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Podcast: The Idaho Murders | The Case Against Bryan Kohberger
Episode: Bryan Kohberger’s Secret Trial Plan: The Survivors He Planned to Call for His Defense-WEEK IN REVIEW
Description: Before Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students, his defense team was quietly preparing a courtroom strategy that would have shocked the nation.
According to newly unsealed court filings, Kohberger planned to call friends of the victims — and even the survivors themselves — as defense witnesses. Among them: Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, the two young women who lived through that horrific night in November 2022. Also on the list were Emily Alandt, Hunter Johnson, and Kaylee Goncalves’ ex-boyfriend, Jack DeCoeur.
Imagine it — the two surviving roommates, who lost four of their cl...