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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Location of your emergency? I don't.
- 0:13Speaker 3: We don't know what what is.
- 0:14Speaker 4: The of the emergency?
- 0:17Speaker 5: One one?
- 0:17Speaker 6: Who King?
- 0:20Speaker 2: Trying on a location of your emergency?
- 0:22Speaker 4: Something? Hope?
- 0:25Speaker 3: We don't know what what.
- 0:26Speaker 4: Is the as of the emergency? What is the rest
- 0:36Speaker 4: of the address?
- 0:38Speaker 3: Oh King?
- 0:38Speaker 4: Two roads? Okay?
- 0:41Speaker 2: And there's that a house or an apartments?
- 0:43Speaker 3: The house?
- 0:44Speaker 4: Can you repeat the address to make sure that I
- 0:46Speaker 4: have it right.
- 0:48Speaker 7: I'll talk to you, guys. We're we have a delights over.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Next to them.
- 0:52Speaker 8: Just hearing that nine one one call makes all of
- 0:56Speaker 8: our legal analysis and speculation about what may or may
- 1:00Speaker 8: not happen at trial dim dim because we hear the
- 1:07Speaker 8: fear and the terror in the voices of those co
- 1:11Speaker 8: eds upon finding the bodies of their roommates in the
- 1:16Speaker 8: last hours. Stunning and heart wrenching nine one one calls
- 1:20Speaker 8: and texts have been released that reveal what the roommates
- 1:25Speaker 8: did before they called nine one, well as well their movements.
- 1:29Speaker 8: But first, let's hear the actual nine one one call
- 1:32Speaker 8: and let me advise you. It's disturbing, and of course
- 1:36Speaker 8: the Brian Coberger defense wants it suppressed.
- 1:40Speaker 1: They don't want the jury to hear this. Wow, I
- 1:43Speaker 1: wonder why tell.
- 1:44Speaker 3: Me exactly what's going on?
- 1:47Speaker 7: One of our one of the roommates has.
- 1:49Speaker 5: Passed out and she's drung class night and shn't wake
- 1:52Speaker 5: me up.
- 1:53Speaker 7: Oh, and they saw some men in their house.
- 1:55Speaker 5: I was, yeah, Hian, are you in the pace? Okay?
- 2:00Speaker 4: I need someone to keep the phone. Stop passing it around?
- 2:04Speaker 5: Can I just tell you what happened? Pretty much?
- 2:06Speaker 4: What is going on currently? If someone passed out right now.
- 2:10Speaker 5: I don't really know what pretty much for you in Okay.
- 2:13Speaker 4: I need to know what's going on right now. If
- 2:14Speaker 4: someone has passed out, can you find that out?
- 2:17Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll come on a medical check.
- 2:20Speaker 4: We have to.
- 2:22Speaker 8: I wonder how that nine one one dispatcher feels right
- 2:25Speaker 8: now as we hear her say, uh, stop passing it
- 2:29Speaker 8: around and being.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Completely rude to these co eds calling in.
- 2:35Speaker 2: Now.
- 2:35Speaker 8: You see the difference in the voice of the second caller,
- 2:39Speaker 8: and she's sounds much calmer than you know what. Let's
- 2:44Speaker 8: listen to the first one now, and I don't on.
- 2:46Speaker 2: Location of the emergency.
- 2:48Speaker 5: Something he's talking to you.
- 2:51Speaker 4: Don't know what what is the address of the emergency?
- 3:02Speaker 4: What is the rest of the address oh king, okay,
- 3:07Speaker 4: and is that a house or an apartment? It's a house.
- 3:11Speaker 4: Can you repeat the address to make sure that I
- 3:12Speaker 4: have it right.
- 3:14Speaker 7: I'll talk to you guys. We're we live at the lights,
- 3:17Speaker 7: so we're next to them.
- 3:18Speaker 8: You can hear the sobbing and the hysteria in the
- 3:21Speaker 8: background of that nine on one call. Now compare it
- 3:24Speaker 8: to the next comments.
- 3:26Speaker 3: Tell me exactly what's going on.
- 3:29Speaker 4: One of our one of the roommates.
- 3:31Speaker 7: Whos passed out and she's drunk class night and.
- 3:34Speaker 4: She's not wake me up.
- 3:35Speaker 3: It's okay.
- 3:36Speaker 5: Oh, and they saw some man in their house house night.
- 3:39Speaker 4: Yeah, an, are you with the patient? Okay?
- 3:43Speaker 2: I need someone to keep the phone, stop passing it around.
- 3:46Speaker 4: Can I just tell you what happened?
- 3:47Speaker 5: Pretty much?
- 3:48Speaker 4: What is going on currently? If someone passed out right now,
- 3:52Speaker 4: I don't really know what pretty much at PIM Okay,
- 3:55Speaker 4: I need to know what's going on right now? If
- 3:57Speaker 4: someone has passed out, can you find that out?
- 3:59Speaker 5: No, check.
- 4:03Speaker 8: What we have to And there you hear the surviving
- 4:06Speaker 8: victim speaking, and she begins to tell what happened.
- 4:10Speaker 1: She says pretty much at four a m.
- 4:12Speaker 8: And the dispatch operator cuts in and goes, yeah, I
- 4:14Speaker 8: don't need to know that. I need to know if
- 4:15Speaker 8: somebody passed out. Can you find that out?
- 4:18Speaker 9: Okay, let's keep going.
- 4:35Speaker 5: She's not waking up.
- 4:39Speaker 4: Okay, one moment, I'm going to help hert.
- 4:41Speaker 5: It that way.
- 4:43Speaker 8: You're crying and heavy breathing between sobs. In the background,
- 4:57Speaker 8: it was almost unintelligible. Now they've got a guy friend
- 5:00Speaker 8: that's been brought over, and you hear him screaming.
- 5:03Speaker 1: Xana, Ethan.
- 5:05Speaker 8: Unintelligible right now, get somebody here right now, and the
- 5:10Speaker 8: continued sobbing, and you hear someone.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Yelling Xana, Xana.
