Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Bryan Kohberger’s Creepy 150+ Selfie Collection Released

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

More than 150 images collected from Bryan Kohberger’s electronics were just dropped in a very creepy photo release. The images show the convicted quadruple killer smiling, flexing, giving a thumbs up, and making weird faces before and after he killed four University of Idaho students. Kohberger took a plea deal days before he was supposed to head to trial. He will now remain behind bars, locked up, for the rest of his life. Law&Crime’s Angenette Levy digs through the Cellebrite release on this episode of Crime Fix — a daily true crime show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW:Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code CRIMEFIX at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/crimefixHost:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Producer:Jordan ChaconCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Some of these images are going to shock you. Plus, we see some of what he was searching online. When it came to serial killers and the murder case, we're going to show all of it to you. Welcome to Crime Fix. I'm Anjanette Levy. Just when you think you had seen it all when it comes to Brian Coburger, you see a little more that sends a chill down your spine or just makes you cringe or maybe it just makes you roll your eyes. A few weeks ago, we talked to two digital forensics experts from Celebrate

who analyzed Brian Coburger's cell phone and computer. Coburger deleted much of what was on there, wiping his devices and using incognito mode and VPNs to hide his online activity. But he didn't delete the dozens and dozens of selfies that he took of himself. And those tell a story. of a man who was living in his own fantasy world, living in his own mind. He was obsessed with himself and his appearance. I'm going to show all of it to you. Every one of these photos we obtained, it's important that you see what we're dealing with here. This is a person who is admitted to murdering four young people that he had no association with at all. He admitted to it in open court. He admitted that he broke into that house on King, Rose,

intending to commit the crime of murder, and he did it, and he celebrated himself for it afterward. Coburger was not only obsessed with himself and his body and his image, but he also was obsessed with serial killers. That is very clear, and he likely would have killed again. I believe that in my heart of heart. He may have had a cooling off period, but I believe that he liked the way that killing made him feel. For the first time in his life, he likely felt powerful. Coburger is now serving four life sentences for the heinous, brutal murders of Maddie Mogan, Kaylee Gonzalez, Xanacronodle, and Ethan Chapin. That photo was posted to Instagram less than 12 hours before their lives were stolen. So let's start with a look at what the FBI and Celebrate found

on Coburger's phone before the murders in 2022. This first selfie is from June 25th of 2022. Coburger is not smiling but looking directly at the camera. This would have been right as he was arriving in Washington from Pennsylvania. From the looks of it, he's outside and near people. Knowing what we know about him now, it comes as a little bit of a shock that he's taking photos of himself in public. It sounded like he was a bit of an introvert. Then we see his first car selfie. It's the middle of the summer and Coburger is probably taking advantage of his break from school and enjoying the beautiful weather in Washington. So the next day, he's out by the water and appearing to be a little more comfortable in front of the camera. On June 30th, he's all

dressed up and he takes a few photos before getting a bite to eat at a restaurant. Coburger doesn't take his next selfie until about a week later. And by the looks of it, he's in his apartment bathroom. Later that day, he heads out for a hike. This is about four months before the murders. This next collection of photos is Coburger outside at night, appearing sweaty, wearing active wear and earbuds, it's safe to assume he was probably on a late-night walk or run something he did often. He stops to pose with a staff. of his school's mascot, the cougar.

Now, this next collection of photos, it's kind of peculiar. He appears to be posing with a sheet from a notebook several times with random letters, even some with his name and birthday. But then the photos get a little more interesting on July 19th. here on Crime Fix. And if it's taught me anything, it's that privacy and personal safety absolutely cannot be compromised, especially when it comes to your personal info online. You would be absolutely shocked at how much of your data, like your name, phone number, and even home address is just floating around the internet for data brokers to find and sell. Ever wonder why you get so many of those

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Coburger took a few trips before school gets back into session. Coburger's confidence appears to radiate on top of a mountain, and he has a little photo shoot. He stays on top of that mountain until the evening, capturing a few more selfies before the sun goes down. Koberger makes it down safe from the mountain and likely grabs a bite to eat. Then he takes a photo of a back-to-school shopping trip. He poses with another notebook sheet on August 17th, but then we get a firsthand look at Koberger's self-obsession. The next series of photos seem to be him trying to capture images of the back of his head, possibly a haircut.

Here's another nighttime selfie. Koberger takes two photos of his fist through the mirror in his bathroom. And honestly, it comes as a surprise to to see the streaks on his mirror, given how much of a clean freak he is supposed to be. On October 23rd, Coburger took two photos in his bathroom at his apartment in Pullman, Washington, right in front of the shower. Notice there is a shower curtain there. And one, he's staring straight ahead.

