Bryan Kohberger’s Broken Brain: Control, Family & Obsession

Bryan Kohberger’s Broken Brain: Control, Family &
Obsession

The story of Bryan Kohberger isn’t just about four lives stolen
in Moscow, Idaho. It’s also about a lifetime of obsessions,
failures, and fractured psychology that built the man accused of
those crimes.

From his teenage years, Kohberger described himself as numb,
detached, incapable of empathy. He filled journals and online
posts with accounts of feeling unreal, seeing the world through
“visual snow,” and struggling to connect with anyone. As he grew
older, those feelings didn’t fade — they hardened into
obsessions. Nightly “stargazing” drives were really peeping
expeditions. Porn searches zeroed in on unconscious women, rape,
and voyeurism. Power and control weren’t just fantasies — they
became the only way his brain seemed to process intimacy.

At the same time, Kohberger never cut the cord with his parents.
Friends recall him referring to them, even as an adult, as
“mother” and “father,” calling daily, relying on them for
stability he couldn’t generate for himself. Experts say this
dependence highlights fragility: a man desperate for grounding,
yet incapable of independence.

So what drove him? Was his criminology research an academic
pursuit, or a desperate attempt to decode himself? Did his
failures in relationships, in confidence, in basic human
connection funnel him toward darker outlets? Psychotherapist
Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski to dissect Kohberger’s “broken
brain” — the obsessions, the dependence, the fragile ego that
demanded dominance but never found identity.

This is a psychological autopsy of a man who could never quite
find himself — and instead tried to build power by taking
everything from others.

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