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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Brian Coburger to sue whoa whoa whoa. Brian Coburger is
- 0:13Speaker 2: suing somebody for money after he's convicted of.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Murdering four people.
- 0:17Speaker 2: He's suing, and tonight there is a growing sentiment, not
- 0:23Speaker 2: by me, but by them that Coburger did not act alone.
- 0:30Speaker 2: This as even in the last hours, Brian Coburger is
- 0:34Speaker 2: demanding he be moved to better accommodations. You're not getting
- 0:41Speaker 2: the penthouse, sweet Coburger, that's not going to happen. Enjoy
- 0:45Speaker 2: your gruel. I'm Nancy Grease. This is Crime Stories.
- 0:49Speaker 1: I want to thank you for being with us.
- 0:51Speaker 3: You may have received a's in high school and college,
- 0:54Speaker 3: but you're going to be getting big d's in prison.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Brian at being Coburger, he is whining, I wish for
- 1:03Speaker 2: the items to be called for when this is something
- 1:07Speaker 2: something the nutritional standards are not being upheld, but I
- 1:12Speaker 2: don't care. It's like, don't care if he doesn't like broccoli,
- 1:16Speaker 2: get used to it. Oh rhetoric Aside regarding Brian Coburger.
- 1:24Speaker 2: In the last hours, Killa Gorin saws his family posted
- 1:29Speaker 2: and it is heart wrenching and I want you to
- 1:33Speaker 2: see it.
- 1:36Speaker 3: So I'm going through some of Kaylee's things and.
- 1:41Speaker 1: I just came across just.
- 1:43Speaker 3: Sweatshirt that she was wearing at night, and in the pocket.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Is your grub truck number seventy eight.
- 2:02Speaker 4: Ticket.
- 2:16Speaker 3: I've been looking for it. It's the first thing that
- 2:19Speaker 3: I really found that I've been looking for.
- 2:22Speaker 1: It was in the top of a box.
- 2:23Speaker 5: And then when.
- 2:26Speaker 3: I looked in the pocket and I found that ticket,
- 2:30Speaker 3: just takes you back to those hours, those hours right
- 2:34Speaker 3: before I had no idea what was going to happen
- 2:37Speaker 3: to them.
- 2:41Speaker 2: Terrible That is Kelly Gonsaws, his mother Christie, who has
- 2:49Speaker 2: joined us so many many nights. I see holding and
- 2:54Speaker 2: smelling the sweatshirt yelliguinsolvice. And I gotta tell you something,
- 3:04Speaker 2: when my daughter hugs me, it's it's not perfumed. She
- 3:09Speaker 2: just smells good. She smells like the outdoors kind of
- 3:14Speaker 2: and fresh air, sun and everything good. Just watching this,
- 3:25Speaker 2: I don't even hear her right now. It just makes
- 3:29Speaker 2: my stomach hurt. And it takes me back to some
- 3:35Speaker 2: probitive evidence that could have been used at trial if
- 3:38Speaker 2: the prosecutor had any backbone. Of the Idaho students at
- 3:44Speaker 2: that grub hub.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Look.
- 3:48Speaker 2: Look they're going out right now, grub truck number seventy
- 3:53Speaker 2: eight ticket. There they are, and they're having so much fun.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Is super late at night and they're just living life,
- 4:04Speaker 2: you know, just having so much fun.
- 4:10Speaker 4: With me.
- 4:11Speaker 1: Is Chris McDonough.
- 4:13Speaker 2: He is the star over at the Cold Case Foundation.
- 4:22Speaker 2: He is a former homicide detective who has worked over
- 4:26Speaker 2: three hundred homicide cases.
- 4:28Speaker 1: He is the star of.
- 4:31Speaker 2: The interview room on the YouTube channel where I found him.
- 4:37Speaker 2: But for my purposes tonight, he has walked every square
- 4:40Speaker 2: inch all around that King Road address to where the
- 4:47Speaker 2: trucks were, the food trucks. And Chris seeing Christy Gonsalves
- 4:55Speaker 2: holding Kelley's sweatshirt, I just feel broken in half, broken
- 5:03Speaker 2: in half, Chris.
- 5:06Speaker 6: You Nancy. This brings back so much, so many memories
- 5:11Speaker 6: for many parents who have lost children, myself included. And
- 5:16Speaker 6: the fact that she is embracing that sweatshirt just to
- 5:21Speaker 6: smell her daughter gives us an understanding of a depth
- 5:27Speaker 6: of pain that nobody should ever experience. And then when
- 5:32Speaker 6: I shift into out from a personal experience to an
- 5:36Speaker 6: investigator's hat and she pulls out of the pocket the
- 5:41Speaker 6: grub hub receipt on that receipt as a time and
- 5:47Speaker 6: why that receipt was not in evidence for me anyway
- 5:51Speaker 6: as an investigator, again shows potentially some shortcomings with the
- 5:57Speaker 6: totality of this investigation.
- 6:00Speaker 1: I was wondering, Chris McDonald, when you were going to
- 6:01Speaker 1: bring that up.
- 6:02Speaker 2: When I found out the receipt from that night, which
- 6:06Speaker 2: is part of the timeline, was steal in her pocket,
- 6:10Speaker 2: I nearly fell over. But I want to show you
- 6:13Speaker 2: something I carry around a lot of times, and we've
- 6:18Speaker 2: been multi wall trying to help our friend Savannah Guthrie.
- 6:27Speaker 2: And these are my dad's shirts. Sometimes they just carry
- 6:32Speaker 2: him around. Sometimes I sleep in them. It just kind
- 6:36Speaker 2: of depends. And I can just feel when Christi Gunsolves
- 6:45Speaker 2: is talking about her daughter, just that empty moment when
- 6:49Speaker 2: the trial or in this case, the cheap plea is
- 6:52Speaker 2: over and everybody leaves and nobody's talking about it anymore,
- 6:57Speaker 2: and nobody cares anymore, and there you are with that sweatshirt.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Just the silence is deafening for this family.
