Latest / Beyond The Horizon / Mega Edition: What Did The Experts Say About The Kohberger Case Leading Up To Trial? (8/18/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. After
- 0:03Speaker 1: a recent court trip by Brian Koberger last week, there
- 0:07Speaker 1: has been a renewed cry to get things moving in
- 0:10Speaker 1: a quicker, more efficient manner. And while I certainly agree
- 0:14Speaker 1: that I'd love to see things kick off quicker, I
- 0:16Speaker 1: understand why there have been all of these delays, and
- 0:20Speaker 1: it's just something that happens in cases like this. Even
- 0:23Speaker 1: with a case like Klain Maxwell's. We had a delay
- 0:26Speaker 1: in that case as well, and it wasn't a death
- 0:29Speaker 1: penalty type of case, so I was expecting this case
- 0:33Speaker 1: to be delayed. But I understand completely why the family is,
- 0:37Speaker 1: especially you know, the Gonsales family, who has been in
- 0:40Speaker 1: the forefront for all of these months and years now.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Can't believe we're saying that years, but they've been at
- 0:46Speaker 1: the forefront looking for justice, and they've been very consistent
- 0:50Speaker 1: with their message. They want that justice and they want
- 0:53Speaker 1: it soon. And who the hell can blame them. If
- 0:56Speaker 1: it was your loved one or your daughter, you'd want
- 0:58Speaker 1: that justice to be rendered sap And they're no different.
- 1:03Speaker 1: They want the person who the government says killed their
- 1:05Speaker 1: daughter to face the justice that he deserves, and they
- 1:08Speaker 1: feel like that's being put off. And when you're in
- 1:11Speaker 1: a situation like the Gonslvices are in, it must seem
- 1:14Speaker 1: like every second is a decade. So hopefully they can
- 1:18Speaker 1: figure it all out and we can get things moving.
- 1:21Speaker 1: But when we have a death penalty style case, usually
- 1:25Speaker 1: there's all sorts of impediments on the way to justice.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Today's article is from Fox News and the headline Brian
- 1:32Speaker 1: Coolberger trial delay buys the defense time to build an alibi,
- 1:37Speaker 1: concerns about memory of loan witness. This article was authored
- 1:41Speaker 1: by Michael Ruiz, and there is some truth to that,
- 1:45Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, that alibi is
- 1:48Speaker 1: going to have to withstand the scrutiny of the jury,
- 1:51Speaker 1: and if that alibi does not withstand that scrutiny, then
- 1:54Speaker 1: that alibi is going to be worth un goats. And
- 1:57Speaker 1: I think that Ann Taylor and Brian Cooberger's I think
- 2:00Speaker 1: they understand that there's one known eyewitness to the University
- 2:05Speaker 1: of Idaho student murders, a housemate who overheard sounds of
- 2:08Speaker 1: a struggle and came face to face with a massed
- 2:11Speaker 1: intruder on the night four undergrads were stabbed to death
- 2:14Speaker 1: in Moscow, Idaho. By the time the case goes to trial,
- 2:17Speaker 1: years will have passed, with potential implications for her memory
- 2:22Speaker 1: of the events. Well, usually that would be something that
- 2:25Speaker 1: I'd be worried about, but not so much. Here. Her
- 2:29Speaker 1: limited testimony is only going to corroborate a basic description
- 2:34Speaker 1: of who Coburger was right, A guy that wasn't, you know, muscular,
- 2:40Speaker 1: a guy that was athletically built, a guy that was
- 2:42Speaker 1: his height, bushy eyebrows, and all the rest of it.
- 2:46Speaker 1: So I'm not too concerned about the testimony from Bethany
- 2:50Speaker 1: Funk deteriorating over time because of her memory. That would
- 2:54Speaker 1: be more of an issue if it was something that
- 2:56Speaker 1: happened fifteen years ago ten years ago, So I don't
- 2:59Speaker 1: see that being too much an issue. Meanwhile, suspect Brian
- 3:03Speaker 1: Coberger's defense has bought more time to build up an
- 3:06Speaker 1: alibi and pour over vast amounts of other evidence. Letah
- 3:10Speaker 1: County District Judge John Judge is still weighing scheduling and
- 3:14Speaker 1: a defense motion to have the trial moved to another county,
- 3:17Speaker 1: and the victims' families are still waiting for justice, So
- 3:21Speaker 1: I doubt it's going to be moved to another county,
- 3:24Speaker 1: like we've discussed previously. I think what we'll see instead
- 3:27Speaker 1: is people get busted in from other counties, giving both
- 3:31Speaker 1: sides a bit of a victory. We know that the
- 3:34Speaker 1: prosecution doesn't want this to leave Moscow, and on the
- 3:37Speaker 1: flip side of that, Ann Taylor, well, she'd love to
- 3:39Speaker 1: get a victory and get it moved out of the
- 3:41Speaker 1: Leaita County. But that's not gonna happen, not in my opinion.
