{"id":84901,"date":"2026-07-28T09:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84901"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:50:43","slug":"bryan-kohberger-now-claims-hes-innocent-wants-to-withdraw-guilty-plea-in-shocking-first-prison-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/bryan-kohberger-now-claims-hes-innocent-wants-to-withdraw-guilty-plea-in-shocking-first-prison-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Kohberger Now Claims He\u2019s Innocent, Wants To Withdraw Guilty Plea In Shocking First Prison Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>New York Post (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/appears-ada-county-courthouse-sentencing-108622218.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Bryan Kohberger wearing an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs during his sentencing hearing.\" width=\"293\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/15\/us-news\/biggest-unanswered-questions-in-university-of-idaho-slayings-after-kohberger-plea-per-ex-fbi-agent\/\">Bryan Kohberger<\/a>\u00a0now claims he\u2019s innocent and wants to withdraw his guilty plea \u2014 a year after he copped to butchering four University of Idaho students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/24\/us-news\/victims-wounds-show-bryan-kohberger-was-fulfilling-psychosexual-fantasy-in-idaho-slayings-expert-says\/\">Kohberger<\/a>, 31, claims he was duped into<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/02\/us-news\/bryan-kohberger-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-4-idaho-college-students-as-they-slept\/\">\u00a0agreeing to a guilty plea deal<\/a>\u00a0because of \u201cfalse promises and blatant disinformation,\u201d he told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/27\/us\/bryan-kohberger-idaho-college-deaths.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times.\u00a0<\/a> He said he filed a petition challenging his conviction and insisted on his \u201cabsolute claim of innocence,\u201d the Times reported after a Sunday night phone call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (caution: tabloid): Bryan Kohberger\u00a0now claims he\u2019s innocent and wants to withdraw his guilty plea \u2014 a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84903,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84901\/revisions\/84903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}