It’s one of the most chilling subplots in the Bryan Kohberger case: his mother reportedly still communicating with him from behind bars. In this episode, Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke, former chief of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Program for Counterintelligence, take a hard look at the fractured emotional dynamics still playing out between Kohberger and his family.
Why wasn’t his father at sentencing? Why is his mother staying in contact? And what is Kohberger getting out of those conversations—control, validation, leverage?
Robin breaks down the psychology of offenders who use remaining family ties to maintain ego and power. We also explore the gut-wrenching question of how a parent navigates the guilt of raising a child who commits atrocities—and the deeper danger in offering continued support.
If Kohberger took a plea to avoid the death penalty, was that act for his mother—or to keep her on the hook? Is she enabling his next manipulative chapter from behind prison walls?
This is not just a legal story. It’s an emotional minefield. And Robin Dreeke helps us unpack the twisted family psychology beneath it.
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