- 3:45Speaker 1: So I think what Judge Judge will do is bring
- 3:47Speaker 1: in jurors from a different county and get things cracking
- 3:50Speaker 1: off that way. I'm listening to both sides, and it's
- 3:53Speaker 1: a complicated case, he said during a Wednesday hearing. It's
- 3:56Speaker 1: a death penalty case. After Coburger's arrest at the end
- 4:00Speaker 1: of December of twenty twenty two, a trial had been
- 4:02Speaker 1: penciled in for October of twenty twenty three, Coberger waved
- 4:06Speaker 1: his right to a speedy proceeding, postponing the trial. More recently,
- 4:10Speaker 1: prosecutors requested a trial date for this June, but the
- 4:13Speaker 1: defense asked for more time to prepare, seeking a date
- 4:16Speaker 1: no earlier than the summer of twenty twenty five. So
- 4:21Speaker 1: I was hoping for this summer, and I thought that
- 4:24Speaker 1: that was going to be a legitimate target date. But
- 4:27Speaker 1: when you look at all of the evidence that's been
- 4:29Speaker 1: piled on and the fact that discovery still hasn't been completed,
- 4:34Speaker 1: it's very difficult for me to sit here and tell
- 4:37Speaker 1: you that I think that Coburger should be rushed into
- 4:40Speaker 1: this defense. I want it to be a home run
- 4:43Speaker 1: when all is said and done. I don't want this
- 4:45Speaker 1: dude to have any sort of technicality or loophole. I
- 4:49Speaker 1: don't want him to have any bit of debrief floating
- 4:51Speaker 1: around him as he's drowning in this conviction. And if
- 4:55Speaker 1: things aren't done the correct way, if the chain of
- 4:58Speaker 1: evidence wasn't respected, anything like that occurred, well that's going
- 5:03Speaker 1: to put the death penalty in jeopardy. We've already seen
- 5:05Speaker 1: it in Idaho with Lori Vallo, and make no mistake,
- 5:09Speaker 1: the same thing will happen here if the prosecution is
- 5:12Speaker 1: out of line. The family is of two victims, Kaylee
- 5:16Speaker 1: Gonsalves and Xana Kernodle, said an a joint statement that
- 5:19Speaker 1: regardless of when the case goes to trial, everything will
- 5:22Speaker 1: be reviewed with a fine tooth comb whether on appeal
- 5:26Speaker 1: or by the public. See, the thing is, we don't
- 5:29Speaker 1: want to wait for an appeal right because God forbid
- 5:32Speaker 1: there is some kind of misconduct or something like that,
- 5:34Speaker 1: then the clock has to start all the way over
- 5:37Speaker 1: and a new trial. So I would think that everybody
- 5:40Speaker 1: wants to avoid that. Go through the evidence again, see
- 5:44Speaker 1: you know all the gruesome pictures once again. I think
- 5:47Speaker 1: one time is going to be plenty. So I want
- 5:49Speaker 1: to make sure everything's done right and correct the first
- 5:52Speaker 1: time around. We want to start healing. We do. We
- 5:56Speaker 1: want to find justice and try to move on from
- 5:59Speaker 1: this horrible So please please start making some decision, get
- 6:03Speaker 1: to work, and quit playing the delay game, they said
- 6:06Speaker 1: through their attorney, Shannon Gray. The other victims were Gonsaalva's
- 6:10Speaker 1: best friend, Madison Mogan and Kernodle's boyfriend Ethan Chapin. Long
- 6:15Speaker 1: delays could have a negative impact on witnesses for the defense,
- 6:19Speaker 1: said James Kazari, a Michigan based attorney who represented murder
- 6:23Speaker 1: suspects at trial. Witnesses forget events or even die depending
- 6:28Speaker 1: on the length of time between charges and trial, he
- 6:31Speaker 1: told Fox News Digital. The defendant essentially loses his ability
- 6:35Speaker 1: to confer with potential defense witnesses or even to keep
- 6:38Speaker 1: track of their whereabouts. Hard to present a defense in
- 6:41Speaker 1: those situations. Also, evidence gets lost or destroyed. So it's
- 6:45Speaker 1: a two way street, right, It's a double edged sword.
- 6:48Speaker 1: And Ann Taylor and Brian Colberger's team, they understand that
- 6:52Speaker 1: they're really up against it here. You want to talk
- 6:55Speaker 1: about being down at the end of the game and
- 6:57Speaker 1: looking at toss to hell Mary, That's where they're at.
- 7:00Speaker 1: And unless there was some sort of prosecutorial misconduct in
- 7:03Speaker 1: the early stages and something wasn't collected right or something
- 7:07Speaker 1: like that, I just don't see how Coburger has any
- 7:10Speaker 1: way out of this. Although Coburger waived a six amendment
- 7:14Speaker 1: right to a speedy trial, legal precedent upholds that the
- 7:17Speaker 1: passage of time makes proof of any fact more difficult.
- 7:21Speaker 1: He said that cuts both ways, though, impacting prosecutors as well.
- 7:26Speaker 1: The delays are bad for the prosecution, said Niyama Rockmani,
- 7:29Speaker 1: a former assistant US attorney whose cases included the successful
- 7:33Speaker 1: prosecution of a fugitive killer featured on America's Most Wanted
- 7:38Speaker 1: logan Kiroga. Witness memories fade and evidence can disappear over time,
- 7:43Speaker 1: and the victims' families deserve justice. Rockmani added, if the
- 7:47Speaker 1: defense doesn't expect helpful testimony from the lone eye witness,
- 7:50Speaker 1: delays could be part of their plan, said Joseph ga Cologne,
- 7:54Speaker 1: a retired NYPD sergeant and a professor at John Jay
- 7:57Speaker 1: College of Criminal Justice. But that's not his main concern.
- 8:01Speaker 1: And Joseph gia Cologne has had these concerns from the
- 8:04Speaker 1: very beginning. And I think of all the people that
- 8:07Speaker 1: have concerns about what went down, these concerns right here
- 8:10Speaker 1: are the most valid. Delay until everyone forgets or dies,
- 8:14Speaker 1: he told Fox News Digital. I have worries about the case,
- 8:17Speaker 1: delays aren't one of them. Those issues, he said, are
- 8:21Speaker 1: related to physical evidence in the case. I have two
- 8:24Speaker 1: big ones, he said, how the crime scene was handled
- 8:26Speaker 1: and what if anything was found in his vehicle. There's
- 8:30Speaker 1: no way you could pull off a vicious scene like
- 8:32Speaker 1: that without transferring blood out into the snow and into
- 8:36Speaker 1: his vehicle. And these are all very valid, valid points,
- 8:40Speaker 1: and I can't wait to see what the prosecution has
- 8:42Speaker 1: to say about this. Now, that vehicle, it could have
- 8:46Speaker 1: been prepared previously, right with plastic and all the rest
- 8:50Speaker 1: of it so that the transfer, if there was transfer
- 8:53Speaker 1: of blood wouldn't occur. And then he takes that long
- 8:56Speaker 1: route on the way home and gets rid of all
- 8:58Speaker 1: the evidence in a burn pit or whatever. Very possible.
- 9:01Speaker 1: But the prosecution is going to have to explain to
- 9:04Speaker 1: the jury if there wasn't all kinds of transferred DNA
- 9:08Speaker 1: and blood into the car, how that occurred, and how
- 9:11Speaker 1: that's possible. Gia Colonne's questioned the integrity of the crime
- 9:15Speaker 1: scene during the early stages of the investigation, the eventual
- 9:18Speaker 1: release of the scene, and personal effects inside the home,
- 9:21Speaker 1: and the destruction of the building. All the concerns that
- 9:24Speaker 1: I have as well. If we're talking about things that
- 9:28Speaker 1: are going to have the prosecution in jeopardy, these are
- 9:32Speaker 1: all issues that are valid concerns. I don't think the
- 9:35Speaker 1: delay is something that is a valid concern from anyone
- 9:39Speaker 1: besides the families at this point, considering the massive amount
- 9:43Speaker 1: of evidence in this case, I can understand why the
- 9:46Speaker 1: families want justice right away, But the rest of us
- 9:49Speaker 1: we should be demanding that not only justice is provided,
- 9:52Speaker 1: but that everything is done by the book so that
- 9:55Speaker 1: the prosecution can get the uldmate penalty for Brian Kolberger,
- 9:59Speaker 1: if he is in fact guilty, did the gatekeeper keep
- 10:02Speaker 1: a record of who entered the crime scene at what time,
- 10:05Speaker 1: what they did, and what time they left? He asked
- 10:08Speaker 1: lots of video where the cop never gets out of
- 10:10Speaker 1: the car, was there a sign in sheet inside? Who
- 10:13Speaker 1: was supervising it being used? And these are all very
- 10:17Speaker 1: valid questions and hopefully the prosecution they have answers. When
- 10:21Speaker 1: this all first cracked off, remember it was just Moscow
- 10:24Speaker 1: PD who was at the scene. The FBI arrived a
- 10:26Speaker 1: little bit later. So was the crime scene contaminated early on?
