The woman who spent months on TikTok insisting that a University of Idaho professor was secretly responsible for the Bryan Kohberger murders is now trying to undo the $10 million judgment entered against her.
According to The Guardian, Ashley Guillard, a Houston-based tarot card reader who described herself online as a psychic crime solver, filed her own legal paperwork asking a federal judge in Idaho to throw out the verdict. She also filed notice that she plans to take the case to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In her filing, Guillard called the lawsuit brought by University of Idaho history professor Rebecca Scofield “fraudulent” and argued that the jury’s decision did not “align with the evidence or facts of the case.”
She added, “Unfortunately … I have to appeal,” despite saying she had hoped “that we all could move on.”
The latest filing comes more than a year after a federal jury found Guillard liable for defamation following a three-day trial. The jury awarded Scofield $2.5 million in compensatory damages and another $7.5 million in punitive damages after determining that Guillard’s TikTok videos falsely accused the professor of orchestrating the murders of University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, and Kaylee Goncalves.
Guillard began posting those videos in late 2022, when the killings were still unsolved and public speculation around the case was exploding across TikTok, Reddit, and YouTube. Before Bryan Kohberger was arrested, Guillard repeatedly claimed that Scofield had been romantically involved with one of the victims and had ordered the murders to keep that relationship hidden.
She cited her tarot cards as proof.
“REBECCA WAS THE ONE TO INITIATE THE PLAN,” Guillard said in one video. In another, she declared, “Rebecca Scofield is going to prison for the murder of the 4 University of Idaho students, whether you like it or not.”
As rumors spread online, Guillard positioned herself as someone who had “solved” the case before the police did. Her TikTok videos singled out Scofield, despite there being no evidence tying the professor to the murders.
Scofield later said the accusations left her terrified that someone might act on the claims. She filed suit in December 2022, stating that she had never even met the four students.
Just days after Scofield sued, investigators arrested Bryan Kohberger, a Washington State University criminology student who lived less than 10 miles from the crime scene. Prosecutors later linked him to the murders through DNA found on a knife sheath left inside the home.
Over the next several years, court filings and unsealed records revealed more about what happened that night. Investigators said Kernodle fought back as Kohberger stabbed her 67 times.
In 2025, Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms without parole. No one else was ever charged.
Even after Kohberger admitted responsibility, Guillard continued to insist she had done nothing wrong. After Scofield sued, Guillard mocked the case on TikTok. “SEE YOU IN COURT REBECCA SCOFIELD,” she wrote in one post.
In another, she warned, “You sure you want to do this Rebecca SCOFIELD? This isn’t going to end well for you.”
A federal jury disagreed. After a three-day trial, jurors ordered Guillard to pay Scofield $10 million — including $2.5 million in compensatory damages and $7.5 million in punitive damages.