- 7:08Speaker 6: Yes, and and it doesn't get any better, right, Nancy,
- 7:12Speaker 6: You know from personal experience of loss, they now have
- 7:17Speaker 6: to learn the coping mechanisms to get them through the
- 7:22Speaker 6: next birthday, the next you know item that they pull
- 7:26Speaker 6: out of a box that was handed to them from
- 7:28Speaker 6: the authorities, and everything turns into the next uh, you know,
- 7:33Speaker 6: piece of where is my child? But there will never
- 7:36Speaker 6: ever be that personal hug that that mom, I love you, Dad,
- 7:43Speaker 6: I love you hearing it. It's over and so you
- 7:48Speaker 6: learn how to cope with it. But they're really that's
- 7:52Speaker 6: as far as you can go as a parent, as
- 7:55Speaker 6: a as a you know, in your circumstances, your fiance,
- 7:59Speaker 6: you just have to empower yourself and then put it
- 8:02Speaker 6: towards a positive end and hopefully great things will come
- 8:07Speaker 6: out of it.
- 8:08Speaker 2: Tonight, a let me say unique theory as far as
- 8:13Speaker 2: I'm concerned regarding the murders of four beautiful University Idaho students.
- 8:19Speaker 2: And in the backdrop of that analytical discussion, is Coburger
- 8:27Speaker 2: preparing himself to sue?
- 8:29Speaker 1: Really, what does he want nine ten million dollars over what?
- 8:33Speaker 2: But tonight did Coburger act alone? Correct me if I'm wrong,
- 8:42Speaker 2: But I think he's the only one that got in
- 8:44Speaker 2: court played guilty.
- 8:44Speaker 1: He's the only one that was prosecuted.
- 8:47Speaker 2: But now a growing tide of legal Eagles insist Coburger did.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Not act alone.
- 8:57Speaker 2: I poo pooed it when I would see it on
- 8:59Speaker 2: Twitter and Insta, in Facebook, I would discount it. But
- 9:04Speaker 2: for some reason there is a legion of legal eagles
- 9:07Speaker 2: that say, yes, he had an accomplice. But I want
- 9:12Speaker 2: you to see Lieutenant Darren Gilbertson with Idaho State Police
- 9:17Speaker 2: as he approached.
- 9:18Speaker 7: Coburger, I feel like you probably know why we're here.
- 9:20Speaker 7: We're detectives from Idaho and we're here because of the
- 9:24Speaker 7: case in Moscow.
- 9:26Speaker 4: And as soon as.
- 9:28Speaker 7: We mentioned that, then he stopped and he said, I
- 9:31Speaker 7: don't want to talk anymore.
- 9:32Speaker 1: For our friends at ABC.
- 9:33Speaker 2: That is Lieutenant Darren Gilbertson describing what happened when he
- 9:37Speaker 2: first approached Coburger following the murders. The moment he identified
- 9:42Speaker 2: himself as from Idaho. I am from the Idaho State Police,
- 9:46Speaker 2: Coburger immediately said, I don't want to talk.
- 9:48Speaker 1: I don't want to talk.
- 9:49Speaker 2: So Philip Dubay joining me, veteran trial lawyer out of
- 9:53Speaker 2: LA County. Philip, you know, when a cop asked me
- 9:59Speaker 2: a question, I respond, I don't call my lawyer in
- 10:03Speaker 2: why depends?
- 10:04Speaker 8: I mean most people ask for a lawyer if they
- 10:08Speaker 8: feel whatever they're going to say is going to incriminate themselves,
- 10:12Speaker 8: even if you believe that getting the truth off your
- 10:15Speaker 8: chest might help you. In fact, prosecutors can use whatever
- 10:19Speaker 8: you're saying to Taylor guilt based on their narrative of
- 10:24Speaker 8: what happened. So rather than say anything, you should remain
- 10:28Speaker 8: quiet and silent to keep all your options open so
- 10:32Speaker 8: that you can review all the evidence in its totality
- 10:35Speaker 8: and decide what, if anything, you should say at trial
- 10:38Speaker 8: on the witness stand. But not to cops.
- 10:41Speaker 2: Well, but when I say a cop approach, I don't
- 10:44Speaker 2: hit the gas and take off one hundred and ten
- 10:46Speaker 2: MP eight, I don't try to get away, I don't
- 10:49Speaker 2: try to avoid the questions, and I certainly don't worry
- 10:52Speaker 2: about a potential jury trial.
- 10:54Speaker 1: So you know, I'm taking everything you say with a
- 10:58Speaker 1: box of salt filled.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Now, the theory that Brian Coburger did not act alone.
- 11:05Speaker 9: What Before Coburger removed from his parents' all Brightsville, Pennsylvania home,
- 11:10Speaker 9: he asks officers a single question, was anyone else arrested?
- 11:15Speaker 9: Though many believe Coburger asked out of concern for his
- 11:17Speaker 9: family After the late night Raid. Bloom believes Coburger wanted
- 11:21Speaker 9: to know if his accomplice was already in custody.
- 11:31Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 11:37Speaker 2: Leading the throng of legal eagles that insist Coburger did
- 11:43Speaker 2: not act alone, is renowned author Howard Bloom. He wrote
- 11:51Speaker 2: the definitive book on the Idaho murders, When the Night
- 11:55Speaker 2: Comes Falling, a Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders.
- 11:59Speaker 1: Howard, explain yourself.
- 12:01Speaker 10: Well, first, let me offer a caveat to what you
- 12:04Speaker 10: just said.
- 12:05Speaker 4: I'm not saying he acted alone.
- 12:07Speaker 10: I'm saying the theory deserves attention, and it deserves attention
- 12:12Speaker 10: after all the documents we've seen in recent days, which
- 12:16Speaker 10: include an analysis of what happened by the defense's own witness,
- 12:23Speaker 10: doctor Brent Turvey. He raises many of the questions that
- 12:27Speaker 10: I came about independently. If you look at the devastation,
- 12:31Speaker 10: this wasn't just a stabbing, This was a massacre. The
- 12:36Speaker 10: four students were stabbed over one hundred and fifty times
- 12:40Speaker 10: in totality. I mean, try raising your hand one hundred
- 12:43Speaker 10: and fifty times, and this happens, the police say within
- 12:46Speaker 10: a thirteen.