- 10:31Speaker 1: That was certainly one of my concerns if you go
- 10:33Speaker 1: back and listen to those episodes from early on, crime
- 10:36Speaker 1: scene contamination was a big one because we're dealing with,
- 10:39Speaker 1: you know, a very sensitive situation inside of that home.
- 10:43Speaker 1: So hopefully everything was done on the up and up,
- 10:46Speaker 1: because if it wasn't, this is the sort of thing
- 10:48Speaker 1: that the defense is going to try and sink their
- 10:50Speaker 1: teeth into to try and get you know, the death
- 10:53Speaker 1: penalty off the table and whatever else as far as
- 10:56Speaker 1: concessions go that they can get from the judge. Geoclone
- 11:00Speaker 1: also took issue with the decision to return the victim's
- 11:03Speaker 1: belongings to family members while police were still monitoring the scene,
- 11:07Speaker 1: and he highlighted the initial decision to bring in a
- 11:09Speaker 1: cleaning crew to clear out the house, which was canceled
- 11:12Speaker 1: the following day before a suspect had been arrested and
- 11:15Speaker 1: defense investigators arrived. Coberger, a twenty nine year old Pennsylvania
- 11:20Speaker 1: criminology PhD student, was attending Washington State University Impullman, across
- 11:25Speaker 1: the state line from Moscow, Idaho, where prosecutors alleged he
- 11:28Speaker 1: entered an off campus home around four am on November thirteenth,
- 11:32Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and massacred for students with a large knife. Well, folks,
- 11:37Speaker 1: it's my guess that this debate is going to only
- 11:40Speaker 1: grow as we get more decisions from Judge Judge, and
- 11:44Speaker 1: as we make our way towards the finish line, because
- 11:48Speaker 1: there's going to be more hurdles, there's going to be
- 11:50Speaker 1: more issues that arise, and there is going to be
- 11:53Speaker 1: more outrage from both sides, and both sides are going
- 11:56Speaker 1: to try and make their point and push their narrative
- 11:59Speaker 1: to Judge Judge. But when all is said and done,
- 12:02Speaker 1: all of that's going to have to withstand the scrutiny
- 12:05Speaker 1: of the jury. So we'll see how everything plays out
- 12:09Speaker 1: over the coming weeks and months as we prepare for
- 12:12Speaker 1: the trial of Brian Cohberger. All of the information that
- 12:16Speaker 1: goes with this episode can be found in the description box.
- 12:21Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program. Brian
- 12:26Speaker 1: Coohberger's trial is still quite a ways off, with the
- 12:30Speaker 1: preliminary hearing being scheduled for about five months from now
- 12:34Speaker 1: in June, but up until then, there's still a lot
- 12:37Speaker 1: that's going to happen as far as this case progressing
- 12:41Speaker 1: through the courts. Unfortunately, due to the gag order, we're
- 12:45Speaker 1: not going to have access to the people who are
- 12:47Speaker 1: prosecuting the case and who are defending Brian Colberger of
- 12:52Speaker 1: these charges. So what we're going to have to do
- 12:55Speaker 1: is rely on whatever we get as far as court
- 12:59Speaker 1: filings and whatever rumbles we hear from people who are
- 13:02Speaker 1: close to the case. So on today's episode, what we're
- 13:06Speaker 1: going to do is take a look at what we
- 13:09Speaker 1: might expect leading up to the trial of Brian Coberger,
- 13:14Speaker 1: and to do that, we're going to use an article
- 13:17Speaker 1: from The Daily Evergreen, which is the student voice of
- 13:20Speaker 1: Washington State University headline explainer What to expect in State
- 13:26Speaker 1: of Idaho versus Brian Coberger case. This article was authored
- 13:32Speaker 1: by Punit Basanti and Sadie Photo Vangsa. With Brian Coberger's
- 13:40Speaker 1: next court appearance scheduled five months from now, experts weigh
- 13:43Speaker 1: in on the possibilities of the case and what we
- 13:46Speaker 1: can expect as this case unfolds. One thing I think
- 13:50Speaker 1: we can expect is a lot more twists and turns.
- 13:53Speaker 1: There's still a whole lot more about this that we
- 13:56Speaker 1: don't even know about, And honestly, as the publicly scratch
- 14:00Speaker 1: the surface of what's truly going on behind the scenes,
- 14:04Speaker 1: and that goes for both sides, right, you know that
- 14:07Speaker 1: Brian Coberger's attorneys are hard at work, just like the prosecution.
- 14:12Speaker 1: The question is what are they going to be able
- 14:14Speaker 1: to drum up? You can only make so much out
- 14:17Speaker 1: of so little, and unless they have something cooking on
- 14:23Speaker 1: the back burner, meaning the defense, I just don't see
- 14:26Speaker 1: any way out of this for Brian Cohberger. David Leroy,
- 14:30Speaker 1: Idaho trial lawyer who specializes in criminal felony defense cases,
- 14:34Speaker 1: said the prosecution will take the time allotted between now
- 14:38Speaker 1: and the preliminary hearing to prepare witnesses and evidence to
- 14:42Speaker 1: present at the hearing in order to show two things,
- 14:46Speaker 1: that there is probable cause to believe a crime was committed,
- 14:49Speaker 1: and that there is probable cause to believe that this
- 14:53Speaker 1: defendant committed the crime. And we've already seen the first salvo,
- 14:57Speaker 1: obviously from the prosecution with the probable cause affid David.
- 15:02Speaker 1: They tip their hand a little bit in that Affidavid,
- 15:04Speaker 1: obviously because they had to get the judge to sign off.
