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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greece. Did the killer and the
- 0:16Speaker 1: Idaho student murders actually go online and brag? Now that
- 0:24Speaker 1: that probable cause? Affidavid has established that the alleged killer,
- 0:29Speaker 1: Brian Coburger, had stalked out the murder house at least
- 0:34Speaker 1: and I emphasized at least twelve times before the murder,
- 0:38Speaker 1: dating all the way back to June. Was that before
- 0:40Speaker 1: he even started school in his PhD program, he was
- 0:44Speaker 1: already staking them out. We know he had picked his
- 0:49Speaker 1: victims by then based on what cops are saying, but
- 0:52Speaker 1: why them? What was the connection? As a desperate search
- 0:57Speaker 1: for the murder weapon goes off, we are waiting holding
- 1:03Speaker 1: our breaths for the next Bobshell to draw. I mean it,
- 1:07Speaker 1: See Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for being
- 1:10Speaker 1: with us here at Fox Nation and serious XM one eleven.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Who is this guy? Take a listen to our friends
- 1:17Speaker 1: k XI. The last time the Arms family saw him
- 1:20Speaker 1: was when Coburger was working as a security guard at
- 1:22Speaker 1: a local school a couple of years back. When we
- 1:25Speaker 1: talked to him there, everything seeming you know, normal, he
- 1:28Speaker 1: was polite and everything. It was very, very weird to
- 1:31Speaker 1: hear this stuff. Washington State University confirms he was a
- 1:35Speaker 1: PhD student at the time of the alleged murder, and
- 1:38Speaker 1: Tom adds he was smart, very intelligent, and then you know,
- 1:42Speaker 1: he would explain things in like a really odd way
- 1:46Speaker 1: that had to be really sophisticated way of explaining stuff.
- 1:50Speaker 1: There is still so much more to explain and understand
- 1:54Speaker 1: in this investigation. It's unsettling for Tom to think about
- 1:58Speaker 1: how this person who they knew for years could have
- 2:01Speaker 1: killed these four students. Just been saying, you know, why
- 2:05Speaker 1: is it that everyone talks about how normal the guy
- 2:09Speaker 1: was way back when you know they said that about BTK.
- 2:15Speaker 1: We find out that Bundy charmed people, very charming. Scott
- 2:20Speaker 1: Peterson sumed, like the All American guy, didn't he We're
- 2:24Speaker 1: hearing the same thing now, but can that possibly be true?
- 2:29Speaker 1: With me in All Star panel to make sense of
- 2:31Speaker 1: what we know right now? But first I want to
- 2:33Speaker 1: go out to Fox senior correspondent Laura Ingle. Lauren, thank
- 2:38Speaker 1: you for being with us. You know I was thinking
- 2:40Speaker 1: about it before we took to the air. If he
- 2:43Speaker 1: had started staking out the four students back in June
- 2:47Speaker 1: his classes at the PhD program, had they even started. Yeah,
- 2:51Speaker 1: you know, he was in that area as far when
- 2:54Speaker 1: we look out the records of when he moved there,
- 2:57Speaker 1: when the car was registered, how it was registered, it
- 3:00Speaker 1: appears as though he was there. And the other thing
- 3:03Speaker 1: about the key piece that we heard on page four
- 3:08Speaker 1: of the probable Cause Affidavid not to jump ahead, but
- 3:12Speaker 1: the idea that one of the surviving roommates heard somebody
- 3:18Speaker 1: in the house say it's okay, I'm going to help you.
- 3:21Speaker 1: I just want to remind us of a story that
- 3:24Speaker 1: we heard very early on when Brian Coburger was first arrested,
- 3:29Speaker 1: and we didn't have a name, and when we heard
- 3:32Speaker 1: that name Brian Coburger, everybody pulled up this old newspaper
- 3:36Speaker 1: article from Pennsylvania when he was a part time security
- 3:41Speaker 1: guard at a school district, and how was he was
- 3:44Speaker 1: a part of the super heroic saving of a woman
- 3:48Speaker 1: who had an asthma attack and he and another school
- 3:51Speaker 1: guard got down on the ground and helped her, and
- 3:55Speaker 1: they said Brian helped to save her life. And I
- 3:58Speaker 1: just wanted to draw that of just I don't know,
- 4:01Speaker 1: I don't know if he said those words, if that
- 4:04Speaker 1: was a recording of some kind on her TikTok, But
- 4:07Speaker 1: it was just I thought, you know, an interesting connection
- 4:10Speaker 1: that he was a private security guarden, an effort at
- 4:13Speaker 1: all of the criminology that he took, and the applying
- 4:17Speaker 1: to be an intern with the Pullman Police Department that
- 4:20Speaker 1: there is now that there is a record of him
- 4:22Speaker 1: being on the ground trying to help a woman, you know,
- 4:26Speaker 1: running to get an aeed to save a woman's life.
- 4:29Speaker 1: So I know that we had talked a little bit
- 4:31Speaker 1: about that on previous shows, but it is certainly erie. Yeah,
- 4:37Speaker 1: you know what, Laura Angle, It really is because you
- 4:39Speaker 1: see the dichotomy of someone that could have been really
- 4:45Speaker 1: a hero in this world and has done the exact
- 4:49Speaker 1: opposite and turned into the devil. And of course, let
- 4:53Speaker 1: me just say again before I am pilloried online, everyone
- 4:57Speaker 1: is presumed innocent until they're proved and guilty, and that
- 5:01Speaker 1: goes for Brian Coburger as well. You know, doctor Bethany
- 5:04Speaker 1: Marshall joining us a high profile psychoanalyst joining us out
- 5:08Speaker 1: of Beverly Hills at doctor Bethany Marshall MD dot com
- 5:12Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany. That's really interesting what Laura Ingle told us,
- 5:16Speaker 1: how he had gone so far as to save someone's
- 5:19Speaker 1: life being written up and lauded for it and then
- 5:24Speaker 1: somehow took a really dark turn. But my initial reaction was,
- 5:28Speaker 1: it's the show. There's a whole drama going on. It's
- 5:31Speaker 1: Coburgers the world and we're all just living in it. Yeah,
- 5:34Speaker 1: if you think about one of the associated features of sociopathy,
- 5:38Speaker 1: which is which what you just said means nothing to me.
