Kohberger: What the Plea Deal Buried

Four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their beds. The man who admitted to doing it is behind bars for life. And the case was supposed to be finished. But a forensic expert hired by Kohberger's own defense is now contradicting the narrative — alleging that the knife sheath carrying Kohberger's DNA had chain of custody problems serious enough to challenge at trial. 

That expert, Brent Turvey, says the defense team never acted on his findings. Meanwhile, a former FBI agent's new book is surfacing untested crime scene evidence and competing theories about whether one person could have committed the attack alone. 

Eric Faddis — criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor who has stood on both sides of murder cases built on physical evidence — joins Hidden Killers Live to analyze the chain of custody allegations, explain what the defense's behavior signals about their own confidence in the plea, and confront the hardest question: when a defendant waives all appeal rights and the evidence was never cross-examined, is a guilty plea the same thing as justice? Faddis brings a rare dual perspective — he has been the prosecutor putting evidence in front of a jury and the defense attorney attacking it — and he does not hold back on what this situation means for the families still waiting for answers.

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