Overview
- Ashley Guillard, a Houston TikToker who called herself a psychic crime solver, filed papers to overturn a federal jury verdict and notified the Ninth Circuit that she will appeal.
- A District of Idaho jury found her liable in February and awarded University of Idaho professor Rebecca Scofield $10 million for defamation.
- Jurors set $2.5 million for harm to Scofield and $7.5 million to punish the conduct after finding more than 100 TikTok videos falsely tied her to the 2022 killings.
- Guillard represented herself at trial and said she relied on tarot and intuition rather than evidence, while Scofield testified the claims sparked fear and threats to her family.
- The murders were solved in the separate criminal case, with Bryan Kohberger pleading guilty in 2025 and serving four life terms, and the civil case now moves into an appeals schedule set for mid‑2026.