Why Was Madison Mogen The Target of Kohberger? Howard Blum Explains
Description:
Among the most chilling questions in the Bryan Kohberger case is
why Madison Mogen — of all the victims — may have been the
primary target. In this deeply unsettling episode, investigative journalist Howard Blum joins
Hidden Killers to unpack his exclusive theory: that Maddie Mogen didn’t just symbolize something to Kohberger — she represented
everything he believed he was denied.
Blum explores the alleged fixation Kohberger may have developed on Maddie: her appearance, her joy, her effortless connection to others — all of it, a rebuke to his own social alienation. She was the kind of person he could never be close to. And, in Blum’s words, he believed
if he couldn’t exist in her world, she shouldn’t be allowed to either.
We retrace the alleged events of that night — Kohberger circling the King Road house not once, but three times, before finally working up the will to approach. Blum details how Kohberger appeared fixated on entering
Maddie’s room, passing other sleeping victims on the way — and how everything unraveled when he found not one, but two people inside: Maddie and Kaylee. The attack that followed was violent, unrestrained, and ultimately left behind the
knife sheath that became the smoking gun.
Joined by Robin Dreeke, we also explore whether this was truly a single-target fantasy turned spree, or whether Kohberger was already walking the path of serial escalation — and what Maddie’s symbolic power in his mind says about the dark psychology behind targeted murder.
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