- 5:40Speaker 1: I don't even know what you're talking about, the one
- 5:44Speaker 1: of the what of the what? Sociopaths and serial killers
- 5:49Speaker 1: are always sociopaths. And if Brian Koburger did this, we
- 5:54Speaker 1: were going to guess that this is a first killing
- 5:58Speaker 1: in what was intended to be a long life of
- 6:01Speaker 1: serial killing. Okay, so let's hold that in our minds
- 6:04Speaker 1: that he is possibly a serial killer and he got
- 6:07Speaker 1: caught on his first offense. So what do we know
- 6:11Speaker 1: about men like this? And yes, they're mostly men. They
- 6:14Speaker 1: are grandios, they are glib, but they are charming. But
- 6:19Speaker 1: it's a fin veneer. It's a superficial veneer of grandiosity,
- 6:25Speaker 1: meaning that they want to be the center of attention.
- 6:27Speaker 1: They want to be the star, They want everybody to
- 6:30Speaker 1: look up to them. They want to feel like they
- 6:32Speaker 1: are saving the world. But when I say it, says
- 6:35Speaker 1: thin veneer. They'll only act this way until you disagree
- 6:39Speaker 1: with him, and then the veneer cracks and they become vicious,
- 6:44Speaker 1: they become mean, and they go on the attack. So
- 6:47Speaker 1: I think about the little boy he's saved with the
- 6:49Speaker 1: asthma attack. I can imagine the parents calling him, asking
- 6:53Speaker 1: him over to dinner, him getting cars, you know, maybe
- 6:57Speaker 1: asked to go on a local TV show. I'm just
- 6:59Speaker 1: going to make keen this up. And then he revels
- 7:02Speaker 1: in the glory of being so important. But what if
- 7:05Speaker 1: one reporter or a parent says, yeah, but you know what,
- 7:09Speaker 1: you cracked the boy's ribs when you were doing CPR
- 7:12Speaker 1: or you know, I think you should have called by
- 7:14Speaker 1: any one one instead of trying to see the boy yourself.
- 7:18Speaker 1: Then he would have turned on them. Well, I'm also
- 7:21Speaker 1: wondering if that has anything to do with the way
- 7:24Speaker 1: he picked his victims. Straight out to Chris mcdunna and
- 7:28Speaker 1: joining me, director at the Cold Case Foundation, former homicide
- 7:30Speaker 1: detective Chris, who I found, by the way on his
- 7:33Speaker 1: YouTube channel, The Interview Room. Chris, I'm jumping off of
- 7:37Speaker 1: what doctor Bethany just said and then I'm going to
- 7:39Speaker 1: get back into what everybody wants to hear about Joe Scott,
- 7:43Speaker 1: C C. Moore, Del Carson, the nuts and bowls of
- 7:45Speaker 1: how this case is going to be proven or how
- 7:48Speaker 1: it can be dismantled by a savvy defense attorney. And yes,
- 7:51Speaker 1: it can be done. Chris mcdunna jumping off what doctor
- 7:56Speaker 1: Bethany just said. I've been asked over and over and over,
- 8:00Speaker 1: what's the motive? Number One, state doesn't have to prove motive. Okay,
- 8:04Speaker 1: we're not clairvoyant. We don't know what's going on in
- 8:06Speaker 1: his head. Number Two, it does help a jury to
- 8:11Speaker 1: have a motive, so the killings makes sense to them.
- 8:15Speaker 1: Now motive Bethany was describing a scenario where someone who
- 8:21Speaker 1: was a hero could quickly make an about face. We know,
- 8:26Speaker 1: Chris McDonough that there had been occasions where Coburger had
- 8:30Speaker 1: been asked to refrain from creeping out women at bars.
- 8:35Speaker 1: We know that he bragged to a classmate, I could
- 8:39Speaker 1: go to pretty much any bar or restaurant and have
- 8:43Speaker 1: any lady I want. He actually said that. Okay, let
- 8:50Speaker 1: that sink in for just a moment. Do you think
- 8:52Speaker 1: there's a possibility. You know, he was doing all the
- 8:54Speaker 1: study with felons, violent felons about how did you pick
- 8:59Speaker 1: your victims? How did you approach your victims? And a
- 9:02Speaker 1: lot more. Let's even creepier. Do you think somehow he
- 9:06Speaker 1: had been at a bar or a restaurant and one
- 9:09Speaker 1: of these young girls had ignored him or didn't respond
- 9:13Speaker 1: to his advances, and that is how he started following them,
- 9:18Speaker 1: because he would actually ask women at bars, I mean
- 9:21Speaker 1: jack and said how much would this creepy out? If
- 9:24Speaker 1: a guy came up and said what's your address? I
- 9:27Speaker 1: would run for the hills. It's fine seene a monster,
- 9:30Speaker 1: I mean for sure, no question about that. I mean,
- 9:33Speaker 1: how about hey, can I buy you a diet coo?
- 9:37Speaker 1: I don't know something like that. Every time I throw
- 9:39Speaker 1: a line to one of the twins to use on
- 9:41Speaker 1: their love objects, they they tell me how horrible they are.
- 9:46Speaker 1: I don't know what a good pickup line would be.
- 9:48Speaker 1: I suggested to one of the twins to say how
- 9:52Speaker 1: was your New Year? And they doubled over, laughing that
- 9:55Speaker 1: they could never say how was your New Year? To somebody?
- 9:58Speaker 1: So I'm not good at that. So Chris McDonough, what
- 10:01Speaker 1: about it, you know, Nancy. The fact that it's not
- 10:06Speaker 1: an obvious motive, that's you know, right on the surface here.
