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Are We Any Closer To A Motive On Idaho 4 And Bryan Kohberger?

Not really, but maybe.

Ted Bauer
2 min readJan 18, 2023

The motive is what people want the most now, and we may never get one, because the legal system doesn’t force you to prove motive in any way. To fill the time between now and late June, people are trying to concoct new theories, which notably include:

Recently we got two new “hot items:”

  • People Magazine said Bryan was all up in the DMs of one female victim (on Instagram), but didn’t name who it was. Immediately the Internet seemed to speculate it was Kaylee, but in reality it’s probably Maddie or Xana:
  • We got the search warrant for BK’s apartment unsealed, and while it didn’t contain much of true “OH GAWD!” value, here it is:

Go down that thread if you want.

Let’s talk about potential motives, then. Here’s what we mostly have:

  • He was insane and depressed and the victims didn’t matter.
  • He targeted them based on interactions around Moscow, sororities, The Mad Greek, or something else.
  • Kopacka is somehow involved and was supposed to be the fall guy.
  • Drugs.
  • Rejection.
  • One of the ladies looked like someone who hurt him deeply in the past.
  • Attempting to see if the perfect murder could be created, and then messing up repeatedly in the process.

Those are the big ones I could see. We may never find out what the true story is, unfortunately. But as of now, what do you see?

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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Glad to see that people are still working to keep this story relevant and in the news. These families deserve justice. How many others just like BK are out there lurking? Hopefully if so they will also be so arrogant and incompetent. The man is pure evil.

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I think he was obsessed with one of the women and upset that she didn’t respond as he would have liked. Maybe she didn’t even know. But I also think he thought he knew enough to get away with this.

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