- 5:16Speaker 8: And I only can imagine at that moment to Chris
- 5:20Speaker 8: McDonough joining me. He and I've been to the scene
- 5:23Speaker 8: many many times, them shaking Xanna, yelling at Xana, trying
- 5:29Speaker 8: to make her wake up. No wonder Coburger wants this
- 5:34Speaker 8: suppressed so the jury will never hear it, because it
- 5:38Speaker 8: takes you to that moment when they realize their roommates
- 5:42Speaker 8: have all been murdered.
- 5:43Speaker 10: Absolutely, Nancy, I mean, this is a very powerful nine
- 5:47Speaker 10: one one call. It also gives us a clear understanding
- 5:50Speaker 10: of the state of mind of everybody that was experiencing
- 5:54Speaker 10: this horror that very moment. I mean to the point
- 5:57Speaker 10: where you know, there's almost a disbelief that takes place.
- 6:01Speaker 10: And I've heard, like you and many others, hundreds of
- 6:05Speaker 10: these phone calls, and these kids imagine going upstairs and
- 6:10Speaker 10: witnessing what they've witnessed is just horrific. It's absolutely horrific.
- 6:16Speaker 8: I'm just thinking how they are going to try to
- 6:20Speaker 8: get the nine on one calls suppressed.
- 6:22Speaker 11: It's really hard to do. To doctor Bethany.
- 6:25Speaker 8: Marshall, first of all, we were just speaking to Chris mcdonna.
- 6:29Speaker 8: He is the star of the Interview Room on his
- 6:32Speaker 8: own YouTube channel, but for my purposes, he is a
- 6:37Speaker 8: veteran homicide detective with over three hundred death scenes under
- 6:41Speaker 8: his belt. He's at Coldcasefoundation dot org. Doctor Bethany, these
- 6:47Speaker 8: two surviving victims, Dylan and Bethany, have been attacked, maligned, mistreated,
- 6:54Speaker 8: all sorts of accusations hurled their way.
- 6:58Speaker 1: None of it matters when you hear this nine one
- 7:00Speaker 1: one call. None of that matters.
- 7:04Speaker 8: I remember when I first started prosecuting, I would try to,
- 7:07Speaker 8: you know, reshape the victims or witnesses to give a
- 7:12Speaker 8: better impression.
- 7:13Speaker 11: That lasted one trial I'm like, forget it.
- 7:15Speaker 8: Take your witness as you find them, and whether the
- 7:20Speaker 8: cross exam nothing is going to matter to this jury.
- 7:23Speaker 1: When they hear that nine to one one call. No
- 7:25Speaker 1: matter how the defense tries to attack.
- 7:27Speaker 12: These girls, Nancy, this nine to one one call is
- 7:30Speaker 12: the first witness and the last witness in this case.
- 7:33Speaker 12: It's uncontrovertible truth. You cannot take away from it. You
- 7:37Speaker 12: cannot minimize, you cannot cross examine a tape and try
- 7:41Speaker 12: to tell the witnesses, Oh, they weren't really that emotional
- 7:44Speaker 12: and they were making it up. It's right there. You
- 7:46Speaker 12: hear the shock, the shock in comprehension, trying to make
- 7:50Speaker 12: sense of what's going on, the hysteria. As you said earlier, also, Nancy, fear,
- 7:56Speaker 12: profound fear. They say there was a man in the
- 7:58Speaker 12: house last night, So in a house where they feel
- 8:01Speaker 12: vulnerable at that point too guilt that is their roommate
- 8:05Speaker 12: and not them. You know, Nancy, the tapes are going
- 8:07Speaker 12: to be suppressed because these voices don't lie. They are real, true, raw,
- 8:15Speaker 12: jagged emotion.
- 8:16Speaker 8: I'm going out now to crime Stories. Investigative reporter who
- 8:20Speaker 8: has devoted herself to researching and investigating, pouring over every detail,
- 8:27Speaker 8: every photo, every word of transcript in this case, Sidney's
- 8:32Speaker 8: summer joining us. Could you clarify for everyone who is
- 8:36Speaker 8: Hunter Johnson?
- 8:37Speaker 7: So Nancy Hunter Johnson is referred to only as HJ
- 8:41Speaker 7: in court documents, but when you read the Gonzalvest statement
- 8:45Speaker 7: in response to this nine to one one call being
- 8:48Speaker 7: made public, they mention Hunter Johnson. He is a friend
- 8:52Speaker 7: of Ethan Shapins, and he is that male voice that
- 8:55Speaker 7: you're hearing on the nine to one one call, according
- 8:58Speaker 7: to the Gonsolvest' family. So the context that we can
- 9:01Speaker 7: kind of gather what I'm hearing at least, is that
- 9:05Speaker 7: Hunter is the one who couldn't get a hold of
- 9:08Speaker 7: Sethan finally decides, you know they're not answering the bedroom door.
- 9:11Speaker 7: I'm going to step in here and see what's going on.
- 9:14Speaker 7: So he opens that door. He sees Vanna's body, and
- 9:18Speaker 7: at this point he knows that something is really wrong.
- 9:21Speaker 7: He can immediately tells beth Andy Funk to call nine
- 9:24Speaker 7: one one, but it seems like he didn't give her
- 9:26Speaker 7: the full story of what was going on, so he
- 9:29Speaker 7: tells her that Zana needs help. She needs to call
- 9:32Speaker 7: nine one one, but doesn't really explain everything. So when
- 9:36Speaker 7: you hear them, we need to go check, we need
- 9:38Speaker 7: to get more information for the dispatcher. They go inside
- 9:41Speaker 7: to talk to Hunter to see what's going on, and
- 9:44Speaker 7: they're asking, is she okay? Is she passed out? Because
- 9:47Speaker 7: he hasn't told them what he is seeing in an
- 9:50Speaker 7: effort to protect them, maybe keep them calm so they
- 9:53Speaker 7: can get nine one one there, And you can hear
- 9:56Speaker 7: him get out, get out, get out, telling them to
- 9:59Speaker 7: back out of the room because he doesn't want them
- 10:01Speaker 7: to see the horror that he is experiencing.