- 15:08Speaker 1: But there's no doubt that they held back evidence as
- 15:11Speaker 1: far as other DNA evidence they have and the other
- 15:15Speaker 1: strong evidence that they're going to unleash later on. So
- 15:19Speaker 1: the prosecution is only going to give them just a
- 15:22Speaker 1: little bit and then the real information dump will come
- 15:25Speaker 1: during discovery. Meanwhile, the defense will be looking at the
- 15:29Speaker 1: evidence provided in the arrest Affidavid, as well as discovery
- 15:33Speaker 1: provided by prosecution, which may include police and expert opinion reports, photographs,
- 15:40Speaker 1: and any other details involving the case. He said, So
- 15:43Speaker 1: what will happen is they'll get this whole entire portfolio,
- 15:47Speaker 1: if you will, of all of the details that have
- 15:50Speaker 1: been compiled by the investigators all of the evidence, how
- 15:54Speaker 1: they compile that evidence, the chain of custody, which officers
- 15:57Speaker 1: were working on, what part of the project, all of that,
- 16:01Speaker 1: and then the defense what they're gonna do is they're
- 16:04Speaker 1: going to unleash their own experts to go through all
- 16:06Speaker 1: of that with a fine tooth comb and look for
- 16:09Speaker 1: inconsistencies or things that might have been conducted improperly as
- 16:14Speaker 1: far as chain of custody or other procedures that the
- 16:18Speaker 1: government has to abide by. I would expect the defense
- 16:22Speaker 1: will be analyzing the details of the police reports, taking
- 16:26Speaker 1: a look at the expert opinions and scientific laboratory reports,
- 16:30Speaker 1: perhaps hiring their own experts to analyze those for them
- 16:33Speaker 1: to prepare for that hearing and for a possible trial,
- 16:37Speaker 1: Leroy said, And a lot of that comes down to money, right,
- 16:41Speaker 1: If you have the right amount of money, you can
- 16:43Speaker 1: hire as many experts as you want. For instance, if
- 16:47Speaker 1: you're trying to get off of a rico case, meaning
- 16:50Speaker 1: a racketeering case, forget it. You're looking at millions of
- 16:53Speaker 1: dollars being spent on attorneys and experts, forensic accountants, you
- 16:59Speaker 1: name it. And when you're talking about a quadruple homicide,
- 17:03Speaker 1: You're certainly talking about a lot of different experts that
- 17:06Speaker 1: are going to have to be brought in. So I
- 17:09Speaker 1: don't know where Brian Kohberger is going to get all
- 17:11Speaker 1: the money for all of these experts, or if the
- 17:14Speaker 1: state of Idaho is going to give him a large
- 17:17Speaker 1: budget where he's able to get that via taxpayer dollars.
- 17:21Speaker 1: But either way, the defense is going to want their
- 17:24Speaker 1: own specialists to take a look at all of this
- 17:27Speaker 1: information that has been compiled and turned over as evidence.
- 17:32Speaker 1: Even in simple cases, additional time can be requested and
- 17:35Speaker 1: granted to allow for time to go over evidence. He said.
- 17:39Speaker 1: It's not uncommon to ask for a delay. It is
- 17:42Speaker 1: atypical to set the hearing out for six months, but
- 17:45Speaker 1: certainly understandable in this case with all of the complicated
- 17:49Speaker 1: fact patterns and different kinds of scientific evidence that we have,
- 17:53Speaker 1: that both the defense and prosecution would want to analyze
- 17:57Speaker 1: that evidence and prepare for cross examination. Leroy said, and
- 18:01Speaker 1: I agree with that this is a complex case with
- 18:05Speaker 1: a lot of twists and turns, with very high stakes.
- 18:08Speaker 1: We're talking about somebody who's possibly going to be facing
- 18:11Speaker 1: the death penalty, so it's a good idea to make
- 18:14Speaker 1: sure all of the evidence is solid. Make sure that
- 18:17Speaker 1: everything is ironclad. That way, when you bring it to
- 18:20Speaker 1: the jury, there's no doubt. And of course the defense
- 18:24Speaker 1: they're going to be looking to go the opposite way, right,
- 18:27Speaker 1: They're going to be looking at punch holes in every
- 18:29Speaker 1: last thing that is brought to the attention of the
- 18:32Speaker 1: jury by the prosecution. Once all the evidence is presented
- 18:37Speaker 1: at the preliminary hearing, the defendant will either be found
- 18:40Speaker 1: by a judge who determines there is enough probable cause,
- 18:44Speaker 1: or the defendant can waive their right to that hearing,
- 18:47Speaker 1: in which case the defendant would then appear before a
- 18:50Speaker 1: district judge and enter a plea. He said, there is
- 18:53Speaker 1: a chance of another hearing held between now and the
- 18:56Speaker 1: preliminary hearing if the defense or the prosecution has request,
- 19:01Speaker 1: but the next significant hearing will be the one held
- 19:03Speaker 1: in June. Leroy said, so, yeah, that's the one that's
- 19:06Speaker 1: going to set the table up. Until then, everything's gonna
- 19:10Speaker 1: be procedural, like he was saying here, if there's some
- 19:13Speaker 1: sort of issue, they might try and get in front
- 19:15Speaker 1: of the judge, but a lot of this is going
- 19:18Speaker 1: to be done with filings. So one side'll have a filing,
- 19:22Speaker 1: then the other side will counter that filing with their own,
- 19:25Speaker 1: and then the judge will have to make a decision.
- 19:28Speaker 1: And there's going to be a bunch of that as
- 19:30Speaker 1: we get to the point where we're at the trial.
- 19:35Speaker 1: It is also possible that both the prosecution and defense
- 19:39Speaker 1: could ask for a change of venue. If granted, this
- 19:42Speaker 1: would move the trial to a different Idaho county where
- 19:45Speaker 1: there may be less publicity about the case, which would
- 19:48Speaker 1: increase the likelihood of having an objective jury. He said,
- 19:52Speaker 1: And I don't think we're going to see that, honestly,
- 19:54Speaker 1: But however, we might see the judge pull a move
- 19:58Speaker 1: like we saw Judge goalpull down in Delphi and have
- 20:02Speaker 1: jurors come in from a different county. Because if you
- 20:05Speaker 1: move the whole entire operation, you're talking about a lot
- 20:08Speaker 1: of money and people who might not be able to
- 20:11Speaker 1: get to these hearings. Right, the family members, people who
- 20:15Speaker 1: are affected, they have a right to show up at
- 20:17Speaker 1: this trial and look at the accused and make sure
- 20:20Speaker 1: that he's held accountable. So if you move it out
- 20:23Speaker 1: of the jurisdiction, how are people supposed to do that
- 20:26Speaker 1: with all of their other duties work and school and
- 20:28Speaker 1: all the rest of it. So I think a solid
- 20:30Speaker 1: workaround will be to just mimic what happened down in Delphi.
