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The ridiculous drama with Julez

WTF is going on? She “says” it’s not about bashing the Goncalves family, yet went on an 8 hour rant, in which she called him pretty much everything but a child of God. It’s so much slander, tells her followers to troll him, he responds via email, then goes on yet another rant saying he’s threatening her. I feel like at this point she should be banned from YouTube. Having opinions is one thing, this has got to stop. It’s just terrible. And though I have been convinced of BK’s guilt for years, I watched her channel because I appreciated the information, even if it was twisted to fit her narrative, which most of the time it was, the info itself was what I was after. But this is inexcusable and wrong to do what she’s been doing. Sorry not sorry. I’m not going to trash her or call her names, I just wish she would stop and maybe watch one of her own broadcasts to see how unhinged she is beginning to sound. Victim blaming, family shaming, so much profanity, it’s not right.

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u/shelovesghost — 18 hours ago
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Do people understand??

I’ve seen so many people defend Bryan Kohberger by saying that he wasn’t capable of these crimes because he was autistic. He wasn’t mentally or physically capable. Amber vance does a horrible job talking about this topic, and honestly a little offensive. For someone who is on the spectrum ✋🏼 knows what it’s like to have a hard time connecting with people and to envy people who have that so easily. So to say he couldn’t because so many people have it and don’t kill, which is true. People are forgetting that he did drugs that alter anyone’s brain. You go from already having a hard time to now even more of a battle. It was a stirring pot of all bad in that person. Also he isn’t a psychopath because he does care for people like his mother and his dog. I loved my dog more than anyone and continued to love that dog more until I had my children. Honestly if I didn’t have my kids before he died I would have been a mess.

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u/nothankyous_ — 21 hours ago
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Got my hoodie with cute wrapping and a personalized note from the Ethan’s smile foundation . Thanks for sharing the link in here my hoodie says hug your people and it came fast!

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Debunking Kohberger Conspiracy Theories #14: Not Enough Time for Kohberger Alone

Systematic, court document confirmed evidence based debunkings of common, unsupported Kohberger conspiracy theories. All data is sourced from court documents, MPD, ISP and WSU police reports, ISP forensics reports, and case expert witness statements (mostly from defence experts). Links to evidence sources below, example cases information links at end.

Feasibility for Kohberger to commit the murders alone in the time available, with significant excess of time available, is confirmed by police reconstructions and comparison to many recent mass stabbing cases. Both re-enactments and many recent mass stabbing cases with single attackers and up to 26 victims show the murders could be done in approx. 3 minutes, while Kohberger had approx. 11 minutes available. The re-enactments could be repeated 4 - 6 times completely, from car and back, in the time available to Kohberger. Kohberger had no physical limitation or disability relevant to the murders and no diagnosis for any relevant physical condition.

ISP Police Reconstructions, including walk from/ to car and through house from 3rd to 2nd floor and simulating every knife strike took 2 minutes done quickly and under 4 minutes slowly:

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Recent mass stabbings case comparisons which demonstrate:

  • Far more victims can be stabbed in far less time than available to Kohberger, up to 26 victims in under 3 minutes; case examples include 130 knife strikes on 2 victims, and 23 knife strikes on single victim in under 25 seconds
  • Often little or no blood on the attacker even after stabbing 26 people, no trail of bloody prints, little blood on attacker clothing; includes attacks with up to 23 knife strikes at very close range on one victim
  • No screaming by victims during attack
  • No reaction or delayed reaction by witnesses
  • Range of knife types used from pocket knife to military Kabar (the later with most fatalities and stabbing in shortest time)
  • In none of these cases were victims drunk and asleep in bed, they occur in settings as different as train carriages, conference centres, toilets, student houses, train stations and shopping malls, and outdoors and almost all victims were fit, healthy alert adults

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Links, (TW: including videos of graphic violence, stabbing) overviewing these cases:

  1. Apple River Mass Stabbings: 4 young men stabbed, one fatally, by single assailant in under 1 minute. Attacker in his 50s after a recent heart bypass
  2. Bondi Junction Mall Mass Stabbing 2024: 18 people stabbed, 6 fatally, by single assailant in less than 3 minutes
  3. Calgary Mass Stabbing 2014: 5 young adults stabbed to death at a party by single assailant in under 3 minutes
  4. London Bridge Mass Stabbing 2019: 5 people were stabbed, 2 fatally, by single assailant. Attack lasted 5 minutes moving from room to room and out into street.
  5. Vancouver Starbucks Stabbing 2022: Attack by single assailant lasted c 30 seconds
  6. Tapei Metro Station Mass Stabbings 2024: single attacker stabbing spree on Metro - stabbing 28, killing 4, in under 5 minutes
  7. Brisbane Mall Fatal Stabbing 2022: young man stabbed, attack lasts a few seconds
  8. Nottingham Stabbings 2023: 6 stabbed. 3 fatally - 2 on CCTV under 25 seconds;
  9. Anging, China Mass Stabbing 2021: single attacker killed seven people and wounded thirteen others in under 4 minutes
  10. Tapei Metro Station Stabbings 2025: 14 stabbed at two locations, attack at one lasted less than 3 minutes
  11. Teen Girl Stabbed Over 20 Times and Bludgeoned in Dehli 2023: over 20 stab wounds inflicted in under 30 seconds, victim does not scream during attack, after stabbing and bludgeoning victim with rock attacker had no blood on himself and leaves no bloody prints
  12. Ted Bundy Chi Omega Sorority House : Ted Bundy broke into multiple occupancy student house and attacked 4 women with a club, killing one. in under 15 minutes Moving from room to room the successive victims did not hear preceding attacks nor did house mates in adjacent rooms
  13. Charlotte Metro Train Stabbing of Iryna Zarutska 2025 : attack lasts seconds, victim does not scream, attacker has almost no visible blood on him after

Links to document sources:

[ https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/Cases/CR01-24-31665.html ]

[ https://isp.idaho.gov/moscow/ ]

[ https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/1165/Kohberger-Investigation-Documents ]

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u/Repulsive-Dot553 — 1 day ago
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Master List: Confirmed Case Evidence and Debunking Conspiracy Theories

Links to posts with confirmed case evidence summaries, deeper dives on specific areas of evidence and debunking of the common conspiracy theories and unsupported, unevidenced pro-BK fictions:

Case Evidence Summary Case Evidence Link
Condensed Summary of Key Evidence Condensed Summary Key Evidence Link
Conspiracy Theories /Evidence Areas: Post Link
Timeline: 4am, incompatible earlier timings Confirming 4am Debunking Earlier Time: Link
Sheath Chain of Custody No Sheath Chain of Custody Issues: Link
Kohberger was framed, DNA planted Debunking Framing, DNA Planting: Link
Insufficient Time for Kohberger Acting Alone Sufficient Time for Kohberger Alone: Link
DM Description of Perp/ Account Inconsistent DM Description / Account Consistent: Link
Suspect Car Had Fog-lights Suspect Car Did Not Have Fog-lights: Link
Absence of DNA Evidence in Car Explaining Why No DNA Evidence in Car: Link
Car Year Range Was Changed to Fit BK Car Car Year Range Not Changed To Fit BK: Link
Kohberger phone not powered off manually BK Turned Off Phone Before Murders: Link
DNA Amount on Sheath Was Trace/ Small Large Amount Of BK's DNA On Sheath: Link
There Was Untested DNA At The Scene No Untested Relevant DNA At Scene: Link
There Was Evidence of a Clean Up of Scene No Evidence of Scene Clean Up: Link
"4 Brothers" from IGG linked to murders 4 Brothers Overview and Debunking: Link
"Blood Soaked Green Jacket" No Blood Soaked Green Jacket, Debunk: Link
Evidence was Destroyed at MPD - Fridge No Evidence Effected, Fridge Issue 2025: Link

All evidence is taken from court documents, published MPD, WSU and ISP police and forensics reports, and expert witness statements, sourced from court and police websites:

[ https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/Cases/CR01-24-31665.html ]

[ https://isp.idaho.gov/moscow/ ]

[ https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/1165/Kohberger-Investigation-Documents ]

Case Evidence and Timeline Summaries:

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Condensed Summary of Some Key Evidence

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Evidence Establishing 4am Timeline, Incompatible With Earlier Timelines

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u/Repulsive-Dot553 — 1 day ago
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Kohberger's Internet Footprint - "Cunnilinguss Chris" and "KillingSpree"

As Kohberger's internet activity is once again a focus from SG's comments this week about Kohberger having gory videos of surgery of women's breasts, Sy Ray's comments last week about very violent, disturbing porn, and Kohberger's already confirmed exclusive consumption of rape porn much of which had some similarity to the scenarios of the murders ("asleep", "drugged", "forced", "voyeur") a few points:

  • Kohberger had over 15 emails, and known social media accounts of relevance to case on apps like Strava, YikYak; very credible links to other accounts like Spotify were found via user names matching those known to used by Kohberger (e.g. "Exarr")
  • On some social media accounts credibly linked to Kohberger he had posted about his visual snow, depersonalisation and lack of feelings for himself and family, "sacks of meat"
  • Confirmed emails and usernames used by Kohberger, from court and police documents, included "CunningChris" linked to social media accounts with user/ display name "CunnilingussChris" [Chris is Kohberger's middle name; source: Police Supplemental report #148 and search warrant of Google Account - "Yewsirneighm"]
  • In an analysis by a user who appears to have very credible digital forensics expertise (u/Telltalebytes who is also credited with the list of accounts pasted below) Kohberger is linked to email accounts such as "KillingSpree", [unconfirmed, but credibly linked in the analysis] and "Hammerhands" perhaps reference to his boxing/ kickboxing.
  • Kohberger logged into Google at 4.49am, 25 minutes after the murders when his car was stationary just south of the Moscow scene, using one of the confirmed, back-up "burner" type email listed here
  • Kohberger's DropBox and other cloud storage account were seized under search warrant, as were damaged computers, external boards and external drives/ USB devices on arrest. The contents of these remain sealed as being highly prejudicial

Kohberger Email accounts - most f first block of 19 and 3 academic accounts confirmed in court/ police reports, middle block unformed but suggest by analysis author credibly linked to Kohberger also.

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u/Repulsive-Dot553 — 2 days ago
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The problem with Garrett Discovery's and ShadowDragon's "Bryan Kohberger" Instagram analysis

The Garrett Discovery report about Kohberger's alleged social media accounts and connections keeps getting referenced over three years after it was first published. This report has serious flaws that I probe below.

Summary

On August 14, 2026, Steve Goncalves claimed that Bryan Kohberger had a digital history of watching graphic content of women undergoing plastic surgery procedures. This claim seems to have originated from data provided through a report published by Garrett Discovery and analysis from an OSINT company called ShadowDragon.

(This claim is separate from information provided by Jared and Heather Barnhart—experts at Cellubrite hired by prosecutors—that Kohberger had a history of watching violent pornography on his devices.)

In January 2023, Garrett Discovery published a social-media mapping report shortly after Bryan Kohberger's arrest that attributed an Instagram account labeled "Bryan Kohberger" to Kohberger himself and mapped more than 100 connections from the account. The report appears to connect that account to Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, and ShadowDragon later stated that Kohberger followed "two of the four victims" on social media. However, the report does not disclose the Instagram account's username, profile URL, numerical ID, creation date, or other evidence showing that it actually belonged to Kohberger. This is an important limitation because the analysis was conducted only after his identity and some personal information were already public.

The central question is therefore not whether Garrett Discovery found an Instagram account associated in some way with the name "Bryan Kohberger," but how Garrett determined that the account actually belonged to Kohberger before drawing conclusions from its activity and connections.