- 10:04Speaker 8: When you know what you're looking for, and you'll have
- 10:08Speaker 8: to the drill have to be told this in advance.
- 10:10Speaker 8: When you know what you're looking for or listening for,
- 10:13Speaker 8: you clearly hear him h J. Hunter yelling Xana Athan
- 10:19Speaker 8: and then you hear him again, yelling for Xana Cronodle
- 10:23Speaker 8: to wake up.
- 10:25Speaker 11: Here. We hear him again, listen, yeah.
- 10:39Speaker 4: Okay, and how old is she?
- 10:42Speaker 7: She's twenty.
- 10:44Speaker 4: Twenty, you said.
- 10:47Speaker 1: Twenty.
- 10:47Speaker 7: Here's okay?
- 10:49Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, okay, I need someone to stop passing the
- 10:53Speaker 4: phone around because I've talked to four different people.
- 10:55Speaker 5: Hey, sorry, they just gave me the phone.
- 10:57Speaker 4: Is she breathing?
- 10:58Speaker 2: Shell?
- 10:59Speaker 5: He? Is she breathing? No?
- 11:02Speaker 8: What is wrong with this dispatch operator? But you know what,
- 11:05Speaker 8: that's neither here nor there. Here we are hearing HJ.
- 11:10Speaker 8: Hunter talking to dispatch, and at the beginning you hear
- 11:14Speaker 8: heavy breathing, someone whispering, whispering something unintelligible that seems to
- 11:18Speaker 8: end with the word blood.
- 11:20Speaker 11: And then you hear him turn around.
- 11:22Speaker 8: And yell get out, get out, get out.
- 11:24Speaker 1: And crying.
- 11:27Speaker 8: And then you hear a female voice crying, and then
- 11:31Speaker 8: you hear dispatch being rude.
- 11:32Speaker 11: Again. Let's hear more of the n I'm on one
- 11:36Speaker 11: called just released.
- 11:38Speaker 7: And I can't talk to him.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Hello, okay, I have already sent to be ambulance and
- 11:46Speaker 2: law enforcement.
- 11:47Speaker 4: Stay on the line. If there's a fibrillator available, send
- 11:50Speaker 4: someone to get it now and tell me when.
- 11:51Speaker 2: You have it.
- 11:52Speaker 5: Again, there's a poet here right now.
- 11:55Speaker 4: Okay. If there's a deibrillator available, send someone to get
- 11:58Speaker 4: it now and tell me when you have it.
- 12:01Speaker 1: Do you have a disipulator?
- 12:06Speaker 5: Guess do you have one?
- 12:08Speaker 4: Are you talking to the officer? Yes, Okay, I'm gonna
- 12:11Speaker 4: let you go to see there with you and can.
- 12:12Speaker 5: Help you well, okay, thank you fine.
- 12:14Speaker 8: Okay to Sydney Summer, joining us at Crime Stories, investigative reporter, Sydney,
- 12:20Speaker 8: you hear dispatch clearly not understanding what's happening. Not their fault,
- 12:25Speaker 8: because even the girls right now don't really understand what's happening.
- 12:28Speaker 8: The only one that knows what has happened to a
- 12:31Speaker 8: certain degree is Hunter Johnson.
- 12:34Speaker 11: He saw obviously that they were.
- 12:37Speaker 8: Dead and told Dylan and Bethany to get out, yelling
- 12:41Speaker 8: at them, get out, get out, don't don't.
- 12:43Speaker 11: Go in there.
- 12:45Speaker 8: A defibrillator would not have helped at that point, Sydney.
- 12:49Speaker 7: No, Nancy, absolutely not. And that's the point that involve
- 12:52Speaker 7: a family made. And their statement about this nine one
- 12:54Speaker 7: one call is again, remember as you're hearing this, if
- 12:58Speaker 7: they had called nine one one at four fifty am,
- 13:03Speaker 7: the result would have been the same. All four of
- 13:06Speaker 7: these students still would have lost their lives. And Nancy,
- 13:09Speaker 7: I do think it's interesting that the girls, everyone on
- 13:14Speaker 7: this nine one one call mentions the man that they
- 13:17Speaker 7: saw in their house at four am multiple times, So
- 13:20Speaker 7: as they're making this nine one one call, the girls
- 13:23Speaker 7: know enough to feel like that is connected in some
- 13:27Speaker 7: way or sheep or form, they feel that's important enough
- 13:30Speaker 7: to tell the nine one one dispatcher. So it's unclear
- 13:33Speaker 7: exactly who knew what in this moment, but it does
- 13:37Speaker 7: feel like it was important to them that this possible
- 13:41Speaker 7: break in be mentioned right off the back.
- 13:43Speaker 11: It does, Sidney Sumner.
- 13:44Speaker 8: There is no a replacement, There is no substitute for preparation,
- 13:50Speaker 8: for a careful review of every line, every document, every
- 13:54Speaker 8: piece of evidence, because even one word, or in my case,
- 13:58Speaker 8: in a serial murder case tried, one earring can prove
- 14:02Speaker 8: so much.
- 14:02Speaker 11: And what you just said I find incredibly valuable.
- 14:07Speaker 8: And I'll tell you why, Sidney Summer, Because we know
- 14:12Speaker 8: that the eyewitness that spotted who the state says is
- 14:14Speaker 8: Brian Coburger, his build, his color, his hair color, his
- 14:20Speaker 8: bushy eyebrows. They're going to try and destroy her. But
- 14:26Speaker 8: what she just said on the nine one one call
- 14:30Speaker 8: is called an excited utterance. Whether that really fits this
- 14:36Speaker 8: scenario or not, that's what it's called under the law.
