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Murder In Moscow: Moscow And The 1.4 Million Dollar Hole · Beyond The Horizon

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. In
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  Speaker 1: this episode, we're going to take a trip back to Moscow,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to get an update on what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with Brian Koberger and how much his alleged crimes
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  Speaker 1: have cost Idaho University when it comes to security. But
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  Speaker 1: before we jump into this article, we have a little
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  Speaker 1: housekeeping to do, and that housekeeping has to do with
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  Speaker 1: Brian Koberger and his court appearance that's scheduled for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So let's just read this quick court order by Judge
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  Speaker 1: Judge before we dive into our article. Case number CR 29-22-2805.
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  Speaker 1: Order regarding notice of hearing Zoom information. State of Idaho plaintiff,
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  Speaker 1: 1st Brian C. Koberger, the defendant. The court is mindful
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  Speaker 1: that limited courtroom capacity and potential travel restrictions may interfere
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  Speaker 1: with the victim's and the defendant's family's ability to observe
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  Speaker 1: the court proceedings in this case on August 18, 2023,
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  Speaker 1: at 10.30 a.m. Pacific Time. Therefore, in the eventuality that
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  Speaker 1: they are unable or prefer not to attend the proceeding
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  Speaker 1: in person, the court finds it necessary to make the
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  Speaker 1: court proceedings available via Zoom for the victims and the
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  Speaker 1: defendant's immediate family members under the following restrictions. It is
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  Speaker 1: hereby ordered that 1. The victims and the defendant's immediate
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  Speaker 1: family members may observe the court proceedings in person or
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  Speaker 1: via Zoom. 2. The Zoom information above shall not be
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  Speaker 1: disseminated to anyone other than the victims and the defendant's
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  Speaker 1: immediate family members. 3. Any recording or live streaming of
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  Speaker 1: the proceeding is prohibited. This was signed on the 14th
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  Speaker 1: of August and it was signed by Judge Judge. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason for this hearing is the defendant's third motion
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  Speaker 1: to compel and the defendant's second motion to stay proceedings.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what's going to be discussed at the hearing tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And it's going to be very crucial for Brian Kohlberger
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  Speaker 1: and his team. There's a lot on the line for
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  Speaker 1: his team tomorrow. And I think that the judge is
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  Speaker 1: obviously going to deny their request for a stay. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if they ask for a continuation or a delay in
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  Speaker 1: the trial... not a stay, but an actual delay, I
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  Speaker 1: think they'll get that. But the stay here, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that they have the legal precedent or the basis
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  Speaker 1: under Idaho statutes. So I don't see Judge Judge acquiescing
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  Speaker 1: and giving them that stay that they want. because it's
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  Speaker 1: rather transparent that what they're doing is trying to buy
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  Speaker 1: for some time. So just delay the trial and be
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  Speaker 1: done with it already. And I think that's what we'll
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  Speaker 1: see eventually happen here, a delay in this trial, because
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  Speaker 1: there's just a massive amount of evidence. All right, so
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  Speaker 1: let's dive into this article from ABC News, and let's
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  Speaker 1: see how many fazools it cost the University of Idaho
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  Speaker 1: for security. Headline, cost of security prompted by Idaho college
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  Speaker 1: killings tops $ 1. 2 million dollars, for the university. That's a
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  Speaker 1: whole hell of a lot of money, isn't it? And
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  Speaker 1: you know they're already charging an arm and a leg
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  Speaker 1: for kids to go to school up here. So what
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  Speaker 1: are they going to do? Increase the cost of tuition?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, eventually that's what we're going to see. This
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  Speaker 1: article was authored by Sasha Pezenik. The financial cost of
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  Speaker 1: the community continued to climb in the aftermath of the
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  Speaker 1: killing of four Idaho college students last fall. Nine months
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  Speaker 1: after the King Road quadruple homicide, Rock North Idaho, the
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  Speaker 1: University of Idaho, has already blown through the $ 1 million
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  Speaker 1: in state funding allocated to support additional security measures, according
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  Speaker 1: to records provided to Idaho's Legislative Services Office by the university.
