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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime stores with Nancy Grace.
- 0:06Speaker 2: On the evening of November twelfth and into the early
- 0:09Speaker 2: morning hours of November thirteenth. Kaylee and Madison arrived home
- 0:15Speaker 2: at approximately one forty five am after visiting a local
- 0:18Speaker 2: bar and a street food vendor. Ethan and Xana were
- 0:23Speaker 2: also at in the community at Sigma Chai, and they
- 0:27Speaker 2: arrived home at approximately one forty five am. Two surviving
- 0:31Speaker 2: roommates who were also at in the community arrived home
- 0:35Speaker 2: at approximately one am. Later on the morning of November thirteenth,
- 0:40Speaker 2: at eleven fifty eight am, a nine on one.
- 0:44Speaker 3: Call was placed.
- 0:46Speaker 2: The call reported an unconscious person. The call originated from
- 0:50Speaker 2: inside the residence and a surviving roommate's cell phone was used.
- 0:55Speaker 2: During that call, the dispatcher spoke to multiple people who
- 0:59Speaker 2: were on scene. Moscow Police officers responded and found two victims,
- 1:05Speaker 2: two on the second floor and two on the third
- 1:08Speaker 2: floor of eleven twenty two King Road. The results of
- 1:12Speaker 2: autopsies indicated that the four were stabbed multiple times and
- 1:17Speaker 2: were likely asleep during the attack. Some had defensive wounds
- 1:22Speaker 2: and there was no sign of sexual assault.
- 1:25Speaker 4: You are hearing Police Captain Roger Lanier there in Moscow,
- 1:30Speaker 4: detailing what happened the morning the murders were reported to
- 1:34Speaker 4: nine to one one in the last hours Bob Shell
- 1:37Speaker 4: in the courtroom, Ryan Coberger announced this his formal alibi,
- 1:44Speaker 4: that he was quote out watching the moon and the
- 1:48Speaker 4: stars around three to four a m.
- 1:52Speaker 1: The night of the murders. Hold that thought. Also in
- 1:59Speaker 1: the middle of all of this, let me throw this
- 2:02Speaker 1: in the pot to stew. We are now learning.
- 2:05Speaker 4: Contrary to many earlier reports that there was no stalking,
- 2:12Speaker 4: Brian Coburger reportedly stalked no one.
- 2:17Speaker 1: This is a torpedo to the state's case.
- 2:20Speaker 5: Listen, Brian Coberger tried to message one of the female
- 2:24Speaker 5: victims of the Idaho murders. That's reportedly what an unidentified
- 2:28Speaker 5: police source told People Magazine. The source said, weeks before
- 2:33Speaker 5: the murder's direct messages were repeatedly sent to one of
- 2:36Speaker 5: the women over Instagram. The source said there was no reply.
- 2:41Speaker 5: Reports early on from an anonymous source revealed that there
- 2:44Speaker 5: were pictures of at least one of the victims in
- 2:47Speaker 5: Brian Cooberger's photo role. Steve and Christy Gonsovs also shared
- 2:51Speaker 5: screenshots with CBS News purportedly showing an Instagram account belonging
- 2:56Speaker 5: to Brian Coburger, and it had interacted with and followed
- 3:00Speaker 5: Matty Mogen and Kaylee. Gonzalve was on the social media platform.
- 3:05Speaker 5: Christy Gonsalves said that Coburger had liked pictures on Matti
- 3:09Speaker 5: Mogan's account. The account that Gonsalves referred to was not
- 3:14Speaker 5: authenticated as belonging to Coberger.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Then who wasn't.
- 3:19Speaker 4: Well, that's what we've been told all along, right, all wrong.
- 3:25Speaker 1: There was a serious blow up in court.
- 3:28Speaker 6: Listen, you acknowledged false the mister Choberger alleged we stalked
- 3:33Speaker 6: one of the victims. That's false.
- 3:34Speaker 3: You know that to be fault? Which one did? Miss
- 3:37Speaker 3: Coberger allegend we stalked one of the victims. I was
- 3:39Speaker 3: trying not to say.
- 3:40Speaker 7: That because you knew you knew.
- 3:43Speaker 3: That was false. I did it.
- 3:45Speaker 8: Yes, And so you have now for anybody who had
- 3:48Speaker 8: never heard that before, that question is now planted in
- 3:51Speaker 8: to them unqualified representation that mister Coberger stalked one of
- 3:56Speaker 8: the witnesses.
- 3:56Speaker 3: And that's false, that's false.
- 3:59Speaker 8: Yes, yes, okay, thank you, thank you.
- 4:01Speaker 4: Okay, what in the world you are hearing? The prosecutor
- 4:08Speaker 4: that is Bill Thompson the lot of County prosecutor dreaming
- 4:14Speaker 4: technical legal term doctor Edelman for the defense, and the
- 4:19Speaker 4: prosecutor is grilling him on claims that he made two
- 4:24Speaker 4: potential jurors about stalking in this case. Joining me an
- 4:31Speaker 4: all star panel to make sense of everything that's going
- 4:34Speaker 4: on in that courtroom, and.
