A shocking twist! Could a STUNNING LEGAL MOVE upend the Idaho murder case as Bryan Kohberger breaks his silence?

Bryan Kohberger is proclaiming his innocence a little over a year after he pleaded guilty to four counts of murder.

The convicted killer, who is currently serving four life sentences in an Idaho prison, said in an interview with The New York Times that he has filed a petition to obtain a new court case and reverse his guilty plea.

Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse for his sentencing hearing on July 23, 2025 in Boise, Idaho.

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“My actual innocence is my truth, and the plea, hinged on by false promises and blatant disinformation, MUST be withdrawn,” Kohberger said in a statement to the Times, marking the first time he has spoken publicly outside a courtroom since his arrest in December 2022.

Kohberger, 31, declined to speak about any specific aspects of the case, the evidence against him or why he agreed to a deal that required him to enter a guilty plea if he is innocent.

Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Bethany Funke(l to r).

In his statement, he wrote that “justice was not served” and “unanswered questions seem to multiply with each piece of discovery unsealed.”

He continued: “Circumnavigated by a broken plea, the trial never provided the public the clarity conducive to closure, and justice shall remain abjectly miscarried unless that plea is withdrawn.”

Very few have been successful in this endeavor, and even fewer have managed to vacate or overturn a conviction without the introduction of new information or evidence in their case.

On July 23, 2025, Judge Steven Hippler sentenced Kohberger to four lifetimes in prison without parole for the murders of the four University of Idaho students — plus 10 years for a burglary charge and $270,000 in fines and civil penalties.

His sentencing occurred three weeks after he first appeared in that same Boise courtroom and confessed to the murders of Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20.

The four were found brutally stabbed to death inside a Moscow home on Nov. 13, 2022.

Kohberger declined to speak at his sentencing hearing that day; he did not offer any apologies to the family and friends of his victims or address the court with his own statement.

Bryan Kohberger.

The former criminology student entered his guilty pleas to the murders in a last second deal with prosecutors that allowed him to avoid the death penalty.

In exchange, he signed off on a recommendation letter drafted by Latah County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson that asked the judge to sentence Kohberger to a term of life in prison for each of the four murders.

That is the sentence that was ultimately handed down by the judge, so it is unclear what Kohberger is referring to when he mentions a “broken plea deal.”

Kohberger remains an inmate at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna, a city 15 miles outside Boise.

His attorney Anne Taylor and Thompson did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.