Another is taken from a different angle. Five days before the murders, Coburger may have gotten a haircut. He takes a few photos of the back of his head. Then the photos, of course, jump ahead to November 13th, the day that, changed everything in so many ways for so many people. We all know the infamous thumbs-up selfie. We've seen it before, but this is a much clearer image than the one that we had previously seen. This was taken just before 10.30 that morning after he returned from a second trip to Moscow. Note the Band-Aid on his left ring finger. Could this have been from an injury that he suffered

during the homicides? Only he knows. But also look at his hands and knuckles. They appear to be red and white at the tips from apparent scrubbing. He's been described as a germaphobe, but was he actually trying to scrub away the evidence of what he had done? The rest of these photos were all taken in the weeks after the homicides. Some of these photos are candid, where Coburger isn't even looking at the camera or appearing camera ready. They are screen grabs from videos recorded from his phone. Some of the faces he's making, it makes you wonder what he was trying to capture or why. In this next series of photos, we can see that Koberger is in his Washington State University hoodie, and some of these selfies were in his home, and he's trying out a few

different looks. Now, most of the photos seem to be inside of his home, but he did venture out to other locations like his car. What is significant about these black hoodie photos, investigators found a cached image from a show about Ted Bundy, the Coburger had watched and saved from YouTube, that person on the thumbnail is wearing a hoodie, and it says Ted on it. Ted Bundy killed dozens of women from coast to coast, but was caught in Florida after killing sorority sisters at the Chi Omega House at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Now shortly after those selfies, we know that he traveled back home to Pennsylvania with his father. With that in mind, it's safe to assume the next set of photos were most likely taken in his parents' home. It's important to note because now the photos are more posed.

Could that indicate that he might be feeling more confident or safe in his childhood home? Because the first shirtless selfie after the murders was just on December 20th, three days later he takes a few more in his kitchen. Some of these photos we have seen before, Coburger in a black hoodie and beanie that he may have purchased at Walmart and Pullman before the murders. But there are a few that we haven't seen, including these taken on Christmas Day, one in a bathroom. This full-length selfie gives us a glimpse into the home where he spent his teen years. And Coburger posed with his family dog. Following his arrest, he was very concerned about his dog and his parents and how they were doing. After Christmas, he takes a few photos holding his hair back, again testing out

different smiles and different looks. We didn't know it before, but this was the last selfie that Koberger took before he was arrested. He may have had no idea what was coming the following day, but we know that he was definitely getting paranoid. I'll have more on that later. What's interesting is that he took two photos prior to this. This was most likely directly before the last photo, but then he took this one, the same jacket without the hood, a day earlier. Now, Celebrate, I mentioned earlier is a firm that employs top experts from around the world in digital forensics. They analyze electronics and testify at trials. I spoke with Heather Barnhart and Jared Barnhart last month about their work analyzing Koberger's devices and everything they found on them.

It was just really bizarre behavior. And then there were also, Jared, do you remember all of the, I saw the show or movie American Psycho just a few times and how much the guy loved? himself and would take selfies in the mirror and how clean he would want to be and just examining his body he seemed to do those same types of things yeah lots of like flexing muscles selfies half clothed like that there's numerous instances of that on his phone there was also he spent a lot of time on Reddit and especially post crime he was I mean

there's tons of history of him looking into like the Idaho murders on Reddit and that's actually another thing that stood out is this wasn't just someone who was like hey I'm interested in the case he was going and downloading the Moscow press releases to his device like not just taking a look at what the news said

but like almost like saving everything that they populated there was a Reddit post that it appears that he made based on his emails where he was looking for ex-cons to participate in some study and people were like emailing him and ultimately you see Reddit suspends him which I think was at time of rest and notification to the world but there was also a really interesting sort of pattern of things where he read something on the news that

said, police still looking for Hyundai Alatra, white in color, this year to this year, make a model. Within minutes, he searches for a car detailing place and then starts to shop for used cars. So it was almost like, I realized that they know my car, I have to get rid of it and get something different. Again, does a normal person look to clean their car before they sell it? Sure. Right. But all of these things adding up, it just, it really pays Now, some believe that these murders were sexually motivated and maybe Coburger was targeting one of the girls in the King Road home. The serial killers that Coburger was obsessed with, specifically Ted Bundy typically sexually assaulted their victims. And the searches for pornography on Coburgers' phone point to the homicides being sexually motivated, even if a sexual assault wasn't committed at the House on King Road.