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  Speaker 1: And you would think a million dollars goes a long way,
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  Speaker 1: but really, does it? Think about how expensive everything is
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  Speaker 1: at the store. I walked into the store last night
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  Speaker 1: I grabbed some Luigi's Italian Ices, a Gatorade Fast Twitch drink,
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  Speaker 1: one of those energy drinks they have, an 8-pack of Gatorade,
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  Speaker 1: and two cases of water. It came out to like $ 35.
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  Speaker 1: So if basic groceries are costing that much money, and
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  Speaker 1: your money's not stretching that far when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: basic necessities, how far do you think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: stretch when we're talking about security services? Especially with inflation.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody has ramped up their prices for every single service.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think those prices are coming down, I
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  Speaker 1: have some real bad news for you. In a letter
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  Speaker 1: sent to the office manager of budget and policy analysis,
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  Speaker 1: university president Scott Green said, the school made significant efforts
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  Speaker 1: to bolster our security programs and the custodianship of the
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  Speaker 1: location where these tragedies occurred. Now, that's all fine and well,
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  Speaker 1: but it's very reactionary. And I highly doubt that we're
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  Speaker 1: ever going to see something like this in Idaho ever again. Well,
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  Speaker 1: not in Moscow. This is something that is very unexpected,
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  Speaker 1: an aberration when it comes to crimes, and certainly something
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  Speaker 1: that I highly doubt we're going to witness in a
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  Speaker 1: place like Moscow again. at least in any of our lifetimes,
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  Speaker 1: ever again. So while I understand the knee-jerk reaction, you
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  Speaker 1: want to keep the community safe, you want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure enrollment in the school doesn't drop, but the sad
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  Speaker 1: truth is, even if they had 100 Navy SEALs patrolling
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  Speaker 1: the campus doing security, it wouldn't have stopped what happened
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  Speaker 1: in that house on 1122 King Road in the early
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  Speaker 1: morning hours of November 13th. University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin,
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  Speaker 1: Madison Mogan, Zanna Kernodal, and Kaylee Gonsalves were found stabbed
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  Speaker 1: to death on November 13, 2022. After a six-week hunt,
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  Speaker 1: police zeroed in on a suspect, arresting one-time doctoral candidate
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  Speaker 1: Brian Koberger on December 30. If convicted, Koberger could face
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  Speaker 1: the death penalty. And they've also talked about not only
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  Speaker 1: the death penalty, but firing squad. And I say that's
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  Speaker 1: the way he should go. Because if he's guilty of
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  Speaker 1: the crimes that he's accused of, they are some of
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  Speaker 1: the most heinous crimes that we've seen in quite some time.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody going into someone's home and murdering four people in
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  Speaker 1: an intimate and up-close way like this? Oh yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: deserve the death penalty. And all things considered, both options,
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  Speaker 1: the firing squad and the lethal injection, are both too
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  Speaker 1: good for somebody like Brian Kohlberger if he is guilty
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  Speaker 1: of these crimes. I'm talking about helicopters and volcanoes. The
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  Speaker 1: university is already racking up additional expenses, totaling more than $ 1. 2
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  Speaker 1: million so far and counting. The expenditures related to the
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  Speaker 1: King Road house are ongoing, Green said in the letter.