- 4:36Speaker 1: There is a lot.
- 4:38Speaker 4: But first to Kaitlin Hornick, joining us editor at the
- 4:42Speaker 4: US Sun, Caitlin, thank you for being with us. I'm
- 4:45Speaker 4: going to get to the moon of the stars, all right.
- 4:47Speaker 4: I've already researched the whole thing on the Farmer's Almanac, Caitlin,
- 4:51Speaker 4: What is this about no stalking?
- 4:55Speaker 1: Are we losing motive for murder?
- 4:57Speaker 9: You know, Nancy, I think there are a lot of
- 4:59Speaker 9: things still play that this jury ultimately will have to uncover.
- 5:05Speaker 9: The thing that's really sticking out to me is the
- 5:07Speaker 9: you know, the back and forth with the stocking. I
- 5:10Speaker 9: don't know how you can go from saying that there
- 5:13Speaker 9: were these messages exchanged on Instagram and that the photos
- 5:15Speaker 9: on the camera roll to saying, oh no, wait, that's
- 5:18Speaker 9: that's not true. That's actually not true. You know, I
- 5:21Speaker 9: think there are a lot of things that the prosecutors
- 5:24Speaker 9: need to be honest about and that they need to
- 5:27Speaker 9: lay out in plane terms facts about what actually went on. Personally,
- 5:35Speaker 9: I think the fact that his that Coburger's prosecutors doubled
- 5:39Speaker 9: down on his alibi is equal parts shocking and you know,
- 5:47Speaker 9: just kind of crazy when you think about it.
- 5:51Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm thinking about that well, watching the Moon and
- 5:54Speaker 4: Stars aspect of this. Let me go to high profile
- 5:57Speaker 4: lawyer joining us from this jurisdiction, Tara Malik, partner at
- 6:03Speaker 4: Smith and Malik in former state and federal prosecutor. Tara,
- 6:07Speaker 4: thank you for being with us. Do you remember, of
- 6:10Speaker 4: course you do the famous If it doesn't fit, you
- 6:13Speaker 4: must acquit. Well, I feel like I'm getting bit in
- 6:17Speaker 4: the neck with this thing. But all along we have
- 6:21Speaker 4: heard police stating we don't have evidence of stalking.
- 6:25Speaker 1: We've heard that from the get go.
- 6:27Speaker 4: But yet we've seen screens and heard evidence that there
- 6:33Speaker 4: was stalking by Coburger on at least one of the victims,
- 6:37Speaker 4: if not more. So are we going to have a
- 6:40Speaker 4: Johnny cochrane asque defense, No stalking, no murder, no motive.
- 6:46Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, its certainly doesn't help the States case.
- 6:50Speaker 10: Motive is not something that they have to prove. It's
- 6:53Speaker 10: not like you know, an element of the charges. But
- 6:57Speaker 10: what it does is explain the why behind the crimes,
- 7:00Speaker 10: and jurors always want to know why why did this happen?
- 7:04Speaker 1: Guys.
- 7:04Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, it goes way back. Take
- 7:07Speaker 4: a listen to Police Captain Roger Lanier.
- 7:11Speaker 2: We have heard mentioned that Kaylee stated she may have
- 7:14Speaker 2: had a stalker. Detectives have been looking into that and
- 7:18Speaker 2: to this point have been unable to corroborate the statement.
- 7:21Speaker 2: Although we continue to seek information and tips regarding that report,
- 7:27Speaker 2: no suspects have been named or arrested, and we continue
- 7:31Speaker 2: looking for what we will leave to be a fixed
- 7:34Speaker 2: blade knife used in the murders.
- 7:36Speaker 4: That knife never found and neither has there been found
- 7:40Speaker 4: evidence of stalking. Again, I can hear it ringing in
- 7:44Speaker 4: my ears right now.
- 7:46Speaker 1: No motive, no murder.
- 7:49Speaker 4: Joining me as I said an All Star panel to
- 7:51Speaker 4: Chris mcdunna, joining US director Cold Case Foundation, former homicide
- 7:56Speaker 4: detective on the interview.
- 7:58Speaker 1: Room on YouTube.
- 8:00Speaker 4: Chris mcdonna, of course, the state, as you know from
- 8:03Speaker 4: handling so many homicides, never has to prove motive. But
- 8:08Speaker 4: in many people's minds, there should be a motive presented
- 8:12Speaker 4: to a jury, because how could a jury believe that
- 8:15Speaker 4: someone that doesn't know these four victims would just randomly
- 8:19Speaker 4: choose them and murder them.
- 8:21Speaker 1: To quote, see what it feels like.
- 8:23Speaker 4: That's going to be a tough sell, especially now that
- 8:26Speaker 4: we find out the state has also learned the defenses,
- 8:30Speaker 4: bringing on cell phone and radio frequency data to refute
- 8:34Speaker 4: claims Coburger was in the area of the murders at
- 8:39Speaker 4: the time of the murders. The state is getting torpedoed
- 8:42Speaker 4: left and right. Now we've lost motive.