- 10:10Speaker 1: And the fact that we talked about this on your
- 10:13Speaker 1: show earlier, where you know he's gonna He treated this
- 10:18Speaker 1: killing us almost it was as if it was an
- 10:20Speaker 1: event his life, one of his creepy experiments. Yes, oh,
- 10:24Speaker 1: Chris Waite, you just gave me a thought. Hold on, ye,
- 10:27Speaker 1: you know how he would ask all the violent felons, murderers, rapists,
- 10:32Speaker 1: child rapists, what was going through your mind? How did
- 10:35Speaker 1: you feel during the murder or during the rape. I
- 10:42Speaker 1: wonder if he was doing this to see how it
- 10:45Speaker 1: really did feel, what it was really like. I mean,
- 10:49Speaker 1: this whole thing was over it. I'm sure Joe just
- 10:52Speaker 1: got Dale cars. You're gonna have something to say about
- 10:53Speaker 1: this over in sixteen minutes. Based on the timing when
- 10:58Speaker 1: he pulled up and when he left, it was almost clinical.
- 11:02Speaker 1: In and out. There was no right, there was no theft.
- 11:07Speaker 1: He just went in, did the killing and laughed. Chris McDonough,
- 11:11Speaker 1: how's that? Yeah? And he and he presented himself in
- 11:15Speaker 1: such a coolheaded, chameleon type of way. Evident of the
- 11:19Speaker 1: fact that we have you know this information allegedly that
- 11:23Speaker 1: he says, I'm here to help you. So this guy, allegedly,
- 11:29Speaker 1: if he is the sushpect, which you know he's been arrested,
- 11:34Speaker 1: he is that guy that if of somebody and the
- 11:38Speaker 1: dog can keep me honest here, if somebody pushes him away,
- 11:42Speaker 1: he's going to hold a grudge for quite some time.
- 11:45Speaker 1: So in my mind, my question has been how long
- 11:49Speaker 1: has he been holding this grudge? And that those women
- 11:53Speaker 1: were they the receivers of that anger? Good good thought.
- 11:58Speaker 1: And I want to follow up with Laura Ingle. Laura Ingle,
- 12:02Speaker 1: Senior correspondent, Fox News. Um, Laura, you were so incredible
- 12:08Speaker 1: on Fox News last night. I just every time you
- 12:11Speaker 1: start talking, it completely changes the course of my questioning.
- 12:14Speaker 1: I hope you know that, which is a good thing
- 12:16Speaker 1: because it's always something new that you're gonna say. I
- 12:18Speaker 1: want to follow up on what Chris said. And guys,
- 12:21Speaker 1: remember how many times do I have to tell you this?
- 12:23Speaker 1: Del Carson and Joe Scott Morgan and cecmore brilliant genetic genealogists.
- 12:29Speaker 1: By the way, we're not having tea at High Grove
- 12:33Speaker 1: with King Charles and Camilla. Okay, jump in, don't jump
- 12:39Speaker 1: in quite yet. Wait, Laura, Laura, you're gonna light in
- 12:47Speaker 1: this still, You're gonna like this? Okay? If he had
- 12:51Speaker 1: met them all right at some point being you know,
- 12:55Speaker 1: getting a coffee and say hey, do you live around here?
- 12:58Speaker 1: As she goes, well, I'm not going to say, because
- 13:01Speaker 1: that's a curseword. I gave it up cursing get lost.
- 13:04Speaker 1: I'll put it in an ice way. This he was
- 13:07Speaker 1: staking them out in June, Laura. So were the girls
- 13:11Speaker 1: already there? Did they live there over the summer? That's
- 13:15Speaker 1: a great question. I think that we assume that some
- 13:18Speaker 1: of them did, but I don't know if we have
- 13:21Speaker 1: those records that shows that. But you're right, the cell
- 13:25Speaker 1: phone tower information about how many times he had been back. Yeah,
- 13:30Speaker 1: But I also want to fass I also want to
- 13:32Speaker 1: fass forward really quick because I thought about this last night.
- 13:34Speaker 1: Oh here she goes, train out of control. You know
- 13:38Speaker 1: how we've been watching how you know there was a
- 13:40Speaker 1: there's a direct line of path from his apartment and
- 13:44Speaker 1: Pullman to the apartment in or to the rental home
- 13:48Speaker 1: in Moscow, Idaho, And then he takes this crazy path
- 13:52Speaker 1: home where it goes down and around and he's obviously
- 13:56Speaker 1: trying to you know, take a different route. But we've all,
- 13:59Speaker 1: i think, been on the same panel talking about Potus Dulos.
- 14:03Speaker 1: It was a case that we covered where a strange
- 14:07Speaker 1: husband murdered his wife of five children and had a
- 14:11Speaker 1: mother of five children, and all along the way he
- 14:14Speaker 1: was dumping items. So where are the bloody clothes, the shoes,
- 14:20Speaker 1: the mask, obviously, the knife, anything that he had, the
- 14:24Speaker 1: duffel bag that he might have brought to change into clothes,
- 14:27Speaker 1: anything of that sort. I'm curious now in the forward
- 14:31Speaker 1: part of the investigation of you know, were there any
- 14:34Speaker 1: cameras that picked him up going somewhere? Where did he
- 14:37Speaker 1: dump those things? I know that we've been talking about
- 14:40Speaker 1: how he dumped some garbage once he got to Pennsylvania,
- 14:45Speaker 1: But did he do anything in that long roundabout way
- 14:49Speaker 1: from the victim's residence back to Pullman because he took
- 14:55Speaker 1: that if you look at the map that's in the affidavit.