- 20:35Speaker 1: When New York Times reporter Nicholas bogel Burrows descended upon
- 20:39Speaker 1: Layta County to cover the Moscow homicides with fellow reporter
- 20:43Speaker 1: Mike Baker, he was met with a few surprises. Bogel
- 20:47Speaker 1: Burrows has had experience covering high profile crimes and court cases,
- 20:52Speaker 1: from the Derek Chauvin to the Kyle Rittenhouse trials. He
- 20:56Speaker 1: is familiar with approaching these cases. One thing you learn
- 21:01Speaker 1: real quick covering this kind of stuff is that all
- 21:03Speaker 1: of these places, meaning these counties, these districts, they all
- 21:06Speaker 1: have different rules. So one courthouse might have a set
- 21:10Speaker 1: of rules and then the next courthouse has a completely
- 21:13Speaker 1: different set of rules. And that's what mister bogl Burroughs
- 21:17Speaker 1: found here. I think it's been somewhat unique, not without president,
- 21:22Speaker 1: but somewhat unique to have this very broad gag order.
- 21:25Speaker 1: He said, Yeah, look, this gag order is certainly something
- 21:28Speaker 1: that needs to be discussed, right. It's very broad and
- 21:32Speaker 1: the scope of it is very large. So I don't
- 21:36Speaker 1: know if it's going to stand as is, but as
- 21:39Speaker 1: of now, these are the rules that everybody has to
- 21:41Speaker 1: abide by as far as people who are working the case.
- 21:46Speaker 1: The non dissemination order for the Coburger Court case prohibits
- 21:50Speaker 1: law enforcement, the prosecuting and defense attorneys, as well as
- 21:54Speaker 1: the attorneys for the victims and their families from speaking
- 21:57Speaker 1: to the public or the media about the investigation. He
- 22:01Speaker 1: said that while every case is different, in his experience,
- 22:05Speaker 1: he has covered high profile trials with far less restrictive
- 22:09Speaker 1: non dissemination orders. That's a fact. This is a very
- 22:13Speaker 1: very restrictive order and it's certainly infringing on the First
- 22:18Speaker 1: Amendment rights of the American public, There is no doubt
- 22:21Speaker 1: about that. But the judge believes that there is cause.
- 22:25Speaker 1: So we'll have to see how it all works out,
- 22:27Speaker 1: especially now with these media organizations getting into the fray.
- 22:32Speaker 1: That's obviously done to protect the fairness of the proceedings,
- 22:36Speaker 1: but also from a media perspective, of course, it creates
- 22:39Speaker 1: a challenge in trying to learn more about the case,
- 22:42Speaker 1: Bogo Burrow said. He said that reporters just need to
- 22:46Speaker 1: learn to abide by the non dissemination order and report
- 22:49Speaker 1: on what they can while following it. That's the right
- 22:51Speaker 1: way to go about it. Report on what you can
- 22:55Speaker 1: follow along with the court filings, and fill in the
- 22:58Speaker 1: blanks whenever there is some inform that becomes available. Bogo
- 23:04Speaker 1: Burrow said when Coburger's first hearing came around, he was
- 23:07Speaker 1: concerned because the seating inside the courtroom was first come,
- 23:11Speaker 1: first serve. He arrived shortly after five am and found
- 23:14Speaker 1: out that the hearing was going to be around nine
- 23:17Speaker 1: thirty am. Well, that's how a lot of these proceedings go.
- 23:21Speaker 1: The Glenn Maxwell trial was also first come, first serve,
- 23:24Speaker 1: but they had an overflow room for her trial. I
- 23:27Speaker 1: don't know if they're going to do that here. My
- 23:29Speaker 1: guess is the media will request that, but I'm not
- 23:33Speaker 1: too sure. When he arrived in the courtroom, one of
- 23:37Speaker 1: the rules was that they can only use pen and paper.
- 23:40Speaker 1: Bogo Burrow said this rule is more common in federal
- 23:43Speaker 1: courthouses than a county court. However, he knows every place
- 23:47Speaker 1: is different. When covering high profile cases, Bogo Burrows keeps
- 23:51Speaker 1: in mind the tragedy at the center of them. He said,
- 23:54Speaker 1: when you have fifty journalists in a room, I think
- 23:56Speaker 1: sometimes people can forget how intensely difficult. The legal proceedings
- 24:00Speaker 1: are for the parties who are actually involved. Bogo Burrow said,
- 24:05Speaker 1: there's no doubt that we have to keep in mind
- 24:07Speaker 1: that these are real people, and real lives were absolutely
- 24:12Speaker 1: and tragically altered forever. Imagine waking up and your brother
- 24:16Speaker 1: or your sister is no longer here. Imagine what that
- 24:20Speaker 1: would do to your life, How it would shatter your
- 24:22Speaker 1: whole entire perception of what the future is supposed to be.
- 24:27Speaker 1: So whenever we're talking about cases like this, or talking
- 24:31Speaker 1: about any situation that's affecting people's lives like this, we
- 24:35Speaker 1: have to keep in mind that these are real people.
- 24:38Speaker 1: So it's nice to hear that a national reporter from
- 24:41Speaker 1: an outlet like the New York Times it recognizes that
- 24:45Speaker 1: and keeps it in mind, because we all know how
- 24:48Speaker 1: it goes for the legacy media. If it bleeds, it leads,
- 24:51Speaker 1: and there's really nothing they won't do to get those clicks.
- 24:55Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting to see how the
- 24:57Speaker 1: media reacts to this gag order, and it's certainly going
- 25:00Speaker 1: to be interesting to see how the national media covers
- 25:03Speaker 1: this moving forward. All right, folks, well that's going to
- 25:07Speaker 1: do it for this one. All of the information that
- 25:10Speaker 1: goes along with this episode can be found in the
- 25:14Speaker 1: description box. We all know A guy places what's up everyone,
- 25:18Speaker 1: and welcome back to the program. Police in Moscow and
- 25:22Speaker 1: investigators in charge of the case have come under intense
- 25:26Speaker 1: scrutiny for the way that things have been handled in
- 25:29Speaker 1: certain regards. However, there are plenty of experts out there
- 25:34Speaker 1: who have a differing opinion, who say that people, meaning us,
- 25:38Speaker 1: we shouldn't be so quick to rush to judgment and
- 25:41Speaker 1: we should give it time, meaning the investigation to play out.
- 25:45Speaker 1: And while I agree with that one hundred percent, I
- 25:48Speaker 1: do have some issues obviously with the way things are packaged.
- 25:53Speaker 1: And if you're not going to have a clear and
- 25:55Speaker 1: concise message, then you need to just have updates in
- 25:59Speaker 1: the digital variety like the one we read earlier that
- 26:02Speaker 1: was perfect. Why do they need to have a whole
- 26:04Speaker 1: ass press conference if they have nothing to offer? And
- 26:07Speaker 1: I think for me, that's been the biggest criticism as
- 26:10Speaker 1: far as the police or the investigators that I've had
- 26:13Speaker 1: so far, because I'm not somebody who thinks I know
- 26:18Speaker 1: what's going on behind the scenes. I know I don't
- 26:21Speaker 1: they have all kinds of irons in the fire. They're
- 26:24Speaker 1: chasing down, you know, leads, and they're not going to
- 26:27Speaker 1: divulge that to us. They don't owe it to us.