- 8:46Speaker 11: The stalking, Yeah, Natcy, I mean, one of the most
- 8:49Speaker 11: interesting things, and it may just be semantics, is when
- 8:52Speaker 11: Thompson was arguing with the expert witness of the defense
- 8:56Speaker 11: put on, he mentioned that there's no evidence of witnesses.
- 9:02Speaker 3: Being stalked. I thought that was a very interesting choice
- 9:06Speaker 3: of words versus victims. This may be a cover play
- 9:10Speaker 3: as well by the state, because you know, you've got
- 9:15Speaker 3: to now think about we've got some amateur, you know,
- 9:19Speaker 3: astronomer I e. Koberger, you know, exercising in the middle
- 9:23Speaker 3: of the night. Yet his cell phone shows up twelve
- 9:26Speaker 3: separate times around the crime scene.
- 9:28Speaker 4: This as we were learning and correct me if I'm wrong.
- 9:30Speaker 4: Caitlin Hornick joining us from the US SUN. But the polster,
- 9:35Speaker 4: the surveyor that was hired by the defense to call
- 9:41Speaker 4: at least four hundred prospective gurrrs, asked the gurrrs about stalking,
- 9:48Speaker 4: and we heard Prosecutor Bill.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Thompson say, you knew that wasn't true, and you.
- 9:54Speaker 4: Asked people, you put it out there in the ether
- 9:56Speaker 4: that there was stalking. And the guy responds, I don't
- 10:00Speaker 4: care if it's true or false.
- 10:01Speaker 1: He actually said that in a court of law. Did
- 10:04Speaker 1: that happen?
- 10:05Speaker 9: Caitlin, You know, I think one of the biggest things
- 10:07Speaker 9: at play here that the whole the prosecution that Coburger,
- 10:12Speaker 9: that everyone involved is struggling with is misinformation. You know,
- 10:15Speaker 9: we've seen that from the beginning with the stalker not
- 10:18Speaker 9: stalker bit. You know, there's so many inconsistencies that I
- 10:22Speaker 9: think are still being investigated.
- 10:25Speaker 4: Okay, question, I'm asking you about the surveyor, the surveyor
- 10:30Speaker 4: that sent out called to at least four.
- 10:34Speaker 1: Hundred potential Coburger yourrs.
- 10:36Speaker 4: And in that phone survey, the surveyor asked about Coburger
- 10:43Speaker 4: stalking the victims and you know what played again? Was
- 10:47Speaker 4: it's cut twenty Bill Thompson, the Lotta County prosecutor grilling
- 10:53Speaker 4: doctor Edelman who took part in this survey.
- 10:57Speaker 1: Listen, you're done.
- 10:59Speaker 3: With fault that mister Coberger alleged we stalked one of
- 11:03Speaker 3: the victims.
- 11:03Speaker 8: That's false, you know that to popl which one did
- 11:06Speaker 8: miss Coberger allegend we stalked one.
- 11:08Speaker 3: Of the victims. I was trying not to say that.
- 11:10Speaker 8: Because you knew you knew that was false. I did, yes,
- 11:15Speaker 8: And so you have now for anybody who had never
- 11:17Speaker 8: heard that before, that question is now planted in to
- 11:21Speaker 8: them unqualified representation that mister Coberger stalked one of the witnesses.
- 11:26Speaker 3: And that's false, that's false.
- 11:28Speaker 8: Yes, yes, okay, thank you, thank you.
- 11:30Speaker 4: Okay, all right, So Caitlyn Hornick, explain who is doctor Edelman?
- 11:36Speaker 10: You know he's a polster.
- 11:38Speaker 9: We why he was making these phone calls and kind
- 11:42Speaker 9: of you know, planting this information remains to be seen.
- 11:46Speaker 9: You know why he went so far and you know
- 11:49Speaker 9: to say that there was stalking and you know, but
- 11:53Speaker 9: these false claims, it doesn't make sense.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Details matter.
- 11:58Speaker 4: Now we are about the weather conditions, the night for
- 12:03Speaker 4: University Idaho students murdered. As prime suspect Brian Coberger claims
- 12:08Speaker 4: he was out alone watching the moon at stars at
- 12:12Speaker 4: four am. To Joe Scott Morgan, how difficult is it
- 12:16Speaker 4: to pull that up? Because I found it pretty quickly
- 12:19Speaker 4: the night sky at eleven fifty pm November twelve, throughout
- 12:25Speaker 4: the morning was basically very low visibility. And Joe Scott,
- 12:32Speaker 4: before you answer that, I'm looking throughout the night three
- 12:36Speaker 4: seventeen am overcast, three fifty three am. That's the time
- 12:40Speaker 4: of the murders, ice and fog. Four fifty three overcast,
- 12:45Speaker 4: five fifty three overcast, six fifty three overcast.
- 12:50Speaker 1: So what's he looking at?
- 12:51Speaker 7: Nothing? I mean, how can he see? You know, unless
- 12:54Speaker 7: he has some kind of special ability, how are you
- 12:57Speaker 7: going to be able to go out and appreciate this?