- 14:57Speaker 1: And that is why I was Laura Ingalls is a
- 15:01Speaker 1: better reporter on her sick bed, then guys just say,
- 15:06Speaker 1: you know, she said COVID and you know, more facts
- 15:10Speaker 1: and I don't mean institutional facts about this case that
- 15:13Speaker 1: we've learned from the beginning. I mean, like, what's happening
- 15:16Speaker 1: right now? That's an incredible thought. Okay, this means something,
- 15:21Speaker 1: Dell Carson, because I'm getting chills. Look that important. Can
- 15:27Speaker 1: I just introduce you Dell Carson, trial lawyer out of Jacksonville.
- 15:33Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it in and this is a good part.
- 15:36Speaker 1: Former FBI and former cop in Miami. Date at Dell
- 15:39Speaker 1: Carson Law dot com. Okay, go Dell. You got an
- 15:43Speaker 1: eye witness of him being in the property, you have
- 15:47Speaker 1: his DNA, you have a number of slaughtered victims. Having
- 15:51Speaker 1: a knife isn't like crying to find a gun where
- 15:54Speaker 1: you can connect the bullet through teche markings to the
- 15:57Speaker 1: actual firearm. You find them in this position possession. This
- 16:02Speaker 1: is a nice It can't be exactly in joke and
- 16:06Speaker 1: correct you on this, It can't be exactly determined that
- 16:09Speaker 1: that was the knife unless there's DNA on it. Later.
- 16:13Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, and I'll tell you why. Joe Carson
- 16:16Speaker 1: and I've had it out with so many forensic dentists
- 16:21Speaker 1: on this exact point. Let's do what you just said. Joe.
- 16:25Speaker 1: Scott Morgan joining me, Professor Forensics Jacksonville State University, host
- 16:29Speaker 1: of a new hit series Bodybags, with Joe Scott Morgan
- 16:32Speaker 1: on iHeart just got same theory applies to forensic dentistry
- 16:37Speaker 1: as it does with this knife. Flesh is flexible and
- 16:41Speaker 1: you can't really It's like trying to get a teeth
- 16:45Speaker 1: mark in jello. Ain't gonna happen. I mean, unless you've
- 16:49Speaker 1: got some really crazy set of teeth. Then occasionally I've
- 16:53Speaker 1: seen it be very convincing, but still you can't. One
- 16:57Speaker 1: of the problems with We're not going to go down
- 16:58Speaker 1: this path too far, says you. I'll drive this train
- 17:02Speaker 1: wherever I want to, young man, but somebody's getting sassy, Jackie.
- 17:10Speaker 1: You can't quantify bite marks. That's one of the problems
- 17:14Speaker 1: in forensics. Now why do you say it like that
- 17:16Speaker 1: when I said it was like biting into jello? But
- 17:19Speaker 1: go ahead, professor, Well, thank you. We can't. You can't
- 17:23Speaker 1: quantify it. And the same the same applies to a
- 17:27Speaker 1: knife wound. You can examine it, you can compare it,
- 17:30Speaker 1: and you say it's close to Here's one thing that
- 17:32Speaker 1: I find very interesting and something that we do in
- 17:34Speaker 1: the mortgage that people might not be aware of. Even
- 17:37Speaker 1: with knife wounds prior to the things that will do
- 17:40Speaker 1: our full body X rays. And this is kind of
- 17:44Speaker 1: key here because this knife was used allegedly multiple times, right,
- 17:48Speaker 1: So every time you're striking with this knife, there is
- 17:52Speaker 1: a potential that the structural integrity of the knife is
- 17:56Speaker 1: being compromised. It's wearing down and depended upon how well
- 18:00Speaker 1: the blade is made, it can chip and one of
- 18:03Speaker 1: the things we look for in these X rays that
- 18:05Speaker 1: we do are little metal fragments. Now, you can't do
- 18:08Speaker 1: it ballistically, but what you can do, and this is
- 18:11Speaker 1: really cool, is that if you can recover one of
- 18:15Speaker 1: those chips, you can do a metallurgical analysis on that chip.
- 18:19Speaker 1: And what that means is the chemistry behind the creation
- 18:23Speaker 1: of that blade is unique to that particular manufacturer. Okay, well,
- 18:29Speaker 1: let me just understand what you're saying. Are you saying
- 18:31Speaker 1: a knife, use of a knife and a murderer? Can
- 18:35Speaker 1: you use tiny microscopic leave excuse me, tiny microscopic pieces
- 18:40Speaker 1: of metal in the wound? Yes, it can. Have you
- 18:43Speaker 1: ever seen that happen? Yes? I have. How often have
- 18:45Speaker 1: you seen that happen? Infrequently? You mean rarely? Okay, because
- 18:50Speaker 1: Joe Scott I hear what you're saying, and I do
- 18:53Speaker 1: think it can happen. And as you were saying that,
- 18:55Speaker 1: the worst the quality of the knife, the more likely
- 18:58Speaker 1: it will happen. I've never had a case for a
- 19:01Speaker 1: knife left any type of metallurgy behind in a wound.
- 19:05Speaker 1: But I do see how theoretically it can happen. Yeah, tips,
- 19:08Speaker 1: tips of knives break off very frequently. A tip breaks off. Yeah,
- 19:13Speaker 1: but I don't know that it's left in the in
- 19:14Speaker 1: the wound. Sure it is, Yeah, Oh yeah it is.
- 19:17Speaker 1: It's it's left and bone. Yeah, that's a good point.
- 19:20Speaker 1: That's a good point. Yeah, it happens. It happens with great,
- 19:23Speaker 1: great frequency. So back to what Laura Ingle brought up.
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- 20:00Speaker 1: I lose this guest, I'm going to circle back to
- 20:02Speaker 1: the murder Weapon. I've just got to go to chief
- 20:05Speaker 1: genetic genealogist Peer and Bonnano Labs CEC more again, you
- 20:11Speaker 1: know what dummy down for me. I'm just a j D.
- 20:14Speaker 1: I'm not a genetic genealogist, and you're bringing back memories,
- 20:19Speaker 1: happy memories for me, sad memories for medical examiners in
- 20:22Speaker 1: crime lab personnel to go through every single line of
- 20:27Speaker 1: their report and make them speak English that I can
- 20:32Speaker 1: understand as is Shakespearean English major CEC. They need more DNA. Now,
- 20:42Speaker 1: do I think the case is strong? Yes? I do.