- 26:30Speaker 1: But I think they do owe the community, people following
- 26:34Speaker 1: the case, and especially the family members a clear and
- 26:39Speaker 1: concise message whenever they decide to have a press conference,
- 26:43Speaker 1: because if they do that and it's clear, it's concise,
- 26:46Speaker 1: and it's to the point, and there's no room for interpretation,
- 26:50Speaker 1: then they get rid of a lot of the vacuum
- 26:53Speaker 1: where some of these conspiracy theories pop up. So if
- 26:57Speaker 1: they have a better messaging system and they're more clear
- 27:00Speaker 1: with what they're talking about, they would cut a lot
- 27:02Speaker 1: of these conspiracy theories off right at the knees. So
- 27:05Speaker 1: that's why I'm so adamant talking about how crucial I
- 27:08Speaker 1: think it is to have proper messaging, and I think
- 27:12Speaker 1: moving forward, they're starting to get the hang of that
- 27:14Speaker 1: a little bit, and hopefully we don't see any more
- 27:17Speaker 1: of those press conferences until they really have something to share.
- 27:23Speaker 1: So today's article is from Fox News headline Idaho murders
- 27:27Speaker 1: attackers should be looking over his shoulders, expert warns, experts warn,
- 27:32Speaker 1: agains rushed the judgment as Moscow police rule out possible
- 27:35Speaker 1: suspects in University of Idaho murders, and I think this
- 27:39Speaker 1: caused a lot of confusion as well, ruling people out
- 27:42Speaker 1: very quickly, no explanations of why they ruled people out,
- 27:46Speaker 1: not even giving out alibis, so of course there's going
- 27:50Speaker 1: to be confusion. The author of this article is Stephanie Pugonis.
- 27:55Speaker 1: As family members and some on social media are questioning
- 27:59Speaker 1: investigators decisions to rule out certain people as suspects in
- 28:03Speaker 1: the ongoing University of Idaho murder probe, experts are cautioning
- 28:07Speaker 1: the public against rushing to judgment and noting that their
- 28:11Speaker 1: circumstances in such a complex case are often quick to change.
- 28:16Speaker 1: This is something I said from the beginning. This is
- 28:18Speaker 1: an evolving story, and speaking in absolutes is really not
- 28:22Speaker 1: a great idea from the authorities unless they have something
- 28:25Speaker 1: that's concrete, because if you leave something open to interpretation,
- 28:28Speaker 1: you better believe that the public, the media, and people
- 28:32Speaker 1: following the case, well, they're going to interpret it. Police
- 28:36Speaker 1: handling the Moscow, Idaho quadruple homicide investigation have tentatively ruled
- 28:41Speaker 1: out seven parties as of Monday, most recently adding a
- 28:44Speaker 1: man who appeared to briefly follow one of the victims
- 28:47Speaker 1: to the list of those whom the police said they
- 28:50Speaker 1: do not believe are involved, and we talked a little
- 28:53Speaker 1: bit about that as well. Earlier. The alleged stalking incident
- 28:57Speaker 1: seems to me that it was a couple of college
- 28:58Speaker 1: kids trying to pick up girls? Now is it something
- 29:01Speaker 1: more than that. Perhaps I wasn't there, but just on
- 29:04Speaker 1: the surface, the very surface of it all seems to
- 29:08Speaker 1: me that you have a couple of dudes who were
- 29:10Speaker 1: out trolling for some girls. The most recent development was
- 29:16Speaker 1: announced just days after Christy Gonsalves, the mother of victim
- 29:20Speaker 1: Kayley Gonsolves, told News Nation she felt that there had
- 29:23Speaker 1: been a couple of individuals that were cleared very fast
- 29:27Speaker 1: that should not have been. Now, we have to always
- 29:29Speaker 1: remember that the families are suffering, they're in mourning, and
- 29:33Speaker 1: they want answers, So they're going to be a lot
- 29:35Speaker 1: more critical of the investigation, and I believe that they're
- 29:39Speaker 1: well within their rights to be. So if it was
- 29:42Speaker 1: my kid, I already told you I'd be acting ignorant
- 29:45Speaker 1: as hell. Probably I certainly wouldn't be the person that
- 29:49Speaker 1: anyone would want as the spokesman for what's going on.
- 29:53Speaker 1: And while people might want to criticize mister Gonsalves for
- 29:57Speaker 1: his commentary to the public to the media, I get it.
- 30:00Speaker 1: None of us are walking in his shoes. He has
- 30:02Speaker 1: no answers, and he wants justice for his daughter. She
- 30:08Speaker 1: later added, I just know there were people that definitely
- 30:11Speaker 1: should have been looked at. But two experts who have
- 30:14Speaker 1: each spent time in Moscow, Idaho during the ongoing crime investigation,
- 30:19Speaker 1: emphasized the police could be clearing these people as suspects
- 30:22Speaker 1: for many reasons and could later re examine the individuals
- 30:26Speaker 1: for possible involvement should new information or evidence arise. Now
- 30:30Speaker 1: that's interesting. That's an interesting little tidbit. So some of
- 30:34Speaker 1: the people that might have been cleared early. Does that
- 30:37Speaker 1: mean that the police are going to go back and
- 30:39Speaker 1: reevaluate what's going on and then perhaps come back to
- 30:42Speaker 1: one of these people. I guess it's a possibility. Now.
- 30:46Speaker 1: I don't want to speculate too far about that happening
- 30:50Speaker 1: because I don't have that information in front of me,
- 30:52Speaker 1: but it's certainly something that could happen. Now. Do I
- 30:56Speaker 1: think the police are zeroing in on one of these
- 30:58Speaker 1: people already and they're planning some kind of four D chess. No,
- 31:01Speaker 1: I do not, But that doesn't mean that they won't
- 31:04Speaker 1: come back, circle around and maybe have some different information
- 31:08Speaker 1: that shines a different light on one of the people
- 31:11Speaker 1: they ruled out previously. Now, on the flip side of that,
- 31:15Speaker 1: what if one of these ruled out people ends up
- 31:17Speaker 1: being the killer and they kill again while they've been
- 31:20Speaker 1: ruled out. Do I find that likely? No? I don't,
- 31:24Speaker 1: but imagine the pr nightmare that would be for the investigators.
