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Bryan Kohberger Disclosed Autism, OCD, ADHD and ARFID Diagnoses Before Guilty Plea

A newly public June filing says he received four diagnoses in February 2025, declaring himself competent to plead.

Overview

  • The mental competency waiver, dated June 29, listed the four conditions and was completed days before his July 2 plea.
  • He wrote that he was taking levothyroxine for hypothyroidism at the time of the filing.
  • The document states the diagnoses would not impair his understanding of proceedings and he did not claim a lack of sound mind.
  • A judge in April denied a defense bid to remove the death penalty based on autism; Kohberger later accepted a deal for life without parole and received four consecutive life sentences plus additional years for burglary.
  • He is serving his sentence at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, the motive remains unresolved, and investigators linked him to the 2022 killings using DNA, phone data and surveillance footage.