Conclusion: Taken together, the available evidence makes it unlikely that Garrett Discovery's "Bryan Kohberger" Instagram entity can be reliably tied to Kohberger himself, substantially undermining any conclusions drawn from that account's activity or connections. The report does not disclose sufficient authentication evidence, and its claims are difficult to reconcile with law enforcement's later statement that investigators found no social-media connection between Kohberger and the victims.

What the Garrett Discovery report shows

The report contains an Instagram User entity labeled:

>Bryan Kohberger

That entity has:

  • 108 outgoing links
  • 109 total links

Garrett apparently expanded the social-media network from this node. However, the published PDF does not disclose:

  • the account's Instagram username;
  • its profile URL;
  • its numerical Instagram user ID;
  • its creation date;
  • its full Maltego entity properties;
  • the source of the account's single incoming link; or
  • the evidence used to authenticate the account as Kohberger's.

The report therefore shows that Garrett analyzed an Instagram entity it labeled "Bryan Kohberger," but it does not provide enough information for readers to independently determine whether the underlying account actually belonged to him.

Source (PDF): https://www.garrettdiscovery.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Bryan-Kohberger-Social-Mapping-by-Garrett-Discovery-1.pdf

Methodology

Seed-and-pivot OSINT/link-analysis investigation. Start with one known identifier, follow the connections it reveals, and then follow those connections further to build a map of the person’s apparent online network.

  • Seed = the starting piece of information.
  • Pivot = using something newly discovered as the basis for another search.
  • OSINT = intelligence gathered from publicly available sources.
  • Link analysis = mapping the relationships among the people, accounts, identifiers, and other data that are found.

The Garrett PDF appears to have been generated from Maltego, using ShadowDragon SocialNet as an investigative data source.

  • Garrett Discovery = the investigator
  • ShadowDragon = the OSINT company
  • SocialNet = ShadowDragon’s social-media discovery/link-analysis tool and data source
  • Maltego = the apparent graphing/reporting environment used to produce the Garrett PDF

(While I have experience with Maltego, I have no experience with SocialNet.)

These are the steps of the Garrett Discovery analyst:

  • enters an identifier into Maltego
  • runs a SocialNet transform (A transform is a search operation that turns one known data point into related data points.)
  • SocialNet searches its accessible OSINT sources
  • results are returned to Maltego as entities and links
  • Garrett selects some returned entities and runs additional transforms
  • Maltego builds the network graph
  • Garrett exports the graph as the PDF report.

Methodological Limitations

SocialNet does not provide Meta's private account records. SocialNet could search and correlate information exposed through public or otherwise OSINT-accessible sources, but it did not give Garrett privileged access to a social-media company's backend account records.

A SocialNet result, therefore, was not necessarily proof of account ownership.

For example, a search could potentially associate an email address, username, phone number, or public display name with a social-media account. But an apparent association is different from Meta confirming through its internal records that a particular person registered, verified, or controlled that account.

The results of these searches therefore needed to be independently vetted for false positives and misattributions before they could reliably be attributed to Kohberger.

Timing creates an additional attribution problem.

  • December 30, 2022: Kohberger is publicly identified following his arrest.
  • Early January 2023: Garrett conducts the social-media analysis.

By the time Garrett began its investigation, Kohberger's name, photographs, schools, WSU affiliation, and some email addresses were already public.

This creates a potential post-arrest contamination problem. Once his identifying information became widely available, third parties could create impersonation accounts, reuse his name, or associate publicly known identifiers with online content.

This means that post-arrest associations required additional authentication before they could safely be treated as evidence of Kohberger's own online activity.

Email Addresses

Garrett's report contains Kohberger's institutional email addresses associated with DeSales University and Washington State University:

  • bk5781 (DeSalesUniversity)
  • bryan.kohberger (WSU)

These addresses were publicly discoverable before his arrest.

However, Garrett's PDF does not demonstrate that the Instagram entity labeled "Bryan Kohberger" was discovered through—or otherwise linked to—either institutional email address.