- 12:47Speaker 2: Min hol On, hold on, hold on, can I see
- 12:50Speaker 2: the photo Brian Coburger thinking he looks all buff showing
- 12:55Speaker 2: off all of his muscles. This guy worked out all
- 12:59Speaker 2: the time and was constantly flexing himself. So you're telling me, oh,
- 13:05Speaker 2: dear Lord in Heaven, I asked for it.
- 13:09Speaker 4: A skinny kid, but whatever.
- 13:12Speaker 2: So you don't see those muscles on his He's got
- 13:14Speaker 2: some guns going on right there. So you're telling me
- 13:17Speaker 2: you're basing your theory on the fact that he's too
- 13:20Speaker 2: skinny and scrawny to raise his arm one hundred and
- 13:23Speaker 2: fifty times.
- 13:24Speaker 1: I mean, I'm going to do that.
- 13:25Speaker 10: I'm not saying that for an hour all the time
- 13:29Speaker 10: and two floors of the house in the darkness. And
- 13:32Speaker 10: also both the prosecution and defense have said that there
- 13:36Speaker 10: is a possibility that another weapon was used, that were
- 13:41Speaker 10: Kelly received wounds from another weapon, that there was also
- 13:44Speaker 10: are both agree that there is a possibility that they
- 13:48Speaker 10: were staging, that the victims were covered up with a
- 13:52Speaker 10: comforter and they moved them around.
- 13:55Speaker 4: That also that.
- 13:56Speaker 10: There was a cleanup afterwards, but the prosecution is not
- 14:01Speaker 10: denying that that's a possibility too.
- 14:04Speaker 4: I think all these elements as.
- 14:06Speaker 10: That are laid out by the defense statements raise questions that.
- 14:11Speaker 4: Need to be looked at.
- 14:12Speaker 10: I think we're seeing things when we look at the
- 14:15Speaker 10: new evidence when released.
- 14:16Speaker 4: That really don't fit into the timeline.
- 14:18Speaker 2: You know, I really believe Susan Hendricks, who's joining us,
- 14:22Speaker 2: a journalist, investigative reporter, author of Down the Hill, might
- 14:26Speaker 2: descend into the double murder in del Phi.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Susan, maybe a UFO.
- 14:33Speaker 2: Flew over and little Green men transported down into the
- 14:38Speaker 2: King Road address and murdered them along with Coburger. Maybe
- 14:41Speaker 2: that happened. Is it possible, Yes, possible. Is it probable? No,
- 14:46Speaker 2: it's not probable. You know, Howard Bloom is renowned as
- 14:54Speaker 2: an investigative journalist, as an author, but I think he's
- 14:57Speaker 2: way off, and I think that somehow the this alternate
- 15:01Speaker 2: suspect theory got planted in his head by Coburger's defense.
- 15:05Speaker 1: I mean, other than him saying.
- 15:07Speaker 2: He couldn't raise his arm one hundred and fifty times.
- 15:10Speaker 2: I've raised my arm thirty five times while he was talking.
- 15:14Speaker 1: Okay, so no saying was there a cleanup?
- 15:19Speaker 2: Well, based on the crime scene photos that I saw
- 15:23Speaker 2: that I refuse to publish because of their gory nature.
- 15:26Speaker 2: Out of respect to the victims' families. I didn't see
- 15:30Speaker 2: much of a cleanup going on. I think he's been
- 15:33Speaker 2: infected by the defense bug.
- 15:37Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 15:37Speaker 11: I go back to the Odinis theory, Nancy, when you
- 15:40Speaker 11: can argue anything in public, online, but in court, and
- 15:44Speaker 11: of course the expert witness of the defense, it's going
- 15:47Speaker 11: to be in there that yes, there could be a
- 15:48Speaker 11: second person, a co worker. He studied serial killers, so
- 15:52Speaker 11: he may have thought about this four months, maybe even years.
- 15:55Speaker 11: What he's going to say, was anyone else arrested? I
- 15:57Speaker 11: believe he acted alone. Yes, Sir was bloodsheded terrific considering
- 16:02Speaker 11: the amount of times he stabbed people. But I believe
- 16:05Speaker 11: the prosecution would approve that that it is doable by
- 16:08Speaker 11: one person.
- 16:09Speaker 2: Said straight out to special guests joining us, Chris McDonough,
- 16:13Speaker 2: homicide detective, former homicide detective. What do you make of
- 16:17Speaker 2: the theory that Bloom is asserting that Coburger had an accomplice,
- 16:21Speaker 2: or maybe Kiberger was accompliced, not the purp in chief.
- 16:27Speaker 6: Well, I think the first thing that needs of his
- 16:29Speaker 6: consideration is the defense is going to hire experts that
- 16:33Speaker 6: are going to say what they want them to say,
- 16:35Speaker 6: and they're going to create that, you know, those theories
- 16:38Speaker 6: that those roads are going to run down. However, I've
- 16:41Speaker 6: examined all of the photographs that are available, and I've
- 16:45Speaker 6: come to my own conclusions that based on you know,
- 16:49Speaker 6: some of the evidence that we can see is Coberger
- 16:53Speaker 6: acted alone, and there's a whole bunch of reasons behind that.
- 16:57Speaker 6: I believe he straddled both of those girls who were intoxicated,
- 17:03Speaker 6: sound asleep in the bed, and he blitz greened and
- 17:07Speaker 6: attacked them. And we used to have a terminology that
- 17:11Speaker 6: said the knife went on full auto okay because of
- 17:14Speaker 6: the rage. And then when you take that into Coberger's
- 17:18Speaker 6: personality type, he sees people like bugs. He does not
- 17:23Speaker 6: see them with empathy or anything like that. And then
- 17:28Speaker 6: while he was killing both of those girls, who were
- 17:30Speaker 6: struggling and fighting backwards, I either were kicking from underneath
- 17:35Speaker 6: the blankets. The blood evidence showed that I believe at
- 17:39Speaker 6: that point his sheath became dislodged from wherever it was
- 17:45Speaker 6: and because Xanna had come in come into the room.
- 17:49Speaker 6: When Xanna got in the room, he chased her into
- 17:52Speaker 6: her room, and the blood evidence showed because there's blood
- 17:56Speaker 6: on the doorway going into the room.
- 17:59Speaker 4: I believe he.