- 12:58Speaker 7: And you're talking about a layer fog nancy as well,
- 13:01Speaker 7: because that's going to settle between your view of the
- 13:04Speaker 7: sky and yourself your position relative to the sky, all right,
- 13:08Speaker 7: So it's not just simply that it's overcast. It's like
- 13:12Speaker 7: you begin to think about fog that's perhaps over there.
- 13:15Speaker 7: It's kind of you know, how they use the term Nancy,
- 13:17Speaker 7: a blanket of fog. You begin to think about that,
- 13:20Speaker 7: So that's even going to further obscure your view.
- 13:23Speaker 4: So I'm looking at this the cloud cover on Saturday,
- 13:25Speaker 4: November twelve, twenty twenty two, in Moscow, Idaho, cloud coverage,
- 13:31Speaker 4: the height of dominant cloud layer very very thick and
- 13:36Speaker 4: overcast that night. There is not only overcast, but ice
- 13:41Speaker 4: and fog. And you know what I think would be
- 13:44Speaker 4: a fantastic courtroom demonstration, And of course, Tara Malek, Tara Malic,
- 13:51Speaker 4: high profile lawyer joining US side of this jurisdiction. Tara,
- 13:54Speaker 4: wouldn't it be a great demonstration to turn off all
- 13:58Speaker 4: the lights in the courtroom and try to recreate the conditions,
- 14:05Speaker 4: maybe with possibly an overhead projector of some sort of
- 14:08Speaker 4: the stars.
- 14:09Speaker 1: In the moon.
- 14:10Speaker 4: How little you could see that night. That would be
- 14:13Speaker 4: tough to do. Maybe there's some sort of a satellite
- 14:17Speaker 4: picture from that night. I bet there is that could
- 14:22Speaker 4: be achieved by the stake to show the jury, maybe
- 14:27Speaker 4: from the US Weather Service, how overcast it really was
- 14:32Speaker 4: that night.
- 14:33Speaker 1: And for him to be out at four a m.
- 14:37Speaker 4: Stargazing what a SACA Let me just say bs technical
- 14:44Speaker 4: legal term.
- 14:45Speaker 1: I mean Is this really happening.
- 14:47Speaker 10: Tara, Yeah, I mean again, this is a weak alibi
- 14:52Speaker 10: that's being put forward, and I agree if there's a
- 14:54Speaker 10: way to demonstrate or show a picture about what the
- 14:57Speaker 10: sky looked like that night, I would I certainly think
- 15:00Speaker 10: that would help the prosecution's case in poking holes in
- 15:04Speaker 10: this alibi defense.
- 15:05Speaker 4: I'm wondering if they're going to use cell phone data
- 15:10Speaker 4: to suggest Coburger was elsewhere at the time of the
- 15:14Speaker 4: murders looking at the stars, because that elsewhere is out
- 15:18Speaker 4: in the middle of nowhere.
- 15:19Speaker 10: Yeah, it seems like that they're going to rely on
- 15:21Speaker 10: cell phone data to say he was out at a
- 15:24Speaker 10: park's stargazing. But you know, again, where is this park
- 15:29Speaker 10: and is the park within the route of you know,
- 15:32Speaker 10: the secuitas kind of route that we've already know and
- 15:35Speaker 10: talked about that he took to get over to the victims' homes.
- 15:41Speaker 10: So there's a lot to be seen here. And it
- 15:44Speaker 10: seems like the defense is also saying we still don't
- 15:47Speaker 10: have the discovery that we need to get all this
- 15:51Speaker 10: information out and to support our alibi.
- 15:54Speaker 6: I ve justifying you don't care if the information that
- 15:57Speaker 6: you're put in your specific questions to other people getting surveyors.
- 16:01Speaker 4: Correct.
- 16:02Speaker 3: You said that in you right.
- 16:04Speaker 8: I don't know what you mean by correct, true or false.
- 16:07Speaker 3: I care about whether or not I's proliferated by the media.
- 16:10Speaker 6: You don't care if it's true.
- 16:12Speaker 3: No, I don't. I know everybody's aid prejudiction.
- 16:14Speaker 6: So it's okay to taint people who have never heard
- 16:17Speaker 6: that information for for the end result of identifying others
- 16:24Speaker 6: who have who might have bias.
- 16:26Speaker 12: I'm going to object to the questions he's he's a badgery.
- 16:30Speaker 4: So why is it that the only corroboration Mark Taye
- 16:35Speaker 4: that Bilburger is.
- 16:37Speaker 1: Bringing on is a set of cell phone paings.
