NYT Times interview with Brian Kohlberger’s sister

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Anonymous wrote:Not understanding the hate for BK family. Even if he was a weirdo and possibly violent wtf were they supposed to do about it? You can’t jail a psychopath prior to the crime. And it’s debatable his parents had any clue since the people article mentions he called his mother regularly so not sure that him chatting with her on the phone that day proves absolutely anything. The judgment here is disgusting.

Well I mean he committed a really awful thing. The sister decided to talk to the NYT but only about what she wanted and she avoided addressing the elephants in the room - what were the signs, what did you think afterward, what did he say about the crimes, did he tell you his motive?

So I don’t know if it’s “judgment” as much as criticism of her and the family for withholding information that might give the victim’s family some closure.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't this basically the story of Rob Reiner's son, except that one is more acceptable because he turned on his own parents, making the family more sympathetic?

And with Reiner’s son people were saying there were definitely signs. The Kohberger family seems to saying that nope, definitely no signs. Yet he was stealing things to get money for drugs. He was no choir boy.

Kids shows very early warning signs. We see them at school. I'm not buying that he showed no behavioral oddities before taking drugs.

Well. A boy in my DC's school was easygoing most of the time - until he wasn't. A mom mentioned he went berzerk on her son in the playground. Twenty years later, he murdered his father. By then he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. There were early warning signs.

I believe it. I don’t believe the Kohbergers saying they had no idea.

It doesn't matter in the slightest whether they knew anything.

Yes, it does. He needed help for his mental health issues and autism..

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And the killer is in a Ph.D. program and decides to drive home for winter break and has his father fly to Washington so they could drive across country together. But they take the long way home because there are news reports to be on the lookout for that type of car.

It might be understandable for summer break but it makes no sense for winter break when he has to drive back to school. It would make more sense for him to fly home. And what do they do with the car. They put the college kid's car in the garage to hide it.

It is despicable the NYT article that is sympathetic. The family knows more and isn't saying anything to help the grieving families.

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Anonymous wrote:She should have just stayed silent. She doesn’t even realize some of what she is saying isn’t favorable. And the picture of her with blue hair and heavy eye makeup isn’t winning anyone over either.

She says her parents used to wake them up to eat take out food on the deck. She presents it as a happy family bonding activity. It’s just strange. Who randomly gets take our food late at night and wakes up their kids? Didn't they eat dinner? Did they get sent to bed super early? Were the parents smoking pot and got the munchies?

She says he was never violent and to prove it recounts one day she was shoving him outside the house to leave and all he did was hold her hands. Umm. I have never shoved anyone out of a house or anywhere else. Why didn’t the reporter ask why she wanted him to leave.

He was diagnosed with autism in 2025, conveniently since his lawyer tried to use that to avoid the death penalty. She brings up this diagnosis but doesn’t mention it was a recent diagnosis that anyone who has a BA in psychology and getting a PH.D in criminology would know how to answer questions to get someone to diagnosis them. Maybe a better explanation of his difficulty with social interaction is because he is a sociopath who is just a downright evil person.

The mother sets a reminder of the victims birthday in her phone. It’s creepy and she shouldn’t have mentioned it. The victim’s parents don’t need to ever hear that. They don’t need to hear he picked out a birthday cake and his sister blew out the candle for him.

It’s awful all the way through. They have more information they could be giving the victims’ families but now are hiding behind-we don’t know anything, we were just a normal family and don’t talk about the crime so let’s focus on he was a heroin addict, he was a chubby kid, he (allegedly) has autism.

I am getting from this that the entire family is autistic (it's an inheritable genetic divergence, after all), and the murderer has something in addition to that. But clearly none of them are capable of relating in a normal way to other people, even the non-violent ones. They are also incapable of virtue-signaling. Their gesture with the victim's birthday is sincere, but no one ever told them that it was creepy to share that kind of info with the outside world.

I come from an autistic family and none of us ever hurt anyone. Autism does not increase the likelihood of criminality or violence. But it certainly explains the family life described in this article. I'm assuming Brian is a sociopath as well.

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Anonymous wrote:And the killer is in a Ph.D. program and decides to drive home for winter break and has his father fly to Washington so they could drive across country together. But they take the long way home because there are news reports to be on the lookout for that type of car.

It might be understandable for summer break but it makes no sense for winter break when he has to drive back to school. It would make more sense for him to fly home. And what do they do with the car. They put the college kid's car in the garage to hide it.