- 18:00Speaker 6: Caught her, stabbed her, and she fell against the wall
- 18:04Speaker 6: between the bed and the night stand. And it was
- 18:08Speaker 6: at that point Ethan woke up on his right elbow,
- 18:12Speaker 6: leaned forward, and Coburger gave him a quick coup de gral.
- 18:17Speaker 6: Ethan was out probably within six or seven seconds, even
- 18:21Speaker 6: also trying to kick, and Xana began to fight, and
- 18:26Speaker 6: that's where he straddled her on the ground against her chair,
- 18:32Speaker 6: where she was subsequently found. And that was brutal. So
- 18:38Speaker 6: two people doing this, the I personally do not believe
- 18:41Speaker 6: the evidence showed that.
- 18:43Speaker 1: Okay, now let me understand this.
- 18:45Speaker 2: This all tipped off, started ignited in your mind, Howard Bloom,
- 18:50Speaker 2: author of When the Night Comes Falling, Because at the
- 18:54Speaker 2: time of arrest, Kyberger said, who else was arrested?
- 18:57Speaker 1: That's what got you going?
- 19:00Speaker 4: No, not at all.
- 19:01Speaker 10: What got me going was where the crime scene photographs,
- 19:06Speaker 10: the discussion of a cleanup, the discussion of the number
- 19:10Speaker 10: of wounds, the Bill Thompson talking about his second weapon,
- 19:15Speaker 10: and are still trying to grapple with the question.
- 19:17Speaker 4: Of a motive. Why would he have picked that house?
- 19:22Speaker 10: The defense still wonders why the prosecution was going to say, well,
- 19:26Speaker 10: he just picked it at random. Well, nothing Coburger did
- 19:30Speaker 10: that night seems in random. Iss He had planned the event,
- 19:33Speaker 10: he had turned off his phone, he had obviously brought
- 19:38Speaker 10: some clean up materials. Either way, he's wearing baggies or
- 19:40Speaker 10: a suit to cover the blood.
- 19:42Speaker 4: And yet he picks a house.
- 19:44Speaker 10: Where there are a number of cars, I think it's
- 19:46Speaker 10: five cars parked in front, there's a door dash delivery.
- 19:50Speaker 4: Why does he go there? Why does he go up
- 19:52Speaker 4: to the third floor.
- 19:53Speaker 10: I think there was a motive involved, and the motive
- 19:55Speaker 10: involved someone else, And as you said before, maybe Coburger
- 19:59Speaker 10: was the pomplish Maybe he was helping someone who had
- 20:02Speaker 10: a genuine motive commit the perfect crime.
- 20:05Speaker 2: To doctor Bethany Marshall joining us renown psychoanalyst out of
- 20:09Speaker 2: the LA jurisdiction.
- 20:10Speaker 1: She's the author of deal Breaker. You can see her now.
- 20:14Speaker 2: On Peacock and you can find her at doctor Bethany
- 20:17Speaker 2: Marshall dot com.
- 20:17Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany, I find.
- 20:19Speaker 2: It very very difficult to believe that anyone would go
- 20:23Speaker 2: along with Brian Coburger's Zeny theory to go murder horribly, horribly,
- 20:30Speaker 2: horrifically murder for innocent students. He didn't even know. Who
- 20:35Speaker 2: is he going to rope into that scheme. Let's just
- 20:37Speaker 2: think about that for a moment.
- 20:40Speaker 5: You know, Nancy, he wanted the glory all for himself, right,
- 20:44Speaker 5: Why would he share the moment of victory with another person?
- 20:48Speaker 5: I mean, as I've said so many times on your show,
- 20:52Speaker 5: he wanted to triumph over and dominate these beautiful young
- 20:58Speaker 5: students who were having the kind of life he could
- 21:00Speaker 5: never hope to have. Right, he had to blot them
- 21:03Speaker 5: out of existence because he could never achieve what they achieved.
- 21:08Speaker 5: He wanted to insert himself into their lives and they
- 21:11Speaker 5: probably didn't even have the time of day for him.
- 21:13Speaker 5: I mean metaphorically, It's not like he really maybe contacted them,
- 21:18Speaker 5: or maybe he did on social media and they didn't
- 21:20Speaker 5: get back. So why would he want to bring in
- 21:25Speaker 5: another co conspirator to blot out their lives when that
- 21:29Speaker 5: was his biggest achievement in his own life. It doesn't make.
- 21:33Speaker 1: Sense crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 21:46Speaker 7: I feel like you probably know why we're here. We're
- 21:48Speaker 7: detectives from Idaho, and we're here because of the case
- 21:52Speaker 7: in Moscow. And as soon as we mentioned that. Then
- 21:57Speaker 7: he stopped and he said, I don't want to talk anymore.
- 22:00Speaker 1: From ABC.
- 22:01Speaker 2: He slaughtered them. I don't care why he did it.
- 22:04Speaker 2: I don't care about his motive. They're never coming home
- 22:06Speaker 2: and they died a horrible death.
- 22:08Speaker 6: And what Brian's about to understand is that his virginity
- 22:12Speaker 6: is being traded for half a cigarette and that his
- 22:15Speaker 6: mother had better pack some momissary orders so that he
- 22:18Speaker 6: has items to trade.
- 22:21Speaker 2: Author Howard Bloom insisting tonight Brian Coburger did not act alone.
- 22:26Speaker 2: But I'd like to direct everyone's attention to what Dylan Mortensen,
- 22:30Speaker 2: who survived Coburger's murder rampage, what she.
- 22:35Speaker 1: Said about the attacker listen.
- 22:39Speaker 4: And then ultimately her looking up.
- 22:41Speaker 6: I heard her scream and she ran downstairs because she
- 22:44Speaker 6: saw someone.
- 22:45Speaker 1: But I'm pretty sure she.
- 22:46Speaker 4: Said she one's here, and she's screamed.
- 22:49Speaker 1: And just randomn series and I called for a name.
- 22:52Speaker 1: They jump up and lock my do work.
- 22:53Speaker 12: So I'm so scared.
- 22:56Speaker 9: And I heard someone in the bathroom.
- 22:58Speaker 1: When I heard her cry, I heard You're gonna be okay.
- 23:01Speaker 2: To help you. Susan Hendrix correct me if I'm wrong,
- 23:04Speaker 2: But doesn't she describe one assailant.
