Police in Idaho claim that a television special episode on Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case contained “gross inaccuracies” and “complete falsehoods.”

Kohberger pleaded guilty in July to the Nov. 13, 2022 deaths of University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20. He also pleaded guilty to one felony count of burglary.

Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for the four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. After the sentencing in July, Judge Steven Hippler lifted the gag order preventing any individual involved in the case from speaking to media.

In May, NBC’s “Dateline” ran a special episode on the Kohberger case, which included several pieces of new information that hadn’t yet been made public. 

Bryan Kohberger, left, pictured after his Dec. 30 arrest in Pennsylvania. He is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in a 4 a.m. surprise attack at their off-campus rental home — including best friends Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, right. (The Image Direct for Fox News Digital; Kaylee Goncalves/Instagram)

He said that Kohberger did use his cellphone to search for serial murderer Ted Bundy and also searched for pornography, searching for terms “sleeping,” “passed out” and “drugged.”

“All that is pretty accurate. There were searches related to pornography, but it wasn’t extensive,” Gilbertson said. “There was not anything that led us believe, ‘OK, you know, he has some type of a sexual desire behavior that’s driving this.’ But we also know that he deleted and wiped a lot of his devices, so we obviously don’t know what he wiped or what wasn’t there.”

Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson said a special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate where the leaks came from.

Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death nearly three years ago.  (Kyle Green/AP Photo)

“There is a special prosecutor, and I can tell you that we are not included or privy to what the investigation is doing, nor is the defense, is my understanding, nor is Judge Hippler,” Thompson said. “It’s being overseen completely independently, and whatever the investigation is doing is confidential. That’s what we were instructed by the judge.”

In a statement to the Idaho Statesman, an NBC spokesperson said the network stands by its reporting.