Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the Idaho student murders in open court and took four consecutive life terms off the table for death row. Now he wants both of those decisions undone, and his own family found out from a newspaper. On July 27, 2026, Kohberger filed a handwritten post-conviction petition from his cell, representing himself. He named the three attorneys who kept him alive and called their work ineffective. He claims he was talked into a false confession. He says the plea deal was sold to him with a gross misrepresentation of what life without parole would actually feel like. And before any of that reached his mother or his sisters, it reached a reporter at the New York Times. Tony Brueski lays out the timeline: the guilty plea, the sentencing where Kohberger stood silent when the judge gave him the floor and walked past his mother without turning his head, and the petition that landed a year later blaming everyone but himself. Kaylee Goncalves' sister was close enough to watch it happen in real time. This episode covers what the petition actually says, what it would take for a judge to even consider it, and what it means that the family who rebuilt this man twice is now reading about his next move in the paper. Madison Mogen. Kaylee Goncalves. Xana Kernodle. Ethan Chapin. Their families never got a say in any of this. His family is about to find out they don't either. 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-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #IdahoStudentMurders #BryanKohberger #HiddenKillers #KohbergerPetition #MoscowIdaho #TrueCrime #IdahoMurders #UniversityOfIdaho #KohbergerCase #TrueCrimePodcast