- 20:45Speaker 1: I think case it is incredibly strong. But that's it.
- 20:50Speaker 1: I can just see a Johnny Cochran move God rest
- 20:53Speaker 1: his soul. He was my co waker at Court TV
- 20:55Speaker 1: Cochrane and Grace. I can see somebody like him coming
- 21:00Speaker 1: in and going what out of a blood bath like this?
- 21:06Speaker 1: And you're telling me the only DNA linking back to
- 21:11Speaker 1: the defendant is a little epiphelial skin cells on the
- 21:16Speaker 1: snap on the knife hilt. Really, and you're gonna send
- 21:20Speaker 1: my guy to the death penalty over that? Oh? H
- 21:27Speaker 1: n oh, that is what is going to happen. I'm
- 21:31Speaker 1: telling you. I'm telling you right now, unless somehow they
- 21:35Speaker 1: can find some other DNA. Yeah, I agree with you, Nancy.
- 21:39Speaker 1: They could argue that someone else transported that knife sheath
- 21:42Speaker 1: to the crime scene, or they could argue this CCO, Lord,
- 21:46Speaker 1: I don't want to give them any ideas. What if
- 21:48Speaker 1: they argued, yeah, he went to a knife and gun
- 21:50Speaker 1: show and he looked at a lot of knife and
- 21:53Speaker 1: he opened them up and looked at them and snapped
- 21:55Speaker 1: him back and put him back on the display, then
- 21:58Speaker 1: of course i'd have to dig up an if a
- 22:00Speaker 1: gun show that was in that area. But that said,
- 22:03Speaker 1: there's a million ways they could counter that one. A
- 22:07Speaker 1: little bit of DNA for sure. So I think we know,
- 22:12Speaker 1: based on the eyewitness DM that he was not totally
- 22:16Speaker 1: covered up. She was able to see his eyebrows, and
- 22:20Speaker 1: we are told that he was wearing a mask that
- 22:23Speaker 1: covered his mouth and his nose. Well, that sounds like
- 22:25Speaker 1: the kind of masks we've been wearing with COVID for
- 22:29Speaker 1: the last three years. And it also might explain, by
- 22:32Speaker 1: the way, why she wasn't thinking this was somebody who
- 22:35Speaker 1: had done something terrible in the house. You know, those
- 22:38Speaker 1: kids are used to seeing people wear masks. It's been
- 22:42Speaker 1: really normalized over the last three years, and these are
- 22:45Speaker 1: young kids. So anyway, was his hair covered you've got
- 22:49Speaker 1: a full head of hair. Did that guy walk in
- 22:52Speaker 1: there not fully suited up? If so, I wouldn't be
- 22:55Speaker 1: the least bit surprised if there is some hair evidence
- 22:59Speaker 1: left at that scene. You know, Cecymore, I'm going to
- 23:03Speaker 1: charge you for all the paper that I use if
- 23:07Speaker 1: you would laugh, if you could see all the notes
- 23:09Speaker 1: I take furiously whenever you start talking, I'm like, I'm
- 23:12Speaker 1: running out. I'm using the back pages of things that
- 23:15Speaker 1: twins did in school in the fifth grade. For Pete's sake,
- 23:19Speaker 1: that is so smart. Okay, we don't know anything about
- 23:22Speaker 1: us head being covered, did we, Laura Engele, I have
- 23:25Speaker 1: not heard anything about the head being covered. And one
- 23:28Speaker 1: of the questions I had for the family, the attorney
- 23:31Speaker 1: of the Gonzalvas family, who I spoke to Sunday, I asked,
- 23:35Speaker 1: you know, have you talked to DM have you talked
- 23:38Speaker 1: to Dylan? They said that they have spoken to her,
- 23:41Speaker 1: that they wouldn't tell me what that conversation was for
- 23:44Speaker 1: obvious reasons, for personal reasons. But you know, we don't
- 23:48Speaker 1: know what more she said about what she saw. You know,
- 23:52Speaker 1: when I first heard of the story, didn't we all
- 23:54Speaker 1: sort of think that whoever did this must have been
- 23:57Speaker 1: dressed like a ninja, and mebe even wearing goggle for
- 24:00Speaker 1: the sake of not leaving your DNA. But to your
- 24:04Speaker 1: point there, there just has to be more the bedsheets,
- 24:07Speaker 1: the comfort or the staircase, the door handle. I'm thinking
- 24:10Speaker 1: about hair. And I've got to ask Jackie, why are
- 24:12Speaker 1: you holding up a snus a ski mask? Didn't she
- 24:14Speaker 1: say he had a ski Nobody ever said he wore
- 24:17Speaker 1: a ski mask, and anybody he had a mask covering
- 24:20Speaker 1: his nose and mouth. I haven't heard anything about ski mask.
- 24:23Speaker 1: That's how facts gets totally distorted. Has anybody said ski
- 24:27Speaker 1: mask beside Jackie sitting right there, who just cooked it
- 24:30Speaker 1: up in her head? No, No, I heard. You've had
- 24:32Speaker 1: way too many Duncan donut cup cups of coffee. Jackie,
- 24:36Speaker 1: what dale ski mask for? And I will tell you
- 24:39Speaker 1: it's in the car, as Joe Morgan will tell you.
- 24:43Speaker 1: That's where the evidence is. And as soon as they
- 24:45Speaker 1: find but one of the victims blood in that car,
- 24:48Speaker 1: that's what they need. That is what they need. Yes, Hey, ccmore,
- 24:52Speaker 1: I got off track with Jackie's ski mask allegation. What
- 24:57Speaker 1: were you saying? Back to the hair. Yes, so the hair.