- 14:39Speaker 8: This is before she had time to fabricate a story
- 14:42Speaker 8: as it will be claimed. This is what's happening on
- 14:46Speaker 8: the scene. And you're right, Sidney, and you've identified. The
- 14:50Speaker 8: importance of the witness is noting then there was a
- 14:55Speaker 8: guy in the house. If the dispatch hadn't interrupted her,
- 14:58Speaker 8: we would have heard more right about what happened around
- 15:01Speaker 8: four am. You're right, she is connecting the murders to
- 15:06Speaker 8: the intruder in the home. Now, you also heard Sidney Sumner,
- 15:11Speaker 8: our reporter, talking about what the Gonsalvest family said. Kelly's
- 15:17Speaker 8: family and I got to tell you these families have
- 15:21Speaker 8: been through hell, hell, and it's not over yet. There's
- 15:27Speaker 8: a trial to be had, But I want you to
- 15:30Speaker 8: hear what they have to say about this nine on
- 15:35Speaker 8: one call. In all their suffering, they maintain not only courage,
- 15:39Speaker 8: but grace.
- 15:40Speaker 13: The Gonzalvez family releases a statement they say every ragged breath, cry,
- 15:44Speaker 13: and trimmor in the student's voices reveals a cruel reality.
- 15:48Speaker 13: They experienced, the kind of horror that shakes you to
- 15:50Speaker 13: your deepest core.
- 15:52Speaker 3: Tell me exactly what's on.
- 15:54Speaker 5: One of the roommates has passed out as she's young
- 15:57Speaker 5: class night and short way up. Oh. Also, man in
- 16:00Speaker 5: their house was right.
- 16:02Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 16:03Speaker 8: In the last hours, heart wrenching nine one one calls
- 16:07Speaker 8: have been released of what was going on. At the
- 16:10Speaker 8: scene of the murder when the roommates wake up and
- 16:14Speaker 8: discover for people they didn't know at the time, they
- 16:19Speaker 8: were all dead. For Beautiful Beautiful University, Idaho students, this
- 16:26Speaker 8: as a smirky selfie emerges of Oh.
- 16:30Speaker 11: Thank you, Brian Coberg.
- 16:33Speaker 8: This is around ten twenty ten thirty in the morning,
- 16:36Speaker 8: ten thirty one am to be precise. Interesting, this is
- 16:42Speaker 8: just after the murders that said take a listen to this.
- 16:48Speaker 8: You of course you know this is coming. Those nine
- 16:51Speaker 8: one one calls are so powerful the defense is fighting
- 16:55Speaker 8: tooth and claw to get them suppressed.
- 16:57Speaker 14: Law enforcement released the nine to one one recording after
- 17:00Speaker 14: the prosecutors unsealed a court document with transcript of the call.
- 17:03Speaker 14: The filing in response to Coberg's argument the jury should
- 17:07Speaker 14: not hear the nine to one one call. The attorneys
- 17:09Speaker 14: argue that the call was improperly submitted as evidence, as
- 17:12Speaker 14: many off the statements meet in the.
- 17:13Speaker 13: Call are hearsay.
- 17:15Speaker 14: Judge John Judge already ruled that the statements in question
- 17:18Speaker 14: fall under present tense impression and excited utterance exceptions, but
- 17:22Speaker 14: defense attorneys are making the argument again with Ada County
- 17:25Speaker 14: Judge Stephen Hipler.
- 17:27Speaker 8: Joining me high profile lawyer out of the LA jurisdiction
- 17:32Speaker 8: Philip Debay, Okay.
- 17:34Speaker 1: You know what you just heard.
- 17:35Speaker 8: I'm going to throw a technical legal term at you
- 17:38Speaker 8: is a big stink and pile a bs. Okay, that's
- 17:43Speaker 8: what that legal motion is. And I don't know how
- 17:45Speaker 8: defense attorneys keep doing it and have a straight face.
- 17:48Speaker 8: You know, they make an argument that a nine to
- 17:50Speaker 8: one one call shouldn't come in, when of course it's
- 17:54Speaker 8: coming in. It's an excited utterance and it's a present
- 17:57Speaker 8: tense impression.
- 17:59Speaker 1: But also so of course it's going to come in.
- 18:02Speaker 8: If the speaker takes the stand and can be cross
- 18:09Speaker 8: examined on it.
- 18:10Speaker 1: So what are they trying to do?
- 18:12Speaker 15: Well, I think what they're trying to establish is that
- 18:15Speaker 15: you cannot use nine to one one calls to circumvent
- 18:18Speaker 15: the rules against your say, and you've got to understand
- 18:21Speaker 15: something in order for it to be a present sense impression.
- 18:24Speaker 15: They have to be relaying what is happening in real time,
- 18:28Speaker 15: in other words, as it occurs. And one of the
- 18:30Speaker 15: things she says, there was a man in the house
- 18:33Speaker 15: last night, So what are you going to do? You're
- 18:36Speaker 15: going to state stale facts from the night before to
- 18:39Speaker 15: get around the rules against her, say.
- 18:41Speaker 8: First of all, what you just said is not true,
- 18:43Speaker 8: because I have entered niemal one calls saying nim one
- 18:48Speaker 8: calls internet into evidence by the murder victim, who obviously
- 18:53Speaker 8: couldnt be cross examined unless you perform a seance in
- 18:56Speaker 8: front of the jury crime stories with Nancy Grace. So
- 19:09Speaker 8: the fact that the nine one one call or who
- 19:12Speaker 8: is speaking on the naimal one call cannot be crossed
- 19:16Speaker 8: is not a reason not to bring in the naimal
- 19:19Speaker 8: one call. And the judge pointed out, I guess you
- 19:21Speaker 8: think the judge is wrong too. Under excited utterance and
- 19:25Speaker 8: present sense impression it's coming in.
- 19:28Speaker 15: Where would it end? What if she would have said,
- 19:30Speaker 15: I saw a man in the house six years ago, shibuis,
- 19:33Speaker 15: but I happened to find my roommates deceased in their
- 19:35Speaker 15: bed today.
- 19:36Speaker 11: But that's not what she said.