It is despicable the NYT article that is sympathetic. The family knows more and isn't saying anything to help the grieving families.

Good point. We will never know for sure, but all these little things suggest that the parents absolutely knew and were trying to help their son not get caught. Gross.

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Anonymous wrote:And the killer is in a Ph.D. program and decides to drive home for winter break and has his father fly to Washington so they could drive across country together. But they take the long way home because there are news reports to be on the lookout for that type of car.

It might be understandable for summer break but it makes no sense for winter break when he has to drive back to school. It would make more sense for him to fly home. And what do they do with the car. They put the college kid's car in the garage to hide it.

It is despicable the NYT article that is sympathetic. The family knows more and isn't saying anything to help the grieving families.

Good point. We will never know for sure, but all these little things suggest that the parents absolutely knew and were trying to help their son not get caught. Gross.

It’s like the Laundrie family. They know and then circle the wagons.

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I know that she IS his sister - - but how can she love someone still so much after the heinous crimes he committed??! 😠

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Anonymous wrote:Not understanding the hate for BK family. Even if he was a weirdo and possibly violent wtf were they supposed to do about it? You can’t jail a psychopath prior to the crime. And it’s debatable his parents had any clue since the people article mentions he called his mother regularly so not sure that him chatting with her on the phone that day proves absolutely anything. The judgment here is disgusting.

This. The BS armchair psychology and the willingness to vilify this man's family with no real knowledge or proof is disturbing.

The people who glom on to these types of stories, write nasty things online or harass the family members are truly disturbed and disgusting. It is its own form of pathology and sickness.

All you PPs getting your jollies with your speculation and your nastiness need to look in the mirror. WTF is wrong with all of you?

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Anonymous wrote:Not understanding the hate for BK family. Even if he was a weirdo and possibly violent wtf were they supposed to do about it? You can’t jail a psychopath prior to the crime. And it’s debatable his parents had any clue since the people article mentions he called his mother regularly so not sure that him chatting with her on the phone that day proves absolutely anything. The judgment here is disgusting.

This. The BS armchair psychology and the willingness to vilify this man's family with no real knowledge or proof is disturbing.

The people who glom on to these types of stories, write nasty things online or harass the family members are truly disturbed and disgusting. It is its own form of pathology and sickness.

All you PPs getting your jollies with your speculation and your nastiness need to look in the mirror. WTF is wrong with all of you?

+1 and I have professional expertise in this area (though obviously not with this case.)

put a sock in it, know-it-alls.

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Anonymous wrote:And the killer is in a Ph.D. program and decides to drive home for winter break and has his father fly to Washington so they could drive across country together. But they take the long way home because there are news reports to be on the lookout for that type of car.

It might be understandable for summer break but it makes no sense for winter break when he has to drive back to school. It would make more sense for him to fly home. And what do they do with the car. They put the college kid's car in the garage to hide it.

It is despicable the NYT article that is sympathetic. The family knows more and isn't saying anything to help the grieving families.

I would really like to know what some of you weirdos think his family owes the victims' families? There is nothing they can say or do to bring those kids back. The victim's parents probably want on the guy's family as well as all you weirdo strangers on the internet to shut their mouths and leave it alone.

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I felt sorry for her. I feel sorry for the families of people who commit these heinous crimes. In this day and age, a bunch of strangers can make your life hell when you did not commit the crime, you're just related to this person. What a nightmare.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean… come on. She said all the right things (she thinks of the victims at holidays, she remembers their birthdays, etc) but the one thing Goncalves’ father wants - to know what the family knew, what happened in their house after the raid, etc - she’s not willing to give him. She’s holding back and thinking of herself and not what the victim families need.

And I sense she’s holding back. Normal people don’t snap like that. I bet he tortured pets, had no friends, and never showed emotion to his family. And they just ignored it and she’s all, we had a great upbringing! He was a great brother! Give me a break.

Why would she lie at this point? The worst has happened and people already think the worst of her family. He was a heroin addict. Addicts do awful things.

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Why would she do this interview? Seems like she’s just in it for the money.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would she do this interview? Seems like she’s just in it for the money.

What money? The NYT does not pay for interviews. That said, she should not have done it. It didn’t help her family plus her alternative look does not lend itself to sympathy.

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This family is not a Laundrie family level of knowledge and cover up and continually hurting the victim's family.

This family likely had weirdness/unhappiness here and there as any family- but if any person takes that history and racks their brain- you'd still never arrive at 'my brother is a murderer'.