- 25:01Speaker 1: You know, you used to not be able to get
- 25:03Speaker 1: DNA from rootless hair, but now we can thanks to
- 25:07Speaker 1: the brilliant doctor ed Green from Santa Cruz, and I've
- 25:12Speaker 1: helped on two cases recently where all we had was
- 25:15Speaker 1: a tiny piece of rootless hair. You mean mitochondrial DNA
- 25:18Speaker 1: won't that work? Mitochondrial? Yes, but you can actually now
- 25:22Speaker 1: get autozomal DNA. Whooa, whoa white? What did you just
- 25:25Speaker 1: call it? What did you call it? Autozomal DNA? That's
- 25:28Speaker 1: the type of DNA autozomal Yeah, I'm gonna throw that
- 25:32Speaker 1: at Joe Scott's see if I can stuff him autozomal
- 25:35Speaker 1: he's probably googling it right now. Go ahead. It's the
- 25:38Speaker 1: type of DNA you get from both sides of your family,
- 25:41Speaker 1: from all of your grandparents, great grandparents. It's much more
- 25:45Speaker 1: unique than mitochondrial DNA. Oh okay, And you're telling me
- 25:50Speaker 1: I could get autosomal DNA from a hair without a nucleus,
- 25:56Speaker 1: and it's more exact than just mitochondrial DNA, which you
- 26:00Speaker 1: can get from a hair without a nucleus that only
- 26:02Speaker 1: goes to you to mother. Correct, right, mitochondrial DNA there
- 26:06Speaker 1: can be thousands of people, tens of thousands of people
- 26:09Speaker 1: who have the exact same signature. But no one's going
- 26:12Speaker 1: to have your exact same autosomal DNA signature except for
- 26:16Speaker 1: a twin. That's why I call her brilliant. Hey, Joe Scott,
- 26:21Speaker 1: are you through giggling autosomble yet? Yes? Okay, guys, I'm
- 26:26Speaker 1: just filling Joe Scott's leg. He's just an incredible friends
- 26:30Speaker 1: professor at Jacksonville State. Joe Scott, can we just and
- 26:34Speaker 1: everybody jump in? Okay? You know you shirted pipe down,
- 26:37Speaker 1: Chris mcdonnaugh. You know I've got some ideas. I've got
- 26:40Speaker 1: some ideas. Natty, I'm waiting, all right, Joe Scott, if
- 26:44Speaker 1: he could just drop one hair, one hair? Did you
- 26:48Speaker 1: hear what Ccymore said, if we could just find one
- 26:51Speaker 1: hair and all that mess of a crime scene, one hair,
- 26:56Speaker 1: or as Dale Carson pointed out, one speck blood in
- 27:01Speaker 1: that elantra. Just Scott, how are we going to do this?
- 27:04Speaker 1: Look Look to the hands, Look to the hands, Nancy,
- 27:08Speaker 1: because this is key. We've made a big deal over
- 27:11Speaker 1: the last few weeks about the examination of these victim's
- 27:14Speaker 1: hands at the Morgue Remember they bag the hands, which
- 27:16Speaker 1: is something that we normally do, all right, but when
- 27:19Speaker 1: this occurs, When this occurs and you have individuals that
- 27:22Speaker 1: are fighting back, remember we've got documented defense wounds. They
- 27:26Speaker 1: might be grabbing at the head. And if they do,
- 27:29Speaker 1: and plus if there's blood on the victim's hands, and
- 27:33Speaker 1: everybody knows how tacky blood is and sticky, it's amazing.
- 27:38Speaker 1: It's amazing what you will find contain not just beneath
- 27:41Speaker 1: the fingernails and those are you know, you can really
- 27:43Speaker 1: harvest a lot out of those, but also just stuck
- 27:47Speaker 1: to the palms of the hands and the backs of
- 27:49Speaker 1: the hands. They very well, one of these kids very
- 27:52Speaker 1: well may have pulled out a root hair with a
- 27:57Speaker 1: root intact as well, you know, to Cecy's point about
- 28:00Speaker 1: the autosomal DNA, yeah, I mean, and some of this
- 28:03Speaker 1: hair might be fractured. You never know. But that's why
- 28:06Speaker 1: they have gone over these bodies with a fine tooth comb, Nancy,
- 28:09Speaker 1: and they have recovered every bit of trace evidence I'm
- 28:11Speaker 1: hoping they have at the morgue. And they applied a
- 28:14Speaker 1: team to this that did nothing but this. These clothes,
- 28:16Speaker 1: the clothes of the kids we were taking care of
- 28:21Speaker 1: very well. They were sent to the crime lab. Everything
- 28:24Speaker 1: was documented, and I can't you know, we could spend
- 28:27Speaker 1: two shows just talking about the examination that they're going
- 28:29Speaker 1: to do on these clothing alone for trace evidence and
- 28:32Speaker 1: extracting anything they can that might be DNA. Rich, Okay,
- 28:37Speaker 1: I want to hear what Chris mcdonna's idea is. So
- 28:40Speaker 1: Nancy on the on the sheath, I want to go
- 28:44Speaker 1: back to the sheath for a moment if we can. Okay,
- 28:47Speaker 1: it's laying next to Maddie. Yeah, buy your leg. You
- 28:52Speaker 1: notice there's no conversation in the alpha. David, I've had
- 28:56Speaker 1: many judges asked me, is there anything else belonging to
- 29:01Speaker 1: anybody else on this item? I e. Cross, you know, blood,
- 29:07Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. No, your honor, it looks like
- 29:10Speaker 1: it's a single source DNA. So here's my thought. That
- 29:15Speaker 1: scene was a horror house. Why is there not blood
- 29:22Speaker 1: on this sheet? And I would submit to you if
- 29:26Speaker 1: it was, that would have been put into the affidavit.
