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# Bryan Kohberger now claims he’s innocent, wants to withdraw guilty plea in shocking first prison interview
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[Bryan Kohberger](https://nypost.com/2026/07/15/us-news/biggest-unanswered-questions-in-university-of-idaho-slayings-after-kohberger-plea-per-ex-fbi-agent/) now claims he’s innocent and wants to withdraw his guilty plea — a year after he copped to butchering four University of Idaho co-eds.
[Kohberger](https://nypost.com/2026/02/24/us-news/victims-wounds-show-bryan-kohberger-was-fulfilling-psychosexual-fantasy-in-idaho-slayings-expert-says/), 31, claims he was duped into agreeing to a guilty plea deal because of “false promises and blatant disinformation,” he told [The New York Times.](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/us/bryan-kohberger-idaho-college-deaths.html)
Bryan Kohberger now claims he’s innocent and didn’t kill the four University of Idaho killings. KYLE GREEN/POOL/EPA/Shutterstock
Final photo of the victims Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Instagram/Xana Kernodle
He insisted on his “absolute claim of innocence,” the Times reported after a Sunday night phone call.
A mountain of evidence ties Kohberger to the [murders](https://nypost.com/2026/06/05/us-news/bryan-kohbergers-victims-endured-a-high-degree-of-pain-and-suffering-unsealed-autopsy-reports-show/) of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.