- 19:37Speaker 15: No, but she said last night. So last night is
- 19:40Speaker 15: a scale fact. It's not a present No, it's not
- 19:42Speaker 15: sense impression.
- 19:44Speaker 5: How do you.
- 19:44Speaker 1: Figure him up? You are misleading the viewers.
- 19:48Speaker 8: Present tense present tense impression is what the speaker is saying.
- 19:54Speaker 1: At that moment.
- 19:55Speaker 8: It doesn't matter if she's recounting something that happened eight
- 19:59Speaker 8: hours before, and when she says last night, that's something
- 20:03Speaker 8: she can be cross examined on.
- 20:05Speaker 1: Okay, you know what.
- 20:06Speaker 8: I'm not a betting person, but why don't we bet
- 20:09Speaker 8: right now on air?
- 20:11Speaker 1: This nine on one will come in.
- 20:14Speaker 15: Of course it will because anything to stick it to
- 20:16Speaker 15: the defense, they're going to find tortured legal logic to
- 20:19Speaker 15: get it into evidence. Of course, that's what they're gonna do.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Okay, you know what I lost to someone with real.
- 20:25Speaker 8: Life experience and nine one calls Chris mcdonne and joining me.
- 20:28Speaker 8: Homicide detective worked over three hundred homicide cases plus, he
- 20:32Speaker 8: was advice.
- 20:34Speaker 11: You don't even want to know what he saw.
- 20:35Speaker 8: Advice, Chris, have you ever in your life and all
- 20:40Speaker 8: the cases you investigated, ever seeing the nine one one
- 20:44Speaker 8: call excluded from evidence, suppressed so the jury could not
- 20:48Speaker 8: hear it ever?
- 20:49Speaker 1: One time?
- 20:50Speaker 10: No, and definitely not under these circumstances. I mean, your
- 20:54Speaker 10: point is right on target, Nancy, with you know, the
- 20:56Speaker 10: excited utterance here, it is the exception of the hearsay rule.
- 21:00Speaker 10: And remember we also have to keep the frame of
- 21:03Speaker 10: mind of the caller they are still thinking that their
- 21:07Speaker 10: friend is passed out drunk from the night before, and
- 21:11Speaker 10: the other person that grabbed the phone even started the
- 21:14Speaker 10: conversation with that. So that's the present tense when it starts.
- 21:33Speaker 8: In addition to the release in the past hours of
- 21:36Speaker 8: those very disturbing nine on one calls, which of course
- 21:40Speaker 8: the defense is trying to suppress, new cell phone data
- 21:44Speaker 8: released that indicates what the surviving roommates did before calling
- 21:50Speaker 8: nine to one one, And again the survivors have been
- 21:54Speaker 8: attacked viciously. The murders occurred around four am, and you
- 22:01Speaker 8: see the calls were made.
- 22:02Speaker 1: Much later mid morning.
- 22:05Speaker 8: Now we're getting a peak at what was happening in
- 22:09Speaker 8: those early morning hours around.
- 22:11Speaker 1: Four a m. So far and jump in Sydney if
- 22:14Speaker 1: I got any of this wrong.
- 22:15Speaker 8: We know they were all out really late, some of
- 22:18Speaker 8: them in a group. They were at a food truck.
- 22:21Speaker 8: Remember at the beginning of the investigation. Let's see this
- 22:24Speaker 8: photo of them at the food truck. Because everybody at
- 22:29Speaker 8: that food truck and standing in the group fell under suspicion.
- 22:34Speaker 8: I recall there was a guy in the distance. All
- 22:37Speaker 8: these people were tracked down and questioned. See the guy
- 22:42Speaker 8: on the right kind of standing away. He was found,
- 22:46Speaker 8: he was everybody was found and questioned. So we know
- 22:52Speaker 8: they were at a food truck I believe, getting pasta
- 22:55Speaker 8: super super early.
- 22:58Speaker 11: In the morning.
- 22:58Speaker 8: I'm talking one, two, three. We know they went home.
- 23:02Speaker 8: We know some of them ordered like uber eats. These
- 23:08Speaker 8: are the last known images of some of the victims,
- 23:14Speaker 8: and this became an evidentiary football at the beginning of
- 23:20Speaker 8: the investigation, as LA law enforcement tried to track their
- 23:24Speaker 8: last movements and who they would have come in contact.
- 23:27Speaker 11: With they go home.
- 23:29Speaker 8: Then naysayers immediately began vilifying Dylan and Bethany because they
- 23:37Speaker 8: quote waited to call nine to one one. But I
- 23:40Speaker 8: want you to see the text conversation between Dylan and Bethany.
- 23:46Speaker 7: No one is answering.
- 23:47Speaker 1: I'm really confused right now.
- 23:49Speaker 12: Yeah, dude, what the Vanna was wearing all black?
- 23:52Speaker 1: I'm freaking out right now. No, it's like a ski mask.
- 23:55Speaker 5: Almost shut the fuck up.
- 23:57Speaker 1: Actually, like he had something over his forehead and mouth. Bethany,
- 24:02Speaker 1: I'm not kidding.
- 24:02Speaker 11: I'm so freaked out.
- 24:04Speaker 12: So a mine, my phone is going to die, come
- 24:06Speaker 12: to my room, run down here. I'm screwed though, Yeah,
- 24:10Speaker 12: I know, but it's better than being alone.
- 24:11Speaker 8: Sidney Sumner joining me Crime Stories, investigative reporter, Sydney. Let's
- 24:16Speaker 8: put this into context. Of course, the cell phone data
- 24:19Speaker 8: experts are going to know exactly what time these texts
- 24:23Speaker 8: were going back and forth between them. Dylan Mortenson's phone
- 24:26Speaker 8: was dying and Bethany was trying to coax her to
- 24:31Speaker 8: run to her room. Can you imagine running from room
- 24:35Speaker 8: to room knowing that there's an intruder, or thinking there's
- 24:39Speaker 8: an intruder in the home. One and remember how the
- 24:43Speaker 8: girls were attacked because one opened the door and saw
- 24:46Speaker 8: who the state contends to be Brian Coburger standing there,
- 24:51Speaker 8: and we were all like, well, well not us, but
- 24:53Speaker 8: others were, well, why didn't she called my one?