- 16:39Speaker 13: But there's nothing wrong with that. The prosecution has indicated
- 16:43Speaker 13: they're going to rely on cell phone pings. And the
- 16:46Speaker 13: rule the law about Alibi and Idah who is anytime
- 16:50Speaker 13: after arraignment you're allowed to tell the defendants tell the
- 16:53Speaker 13: prosecutors rather that you're going to rely on Alibi and
- 16:56Speaker 13: you have to disclose your witnesses. However, here the witnesses
- 17:00Speaker 13: are cell phone pings, just like the prosecutions relying on
- 17:04Speaker 13: cell phone pings. So is the defendant rely allowed to
- 17:07Speaker 13: rely as well? Now of course that's going to be
- 17:10Speaker 13: put in front of a jury, just like issues about
- 17:12Speaker 13: whether he wore gloves and how strange that is. All
- 17:15Speaker 13: of that will be admitted by witnesses, all of whom
- 17:18Speaker 13: are subject to a sifting cross examination. And so now
- 17:22Speaker 13: the prosecution knows there's going to be an alibi defense,
- 17:26Speaker 13: and when there is, it has to be supported by
- 17:28Speaker 13: admissible evidence. And so with each witness comes the chance
- 17:31Speaker 13: you're reading the.
- 17:33Speaker 4: Criminal Code on evidence to me, I got it.
- 17:37Speaker 13: So that's what the defense has to do. That's what
- 17:40Speaker 13: they have to do.
- 17:41Speaker 4: Let's give Mark, you have to hold the prosecutions.
- 17:45Speaker 13: Well, what is it you're going to wear gloves?
- 17:47Speaker 1: Cell phone pings?
- 17:49Speaker 4: I've got a pair here for you, but maybe you
- 17:51Speaker 4: could borrow Koburger's.
- 17:52Speaker 1: Oh wait, no, they're an evidence joining me.
- 17:55Speaker 4: Chris McDonough, you were talking about the pings and you
- 17:58Speaker 4: didn't get to say it on air. But Tate is
- 18:00Speaker 4: all about, Oh, the pings are going to help exonerate him.
- 18:03Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Okay, he's at home to forty two,
- 18:08Speaker 4: he's at hum back at home at five point twenty seven.
- 18:12Speaker 4: He's at home at not ninety thirty two am. But
- 18:15Speaker 4: wait a minute four point fifty phone ping four forty eight,
- 18:20Speaker 4: phone turned back on Wait two forty seven am, right
- 18:24Speaker 4: before the murders, in the middle of the night, while
- 18:26Speaker 4: he's out stargazing, he decides to turn his phone off
- 18:31Speaker 4: from two forty seven to four forty eight. Wow, Chris mcdonne,
- 18:36Speaker 4: isn't that exactly when the time the murders occurred?
- 18:39Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, Nancy. And what's interesting at that and you
- 18:42Speaker 3: pointed it out. You know, the one thing we learned
- 18:46Speaker 3: about this alibi as well is all four of the
- 18:50Speaker 3: victims are sound asleep. And you know, the twelve other
- 18:53Speaker 3: times that he was seen around that neighborhood, they were
- 18:56Speaker 3: also asleep. But in this particular case, you have the
- 18:59Speaker 3: phone things that get up to the point where they
- 19:02Speaker 3: turn off and then all of a sudden, the video
- 19:05Speaker 3: picks it back up in the neighborhood, i e. The car.
- 19:08Speaker 3: Whenever you hear a defense attorney shay, you know, the
- 19:11Speaker 3: public has a right to know, and there's a gag order,
- 19:14Speaker 3: that's usually a clue that there's something coming.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 19:29Speaker 4: Chief suspect Brian Coburger says he's out alone driving in
- 19:35Speaker 4: the late night and early morning hours November twelve and thirteen,
- 19:39Speaker 4: but the trial judge doubles down on Coburger's defense team,
- 19:44Speaker 4: insisting you've got to hand over a witness other than the.
- 19:49Speaker 1: Moon and the stars.
- 19:51Speaker 4: The defense likely to rely on cell phone data to
- 19:55Speaker 4: try and place Brian Coburger somewhere anywhere there than the
- 20:01Speaker 4: King Roade address. The judge says he was out driving
- 20:05Speaker 4: during the late night and early morning hours November twelve
- 20:08Speaker 4: to thirteen, twenty twenty two.
- 20:10Speaker 1: That's his alibi.
- 20:12Speaker 4: The judge doubled down on Coburger in court in the
- 20:15Speaker 4: last hour, saying, you've got to give us a witness
- 20:19Speaker 4: or the evidence you're bringing on to corroborate this.
- 20:23Speaker 1: What do I think It is no witness at all.
- 20:25Speaker 4: It's going to be cell phone data, The defense claims
- 20:29Speaker 4: places Coburger somewhere entirely different than the King Wrote address.
- 20:35Speaker 1: Let's see the.
- 20:36Speaker 4: Timeline, isn't it true, Caitlin Hornick that Coburger we can
- 20:42Speaker 4: prove turned his phone off and on the night of
- 20:45Speaker 4: the murders.
- 20:46Speaker 1: Just to yes, no, yes, absolutely, two forty two. His
- 20:50Speaker 1: phone is on at his apartment in Pullman. I went there.