- 23:08Speaker 1: She does.
- 23:09Speaker 11: She describes someone dressed in black, pretty tall, described him
- 23:12Speaker 11: as a basketball player, physique with bushy eyebrass.
- 23:15Speaker 2: Just one Sidney Summer joining me Crime Stories investigative reporter.
- 23:20Speaker 2: I want to reiterate what Dylan Mortensen said that night,
- 23:27Speaker 2: and I want to make sure Howard Bloom and Philip
- 23:31Speaker 2: Dubay's airpaces are working. Sidney Sumner. What was said at
- 23:38Speaker 2: the time by Dylan Mortenson.
- 23:41Speaker 12: Mortenson described hearing and seeing a man walking around in
- 23:46Speaker 12: her home. She at some point, here's one of her
- 23:49Speaker 12: roommates say someone's here, and then she overhears a male
- 23:54Speaker 12: voice saying, I'm going to help you. At this point,
- 23:57Speaker 12: she steps out of her room trying to unders what's
- 24:00Speaker 12: going on, and she sees this man walk past her,
- 24:03Speaker 12: and she describes him as wearing all black in a
- 24:06Speaker 12: mask that shows just his eyes. And she speaks with
- 24:10Speaker 12: the officer, trying to give a rough description of this
- 24:13Speaker 12: man taller than her lanky. That's who she sees in
- 24:19Speaker 12: her home. There's no mention of the second person.
- 24:21Speaker 2: Philip Debay, veteran trial lawyer, defense attorney. I mean, Philipdbay,
- 24:26Speaker 2: this is what you did for a living, you find
- 24:29Speaker 2: somebody else to blame.
- 24:32Speaker 8: There is absolutely no way that this one scrawny man
- 24:36Speaker 8: can take down four people merely because he has a knife.
- 24:40Speaker 8: Look at him. At a minimum, one person probably could
- 24:43Speaker 8: have knocked him down, maybe somehow rested the knife away
- 24:47Speaker 8: from him, kicked him, punched him, held him, and prevented
- 24:51Speaker 8: all that carnage. So obviously he had a confederate unseen
- 24:55Speaker 8: dale Mount because he knew that they were going to
- 24:58Speaker 8: be met by multiple people in that house. I mean,
- 25:01Speaker 8: let's face it, this is a reputed party house and
- 25:04Speaker 8: there's going to be at least four or five people
- 25:06Speaker 8: living there, and you have to be prepared. So what
- 25:09Speaker 8: do you do. You bring a co confederate with you
- 25:12Speaker 8: to get the job done. And I think the reason
- 25:15Speaker 8: why we haven't heard from that co confederate, if you will,
- 25:19Speaker 8: is because that person is likely a fifth victim. As
- 25:23Speaker 8: dead men tell no tale.
- 25:25Speaker 1: Okay, wait, please put him up.
- 25:28Speaker 2: So now not only is there another co defendant, but
- 25:32Speaker 2: that co defendant is.
- 25:34Speaker 1: Dead, killed by Brian Coburgner. But we just haven't found
- 25:38Speaker 1: his body yet.
- 25:39Speaker 2: So you're really taking this all there running with it.
- 25:43Speaker 1: So you think, okay, you know, can we deal with reality.
- 25:49Speaker 2: Let me go to doctor Kendall Crown's joining US Chief
- 25:51Speaker 2: Medical Examiner Terran County.
- 25:54Speaker 1: That's Fort Worth.
- 25:55Speaker 2: Never a lack of business in the Morgue there. He
- 25:58Speaker 2: is an estate lecturer at the School of Medicine at TCU,
- 26:01Speaker 2: and he's a star of a hit podcast, Mayhem and
- 26:04Speaker 2: the Morgue.
- 26:05Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns.
- 26:06Speaker 2: With this number of wounds, okay, one hundred and fifty
- 26:11Speaker 2: all in, we think because as you've told me many times,
- 26:15Speaker 2: knife wounds can overlap on a victim to the point
- 26:18Speaker 2: where it's like stabbing jello.
- 26:20Speaker 1: You can't really tell how many times it's been stabbed.
- 26:25Speaker 4: Due to the.
- 26:28Speaker 2: Moveable nature of human flesh, how could you possibly.
- 26:33Speaker 1: Tell that more than one weapon was used.
- 26:39Speaker 13: So with the stab wounds, sometimes you can tell that
- 26:43Speaker 13: if it's a single edge or a double edge, you
- 26:45Speaker 13: can get an idea of different type of knives being used.
- 26:48Speaker 13: But the problem with stab wounds is they can look
- 26:51Speaker 13: very similar, so different knives may leave the same injuries. Now,
- 26:56Speaker 13: with the description of the individuals that are killed, one
- 27:00Speaker 13: of them has been possibly strangled and had her head
- 27:03Speaker 13: kind of smashed in hit several times in the head
- 27:07Speaker 13: fractures of skull that could have been done with a
- 27:10Speaker 13: k bar knife. The handle of the k bar knife
- 27:13Speaker 13: is actually quite thick, and he could have used the
- 27:15Speaker 13: actual knife that he was stabbing them with to also
- 27:18Speaker 13: beat them as well as he was stabbing them. So
- 27:21Speaker 13: to me, I think all those wounds could have happened
- 27:23Speaker 13: in a very short period of time. It's fairly easy
- 27:26Speaker 13: to stab someone and then he can be switching up
- 27:28Speaker 13: hitting them with his fists, hitting them with the handle
- 27:32Speaker 13: of the knife as well. Giving the blunt force injuries
- 27:35Speaker 13: that's described on one of the victims. I think that
- 27:38Speaker 13: it's easily you could have him shifting up how he
- 27:41Speaker 13: is stabbing and hitting them, and then it's easily done
- 27:45Speaker 13: by one person, could have be done by two people
- 27:48Speaker 13: with different weapons. Stabloms are a little hard to differentiate
- 27:52Speaker 13: as far as types of weapons.
- 27:54Speaker 2: So back to you, Howard Bloom. I've yet to get
- 27:58Speaker 2: to the DNA issue. And the only fact that is
- 28:04Speaker 2: somewhat disturbing to me is I think the prosecutor was
- 28:07Speaker 2: just so happy to just wrap this up with a
- 28:10Speaker 2: bow and get rid of the case. That's disturbing to me,
- 28:15Speaker 2: and the thought that there could be a second assailant.
