BIZARRE details about Bryan Kohberger’s relationship with his parents have come to light after his call logs were exposed.
Kohberger, 30, called his mom twice in the hours after he murdered four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home on November 13, 2022, according to a new report.
Bryan Kohberger, 30, in his police booking photo at the US Idaho Department of Corrections on July 24, 2025[/caption]
Maryann and Amanda Kohberger, the mother and sister of convicted killer Bryan Kohberger, leave his sentencing hearing on July 23, 2025[/caption]
The convicted killer spoke to his mom, Maryann Kohberger, while returning home after the stabbings, and again when he went to revisit the scene, case investigator Heather Barnhhart told People.
Barnhart, a renowned digital forensics expert, led the team that examined Kohberger’s phone and hard drive for the Latah County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in its investigation.
She assembled a timeline of phone activity based on records collected from Kohberger’s Samsung Galaxy phone that he bought in June of that year.
The documents revealed an unusual detail about Kohberger’s communication — he had his parents saved in his phone as Mother and Father, contrary to the typical nicknames of mom and dad.
Barnhart said Kohberger would often call his mom first and then immediately follow it by calling his dad if she didn’t answer.
“And he would go back and forth texting, ‘Father, why did mother not respond? Why is she not answering the phone?” Barnhart said.
On the morning of the murders, Kohberger first called his mother at 6:13 am that morning, but she didn’t answer.
He called his father a minute later, Barnhart said.
After Maryann eventually answered the phone, the mother-son duo spoke for 36 minutes that morning.
Shortly after that first conversation, Kohberger called his mother again at 8:03 am. The call lasted for 54 minutes.
Prosecutors later revealed that at around 9 am that day, Kohberger left his home on the Washington State University campus and returned to the crime scene, where he stayed for about 10 minutes.
This means that Kohberger spoke to his mother while he was driving back to the home that he broke into hours earlier to stab four students to death in their sleep.
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