- 31:28Speaker 1: So it's definitely a fine line that they're walking with
- 31:30Speaker 1: everything that they're doing, and if they're ruling these people out,
- 31:35Speaker 1: we have to think or hope at least that there's
- 31:38Speaker 1: a reason that they're doing it. Even if this purpose
- 31:43Speaker 1: out there and feels like he thinks he's gotten one
- 31:45Speaker 1: over on them because he's been cleared, he should be
- 31:48Speaker 1: looking over his shoulder, explain Fox News analyst Paul Morrow,
- 31:51Speaker 1: a retired inspector with the New York Police Department. You know,
- 31:55Speaker 1: I think a lot of us look at this case,
- 31:57Speaker 1: and usually when there's a murder something like this, it's
- 32:00Speaker 1: pretty quick that we have some answers. You know, usually
- 32:04Speaker 1: the police zero in on somebody at the very least
- 32:06Speaker 1: they have a suspect, and I think the shock to
- 32:09Speaker 1: the system is we haven't seen any of that so
- 32:12Speaker 1: far in this case. It's been a total loss for
- 32:15Speaker 1: people as far as who might have done it. You've
- 32:17Speaker 1: had people going so far as saying, well, this person
- 32:20Speaker 1: looks guilty and that's just crazy town. But that's what happens.
- 32:24Speaker 1: When there's a lack of information, people are going to
- 32:27Speaker 1: let their minds run wild. Morrow, who was also an attorney,
- 32:32Speaker 1: spoke to Fox News Digital on Monday from Moscow, where
- 32:35Speaker 1: he has spent several days over the course of the
- 32:37Speaker 1: past three weeks. He added that police cleared some people
- 32:41Speaker 1: very early, including several people who were tentatively ruled out
- 32:45Speaker 1: after a week. Because it was so early in the case,
- 32:48Speaker 1: they weren't operating off a ton of information, Moro said,
- 32:51Speaker 1: And even if you were cleared, if new information comes
- 32:54Speaker 1: to light, you come back in. And this is something
- 32:57Speaker 1: that is one hundred percent true. There's been plenty of
- 33:01Speaker 1: cases where people have been ruled out and then the
- 33:03Speaker 1: police reevaluated, found new information and neldom hell, look at
- 33:08Speaker 1: what we got going on with Richard Allen. This guy
- 33:11Speaker 1: was known to the police in twenty seventeen and due
- 33:14Speaker 1: to a clerical error, was able to skate for all
- 33:16Speaker 1: of these years. So, as mister Morrow is saying here,
- 33:19Speaker 1: this isn't something that never happens. Certainly the police go back,
- 33:23Speaker 1: they reevaluate, they take a look at things, and they
- 33:26Speaker 1: might have a suspect where they thought there wasn't one before.
- 33:32Speaker 1: He described two different versions of cleared, one in which
- 33:36Speaker 1: a person has a rock solid alibi whose lack of
- 33:39Speaker 1: involvement was somehow proven, and one that involves an alibi
- 33:43Speaker 1: that hasn't been fully checked out, or perhaps something that
- 33:47Speaker 1: was just a feeling that they got when they were
- 33:49Speaker 1: doing interviews. Well, to play the devil's advocate here, why
- 33:53Speaker 1: would you start ruling people out before having all of
- 33:55Speaker 1: the evidence, just say we don't have any suspects and
- 33:59Speaker 1: our investigation is ongoing. The whole ruling people out and
- 34:02Speaker 1: then going back and having to say, oh, they are
- 34:04Speaker 1: a suspect, that most certainly opens the investigation up to criticism,
- 34:10Speaker 1: and whether it's rightly placed or wrongly placed, that's just
- 34:13Speaker 1: how it goes. If it was something that they've just
- 34:16Speaker 1: felt off in the interviews or something. Then maybe when
- 34:19Speaker 1: they start doing the forensics, they start to say, well,
- 34:22Speaker 1: wait a minute, this person has come back in. He said, Remember,
- 34:26Speaker 1: this is a very very digital society, This is a
- 34:29Speaker 1: very very digital community. And again, look, I agree with
- 34:32Speaker 1: all of that, but my biggest gripe here is the
- 34:36Speaker 1: police messaging from Jump Street. Why even say anything. You
- 34:40Speaker 1: didn't have to say anything about any of this. Nobody's cleared.
- 34:43Speaker 1: We have an investigation that's ongoing, and we have no
- 34:46Speaker 1: other comments to make. But instead you start talking about
- 34:49Speaker 1: this one's cleared, that one's cleared, and you open the
- 34:51Speaker 1: door for all kinds of conversation. And Morrow noted that
- 34:55Speaker 1: if police do hit a dead end in their investigation,
- 34:58Speaker 1: they're going to go back and start over and start
- 35:01Speaker 1: questioning some of the premise that they've been operating under.
- 35:04Speaker 1: And if one of those premises that well, we've cleared
- 35:07Speaker 1: so and so, they're going to say, well, now do
- 35:10Speaker 1: we know that? Yeah, okay, that's fine and well, but
- 35:13Speaker 1: that's kind of a waste of time in my opinion. Now, again,
- 35:16Speaker 1: I'm not a professional forensic guy or an investigator, but
- 35:21Speaker 1: I think that going over road that's already been explored
- 35:25Speaker 1: in the middle of this investigation with this psychopath still
- 35:28Speaker 1: out there, Well, that might not be the best use
- 35:31Speaker 1: of resources. You should have done that in the beginning.
- 35:33Speaker 1: Right now. Again, I'm sure that they did their investigation,
- 35:37Speaker 1: looked at all of these people. This one wasn't here,
- 35:40Speaker 1: has an alibi, blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah.
- 35:42Speaker 1: But they don't have to come out and tell the
- 35:44Speaker 1: public that this one's cleared or that one's cleared. Why
- 35:48Speaker 1: would you do that. There was no reason for them
- 35:50Speaker 1: to do that at all. Now, I know people will say, well,
- 35:54Speaker 1: they wanted to end some of the rumors, Well you
- 35:56Speaker 1: just created more. And asked if they thought police might
- 36:01Speaker 1: be employing a strategy in stating publicly that they did
- 36:04Speaker 1: not believe certain people were involved, Morow and fellow Fox
- 36:08Speaker 1: News analyst Ted Williams were skeptical. I am very doubtful
- 36:12Speaker 1: that this is some sort of strategy, Moro said. I
- 36:14Speaker 1: would not assess that they were in a position where
- 36:17Speaker 1: they were playing some long strategy game because it was
- 36:20Speaker 1: so early in the case. I feel like that means
- 36:23Speaker 1: that at the time they likely believed what they released. Again,
- 36:28Speaker 1: all fine and well, but going back and if you
- 36:31Speaker 1: look at it in hindsight, releasing it at all was
- 36:34Speaker 1: a bad idea, especially just saying this one was cleared
- 36:37Speaker 1: or that one was cleared without any sort of context. So, okay,
- 36:41Speaker 1: we cleared them, Okay, how did you clear them? What
- 36:44Speaker 1: was the investigatory process that went into it? If you
- 36:48Speaker 1: brought it up, meaning the investigators, you should add some context.