The report also does not contain several private email addresses later attributed to Kohberger in the court record:

  • bkohberger (Northampton Community College, registered to Apple account)
  • bryanchristopher1994
  • wifiarmyowns (Registered to Apple account)
  • yewsirneighm

Source: https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/CR01-24-31665/2025/021925-Order-Defedants-Motions-Suppress-ATT-Google-USB-Apple-Amazon.pdf

ShadowDragon's Claims

Despite these attribution limitations, ShadowDragon drew substantive conclusions from the Instagram network. It stated that its SocialNet analysis had "discovered that Kohberger followed two of the four victims on social media," and went on to characterize the women associated with the account as evidence of "lifestyle objectification":

>[W]e find that many of the women Kohberger follows online appear to be women he objectifies. Another example is a specific plastic surgeon he follows [redacted for Reddit], further showcasing a pattern of lifestyle objectification. This lifestyle of objectification, along with possible psychopathy...

Source: https://shadowdragon.io/resources/idaho-murder-investigation-osint-social-media-network-vegas-shooter/

(Note: That republished blog post is dated August 4, 2026, although the original post was indexed on January 12, 2023, as indicated here: https://shadowdragon.io/resources/category/blog/?topic=news-and-commentary )

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Garrett later confirmed that he had conducted the original analysis shortly after the murders and before speaking with the defense:

>I ran this after the murders and before I spoke with the defense. Then I gave this to Kaylee's attorney. About a year later someone said I leaked this and I pointed them to the old post we made.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/clemensdaniel_garrett-discovery-inc-pushed-my-curiosity-activity-7019055705605234688-9Eyj

The analysis made by ShadowDragon was later repeated by Steve Goncalves during an interview with the Drunk Turkey YouTube channel.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/live/NMVJ5g_MTB8?si=GXC-cihyUsEOiwSu&t=1549

These conclusions depend on a threshold premise: that the Instagram account being analyzed actually belonged to Bryan Kohberger.

The published report does not disclose the evidence establishing that premise.

Law Enforcement's Investigation

Law enforcement had a different method of obtaining Instagram evidence: search warrants served directly on Meta.

Investigators served multiple Meta warrants for Instagram data associated with people involved in the case, including residents of the crime scene. Those warrants could obtain records directly from the platform rather than relying solely on publicly observable correlations.

However, there is no document in the public court docket that I have identified showing that investigators served Meta with a search warrant for an Instagram account belonging to Bryan Kohberger.

That absence is notable because investigators did obtain extensive records from other services and accounts associated with Kohberger.

The lead investigator also stated during the post-conviction press conference in July 2025:

>We had every resource possible ... we have never to this date found [a connection] between him and any of the four victims.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/live/NMVJ5g_MTB8?si=_54cby6haI1Ar6SE&t=1549

That statement is difficult to reconcile with a social-media analysis portraying Kohberger as following or otherwise connected to victims unless (1) Garrett and law enforcement were relying on materially different evidence, and Garrett found evidence within three weeks that law enforcement failed to find within nearly three years; or (2) Garrett's attribution of the Instagram account was incorrect.

I think the latter: Garrett's report and ShadowDragon's analysis were based on an erroneous central node—an account edited or created to mislead the public—without which much of the data in the report disappears.

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u/CR29-22-2805 — 3 days ago
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Dylan calls Ethan

I watched a tik tok, which I know is incredibly untrustworthy, however, this person states Ethan answered the call from Dylan at 4:24 AM.
I’ve read hundreds and hundreds of the phone logs, interviews etc., I can’t remember coming across this bit. Does anybody have more information on it?

u/barbies_secret_life — 3 days ago
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No, a Hair in Ethan Chapin's Hand Does Not Prove Bryan Kohberger Is Innocent

Of all the claims now being paraded around as the piece of evidence that will somehow spring Bryan Kohberger from four consecutive life sentences, the mysterious hair allegedly found in Ethan Chapin's hand may be my favorite.. Not because it is particularly compelling, but because watching what has been done with it provides a nearly perfect demonstration of how speculation, repeated confidently enough, eventually becomes “fact” on the internet.

LEt's begin with what Kohberger actually alleged.