- 29:29Speaker 1: And that's why hold on, hold on, hold on Christmas,
- 29:32Speaker 1: Donna say that again, very slowly. Sure, so the sheath
- 29:35Speaker 1: where we know there's single source DNA on the snap
- 29:41Speaker 1: from a male and then they've now massed that, you know,
- 29:45Speaker 1: through family members. But what we're not hearing is cross
- 29:50Speaker 1: you know, contamination from the scene itself. I e. If
- 29:55Speaker 1: he drops this and he's stabbing, there's blood going everywhe
- 30:00Speaker 1: and I would submit to you if it ends up
- 30:02Speaker 1: right next to that victim, there is blood on that sheet.
- 30:06Speaker 1: But we're not hearing about that. So my thinking is,
- 30:10Speaker 1: did this guy bring this post homicide and place it
- 30:15Speaker 1: there as part of a staging activity. No, he didn't
- 30:20Speaker 1: have time. He didn't have time to do that, guys. Okay, okay, no, no, no,
- 30:25Speaker 1: Chris mcdonnah, I want to hear everything, guys. This is
- 30:28Speaker 1: how cases are fine tuned. They're honed by I remember
- 30:34Speaker 1: talking to my best friend in the DA's office about cases,
- 30:39Speaker 1: talking to my investigator, working the evidence through, seeing what
- 30:43Speaker 1: would work, what wouldn't like what you just heard mcdonna say,
- 30:46Speaker 1: that would be a fantastic theory to put to a jury.
- 30:49Speaker 1: But yet we know he was only in there for
- 30:52Speaker 1: twenty minutes. Time stories with Nancy Grace. Two things very quickly.
- 31:12Speaker 1: Anybody jump in Laura Engele. We've heard a lot about
- 31:17Speaker 1: Dylan DM as she is called, and they probably cause affidavit.
- 31:21Speaker 1: How how could it be? Everybody says that he walked
- 31:25Speaker 1: right by, Luring didn't say her. I have a theory
- 31:27Speaker 1: on that, Laura, and that theory is that she ducked
- 31:30Speaker 1: back in her door and had the door cracked and
- 31:34Speaker 1: saw him go by. Would that work with the evidence
- 31:37Speaker 1: as we know it? It could certainly. And I mean
- 31:40Speaker 1: when you read the alphadavit, it doesn't say she was
- 31:42Speaker 1: standing in the doorway, you know, in front of the kitchen.
- 31:46Speaker 1: It doesn't give us that detail, just says that she
- 31:48Speaker 1: did open the door, and it says three things very
- 31:52Speaker 1: distinct sound and clues that we have from Dm Dylan,
- 31:58Speaker 1: the roommate that you heard, who she thought was Kaylee
- 32:02Speaker 1: saying there's someone here. Then she heard the whimpering and
- 32:07Speaker 1: crying sounds and a male voice saying it's okay, I'm
- 32:11Speaker 1: going to help you. And then that third and final
- 32:13Speaker 1: time she opens the door, she sees the figure dressed
- 32:17Speaker 1: in black with the mask and the bushy eyebrows, and
- 32:20Speaker 1: then says she locks the door. One of the other things,
- 32:23Speaker 1: I want to go back to the sheets just really quick,
- 32:25Speaker 1: because you had said at the beginning of the show.
- 32:28Speaker 1: We've wondered if Brian Coburger got involved with discussions online
- 32:34Speaker 1: on Facebook groups and on Reddit and on all these things.
- 32:38Speaker 1: But there was a very specific thing that somebody said
- 32:40Speaker 1: that a lot of people are saying could probably be
- 32:44Speaker 1: Brian Coburger. He wrote on a Facebook page that was
- 32:49Speaker 1: titled University of Idaho Murder's Facebook discussion when he was
- 32:53Speaker 1: going under Papa Rogers or the other name. And this
- 32:58Speaker 1: is before the probable cause affidavit, and he says one
- 33:02Speaker 1: of the evidence of the evidence release, the murder weapon
- 33:05Speaker 1: has been consistent as a large fixed blade knife. This
- 33:09Speaker 1: leads me to believe they found the sheath. We didn't
- 33:14Speaker 1: know about the time. Yeah, we did not know about it.
- 33:17Speaker 1: But what that's a leak from the investigation is where
- 33:21Speaker 1: that's coming from. You can't believe that they knew that
- 33:24Speaker 1: less that was him bragging online and doctor Bethany in
- 33:28Speaker 1: a nutshell, wouldn't that fit exactly with the personality characteristics
- 33:33Speaker 1: that you observed, Absolutely, Nancy, that would absolutely fit with
- 33:36Speaker 1: his personality. He was inserting himself into everything online forums,
- 33:42Speaker 1: saving a life, creeping on women in bars, and you know,
- 33:46Speaker 1: we were talking about what's along that route between his
- 33:50Speaker 1: home and the victim's home, and what nobody mentioned was
- 33:55Speaker 1: other victims that maybe that was a very common route
- 33:59Speaker 1: for him, and maybe there are other potential victims that
- 34:03Speaker 1: were along that route, so that not only would he
- 34:06Speaker 1: have been shedding clothing evidence, but maybe he was stalking
- 34:12Speaker 1: other people as well. I mean, serial killers don't just
- 34:15Speaker 1: stalk one person. This is the first in an intended
- 34:19Speaker 1: long line of serial killings, and so I think we
- 34:22Speaker 1: have to add that into our discussion. J Scott, A
- 34:25Speaker 1: lot has been made to whether a quadruple homicide could
- 34:29Speaker 1: be affected in sixteen minutes. I think it wasn't Jackie,
- 34:34Speaker 1: wasn't it sixteen minutes? Laura, wasn't it sixteen minutes? Okay,
- 34:39Speaker 1: what about it? Jess Scott. Yeah. My thought is that
- 34:42Speaker 1: the individual that perpetrated something like this would have to
- 34:44Speaker 1: have a familiarity with the environment to move that quickly
- 34:48Speaker 1: through this because this is dirty, dirty work, and it
- 34:52Speaker 1: is labor intensive. I hate to put it in those terms,
- 34:54Speaker 1: but it truly is. The individual would have to move
- 34:57Speaker 1: with stealth, They would have to move with purpose, that
- 35:00Speaker 1: would have to know where the victims are in order
- 35:02Speaker 1: to facilitate this and they'd have to be prepared showing up.
