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Murder In Moscow: Bryan Kohberger And The Fudged Resume · Beyond The Horizon

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. We're
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  Speaker 1: learning more about Brian Koberger today and about some of
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  Speaker 1: the self-assessment he did when he was filling out an
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  Speaker 1: application and a resume to get a job. Now, we've
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  Speaker 1: heard previously that he had a job at a camp
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  Speaker 1: at the lake. Well, according to Brian Koberger on his resume,
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  Speaker 1: he was a prolific fishmonger. Meanwhile, Brian Koberger only worked
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  Speaker 1: at that job for a very short period of time.
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  Speaker 1: So let's dive into this new report from Fox News
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  Speaker 1: and let's see what they have for us. Headline, Brian
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  Speaker 1: Koberger describes cutting fish, wrapping meat in a creepy self-assessment.
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  Speaker 1: The author of this article is Michael Ruiz. Idaho student
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  Speaker 1: murder suspect Brian Koberger once boasted of his daily boxing
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  Speaker 1: routine while describing how he cut fish and worked as
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  Speaker 1: a meat wrapper in a security job application. obtained by
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  Speaker 1: Fox News Digital. The 28-year-old criminology PhD student, who is
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  Speaker 1: now a quadruple homicide suspect, previously wrote that his special
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  Speaker 1: skills included rigorous punching workouts and a year of youth
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement training in a 2015 job application to work
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  Speaker 1: school security. I boxed every day after school at the
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Harris Boxing Gym on 209 next to Big Cheese
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  Speaker 1: Pizza when it was still open, he wrote. I also
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  Speaker 1: attended a year of the law enforcement program and a
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  Speaker 1: year of HVAC. So look, Brian Koberger, for as goofy
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  Speaker 1: and as awkward as he was, obviously was in decent shape.
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  Speaker 1: He went through a point in time where Brian Koberger
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  Speaker 1: was way overweight, a big fat kid, and he lost
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of weight because he got picked on and
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  Speaker 1: got himself into shape. And when people talk about how
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  Speaker 1: could somebody have the stamina to kill four people with
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  Speaker 1: a knife, well, Brian Kohlberger was obviously somebody that was
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  Speaker 1: working out at least a little bit. When you look
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  Speaker 1: at him, he was obviously maintaining his shape and keeping himself,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at the very least healthy as far as
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  Speaker 1: going to the gym or whatever. And when you add
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  Speaker 1: the adrenaline to it, when you're engaging in something like
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  Speaker 1: a quadruple homicide, well, that's how Brian Kohlberger was able
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  Speaker 1: to to kill four people with a knife and not
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  Speaker 1: get tired out. And when you have adrenaline added to
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  Speaker 1: that combination, it becomes very clear that Brian Kohlberger is
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  Speaker 1: capable of pulling this off. The question that remains is,
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  Speaker 1: is he the one responsible for doing this? He was
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  Speaker 1: vying to work either as a fill-in custodian, courier, or
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  Speaker 1: security guard for the Pleasant Valley School District in his
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania hometown of Effort. His employment history showed only two
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  Speaker 1: previous gigs, seven months at the Big Brown Fish and
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  Speaker 1: Pay Lakes in 2011 and four months in the butcher
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  Speaker 1: and produce departments at a BJ's Wholesale Club in Stroudsburg
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  Speaker 1: in 2015. He added that he did some side work
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  Speaker 1: for his father, a district maintenance worker, learning how to
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  Speaker 1: do pipe work and HVAC. Kohlberger, pictured in yearbooks as
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  Speaker 1: the chubby teen, also appeared to be proud of his
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  Speaker 1: weight loss writing about it in a section where he
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  Speaker 1: was asked to describe professional and civic activities. I was
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  Speaker 1: a boxer and I am still a runner, he wrote.
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  Speaker 1: I believe dedication and perseverance are most important skills learned
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  Speaker 1: from my activities. I lost 130 pounds at age 15
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  Speaker 1: into age 16 while attending school at PVHS and MCTI.
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  Speaker 1: I believe this is proof that I have the required
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  Speaker 1: dedication to be successful. Hey, look, no doubt about it,
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  Speaker 1: if you can lose a bunch of weight like that,
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  Speaker 1: it's always a good thing. However, it would have been
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  Speaker 1: nice if Brian Kohlberger would have shed some of these
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  Speaker 1: psychological deficiencies that he had along with some of this weight.
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  Speaker 1: He also claimed to have been a champion extemporaneous speaker,
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  Speaker 1: a competitive, improvisational speaking style. Oh, is that it, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Brian Kohlberger was Mr. Get out there in front of
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  Speaker 1: the whole entire class in the debate club? And let
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  Speaker 1: him have it. What's next? He was the starting center
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  Speaker 1: for the basketball team as well? Kohlberger wound up getting
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  Speaker 1: the job for the Pleasant Valley School District, starting out
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  Speaker 1: as a casual security guard and then earning a promotion
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  Speaker 1: to part-timer. The district outfitted him with size 13 boots,
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  Speaker 1: several extra large shirts, a jacket, and pants with a
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  Speaker 1: 34-inch waist. So certainly a big step up for Brian
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  Speaker 1: Kohlberger as opposed to being the fat little turd he
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  Speaker 1: used to be. And I just don't understand really how
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  Speaker 1: little kids get to be so fat. Like, I can
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  Speaker 1: understand if you have some kind of medical condition, but
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  Speaker 1: there's no reason for little kids to be way overweight.