- 24:56Speaker 1: One then seemingly attacking her.
- 25:00Speaker 8: Sure, tell me what you've gleaned about these text messages, Sidney, Nancy.
- 25:06Speaker 7: I think these text messages are between two terrified co
- 25:10Speaker 7: eds who don't know what's going on and have been
- 25:13Speaker 7: out all night partying, drinking. So unfortunately they are not
- 25:18Speaker 7: sober at this point, and their house is known to
- 25:22Speaker 7: have sometimes strangers in it. They throw parties often, they
- 25:26Speaker 7: have a lot of friends. There's five people living there,
- 25:30Speaker 7: So in terms of having a stranger in the house,
- 25:33Speaker 7: that's not super uncommon for them. And even if this
- 25:37Speaker 7: person was not somebody they recognized and fruit them out,
- 25:41Speaker 7: they might not immediately call nine to one one, not
- 25:46Speaker 7: knowing whether or not this is someone who is supposed
- 25:48Speaker 7: to be there at that point.
- 25:50Speaker 8: Okay, brace yourselves, Philip Dubay joining me, high profile lawyer
- 25:54Speaker 8: out of LA What would be the grounds? Okay, saggerate,
- 26:00Speaker 8: no hyperbolek just tell me what could possibly be the
- 26:04Speaker 8: grounds the defense will use to try and suppress these
- 26:08Speaker 8: text messages.
- 26:09Speaker 11: Philip Debay that.
- 26:10Speaker 15: It violates the rule of completeness. In other words, if
- 26:13Speaker 15: you don't have the complete textual context, and all you're
- 26:18Speaker 15: doing is just providing snippets, perhaps out of context, then
- 26:23Speaker 15: what it does is it has a tendency to mislead
- 26:25Speaker 15: the jury. So how you cure it is you allow
- 26:28Speaker 15: all the texts in their entirety to come in so
- 26:31Speaker 15: that the jury can read everything in harmony. Otherwise it
- 26:34Speaker 15: has a tendency to mislead the tryer effect, and it's
- 26:37Speaker 15: common not just with text messages. We see it where
- 26:40Speaker 15: prosecutors try to admit recorded statements of a defendant recorded
- 26:45Speaker 15: statements of a victim or of a witness, and in
- 26:48Speaker 15: order to have a thorough opportunity to cross examine on
- 26:51Speaker 15: each point, you need everything presented.
- 26:54Speaker 8: Oh oh, how I would love to try a case
- 26:59Speaker 8: I can to you and have you spout that out
- 27:04Speaker 8: in front of a judge, because.
- 27:06Speaker 11: The remedy for that is to say, fine.
- 27:09Speaker 1: We'll play the whole thing.
- 27:10Speaker 8: Everybody, get comfy because it's about two hours here. We're
- 27:15Speaker 8: just showing the relevant portion of the text dubet. Other
- 27:21Speaker 8: text preceding this are talking about.
- 27:23Speaker 1: Hey, where are we going to dinner? Where are you tonight?
- 27:25Speaker 11: Where are you tonight?
- 27:26Speaker 8: Let's go home, let's order uber each Do you want
- 27:28Speaker 8: noodles or do you want a hamburger?
- 27:30Speaker 16: Exactly?
- 27:32Speaker 8: We play the part about the attacks.
- 27:36Speaker 1: But sure.
- 27:37Speaker 8: The answer to that is sure, be careful what you want,
- 27:40Speaker 8: my dear, for you will surely get it.
- 27:42Speaker 1: The defense wants to hear the whole thing. I'm happy
- 27:45Speaker 1: to play it with that.
- 27:47Speaker 8: Yes, noo, that make you happy, because that is the
- 27:50Speaker 8: rule of completeness. In other words, both sides get to
- 27:54Speaker 8: see the entire transcript, or hear the whole interview or
- 27:57Speaker 8: the whole phone call.
- 27:58Speaker 1: Whether it's relevant or not.
- 28:00Speaker 8: Would that would that playcate your completeness objection?
- 28:05Speaker 15: It would cure it. Remember it's a legal objection, it's not. Yeah,
- 28:10Speaker 15: of course it would.
- 28:11Speaker 17: So, yes, Okay, Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 28:29Speaker 3: How old is she breathing?
- 28:35Speaker 2: Close?
- 28:36Speaker 11: She breathing?
- 28:37Speaker 3: No?
- 28:38Speaker 2: Okay?
- 28:39Speaker 8: Stunningly, while we have seen the defense waffling, skidding.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Back and forth, what will be the defense now?
- 28:48Speaker 8: Believe it or not, the defense has emerged and it
- 28:51Speaker 8: is I was framed.
- 28:53Speaker 18: Listen well, still fighting to exclude the knife sheath DNA
- 28:56Speaker 18: evidence that was identified as Coburger through investigative genetic genielo.
- 29:00Speaker 18: It appears the defense will now claim that Coburger was
- 29:03Speaker 18: framed the knife sheath left behind by the real killer
- 29:06Speaker 18: to distract detectives. The state points out the defense's potential
- 29:09Speaker 18: argument in response to a sealed filing Prosecutors right that
- 29:13Speaker 18: the defense will try to convince a jury that the
- 29:15Speaker 18: sheath does not prove Coburger was ever at the crime scene.
- 29:18Speaker 1: Oh dear, have they launched onto my knife and gun?
- 29:21Speaker 8: Show theory that they would argue that Coburger had touched
- 29:26Speaker 8: the knife or the knife sheath and then someone else
- 29:29Speaker 8: I guess what was watching him and left it there
- 29:32Speaker 8: to frame him, framed by who Let me see that
- 29:35Speaker 8: smirky selfie where Coburger goes all Kim Komi. Wait a minute,
- 29:41Speaker 8: Sidney Sumner, do I see I'm seeing in this version?