- 20:55Speaker 4: It's about an eight minute drive from the murder scene
- 20:58Speaker 4: eight to twelve minutes to forty seven, he turns his
- 21:02Speaker 4: phone off. Who on this panel turns your phone off
- 21:05Speaker 4: when you're going driving in the middle of the night.
- 21:07Speaker 4: I would keep mine on just in case I had
- 21:10Speaker 4: a nine to one one. Anyway, he turns his off.
- 21:13Speaker 4: We know that, and that is irrefutable. I'm gonna circle
- 21:16Speaker 4: back in a moment to Bill Slater, who says, you
- 21:19Speaker 4: gotta take your battery out of your phone to be
- 21:22Speaker 4: untraceable just turning it off. Hey, we know you're doing that.
- 21:26Speaker 4: Two forty seven. This guy is up and about turning
- 21:30Speaker 4: his phone off. Three point twenty nine. Not cell phone,
- 21:34Speaker 4: but video surveillance from a nearby home a residence shows
- 21:40Speaker 4: a white Saedan passing the King Road address that looks
- 21:43Speaker 4: oops just like his white Elantra.
- 21:47Speaker 1: For zero four.
- 21:48Speaker 4: The sedan returns and stops in front of the King
- 21:52Speaker 4: Road address four twenty Sixteen minutes later, the white Sadan
- 21:59Speaker 4: scratches off off, taking off like a bat out of
- 22:02Speaker 4: Hell at a high speed, leaving the King Road address.
- 22:08Speaker 4: And then twenty eight minutes later and for me, it
- 22:12Speaker 4: was about an hour drive four forty eight a m
- 22:17Speaker 4: twenty eight minutes later, that phone is turned back on
- 22:21Speaker 4: and it's pinging south of Moscow, Idaho State Highway ninety five.
- 22:28Speaker 4: I took that drive to Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University,
- 22:35Speaker 4: author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon, star of
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- 22:45Speaker 4: right now, for expert and death investigator Just Scott. He's
- 22:50Speaker 4: between a rock and a hard spot. I want you
- 22:53Speaker 4: to analyze everything Slater.
- 22:54Speaker 1: Has told us, but also we are.
- 22:57Speaker 4: Poking a little bit of fun at the moon and
- 23:00Speaker 4: the stargazing alibi.
- 23:02Speaker 1: But think about it, what else is Ann Taylor, the
- 23:05Speaker 1: defense lawyer, going to say he was the party with
- 23:07Speaker 1: all of his friends. That ain't happening.
- 23:10Speaker 4: They got to come up with something to make sense
- 23:12Speaker 4: to a jury why he may have been out driving around.
- 23:17Speaker 4: The only thing they can do is refute the cell
- 23:20Speaker 4: phone data because that videos.
- 23:23Speaker 1: I don't think it's got its car.
- 23:24Speaker 7: Tag, No it doesn't. But that's all they can do, Nancy,
- 23:28Speaker 7: isn't it You know, when you begin to think about it,
- 23:31Speaker 7: they can. They're muddy in the waters with all of
- 23:34Speaker 7: this digital back and forth. Here's the one thing that
- 23:39Speaker 7: they cannot overcome. Get this number in your mind, five
- 23:45Speaker 7: point three seven optilion that goes to his DNA profile.
- 23:53Speaker 7: That means that the chances that it was somebody else
- 23:57Speaker 7: are at that range. It's amazing. And look look what
- 24:01Speaker 7: I have here. See it came off the snap, Nancy.
- 24:08Speaker 1: Again, because that's exactly where the DNA was found.
- 24:12Speaker 7: Yeah, and I don't think that he was necessarily, you know,
- 24:17Speaker 7: planning on this. But listen, I don't know if you
- 24:21Speaker 7: could hear that, but this has got and I'm fascinated
- 24:24Speaker 7: by this. I have been since the case. This little
- 24:28Speaker 7: ring right here where the snap actually actuates, it's a ridge,
- 24:32Speaker 7: and so if you're actuating it with your thumb and
- 24:36Speaker 7: you drag your thumb across it, anything can be collected
- 24:39Speaker 7: in here. We think about touch DNA. If he's got sweat,
- 24:43Speaker 7: you know, that's coming off of his hand, it could
- 24:46Speaker 7: be deposited there. Both are sources for DNA, ones richer
- 24:50Speaker 7: than the other. But you know, when you begin to
- 24:52Speaker 7: think about these numbers, Nancy, and just to put it
- 24:54Speaker 7: in perspective, I'm not a real fine math guy, but
- 24:59Speaker 7: that's twenty twenty seven zero's Nancy. That's an amazing number.
- 25:05Speaker 7: And so the reason I'm saying this is that I
- 25:08Speaker 7: don't think they have anything else. And they can parade
- 25:11Speaker 7: all of the experts up there that they want to,
- 25:13Speaker 7: but the one thing you can't get away from at
- 25:16Speaker 7: the end of the day. Yeah, they don't have the knife,
- 25:18Speaker 7: but they've got this sheath and his DNA is on it,
- 25:23Speaker 7: and that's a heck of a mountain for them to
- 25:25Speaker 7: have to climb. This was not murder. This was pure
- 25:29Speaker 7: on butchery using this combat knife. This is a k bar.