- 36:52Speaker 1: That's why, once again, they shouldn't have said it in
- 36:54Speaker 1: the first place. William a former Washington d C. Homicide detective,
- 37:02Speaker 1: told Fox News Digital that the totality of the forensic
- 37:05Speaker 1: circumstances led him to doubt the possibility of such a strategy.
- 37:09Speaker 1: The renowned attorney called the investigation a case of a
- 37:12Speaker 1: different nature when it comes to clearing individuals. That's certainly
- 37:16Speaker 1: an understatement, and again, none of this tracks with anything
- 37:20Speaker 1: that we've seen before. Really, this is a case unto itself,
- 37:24Speaker 1: and there's really no precedent for what we're seeing here,
- 37:27Speaker 1: at least that I can find. Whoever killed these students
- 37:32Speaker 1: would have been covered in blood and possibly may have
- 37:35Speaker 1: been injured as a result of one of the killings.
- 37:37Speaker 1: He said, the person or persons associated with the killing
- 37:40Speaker 1: of these four students would have left a great deal
- 37:43Speaker 1: of trace evidence, such as a handprint, a fingerprint, or footprints,
- 37:47Speaker 1: all of those things law enforcement would use to rule
- 37:50Speaker 1: someone in or rule somebody out, predicated based upon the
- 37:54Speaker 1: forensic testing and the various evidence that they've gathered at
- 37:57Speaker 1: the scene. Wouldn't that lead you to believe that ruling
- 38:02Speaker 1: people out before the evidence is in, the DNA evidence
- 38:05Speaker 1: and all of the rest of it is not a
- 38:07Speaker 1: great idea. So I'm just confused as to why they
- 38:11Speaker 1: would rule people out. Now, they might have had some evidence,
- 38:14Speaker 1: but when the authorities make vague statements and they just
- 38:17Speaker 1: say this one's been ruled out or that one's been
- 38:19Speaker 1: ruled out, and there is no context for that, it's
- 38:23Speaker 1: very very confusing, and of course people are going to
- 38:26Speaker 1: have questions. He added in plain words, this is a
- 38:31Speaker 1: different kind of case when it comes to clearing individuals.
- 38:34Speaker 1: This case is driven by forensics. This case is driven
- 38:37Speaker 1: by blood splatter, This case is driven by possible hand fingerprints, footprints,
- 38:42Speaker 1: or some physical evidence that was left at the crime scene. Well,
- 38:46Speaker 1: the likelihood is, yes, that's the case, But I'd like
- 38:50Speaker 1: to add this little tidbit. What if it's not solved
- 38:54Speaker 1: by forensics. What then the students were discovered dead inside
- 39:01Speaker 1: a three story home located just a block from the
- 39:03Speaker 1: University of Idaho campus perimeter and with an eyeshot of
- 39:07Speaker 1: some fraternity houses. Kernodle, Gonsalves, and Mogan lived at the
- 39:11Speaker 1: home with two other women who were not injured. A
- 39:14Speaker 1: sixth person who was listed on the lease but was
- 39:16Speaker 1: said to have moved out and police did not believe
- 39:19Speaker 1: they were involved. Chapin was Kernodle's boyfriend and was with
- 39:23Speaker 1: her at the time of the attack. Police have said
- 39:27Speaker 1: the victims were asleep around three am and four am
- 39:30Speaker 1: on November thirteenth when they were stabbed multiple times on
- 39:33Speaker 1: the second and third floors of the three story home.
- 39:36Speaker 1: The medical examiner determined some of the victims had shown
- 39:39Speaker 1: signs of fighting back. Moscow police officers responded around eleven
- 39:45Speaker 1: to fifty eight am to a report of an unconscious
- 39:48Speaker 1: person at the address, but several people had gathered at
- 39:51Speaker 1: the crime scene by the time the police arrived. Officials said.
- 39:55Speaker 1: Investigators believe the attack was targeted. Police said, despite some
- 39:59Speaker 1: confusion as to how or why, police have not identified
- 40:04Speaker 1: the intended victim. The nine to one. One call originated
- 40:07Speaker 1: from inside the residence and came from one of the
- 40:10Speaker 1: surviving roommates cell phones. Police said multiple people allegedly spoke
- 40:15Speaker 1: to the dispatcher. Now, what we still don't know is
- 40:18Speaker 1: if the crime scene has been contaminated. We don't know
- 40:22Speaker 1: if anyone was in the bedrooms. We don't know any
- 40:24Speaker 1: of that stuff yet, so any conversation surrounding that is
- 40:28Speaker 1: simply speculation. Mogan and Gonsalvez were sleeping on the same
- 40:33Speaker 1: floor in the same bed when they were stabbed multiple times,
- 40:36Speaker 1: according to police and family members, Chapin and Kernodle were
- 40:40Speaker 1: on a different floor. The surviving roommates were on the
- 40:43Speaker 1: bottom floor of the home at the time, and survived.
- 40:47Speaker 1: Investigators have received more than two thousand, six hundred and
- 40:50Speaker 1: forty five emails and over two seven hundred and seventy
- 40:54Speaker 1: calls to the City of Moscow tip line. Police said Saturday,
- 40:58Speaker 1: the FBI has received more than one thousand and eighty
- 41:00Speaker 1: four digital media submissions. Police are also analyzing one hundred
- 41:05Speaker 1: and thirteen pieces of physical evidence and about four thousand
- 41:08Speaker 1: photos from the King Road crime scene. Investigators are still
- 41:12Speaker 1: working to identify a suspect and they have not yet
- 41:15Speaker 1: recovered a weapon. Well, folks, that's gonna do it for
- 41:19Speaker 1: this one. But I thought it was an interesting ad
- 41:21Speaker 1: considering they were talking a little bit about going back
- 41:24Speaker 1: and reevaluating some people who might have been cleared earlier
- 41:28Speaker 1: on in the investigation. And I think a lot of
- 41:31Speaker 1: people are confused why people were, you know, cleared so
- 41:35Speaker 1: early in this investigation. And any context that we can
- 41:39Speaker 1: provide to help guide us as to why that happened,
- 41:43Speaker 1: I think is a quality ad to the catalog. So
- 41:46Speaker 1: there you have it, folks, and that's going to do
- 41:48Speaker 1: it for this one. If you'd like to contact me,
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