- 29:47Speaker 8: Is that a window seal? Is that a window frame
- 29:51Speaker 8: to the right, or is that a shower curtain? Or
- 29:52Speaker 8: do we even know?
- 29:54Speaker 7: Nancy? We don't know for certain, but unfortunately, I do
- 29:58Speaker 7: personally think that is a shower. It's not a flat edge,
- 30:01Speaker 7: it's clearly foft, possibly hanging, and I can possibly barely
- 30:06Speaker 7: see a little hair of a shower curtain ring up
- 30:10Speaker 7: in that top right corner.
- 30:11Speaker 8: Sidney Summer, tell me about the cell phone data that
- 30:14Speaker 8: the defense is content. They're contending it right now, and
- 30:17Speaker 8: they're bringing on a so called expert to do so.
- 30:20Speaker 7: Yeah, Nancy. So what the defense is claiming is that
- 30:23Speaker 7: once again the state has cherry picked what data they
- 30:27Speaker 7: want to include so that this cell phone data fits
- 30:30Speaker 7: their narrative that Coburger was at this house that night.
- 30:34Speaker 7: So FBI agent Nicholas Balance did some kind of analysis,
- 30:38Speaker 7: and they're claiming that he willfully chose things that helped
- 30:42Speaker 7: the state's case and left out exculpatory evidence. But they
- 30:46Speaker 7: don't know because he didn't file a complete report. So
- 30:50Speaker 7: defence is claiming they only sent over a PowerPoint that
- 30:53Speaker 7: they planned to use in court, and it doesn't tell
- 30:55Speaker 7: me anything about his methodology. So this testimony needs to
- 30:59Speaker 7: be blocked.
- 31:00Speaker 8: Todd Shipley joining me, digital cybercrime expert, former detective sergeant,
- 31:04Speaker 8: author of a new book, It's Amazing Surviving a cyber Attack,
- 31:09Speaker 8: Securing Social Media, Protecting Your Home. Is also author of
- 31:14Speaker 8: Investigating Internet Crimes, Solving Crimes in Cyberspace. You can find
- 31:19Speaker 8: them at dark Intel dot info. Todd, again, that's albs.
- 31:26Speaker 8: Because the defense has access to all of the same
- 31:30Speaker 8: data the state has, they can.
- 31:33Speaker 1: Generate their own report.
- 31:35Speaker 8: Instead of saying, exclude all of this because we don't
- 31:38Speaker 8: like the state's report.
- 31:40Speaker 1: They can do their own report. What are they going
- 31:42Speaker 1: on about.
- 31:42Speaker 6: Well, that's exactly right, Nancy. I mean, they could go
- 31:44Speaker 6: over the data. If they've got the cell phone tower data,
- 31:48Speaker 6: they've got the data from the cell phones, they could
- 31:50Speaker 6: be doing the comparison themselves and making a report that
- 31:53Speaker 6: they were just trying to bring somebody into testify to,
- 31:58Speaker 6: you know, make it it looked like the prosecution witness
- 32:03Speaker 6: was not doing the right job. If they did a declaration,
- 32:06Speaker 6: they could lay out exactly what they think the facts
- 32:08Speaker 6: are that could be then refuted by the prosecution if
- 32:11Speaker 6: it's wrong. But they haven't done that. They're just arguing
- 32:14Speaker 6: that they want somebody to testify. So it's kind of
- 32:16Speaker 6: silly that they've done this. They could just bring forward
- 32:19Speaker 6: the facts and see what's wrong with it, and they
- 32:21Speaker 6: haven't done it.
- 32:21Speaker 8: Shipley, you have very carefully reviewed the facts in this case.
- 32:26Speaker 8: What do you believe the cell phone data calls and
- 32:29Speaker 8: isn't it true regarding these texts we were just playing
- 32:32Speaker 8: as well as the nine one one call. We're going
- 32:34Speaker 8: to be able to tell digitally exactly what time the
- 32:37Speaker 8: text went down and the calls.
- 32:38Speaker 6: Well exactly, I mean, we're the digital elevenist is going
- 32:41Speaker 6: to tell a very compelling story for everybody, For all
- 32:45Speaker 6: the people in the house where they were that night before,
- 32:48Speaker 6: the events that occurred at the truck, that they had
- 32:53Speaker 6: dinner at all those things are going to be telling
- 32:56Speaker 6: the story, including the suspect. His cell phone is going
- 33:00Speaker 6: to be telling a story. But it's not all evidence yet.
- 33:04Speaker 6: They've just released the pings of you know, where the
- 33:07Speaker 6: towers were that the suspect was, and that's damning, and
- 33:11Speaker 6: that's why the defense doesn't want to bring it in
- 33:13Speaker 6: because it's telling a story that they don't like, and
- 33:15Speaker 6: it's going to tell more of it because there's more
- 33:18Speaker 6: of the story. I mean, even your image is more
- 33:20Speaker 6: than the selfie there that's you know you're posting. It's
- 33:23Speaker 6: going to tell a story. The digital elevens, the metadata
- 33:25Speaker 6: in that image is going to tell a story and
- 33:28Speaker 6: all the other things he's done, because I'm sure that
- 33:30Speaker 6: he likes so many other you know, suspects have plotted
- 33:35Speaker 6: this out and there may be evidence from days or
- 33:38Speaker 6: weeks before where he went to that house. I don't
- 33:40Speaker 6: know that for a fact, but as they go through
- 33:42Speaker 6: the phone, they're going to be able to see the
- 33:44Speaker 6: story of his life in addition to what the victims was.
- 33:48Speaker 8: Joining us now Special guest doctor Kendall Crowns. He is
- 33:52Speaker 8: the chief medical Examiner Terrant County, that's Fort Worth, Texas
- 33:56Speaker 8: and a stained a lecturer at the Burnett School of
- 34:00Speaker 8: Medicine at TCU. Question, why is it that at first
- 34:07Speaker 8: the girl's thought that the victims were just passed out.
- 34:12Speaker 11: How could that be? They were stabbed multiple times, doctor cram.