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  Speaker 1: Get that kid in some kind of athletic program, whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is. But this whole culture where people just sit
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  Speaker 1: around and watch TV, sip soda, and get fat is
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  Speaker 1: bizarre to me. Go take a hike. Go walk around
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood. Do something. Because if not, well, you're setting
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  Speaker 1: yourself up for all kinds of problems down the road. However,
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  Speaker 1: his employment came to an end on June 22, 2021,
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  Speaker 1: when he submitted a resignation letter acknowledging that, I understand
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  Speaker 1: that if I do not resign, I have a right
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  Speaker 1: to a school board hearing to determine if I should
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  Speaker 1: be dismissed from employment with the school district. The district
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  Speaker 1: declined to disclose further information about his departure stating that
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  Speaker 1: records related to non-criminal investigations, complaints, written criticisms of an employee,
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  Speaker 1: and disciplinary materials are exempt from disclosure under Pennsylvania's public
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  Speaker 1: records law. So, in other words, get stuffed. They're not
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  Speaker 1: going to give out any kind of information about Brian
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  Speaker 1: Kohlberger unless it's a subpoena. And they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: set that precedent of giving out information on their employees
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  Speaker 1: unless it's a subpoena. So I highly doubt that anyone's
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  Speaker 1: going to get anything unless, of course, there is a leak.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody at the school district or whatever decides to hand
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  Speaker 1: information over to the media. That's possible. But they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to willingly just turn it over, at least not
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion. The records do show, however, that Kohlberger
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  Speaker 1: was placed on leave without pay for at least one
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  Speaker 1: day in February 2021 due to expired clearance. Some of
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  Speaker 1: Kohlberger's claims in the application may have been exaggerated. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like him being a boxing champion. If he's a boxing champion,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a cosmonaut. Charles Conklin, who founded Big Brown Fish
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  Speaker 1: and Pay Lakes in Efford, Pennsylvania, 35 years ago, told
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  Speaker 1: Fox News Digital in March that That co-burger didn't last
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  Speaker 1: long on the job and never got any training with
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  Speaker 1: a filleting knife. So where did he learn how to
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  Speaker 1: do all this cutting? If it wasn't at the camp
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  Speaker 1: where he was a counselor. When kids come in here,
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  Speaker 1: their jobs are to keep the place clean, pick up
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  Speaker 1: paper all day long, help customers catch fish, fix poles,
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  Speaker 1: and then we try to train them how to fillet fish,
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  Speaker 1: he said. And if they get good at it, then
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  Speaker 1: they can fillet customers' fish. Koberger wasn't around long enough
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  Speaker 1: to get to that point, he said. Conklin said they
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  Speaker 1: parted ways with him just after three weeks. Koberger, on
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  Speaker 1: his application, claimed to have worked there from March to October. So,
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  Speaker 1: out here lying on his resume, acting like he had
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  Speaker 1: some kind of serious employment, when in fact, he had
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  Speaker 1: only done three weeks at this camp gig because he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't cut it. Now, if that's not a red flag,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what is. If you can't help customers...
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  Speaker 1: Fix their fishing poles? You can't pick up trash? You
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  Speaker 1: can't learn how to fillet a fish? You, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: are hopeless. I cut the fish to the specifications of
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  Speaker 1: the customer, he wrote. His reason for leaving, he added,
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  Speaker 1: was needed one season. Kohlberger went on to complete a
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  Speaker 1: master's degree in criminal justice at DeSalas University and began
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  Speaker 1: his PhD studies at Washington State University in Pullman last fall.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly before the Thanksgiving break, Four students at the neighboring
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  Speaker 1: University of Idaho were stabbed to death during a 4 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: home invasion, according to the Moscow Police Department. The victims
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  Speaker 1: were 21-year-old Madison Mogan and Kaylee Gonsalves and 20-year-old Zanna
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  Speaker 1: Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. It would be roughly seven weeks
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  Speaker 1: before police arrested a suspect, Kohlberger, at his parents' house
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  Speaker 1: in Albrightville in the Poconos, Pennsylvania. He is being held
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  Speaker 1: without bail on four charges of first-degree murder and another
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  Speaker 1: of felony burglary. He could face the death penalty if convicted.
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  Speaker 1: The trial is scheduled for the beginning of October. And
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  Speaker 1: as far as that trial starting in October, I have
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  Speaker 1: my doubts that we're going to see that. I think
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  Speaker 1: that we'll probably have a delay. And if I had
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  Speaker 1: to make a wager, I'd say that this trial kicks
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  Speaker 1: off in the summer at some point. Maybe June-ish, something
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  Speaker 1: like that. But when you have something as complex as this,
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  Speaker 1: where there's so many moving parts, and we're talking about probably,
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  Speaker 1: not for sure, but probably a capital punishment style case,
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  Speaker 1: then yeah, it's going to take some time for the
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  Speaker 1: sides to come together and figure out what they're going
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  Speaker 1: to do. And when we're talking about Brian Kohlberger's defense, well,
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  Speaker 1: we know that they're going to have to get real
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  Speaker 1: creative because the evidence that the prosecution has is a
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  Speaker 1: mile high. So it's going to be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: how they come up with their strategy and what they
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  Speaker 1: plan on doing as far as strategy wise because there's
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  Speaker 1: no doubt that Brian Koberger and his team have quite
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  Speaker 1: the hill to climb all right folks that's going to
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  Speaker 1: do it for this one all of the information that
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  Speaker 1: goes with the episode can be found in the description
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  Speaker 1: box