- 25:36Speaker 7: This is something that our troopers have used since just
- 25:40Speaker 7: prior to World War Two. Marines are famous for it.
- 25:42Speaker 7: It's a combat knife, it's a fighting knife. When all
- 25:45Speaker 7: of that is said and done and we see the
- 25:49Speaker 7: interior of that house and we see what kind of
- 25:52Speaker 7: butchery was perpetrated on these poor kids, they better damn
- 25:57Speaker 7: well have something else because that dog gonna hunt, because
- 26:01Speaker 7: the jury is going to be put into position to
- 26:04Speaker 7: observe all of this, and then you're going to get
- 26:06Speaker 7: somebody with a PhD in DNA sciences and they're going
- 26:10Speaker 7: to put them up on the stand and I don't know,
- 26:13Speaker 7: I don't know what the defense can put up there
- 26:17Speaker 7: that can thwart that particular attack on the part of
- 26:21Speaker 7: the defense.
- 26:22Speaker 4: Hey Scott, You've testified it in so many cases. And
- 26:26Speaker 4: when I would prepare cases for trial, I'll get my
- 26:28Speaker 4: own case ready rock solid.
- 26:30Speaker 1: Right then I.
- 26:32Speaker 4: Would think about what they were going to do and
- 26:35Speaker 4: how I could fight it. Do you remember under Reagan
- 26:37Speaker 4: he came up with the Star Wars defense. We were
- 26:39Speaker 4: going to shoot down missiles before they ever hit our homeland,
- 26:44Speaker 4: the US, right right, Yeah, that's what I try to do.
- 26:47Speaker 4: So I'm thinking what are they going to do and
- 26:50Speaker 4: how can I destroy it? They are going to attack
- 26:53Speaker 4: the DNA, the science itself.
- 26:56Speaker 1: Which you know, five point three seven octillion.
- 26:59Speaker 4: I think is more war people that have ever in
- 27:03Speaker 4: history that we have lived on Earth. Okay, so it's him,
- 27:09Speaker 4: But what they could do is attack DNA science in general.
- 27:12Speaker 4: But they could attack chain of custody of the DNA.
- 27:15Speaker 4: They are likely to pull an OJ claiming that O. J.
- 27:20Speaker 4: Simpson claiming that the cops wanted a defendant so badly
- 27:24Speaker 4: they decided depending on Coburger, but also the placement of
- 27:28Speaker 4: the knife and the genesis of the knife, Joe Scott.
- 27:32Speaker 4: They could claim, Hey, yeah, I went to a gun
- 27:35Speaker 4: and knife show and hipped up a knife like that,
- 27:38Speaker 4: and I tested it and I put it back, and
- 27:40Speaker 4: some other dude, I always used the sod defense.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Some other dude did it. Must have used that knife.
- 27:47Speaker 1: That's where they're going to go. I think, yeah, I.
- 27:50Speaker 7: Agree with you, and I've thought. I've put a lot
- 27:52Speaker 7: of thought into that relative to gun and knife shows,
- 27:55Speaker 7: you know, and the idea that he would randomly, you know,
- 28:00Speaker 7: you guys in law use this term reasonableness. Is that reasonable.
- 28:11Speaker 1: Crime stories? With Nancy Grace.
- 28:17Speaker 4: While Brian Coburger's defense team tries their best to alibi him,
- 28:22Speaker 4: to place him anywhere other than the crime scene, damning
- 28:26Speaker 4: video emerges of a white Elantra identical to coburgers near
- 28:32Speaker 4: the King wrote address.
- 28:34Speaker 1: That's the crime scene.
- 28:36Speaker 12: Part of the hearing on the fourteenth is to talk
- 28:38Speaker 12: about the different parts of that video that we've received
- 28:42Speaker 12: and how we need the whole contacts. This is the
- 28:45Speaker 12: video that they say places this car near the residents.
- 28:49Speaker 12: We've received little tiny pieces of that. We think Brian's
- 28:54Speaker 12: right to a fair trial means the public needs to
- 28:58Speaker 12: know that they've withheld the audio from a great portion
- 29:02Speaker 12: of that. And then it starts a long time before
- 29:04Speaker 12: the little clip that we've received.
- 29:06Speaker 1: Man, is she burying the lead?
- 29:08Speaker 4: She's complaining about the audio not being attached to the video.
- 29:14Speaker 1: Here's the bombshell.
- 29:16Speaker 4: There you are hearing the defense attorney for Brian Koburger
- 29:20Speaker 4: and Taylor talking about the existence of video that places
- 29:26Speaker 4: Coburger's car, the white Elantra, near the crime scene.
- 29:33Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the big deal.
- 29:37Speaker 4: We believe that there's gonna be two different video clips
- 29:42Speaker 4: shown to the jury, one near the home and one
- 29:47Speaker 4: near the gas station there at the corner. And I'm
- 29:51Speaker 4: gonna let Chris mcdonnet describe the gas station video what
- 29:55Speaker 4: he believes it will portray, and what the video at
- 29:58Speaker 4: the home we believe is going to portray. Guys with me,
- 30:02Speaker 4: an all star panel makes sense of what we.