And to be clear, there was no sexual assault actually committed, but that doesn't mean that this crime, did not have a sexual motive. What was Brian Koberger searching related to pornography? Yeah, so to not be too graphic with it, the consistent nature of the searches were non-consensual sex acts, which, you know, I don't know what normal would be,

but it stood out to me from, I've done investigations for years, and tons of mobile device extraction analysis. And seeing pornography as not, not weird seeing what someone is interested in is not weird but the fact that that this person had non-consensual specifically only that not not one other thing that was a consensual sex act they were all like aggressive or drugged we're sleeping voyeurism it was all consistently non-consensual things and this was this before after the homicides or both um it was i'm not sure it's autophil

so I don't know that we actually even have a date with it. And that's another thing. When you're clearing your history, there's so many things that when you clear your history, you may not think about. Autofil is typically something you enter, and the browser wants to please you. So if it knows that you go to a specific site every day,

it's like, oh, you're going to this news channel. As you start typing A, if you're going to ABC, it knows, I'm going to promote, I'm going to save this for you. And those words were saved in the auto fill for Chrome. The Barnhart's were hoping that they might, be able to find a connection between Coburger and the victims to answer the why behind this, even if it wouldn't make any sense.

The investigators have said there was no connection. They found zero, no connection between Brian Coburger and Maddie, Kaley, Zana, and Ethan. I've been to the house many times on King Road, and you can see straight into Maddie's bedroom from that upper parking lot of the apartment building. next door? Is that what you found? Zero connection. You know, not one search of Maddie, not one search of Kaylee or Zana. Not before, but again, he cleared a lot of his history. So if he was searching for it, we weren't able to find that on the devices. And that's one of the things we initially looked for right away. Any ties to the victims after the fact, he was searching

everything associated to the murders. And so he did have that information then. Well, the connection was not found. It doesn't mean that Koberger wasn't possibly watching one or more of the girls. I've always believed that he was watching Maddie. Well, look at what Heather and Jared found. They found a review of the Mad Greek restaurant on Google Maps on BK's phone. You can see it right there.

There's been a lot of talk about the Mad Greek restaurant and speculation. did you find anything related to that? Yes, and I would love to specify this a little bit more. And this was the one finding that was released to the prosecution that they came back and said the defense didn't like it, which made me think we were onto something. Like, this is great. So there is a Google Map cache file that was recovered from the Android

that showed Mad Greek. And it looked like, I actually have it in front of me, it looked almost like a reasonable. review or if you think about if you Google and Google Maps and you look up restaurants nearby, you could call it, you could look at get directions, you could look at a menu. So it looks like all of those things were available. Now the issue, could it have Wi-Fi in that file? Absolutely, but I don't know. The issue is Mad Greek. Their Wi-Fi name was Mad Greek. So it's not helpful to see what was in that listing. But what Jared and I had looked at a few times and I planned to keep

testing this to figure it out exactly. If the prosecution said, Heather, is it likely that the user was in Moscow and on Google Maps said nearby restaurants or bars? And Mad Greek appeared? I would say yes. But if the defense came up and said, Heather, is it possible that from Pullman, Washington, the suspect searched for restaurants in Moscow and this came up. Could that happen? I would say yes. So it's not like we can tie him to the location of Mad Greek, but Mad Greek, he physically saw Mad Greek on his phone. So there may not have been a rock solid connection and investigators couldn't say for sure that Coburger had ever been to the Mad Greek or had even seen Maddie or Zana there. He had at least, though, seen a review of the

restaurant on his phone. Now let's get to Coburger's obsession with serial killers. On Christmas night, Coburger was searching for serial killers, and this went on into the early morning hours of December 26th, minute by minute. Those included Ted Bundy and Danny Rawlings, the Gainesville Ripper. Both of them murdered college coeds. Some were for specific serial killers, including Joseph Collinger, Cleophis Prince, Pee-Wee Gaskins, Ed Kemper, and Dennis Raider. That's BTK. And Coburger was also watching material on YouTube related to Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, but Bundy certainly appeared to have been his favorite. You can see here several cached images from YouTube showing that Coburger had watched and saved shows featuring the movie American Psycho, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Kemper, and more.

He also followed shows that discussed the Moscow murders investigation, and he watched the Moscow Police Department's video updates on the investigation. Now, this is just a small sampling of what Coburger was watching online when it came to the case. On December 29th, Brian Koberger was getting worried. He was searching things like paranoid psychopath, wiretapping, and serial killers. And he was also looking at the description of his car on the Moscow Police Department website and then looking for car detailing places and used car lots. Hours later, Pennsylvania State Police busted through the door of his parents' home in Albright'sville and took him into custody, wearing his black hoodie. that he'd played dress-up in so many times before. It was the beginning of the end of Brian Coburger's fantasy world. This is now the only photo that Brian Coburger will ever have taken again. It's a mugshot, a booking photo from Idaho's maximum security institution. It is not a selfie. There he is only known as inmate 16, 3214. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with.

me. I'll see you back here next time.