In his application for post-conviction relief, Kohberger claims his attorneys failed to disclose or review potentially exculpatory evidence during plea negotiations, offering as one example an “unknown hair in Chapin's hand.”

That's it... the internet supplied the rest.

Ethan fought his killer, grabbed him by the hair, ripped it out during the struggle and died clutching the evidence that would identify another murderer. The hair wasn't Kohberger's, therefore Kohberger must be innocent.

It is a remarkably complete story considering how little of it has actually been established.

Where is the evidence?

I don't mean Reddit posts, TikTok videos or somebody's interpretation of Kohberger's application. I mean the crime scene photographs, evidence collection records, medical examiner's documentation, laboratory reports and FBI examination that transform “unknown hair in Chapin's hand” into hair forcibly removed from Ethan Chapin's murderer.

Was it actually clenched in Ethan's hand? Was there evidence of forcible removal rather than ordinary shedding or transfer? Was follicular tissue present? Was DNA obtained? What did the FBI examination actually establish?

THose aren't technicalities folks.... they determine whether the theory has an evidentiary foundation at all. Period. The burden of proof is on Kohberger.

Hair sheds, transfers between people, clothing and objects, and persists in an environment. In a house occupied and regularly visited by multiple young adults, an unidentified hair does not arrive conveniently labeled with its owner's name, the date it was deposited and an explanation of what its owner was doing there.

But let's give Kohberger every benefit of the doubt. Assume the hair really was recovered from Ethan's hand. Assume it wasn't Ethan's and wasn't Kohberger's. Assume forensic testing establishes that it came from an unidentified third person.

Now what?

We still need evidence connecting that person to the murders..

Instead, an unknown hair becomes an unknown person. The unknown person becomes someone present during the murders. That person becomes someone Ethan fought, and the person Ethan fought becomes his killer. Once that hypothetical killer has been constructed, Kohberger is declared innocent.

The distance between “unknown hair” and “unknown murderer” isn't a technicality. It's the entire fucking investigation.

There is nothing unreasonable about asking whether the hair could be important. Of course it could be. What's unreasonable is replacing “Whose hair is this, how did it get there and what does it prove?” with the considerably more exciting “Which unidentified murderer did Ethan rip this hair from?”

The FBI itself cautions that the significance of hair evidence depends upon where and how it was recovered, the collection and examination performed, and the circumstances of the case. Microscopic hair comparison isn't absolute personal identification either. Context matters because trace evidence doesn't arrive at a crime scene carrying a notarized statement explaining when it got there and what its owner was doing.

There is another inconvenient problem. Public reporting has indicated that at least one hair relevant to this discussion was found by FBI examination to be consistent with Ethan Chapin's own hair.

So which hair is Kohberger talking about? Is this the same hair or another sample entirely? What evidence number was assigned to it, and what did the FBI actually conclude?

The forensic record can answer those questions. Imagination cannot.

And then there's the law.

Suppose KOhberger proves that his attorneys knew about a genuinely unidentified hair and failed to tell him before he pleaded guilty. That could matter.. But the judge doesn't bang the gavel, announce that somebody found the magic hair and send Kohberger back to Ada County for another trial.

Kohberger is attacking convictions resulting from his own guilty pleas through ineffective assistance of counsel. Under Stark v. State, that requires deficient performance and prejudice. Because Kohberger pleaded guilty, he must establish a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, he would not have pleaded guilty and would have insisted upon going to trial.

The Idaho Supreme Court ruled in Stark v. State:

>“A mere assertion that ‘if post-conviction relief were granted, [the petitioner] would not again plead guilty but would insist on going to trial because he is innocent,’ is insufficient to withstand dismissal of a post-conviction claim.”

But Idaho's Supreme Court went further in Stark, and this matters enormously for Kohberger:

>“Stark faces a heavier burden under Strickland to establish prejudice because of his guilty plea.”

Stark v. Idaho (2023)

Remember that pesky Strickland v. Washington hurdle from my last post, better better known as the “Strickland test”? Well, apparently that wasn't enough. Sitting directly on top of now it is Stark v. State, where Idaho's own Supreme Court said it rather plainly: “Stark faces a heavier burden under Strickland to establish prejudice because of his guilty plea.”