- 28:19Speaker 2: He just doesn't want to be bothered with that. I
- 28:23Speaker 2: do not want an assailant walking free. I want Coburger
- 28:28Speaker 2: to go down, but if he had help, I want
- 28:31Speaker 2: that person behind bars for the rest of their life
- 28:34Speaker 2: or the death penalty. That said, nothing has convinced me
- 28:40Speaker 2: at all that there are two assailants.
- 28:43Speaker 1: Why is it beyond the realm.
- 28:45Speaker 2: Of possibility that Coburger did use two weapons.
- 28:50Speaker 10: The idea that he carried two weapons in seems to
- 28:53Speaker 10: me a bit absurd, But also the whole two weapon
- 28:57Speaker 10: theory that's not mine, that's built time Umson, the prosecutor
- 29:01Speaker 10: in the case, said, there's a very good possibility that
- 29:05Speaker 10: two weapons were used. Two weapons to me, one hundred
- 29:08Speaker 10: and fifty knife wounds. That leads to there being two suspects. Also,
- 29:14Speaker 10: staging of the bodies, cleaning up afterwards, the lack of
- 29:17Speaker 10: any sort of motive.
- 29:19Speaker 4: All these pieces come together.
- 29:21Speaker 10: Not to say that there was another accomplice, but that
- 29:26Speaker 10: raises the possibility that needs to be explored.
- 29:30Speaker 4: Also, as you pointed out quite clearly.
- 29:32Speaker 10: And there was a rush to judgment in this case,
- 29:35Speaker 10: everyone involved one this whole case to disappear. They couldn't
- 29:38Speaker 10: wait to tear down the house. They couldn't wait to
- 29:40Speaker 10: settle the case. Let's try to get some real answers.
- 29:43Speaker 10: Even they accepted the settlement without having any kind of allocution,
- 29:48Speaker 10: trying to get the answers to where the knife is
- 29:51Speaker 10: at least, I say their mysteries that still exist there.
- 29:55Speaker 10: And I think we owe responsibility to the victims and
- 29:59Speaker 10: to the tax payer is of Idaho who funded this investigation
- 30:02Speaker 10: to try to get to the bottom of things.
- 30:05Speaker 12: Trying on the location of the emergency something he's talking
- 30:10Speaker 12: talking to you don't know.
- 30:11Speaker 2: What what is there of the emergency?
- 30:22Speaker 5: What is the rest of the address?
- 30:24Speaker 12: Oh, Kings Road?
- 30:26Speaker 13: Okay, And there's a house or an apartment.
- 30:30Speaker 2: It's the house. Can you repeat the address to make
- 30:32Speaker 2: sure that I.
- 30:33Speaker 4: Have it right.
- 30:35Speaker 12: I'll talk to you guys. We're we have a delight
- 30:38Speaker 12: over next to them.
- 30:39Speaker 2: This guy who's slaughter who ripped apart four beautiful co eds,
- 30:45Speaker 2: ripped them apart with a military ta bar. Not that
- 30:50Speaker 2: guy is whining about his broccoli and the other inmates.
- 30:54Speaker 6: Here's a call coming in, Brian.
- 30:56Speaker 4: This is not a hotel.
- 30:58Speaker 2: One thing we have to address in this theory that
- 31:02Speaker 2: Brian Coburger did not act alone. I don't buy it.
- 31:05Speaker 2: Nothing has convinced me otherwise yet. But believe me, if
- 31:09Speaker 2: there is another assailant, I want them behind bars.
- 31:14Speaker 1: That is why I feel that we have to examine it.
- 31:18Speaker 2: Does it amount to anything, maybe not, but still we
- 31:22Speaker 2: have to examine it. I want to talk about not
- 31:26Speaker 2: only the one hundred and fifty stab wounds and Howard
- 31:31Speaker 2: Blooms assertion one person could not do that.
- 31:34Speaker 1: I mean, wait just a minute, Susan Hendricks.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Don't you recall the case of a female murdering a
- 31:42Speaker 2: male with one hundred plus stab wounds during some crazy
- 31:45Speaker 2: sex play remember that? Oh?
- 31:48Speaker 11: Yes, yes, I believe it is possible here and clearly
- 31:52Speaker 11: we've seen it in other cases as well. And by
- 31:55Speaker 11: the way, the two weapons, I think it was the
- 31:56Speaker 11: back of the knife and the bleed. I think that's
- 31:59Speaker 11: what the.
- 31:59Speaker 1: Prospcutor what do you mean with Kaylee?
- 32:04Speaker 11: She had some injuries that may have been she was
- 32:08Speaker 11: injured by the back of the knife toward in her
- 32:11Speaker 11: facial area and her team.
- 32:14Speaker 2: That explains a lot, okay, Doctor Kendall Crown's hearing Susan
- 32:18Speaker 2: Hendrick's explanation. The back or the hilt of the knife
- 32:22Speaker 2: being used. Would that make a difference in your analysis
- 32:25Speaker 2: at all?
- 32:27Speaker 13: So, the back of the hilt of the knife being used,
- 32:29Speaker 13: to me, it could go along with the injuries you're
- 32:33Speaker 13: seeing the Blunchfort's injuries, and also it could be the
- 32:36Speaker 13: knife being driven in all the way to the hilt
- 32:39Speaker 13: being a very deep stab wound leaving injuries as well.
- 32:42Speaker 13: So to me, it just all goes along with the
- 32:44Speaker 13: fact that it's a single individual causing all these wounds.
- 32:49Speaker 13: They just switch up what they're doing with their one weapon.
- 32:53Speaker 2: You know, I believe her name was Bryn Spetcher, Susan Hendrix,
- 32:57Speaker 2: who was convicted stabbing her boyfriend over one hundred times.
- 33:02Speaker 2: And then of course there's Jody Arius who stabbed Travis
- 33:05Speaker 2: Alexander thirty plus times and didn't have a problem with
- 33:09Speaker 2: it at all. But for some reason, Howard Bloom, you
- 33:12Speaker 2: seem to think that while these two women could perform
- 33:17Speaker 2: could murder with an ie stabbing over and over and over,
- 33:23Speaker 2: you don't think Coburger could do it.
