Exclusive! New Details From Inside Bryan Kohberger's Guilty Plea
The paperback of The Idaho Four contains new details foreshadowing yesterday's news that Bryan Kohberger would petition to change his guilty plea, citing ineffective counsel...
Hey Everyone,
In a piece of serendipitous timing, just as Bryan Kohberger has announced that he is filing to reverse his guilty plea, telling the New York Times “My actual innocence is my truth, and the plea, hinged on by false promises and blatant disinformation, MUST be withdrawn,’ the paperback version of The Idaho Four has dropped!
You can buy it here.
In the new edition of our book there is a whole new section at the end with brand new reporting in which we tell the story of exactly what went down when Kohberger copped to a guilty plea all of a sudden in June of last year, saying, yes, he had murdered Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle, thereby avoiding a trial which had already been delayed three years. We take a look at what went down through the eyes of Alivea Goncalves Stevenson, Kaylee’s elder sister, whose stunning speech directed at Kohberger in the courtroom was a tour de force.
The new section will remind you that Kohberger’s plea was not something that all four of the victims’ families wanted to accept at the time. The Goncalves family wanted a trial precisely because they had reservations that Kohberger would pull a stunt like the one he is pulling now. Yesterday, I spoke to James Fry, the former Moscow police chief at the time of the murder investigation (now the police chief in West Richland, WA) and he told me he “was not surprised,” to see that Kohberger had filed to a appeal. “Kohberger has decided he doesn’t like being in prison - perhaps he should have thought of it before he went out and killed four innocent people - and before he said in court that he was pleading guilty because yes, he committed the crimes,” said Fry. “Unless the justice system is totally screwed, a judge will take two seconds to reject this plea.”
If you want to read our new pages, you can download them here:
Later this afternoon at 5pm ET, my son Orlando Doull of Orlando Doull’s Lunch Break and I will chat about the latest developments in the Kohberger story as well as other topics in the new around which Gen Z and Gen X may or may not see eye to eye. Orlando’s latest substack post on US soft power stems from a thought-provoking book launch event with Joel Rubin that I moderated in Washington, DC last week.
Here’s the photo and link to the write-up of our talk!
See you at 5pm ET!
And Here’s the cover of the new Idaho Four paperback!
I hope that animal never gets out of jail. And he will rot in there. They’ll never redo his trial. And hey if he wants to redo the trial okay that’s fine then give him the death penalty.
Thank for this compelling piece. So glad to have you on all of this.