So does Kohberger.

In other words, discovering something his attorneys allegedly failed to discuss isn't the end of the analysis... It's the beginning.

Kohberger must establish what his attorneys knew, what they failed to communicate, why that failure was constitutionally deficient and how knowing about this hair would have changed his decision to plead guilty.

And that question isn't examined in a vacuum. This is the same Bryan Kohberger who stood before Judge Steven Hippler in July 2025, said his pleas were free and voluntary, denied being coerced and, when asked why he was pleading guilty, answered that he was guilty.

That doesn't make his claim legally impossible. It does leave him with some explaining to do.

I'm not dismissing the hair. Quite the opposite. I want to see the evidence everyone seems so remarkably certain about.

Show me where it was recovered. Show me the photographs and collection records. Show me the FBI examination and DNA testing. Then show me what Anne Taylor and the defense actually knew about it before Kohberger pleaded guilty.

If those records establish something genuinely exculpatory, we report it. If they establish that Kohberger's attorneys possessed material evidence and inexplicably failed to address it with their client, we report that too.

But the evidence determines the conclusion. We don't begin with Kohberger's innocence and work backward until an unidentified hair becomes his salvation.

An unidentified hair is exactly that: an unidentified hair. It isn't an unidentified suspect. It isn't an unidentified assailant.. And it certainly isn't an unidentified murderer.

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u/DDLMoore — 3 days ago
▲ 37 r/Idaho4

Debunking Kohberger Conspiracy Theories #13: Sheath Chain Of Custody

Debunking Kohberger Conspiracy Theories, Myths and Fictions:

#13: "Sheath Chain of Custody Issues"

Systematic, data and court document confirmed evidence based debunkings of common, unsupported Kohberger conspiracy theories.

All data is sourced from court documents, MPD, ISP and WSU police reports, ISP forensics reports, and case expert witness statements (mostly from defence experts).  Links to document sources below.

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Links to document sources:

[ https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/Cases/CR01-24-31665.html ]

[ https://isp.idaho.gov/moscow/ ]

[ https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/1165/Kohberger-Investigation-Documents ]

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u/Repulsive-Dot553 — 3 days ago
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ANOTHER Rolled Bill

Who drove the blue civic? How many of these kids were using hard drugs?

u/Realistic_Product252 — 4 days ago
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Debunking Kohberger Conspiracy Theories #5: Earlier Timelines

Systematic, data and court document confirmed evidence based debunking of common, unsupported Kohberger conspiracy theories:

#5: "Timeline Before 4.00am, from 2.25am Is Remotely Possible Or Compatible With Evidence"

https://preview.redd.it/o7hf2jmwlpjh1.jpg?width=981&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c858c4bb17d5be7d5791fb138aa746b5dfc62306

All data is sourced from court documents, MPD, ISP and WSU police reports, ISP forensics reports, and case expert witness statements (mostly defence experts). An other sources are referenced in the charts.  Links to document sources:

[ https://coi.isc.idaho.gov/docs/Cases/CR01-24-31665.html ]

[ https://isp.idaho.gov/moscow/ ]

[ https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/1165/Kohberger-Investigation-Documents ]

[Re-posting 1-5 as individual posts, as many people asked in comments and DM's for a “master post" with links to the confirmed evidence, shorter summary of evidence, and the “debunking” overviews, so am creating as one per post per link]

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u/Repulsive-Dot553 — 4 days ago
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New Steve Goncalves interview w/ some bombshells

One of the bombshells is kohberger binging the graphical, surgical procedures of breast augmentation. Over and over watching women being cut open and the different types of breast implants going in and taking then it. 😳😳

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u/Littleotter1969 — 5 days ago
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Could this be a white car. Let’s discuss. Can you even imagine that he could’ve been stalking them out at that very moment.

I couldn’t get a great pic on my TV, but this made me take a second glance. Just a thought.

u/Sea_Poet9170 — 5 days ago