- 35:06Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, yeah, it's possible sixteen minutes. Certainly,
- 35:10Speaker 1: I know somebody in the certainly people in the military
- 35:13Speaker 1: that are trained at this sort of thing could do
- 35:15Speaker 1: it probably under that time. But you know, you're talking
- 35:17Speaker 1: about college kids, you're not talking about enemy combatants here,
- 35:21Speaker 1: and so yeah, and if he had familiarity with this environment,
- 35:25Speaker 1: I think that's possible. Well, then his terrify aclalgal might
- 35:29Speaker 1: be there already. If he had been in the home before. Well,
- 35:32Speaker 1: my thought, my thought about this, Nancy, I'm wondering if
- 35:35Speaker 1: he had not been going in there in that house
- 35:37Speaker 1: when other people were not there, and maybe nesting in
- 35:40Speaker 1: that house. That's why I think that it's really interesting
- 35:43Speaker 1: if the cops went in there and looked in the
- 35:45Speaker 1: closets to see if there was any touch DNA left behind,
- 35:48Speaker 1: or if this guy had been having some kind of
- 35:51Speaker 1: massptry fantasies in those closets, just hanging out when no
- 35:55Speaker 1: one else. When you say massumtory fantasies, nobody as a word.
- 36:00Speaker 1: When I say it, everybody goes, why would you say
- 36:03Speaker 1: that that's gross? There's no evidence of that. But you
- 36:06Speaker 1: in Mesany talk about it all the time. When I
- 36:08Speaker 1: say this, oh I oh no, why didn't she say that? Okay? Okay.
- 36:13Speaker 1: The other possibility, Nancy, is that I like the use
- 36:17Speaker 1: of Joe Scott Morgan's word nesting. I'd never heard that before,
- 36:20Speaker 1: but maybe he was also nesting at night when the
- 36:22Speaker 1: kids were sleeping. I mean, he he did that work
- 36:25Speaker 1: so quickly sixteen minutes. I'm not a crime scene investigator.
- 36:29Speaker 1: I'm just like, how do you kill four people in
- 36:32Speaker 1: sixteen minutes? Well? Hold on, Chris McDonough has been at
- 36:35Speaker 1: the saying, Chris, isn't it true that from the outside
- 36:37Speaker 1: looking in fuelok, in every window, you can easily spot
- 36:41Speaker 1: the layout of the house. Absolutely, Nancy, And we talked
- 36:43Speaker 1: about this on your show many times, where this guy
- 36:46Speaker 1: is such a mechanical existence and he's taken all of
- 36:50Speaker 1: this time to kind of, you know, set the stage
- 36:53Speaker 1: like Joe's talking about. And that's where that cinder block
- 36:57Speaker 1: in the back window behind the house that we spoke
- 36:59Speaker 1: about just doesn't look right. That thing is that was
- 37:02Speaker 1: just out of place. U. One other thing on the
- 37:06Speaker 1: evidence that I don't think nobody's talking about yet is
- 37:10Speaker 1: after the incident if he's gone out and you know,
- 37:13Speaker 1: just move the items in various different locations. That air
- 37:18Speaker 1: filter in that car is going to be critical to
- 37:22Speaker 1: take because you're able to get pollens from the different
- 37:26Speaker 1: type of environments. Trap him in that air filter and
- 37:30Speaker 1: Joe talk about this for days, but then bring a
- 37:33Speaker 1: botanist in and see if those environments are consistent with
- 37:37Speaker 1: those pollens. That is an incredible idea. Oh gosh, that's
- 37:41Speaker 1: such a good idea. And an a PC guy come
- 37:44Speaker 1: in and check the in the house. They did you
- 37:49Speaker 1: know that you said they had a what kind of guy?
- 37:53Speaker 1: HVAC and air conditioning. There's one more big piece of
- 37:58Speaker 1: evidence that no one's really you know, diving into, and
- 38:01Speaker 1: that's the shoe print in the hallway that they recovered
- 38:05Speaker 1: or noticed. They enhanced it with a meadow black, which
- 38:08Speaker 1: is it's a protein. It reacts with the proteins and blood.
- 38:12Speaker 1: So it's really clear in the after David if in
- 38:16Speaker 1: fact the footprint was left in blood. But they do
- 38:22Speaker 1: have this identified as coming from a van style shoe
- 38:25Speaker 1: and it's a diamond pattern. It looks like it. I
- 38:28Speaker 1: don't know if it's a heel strike or toad strike.
- 38:30Speaker 1: But if he's transferring blood off of the soul of
- 38:34Speaker 1: that shoe and it's creating a print, that's very significant.
- 38:38Speaker 1: And all of these items, you know, we're talking about knives,
- 38:40Speaker 1: we're talking about shoes, all these things. It doesn't take
- 38:44Speaker 1: forensics to track this down. This is shoe leather on
- 38:47Speaker 1: the part of the cops going out and just trying
- 38:50Speaker 1: to determine did he own these things? Is there a
- 38:53Speaker 1: purchase history with these things? Vans are very specific and
- 38:55Speaker 1: I know a lot of college kids, have my college
- 38:57Speaker 1: kids that I teach at Jacksonville State where but you
- 39:00Speaker 1: know that significant is it something that he owned? And
- 39:04Speaker 1: the pattern on that shoe is distinctive to him depended
- 39:07Speaker 1: upon the wear pattern. As you can see, there is
- 39:10Speaker 1: so much evidence to sift through and so far always
- 39:15Speaker 1: seeing is a problem caused affidavit? What will come next?
- 39:19Speaker 1: We wait as the evidence unfolds. Nancy Gray's signing off,
- 39:24Speaker 1: good bye, fend