- 33:25Speaker 10: Well, you're in the cases you're talking about involves just
- 33:28Speaker 10: one victim. Here we're talking about four different victims on
- 33:32Speaker 10: two floors. Of the house in darkness, and we know
- 33:36Speaker 10: that at least two of them fought back, and the
- 33:40Speaker 10: prosecution itself has raised the possibility of a second weapon.
- 33:44Speaker 10: All these pieces come together, I think, to raise the
- 33:47Speaker 10: possibility that there might well have been another assailant. Edit
- 33:51Speaker 10: on to the motive, edit on to Coburger's statement, was
- 33:54Speaker 10: anyone else arrested?
- 33:56Speaker 4: It raises a lot of doubts.
- 33:58Speaker 10: And to use Dylan Mortons as a witness, well, her
- 34:02Speaker 10: testimony has been very mercurial, has changed throughout the many
- 34:06Speaker 10: interviews she's given with the police. I mean, I feel
- 34:09Speaker 10: for her. She's a victim in all this, but at
- 34:11Speaker 10: the same time, she is not the most reliable witness.
- 34:15Speaker 2: Put him up, Howard Bloom, You've got a nerve saying
- 34:22Speaker 2: Dylan Mortenson was not a reliable witness.
- 34:25Speaker 1: Sheiling.
- 34:32Speaker 10: She says she saw one assailant. She says she saw
- 34:35Speaker 10: one man in black. At one point she said he
- 34:37Speaker 10: was carrying a vacuum, and another point she said, I
- 34:40Speaker 10: was really too drunk to figure out what's happening. And
- 34:42Speaker 10: your reliable witness just also happened to wait eight hours,
- 34:46Speaker 10: eight hours before calling the police, and then she thought
- 34:49Speaker 10: they were unconscious.
- 34:51Speaker 4: Other time she says she saw blood. So that is
- 34:55Speaker 4: your reliable witness.
- 34:57Speaker 2: Okay, straight back to you, christ May Donna, could if
- 35:00Speaker 2: you shed some light on the theory that there were
- 35:02Speaker 2: two assailants now that you've heard where bloom is coming from.
- 35:07Speaker 6: Sure, that's one of the questions that's not being asked
- 35:11Speaker 6: is what's in Brian Coburger system. That evening, one of
- 35:16Speaker 6: the last homicides I worked was a single individual that
- 35:21Speaker 6: had slaughtered some folks and the knife went on folato.
- 35:26Speaker 6: There were hundreds of stab wounds and as the doc
- 35:30Speaker 6: has shed and as Susan was reported that that knife
- 35:35Speaker 6: that cave our knife, the back of the hilt of
- 35:37Speaker 6: that knife, I believe was utilizing the blood. Evidence shows
- 35:41Speaker 6: it on Kayley excessively as well as Xana excessively. And
- 35:47Speaker 6: that's probably the two weapon theory here. What we're not
- 35:51Speaker 6: asking though, is what was going on in Brian Coburger system.
- 35:57Speaker 6: We know what the toxicology results are for the victims.
- 36:00Speaker 6: They were incapacitated, they were sleeping. But Brian Coolberger in
- 36:06Speaker 6: that eight hour time that was just brought up, came
- 36:10Speaker 6: back to the scene to see his work that morning.
- 36:15Speaker 6: You know, and if in fact this was a two
- 36:19Speaker 6: perpetrator problem, whether or not the sharpest tools in the
- 36:22Speaker 6: shed because somebody came up with the idea of leaving
- 36:25Speaker 6: the knife sheet there.
- 36:27Speaker 2: So not just one idiot but two. Yeah, that's kind
- 36:31Speaker 2: of hard to take in. So, Howard Bloom, you also
- 36:36Speaker 2: point out DNA on the stairwell and on a glove.
- 36:41Speaker 2: I believe that Chris mcgunne spotted the glove that I
- 36:45Speaker 2: at the time out in the parking lot, and I
- 36:49Speaker 2: believe Chris you're the one that showed it to police.
- 36:52Speaker 2: So I guess, Horrod Bloom, you're using that as fodder
- 36:56Speaker 2: for your two perp theory.
- 36:58Speaker 1: The DNA.
- 36:59Speaker 10: No, I'm raising the question, why wasn't that DNA analyzed?
- 37:05Speaker 10: Why wasn't the prosecution and the Idaho State Police going
- 37:11Speaker 10: through the trouble really just taking the time to put
- 37:15Speaker 10: this through the DNA file try to find out who
- 37:18Speaker 10: it belonged to. It seems that when you don't want
- 37:20Speaker 10: to know the answers to questions, they didn't ask them.
- 37:24Speaker 1: This isn't Hendricks.
- 37:24Speaker 2: Isn't it true that the state tried to get a
- 37:27Speaker 2: DNA match on that spec of DNA and regarding the handrail.
- 37:32Speaker 1: That could have been anybody.
- 37:33Speaker 2: This was a party house that was in and out
- 37:35Speaker 2: of the house. But didn't they try to get a
- 37:38Speaker 2: DNA match?
- 37:39Speaker 11: Yes, and I always go back I note to Delphi
- 37:42Speaker 11: because I know so much about that case. But there
- 37:44Speaker 11: was some DNA of unknown people on the girl's clothes,
- 37:48Speaker 11: meaning if you're around anyone, it could show. As you've said,
- 37:52Speaker 11: it was a party house, it could have been someone
- 37:56Speaker 11: in that homes.
- 37:57Speaker 2: Wait a minute, look at the grub hub truck. They're
- 38:01Speaker 2: hugging people and talking to people. That's very, very easy
- 38:06Speaker 2: to transfer DNA right there. So my point is Howard
- 38:12Speaker 2: Bloom said, why didn't they try to find out?
- 38:13Speaker 1: They did try to find out, didn't.
- 38:15Speaker 11: They bolutely did, and they settled. The defense is now
- 38:21Speaker 11: trying to try it in the court of public opinion.
- 38:23Speaker 11: And I will say online the people who believed there
- 38:26Speaker 11: was someone else there really believe it, and they're sticking
- 38:29Speaker 11: with it no matter what the event.
