A year later, Kohberger told the New York Times in a phone call from prison that he’s filed a petition challenging his conviction, arguing that he is innocent and did not mean to confess to the killings. “A lot went wrong in those plea discussions,” he told the Times from a maximum security prison south of Boise. “I really do want that to be heard.”
Because Kohberger pleaded guilty a month before he was scheduled to stand trial, it remains unclear why he targeted these four college students.
The documentary's participants suggest that Kohberger may have been studying criminology so he could carry out the perfect crime. The series features Lilly Karaban, who sat next to Kohberger in an undergraduate criminology class on serial killers at DeSales University and said he dominated class discussions and wouldn’t let her get a word in on a group project. She says she didn’t see him socializing outside of class, describing him as being “in his own world.”
In the aftermath of the murders, Karaban says she believes Kohberger “has a thing against women, based on the description of what he did to those three poor girls. People who brutalize women the way Kohberger did dislike them, find them threatening. So they take all that anger out on them.”
Bryan Kohberger at his sentencing hearing on July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. —Kyle Green-Pool/Getty ImagesTrying to find closure
As director Skye Borgman says, “If there had been some ask of the perpetrator to—in exchange for this plea deal—give some information as to the why, I think it would have helped the families a lot. They’re angry.”
Moscow Police’s Dahlinger maintains that, in a way, Kohberger received a form of the death penalty: “He is sentenced to die in prison.”
On the other hand, Xana’s sister Jazzmin Kernodle says in the series she was dreading a trial that could last months. “I think the plea deal did save us a lot of emotional trauma that we would have dealt with going through a trial,” she says. “I am grateful to get it over with and slowly start to heal.”
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