Last summer Michael Kohberger, Bryan’s father, declared to a friend that his son, Bryan, was innocent; he had not committed four murders. And that a trial would clear his name.

I guess things changed… As we learned yesterday. At the eleventh hour before a trial which has been delayed and delayed, Bryan is pleading guilty. It’s a decision that has shocked everyone, including the victims’ families.

There were signs this was coming if you knew where to look.

A couple weeks ago, someone on Bryan Kohberger’s defense team phoned Connie Saba, the mother of Bryan’s one and only childhood friend, Jeremy Saba, who died, tragically of an overdose in 2021. This person asked Connie what she remembered of Bryan’s behavior and mental health, because, he said, they were looking for ways for him to avoid the death penalty. (Obviously, the lawyers have now found a different way to achieve that objective, with a guilty plea).

Connie told him, what she told me about Kohberger for The Idaho Four. He was a strange, silent young man, in awe of her popular, athletic son. Both of them had learning disabilities. Both of them turned to drugs.

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