have been challenged at trial. A former FBI agent's book is revealing untested crime scene evidence and competing theories about how many people carried out the attack. The defense team that took the deal is attacking their own expert for talking — while preparing a paid presentation about the case behind closed doors. And the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin are watching all of this unfold knowing that nothing can be relitigated. Eric Faddis, a criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor who has stood on both sides of cases built on physical evidence, breaks down every layer — the evidence questions, the defense team's contradictions, and the brutal reality of what a plea deal means when the evidence underneath it was never tested. This is the conversation the…

People in this episode

Host: True Crime Today

Guest: Eric Faddis

Topics covered

• plea deal
• forensic evidence
• criminal defense
• courtroom proceedings
• family impact
• evidence chain of custody

Keywords

• Bryan Kohberger
• plea deal
• forensic expert
• crime scene evidence
• chain of custody
• criminal defense
• Kaylee Goncalves
• Ethan Chapin

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI

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