- 34:16Speaker 16: So, depending on where an individual is stabbed, they may
- 34:19Speaker 16: not actually bleed outside of their body. They'll bleed internally.
- 34:22Speaker 16: Usually like with sucking chest wounds, the blood will bleed
- 34:25Speaker 16: into your chest cavity. Blood may bleed into the abdominal cavity.
- 34:29Speaker 16: So if their wounds were in certain locations, there may
- 34:33Speaker 16: not have been any real blood that was outside of
- 34:35Speaker 16: the body, and so it wouldn't be soaking into their
- 34:37Speaker 16: clothes and they could look like they were just passed
- 34:40Speaker 16: out and laying there. And that would be my best
- 34:44Speaker 16: opinion on that.
- 34:45Speaker 8: You know, another thing, Doctor Kenell Crown's i'mcoming at this
- 34:47Speaker 8: from an evidentiary point of view. Have attacked the girls
- 34:50Speaker 8: because they say the witnesses the survivors, because they say, what,
- 34:54Speaker 8: you didn't hear anything, Well, actually they did hear something,
- 35:01Speaker 8: Sidney Sumner, investigative reporter. They heard someone moan or cry out,
- 35:07Speaker 8: They heard thumping up and down the stairs.
- 35:10Speaker 11: Correct.
- 35:10Speaker 7: Yeah, at one point the girls even came out of
- 35:14Speaker 7: their room to ask them to be quiet. So at
- 35:17Speaker 7: this way they didn't realize anything was a miss. They
- 35:20Speaker 7: thought their roommates had come home and we're still being
- 35:22Speaker 7: rowdy from their plans earlier that night, and we're asking
- 35:26Speaker 7: them to stop and to be quiet. They definitely heard
- 35:29Speaker 7: some promotion, you know, doctor Kindle Crowns.
- 35:33Speaker 8: Those attacking the two survivors are screaming. Well, why didn't
- 35:39Speaker 8: you hear the victims screaming? And why didn't you call
- 35:42Speaker 8: Nima one earlier, Doctor Kendall Crowns. In our world, the
- 35:46Speaker 8: way we live, for instance, if you hear a gunshot,
- 35:49Speaker 8: you may go, oh, who's setting off firecrackers? Because it's
- 35:52Speaker 8: not in your realm of understanding. You don't have your
- 35:55Speaker 8: arms around the fact somebody could be shot down the street,
- 35:59Speaker 8: or you might think it's a car backfiring. I've seen
- 36:02Speaker 8: many cases many were witnesses hear something but they don't
- 36:06Speaker 8: realize a murder is occurring.
- 36:08Speaker 11: What could the girls.
- 36:10Speaker 16: Have heard, So you're right, it's all kind of context.
- 36:14Speaker 16: You have to have an idea of what's going on.
- 36:17Speaker 16: You may think that something else is occurring when it's
- 36:20Speaker 16: actually a murder. What they could have heard is yelling, screaming,
- 36:23Speaker 16: things being knocked over, kind of bumping around. But the
- 36:27Speaker 16: same thing could be heard in people that are drunk
- 36:29Speaker 16: or having you know, a good time, or jumping around
- 36:33Speaker 16: or dancing, you could mistaken that.
- 36:35Speaker 11: Philip d.
- 36:35Speaker 8: Bay All argument between us aside, you're a veteran defense attorney.
- 36:43Speaker 8: How will the defense attack Dylan and Bethany for not
- 36:48Speaker 8: hearing for murders when they clearly did hear something but
- 36:51Speaker 8: they didn't know what they were hearing.
- 36:52Speaker 15: Yeah, that they were on an all night bender, that
- 36:55Speaker 15: they had been drinking, that they were likely hungover, that
- 36:59Speaker 15: they're perceptions and their ability to recall were compromised by
- 37:03Speaker 15: being impaired from the effects of alcohol, and who knows,
- 37:07Speaker 15: maybe if they smoked something. I don't know. But the
- 37:10Speaker 15: whole idea of being a reliable witness when you take
- 37:15Speaker 15: the oath is that your ability to observe, recall and
- 37:18Speaker 15: to perceive is not compromised by outside intoxicans or other
- 37:23Speaker 15: types of interference. And I think if you can establish that,
- 37:27Speaker 15: maybe at a pre trial hearing, a judge can find
- 37:30Speaker 15: that they're incompetent to testify as a witness.
- 37:33Speaker 8: Doctor Anthony Marshall, these girls have a tough time ahead
- 37:38Speaker 8: on cross exam, and I hate what's going to happen,
- 37:41Speaker 8: but they've got to take the.
- 37:43Speaker 11: Stand, Nancy.
- 37:43Speaker 12: They have to take this down. But what I'm concerned
- 37:45Speaker 12: about is that they're going to be re traumatized. They
- 37:49Speaker 12: have already gone over that night over and over again
- 37:51Speaker 12: in their minds, and when we have post traumatic stress disorder,
- 37:55Speaker 12: we have something called flashbacks. I hope some psychologists or
- 37:58Speaker 12: somebody is there to prepare these young people to be
- 38:03Speaker 12: on the stand because they will be cruelly resubjected to
- 38:07Speaker 12: the same physiological, arousal, intrusive thoughts and anxiety that they
- 38:13Speaker 12: had on the night.
- 38:14Speaker 1: Of the murders.
- 38:15Speaker 8: I just wish I could take this away from them,
- 38:18Speaker 8: but they're going to have to take the stand. We
- 38:20Speaker 8: wait as justice unfolds. And now we remember an American hero,
- 38:24Speaker 8: senior police officer, Alexander Yazzi, Navajo Division Public Safety Tribal
- 38:29Speaker 8: police shot and killed in a line of duty, a
- 38:33Speaker 8: US Marine Corps that served fourteen years with Elie. Survived
- 38:38Speaker 8: by wife now widow, Kathleen. American hero senior police officer
- 38:43Speaker 8: Alexander Yazzi. Nancy Gray signing off goodbye friend,