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  Speaker 1: The August 11th letter includes an itemized accounting of how
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  Speaker 1: the cash was spent required by Idaho law. Nearly $ 475, 000
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  Speaker 1: was spent to increase campus security and private guards. More
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  Speaker 1: than $ 324, 000 went to security consultants. More than $ 241, 000 was
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  Speaker 1: spent on the Idaho State Police, including meals and lodging
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  Speaker 1: for troopers. Does that seem excessive to anybody else? $ 324, 000
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  Speaker 1: to security consultants? What are they consulting about? Like, what
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  Speaker 1: could you possibly do that would have made this campus
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  Speaker 1: any safer? I don't think any security protocol or any
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  Speaker 1: security measures would have stopped Brian Kohlberger from doing what
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  Speaker 1: he is alleged to have done. And as I said previously,
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  Speaker 1: I find this to be a bit reactionary and just
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  Speaker 1: looking for a way to justify spending this money. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: allege that in the early morning hours of November 13th, 2022, Kohlberger,
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  Speaker 1: a criminology PhD student at nearby Washington State University, broke
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  Speaker 1: into the off-campus home, and stabbed the four students to death.
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  Speaker 1: Kohlberger was indicted in May and charged with four counts
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  Speaker 1: of first-degree murder and one count of burglary. At his arraignment,
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  Speaker 1: he declined to offer a plea, so the judge entered
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  Speaker 1: a not guilty plea on his behalf. A trial is
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for October 2nd, though a delay is likely. Pretrial
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  Speaker 1: motions are set to continue on Friday. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: we talked about in the beginning here. He has a
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  Speaker 1: hearing tomorrow, and it's going to be a pretty important
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  Speaker 1: hearing for both sides. And I'm very interested to see
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  Speaker 1: which way Judge Judge is leaning. The university has and
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  Speaker 1: continues to put its students first. The expenses we have
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  Speaker 1: incurred are in effort to provide for our students the
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  Speaker 1: best residential campus experience possible, University of Idaho spokesperson Jody
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  Speaker 1: Walker said in a statement to ABC News. While we
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  Speaker 1: can't bring back the students we lost so tragically, we
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  Speaker 1: can continue to improve ourselves and our university for our
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  Speaker 1: current students and all those to follow, Walker said. We
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the support we have gotten from the governor and
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  Speaker 1: our legislature to help cover some of these unexpected expenses.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly $ 100, 000 has been spent on security for the home
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  Speaker 1: where the students were slain. The home, donated to the
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  Speaker 1: school after the killings, remains standing for now, though the
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  Speaker 1: university has announced that it intends to demolish it. We
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  Speaker 1: expect further expenditures in the future as we demolish the
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  Speaker 1: King Road property, Green said, with the letter accounting for
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  Speaker 1: more than $ 217, 000 They estimate spending through the end of October.
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  Speaker 1: The mounting price tag has not been shouldered solely by
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  Speaker 1: the university. In June, prosecutors leading the case against Kohlberger
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  Speaker 1: said it cost them more than eight times their annual
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  Speaker 1: trial budget, requesting $ 135, 000 for the case. Look, this is
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  Speaker 1: an extreme circumstance. And this is an extreme case. And
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  Speaker 1: it's going to cost a lot of money for all
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  Speaker 1: of the experts, all of the testing, and all that
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  Speaker 1: comes along with a quadruple homicide trial. So it's going
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  Speaker 1: to cost the state of Idaho a few bucks here.
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  Speaker 1: And remember, they're also on the hook for paying for
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  Speaker 1: Brian Koberger's team as well. In Moscow, where the killings occurred,
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  Speaker 1: investigative costs burned through cash that could have gone to
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  Speaker 1: fix up city infrastructure, Moscow officials told ABC News in May.
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  Speaker 1: This is just not something you budget for, Moscow City
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  Speaker 1: Council member Sandra Kelly said, because it's something you'd never
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  Speaker 1: dream could happen. So as much as I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: pin it on the local authorities here, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: local politicians, she's not wrong. Nobody budgets for something like this.
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  Speaker 1: And we're talking about a pretty small place in Moscow.
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  Speaker 1: So there was never any doubt that there was going
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  Speaker 1: to be some budget issues. And thankfully for them, the
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  Speaker 1: state itself, the governor, has stepped up to help out.
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  Speaker 1: The question is, how much more does it cost from here?
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  Speaker 1: All right, everybody, that's going to do it for this one.
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