- 38:31Speaker 13: Tell me exactly what's going on.
- 38:35Speaker 12: One of our one of the roommatesh's passed out and
- 38:38Speaker 12: she's drung glass and.
- 38:39Speaker 1: Sht wake me up. Oh and they saw some man
- 38:43Speaker 1: in their house out site.
- 38:45Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 38:47Speaker 11: N are you with the patient?
- 38:48Speaker 12: Okay, I need someone to keep the phone, stop passing
- 38:51Speaker 12: it around, and I just tell you what happened pretty much, what.
- 38:55Speaker 1: Is going on currently as someone passed out right.
- 38:57Speaker 12: Now, I don't really know what pretty much for him.
- 39:01Speaker 11: Okay, well, I need to know what's going on right
- 39:03Speaker 11: now if someone has passed out, can you find that out?
- 39:06Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll come.
- 39:08Speaker 2: Now I'm hearing Brian Toberger. Can sue Sydney Sumner?
- 39:14Speaker 1: Sue who?
- 39:16Speaker 12: Well he could sue id oc that short video of
- 39:21Speaker 12: him in his jail cell. The ideos he did trace
- 39:25Speaker 12: that week to a specific person who resigned and did
- 39:28Speaker 12: not face any kind of punishment for leaking that photo.
- 39:32Speaker 12: But Brian Cohberger could come back and say that the
- 39:35Speaker 12: prison owes him some kind of damage for letting that
- 39:39Speaker 12: get through the cracks into the public.
- 39:41Speaker 2: Uh, okay, this is totally bass. Afterwards, doctor Bethany, look
- 39:48Speaker 2: at him. Look how red his hands are from cleaning things.
- 39:51Speaker 2: There he is cleaning a shoe like he's been out
- 39:55Speaker 2: in the mud.
- 39:56Speaker 1: He hasn't been anywhere.
- 39:57Speaker 2: He's obsessively cleaning and rear ranging his shells. So now
- 40:02Speaker 2: he's going to sue because somebody link this what damage
- 40:05Speaker 2: didn't do him. He's already a four time convicted killer.
- 40:08Speaker 2: Don't you have to hurt someone's reputation. How's that going
- 40:10Speaker 2: to hurt his reputation?
- 40:11Speaker 1: It's already ruined, Nancy.
- 40:13Speaker 5: All I see is power and control.
- 40:15Speaker 14: If he can't control the four victims that he's slaughtered,
- 40:19Speaker 14: now he's going.
- 40:20Speaker 1: To control the shoe and his jail.
- 40:22Speaker 5: In his jail, cell, I mean, that's what I see.
- 40:25Speaker 14: You know, Nancy, the reason I do not think that
- 40:28Speaker 14: he acted with another person is that I believe this
- 40:32Speaker 14: was a sexually motivated crime. I believe he was sexually
- 40:35Speaker 14: excited while he committed the crime. Over the one hundred
- 40:39Speaker 14: and fifty stab wounds was something that he Sadism and
- 40:46Speaker 14: sexuality and arousal were all fused in his mind in
- 40:51Speaker 14: some kind of way. So why would he share that
- 40:54Speaker 14: glory with another perpetrator. That's something that somebody does alone.
- 41:00Speaker 1: I say, what you're saying is coming home. I get it.
- 41:04Speaker 2: He would never share all the glory with somebody else.
- 41:08Speaker 2: So the fact to you, Chris McDonough, that he would
- 41:15Speaker 2: sue over the leaked video, it's absurd.
- 41:22Speaker 6: Yeah, And you know what, Nancy, I want to be
- 41:25Speaker 6: the first to advocate that you run the depositions, because
- 41:31Speaker 6: you know, if I was ISP or the DA's office, etc.
- 41:36Speaker 6: I would want one of my own teams sitting there
- 41:38Speaker 6: during those initial deposition periods. And the first question I
- 41:42Speaker 6: would ask him is go down that line, so exactly
- 41:45Speaker 6: how did you do this? Brian? And so I think
- 41:49Speaker 6: this is absurd, but it's consistent with his behavior. Again,
- 41:53Speaker 6: he sees this whole process, and he sees people as
- 41:57Speaker 6: the doc has pointed out, power control and dominance, and
- 42:00Speaker 6: he looks at people as bugs and he doesn't see
- 42:03Speaker 6: them as human beings like we do.
- 42:06Speaker 2: You know, that's a really good point. Philip Doubay, veteran
- 42:09Speaker 2: trial lawyer. If he does follow through and sue over
- 42:14Speaker 2: this link video we're showing right now, he can be called.
- 42:17Speaker 2: It's not like a criminal trial for you do bake
- 42:20Speaker 2: and hide behind the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.
- 42:23Speaker 2: The other side, the respondent can put him on as
- 42:29Speaker 2: the first witness and cross examine him as a hostile witness.
- 42:34Speaker 6: Of course they could.
- 42:34Speaker 8: And they could also summon him to a video conference
- 42:37Speaker 8: room to do his deposition, and they can sit him
- 42:40Speaker 8: down under oath and digress away from his precious torque
- 42:44Speaker 8: claim for invasion of privacy in his jail cell, where
- 42:48Speaker 8: by the way, he has no expectation of privacy even
- 42:51Speaker 8: constitutionally or intoward, and they will drill him on every
- 42:55Speaker 8: single crime fact that the public would love to know about.
- 43:00Speaker 8: If he refuses to answer, counsel can go into court
- 43:03Speaker 8: and get sanctions and compel him to respond, and if
- 43:06Speaker 8: he doesn't under Idaho law, the ultimate doomsday sanction could result,
- 43:11Speaker 8: which is a dismissal of his case with prejudice.
- 43:16Speaker 2: We wait as justice ent foles and we remember an
- 43:19Speaker 2: American hero, Deputy Sheriff Rick Haggard, Lee County Sheriff's Department, Mississippi,
- 43:25Speaker 2: killed in the line of duty and leaving behind a grieving.
- 43:28Speaker 1: Wife and daughters.
- 43:32Speaker 2: American hero Deputy Sheriff Rick Haggard Nancy Gray signing off
- 43:38Speaker 2: goodbye friend.