- 30:03Speaker 1: Know right now.
- 30:04Speaker 4: Oh you know what, I was just having my tea
- 30:07Speaker 4: and I don't want to leave fingerprints on the cup,
- 30:10Speaker 4: so I just thought I would use these. Okay, but
- 30:13Speaker 4: that said, go hey, Chris McDonald everybody, take off your gloves.
- 30:17Speaker 4: I promise not to collect your DNA, well not during
- 30:21Speaker 4: the show anyway.
- 30:22Speaker 1: Go ahead.
- 30:22Speaker 3: Yeah, so Nancy loved the gloves. Right next to the
- 30:27Speaker 3: murder scene, there's a house right on the corner there,
- 30:30Speaker 3: and outside in the light socket for the front porch
- 30:36Speaker 3: was an active surveillance camera. I believe that the evidence
- 30:41Speaker 3: will show that that car comes up that street multiple times,
- 30:46Speaker 3: and those are the clips that they're holding back, as
- 30:50Speaker 3: well as the additional piece of evidence that they're going
- 30:53Speaker 3: to show is away from the scene. They're going to
- 30:56Speaker 3: show that that vehicle was either a coming into the
- 30:59Speaker 3: crime scene area and or be leaving. And I don't
- 31:03Speaker 3: know if they're going to be able to correlate that
- 31:05Speaker 3: in a relationship to some of the phone things, because
- 31:08Speaker 3: remember he turned his phone off, so that und of itself,
- 31:12Speaker 3: it's going to be interesting.
- 31:14Speaker 1: Guys.
- 31:14Speaker 4: I want to hear exactly what the defense attorney and
- 31:17Speaker 4: Taylor said and interwhining about the video.
- 31:22Speaker 1: What are we learning? Listen.
- 31:25Speaker 12: Part of the hearing on the fourteenth is to talk
- 31:27Speaker 12: about the different parts of that video that we've received
- 31:31Speaker 12: and how we need the whole contacts. This is the
- 31:34Speaker 12: video that they say places this car near the residents.
- 31:38Speaker 12: We've received little tiny pieces of that. We think Brian's
- 31:43Speaker 12: right to a fair trial means the public needs to
- 31:46Speaker 12: know that they've withheld the audio from a great portion
- 31:51Speaker 12: of that and that it starts a long time before
- 31:53Speaker 12: the little clip that we've received.
- 31:54Speaker 4: To Essin Scott Morgan, forensic expert and professor at Jacksonville
- 31:58Speaker 4: State University, I was listening to every word she says.
- 32:02Speaker 4: And Taylor is complaining about little tiny pieces of the
- 32:08Speaker 4: video placing the car near the residents, according to police, and.
- 32:12Speaker 1: She doesn't like that, and she thinks that's not fair.
- 32:14Speaker 4: But what it is is different video cameras picking him
- 32:18Speaker 4: up along the way.
- 32:20Speaker 1: Did you decide for that? Am I feeding you? Spoon
- 32:23Speaker 1: feeding you?
- 32:24Speaker 10: Now?
- 32:25Speaker 7: Here's the thing, you know, these ring cams and these
- 32:28Speaker 7: CCTV obviously they're more prevalent today than at any other
- 32:33Speaker 7: point in time in history, and so we don't necessarily
- 32:36Speaker 7: know about where all of these clips are coming from.
- 32:40Speaker 7: We do know the area that he was in, allegedly,
- 32:43Speaker 7: this car moving back and forth is going to be
- 32:45Speaker 7: the most densely populated area in this geographic location. You know,
- 32:50Speaker 7: you get out in these areas that are far flung.
- 32:52Speaker 7: Remember the loop that they talk about that where they
- 32:55Speaker 7: collected they were trying to collect images off of these
- 32:58Speaker 7: gas station cams and wherever where else the car may
- 33:00Speaker 7: have passed, this is going to be the target rich
- 33:02Speaker 7: area though around that residence at that point in time.
- 33:07Speaker 7: Did they shake the bushes enough to collect enough of
- 33:09Speaker 7: this data out there to piece the sin completely together?
- 33:12Speaker 7: Apparently she thinks they may have.
- 33:14Speaker 4: Idaho murder suspect Brian Koberger gets pulled over by law
- 33:19Speaker 4: enforcement two times, not just in one day, but actually
- 33:23Speaker 4: within minutes of each other, on his way for Thanksgiving
- 33:26Speaker 4: break to his parents' home, and ne'ar the Pocono's.
- 33:30Speaker 1: I just got to say, two times within minutes. That's
- 33:34Speaker 1: no coincidence.
- 33:35Speaker 3: How y'all doing today?
- 33:38Speaker 5: Good good?
- 33:39Speaker 3: Take a look at your driver's lines and real quick,
- 33:40Speaker 3: if I could.
- 33:43Speaker 6: See, is right up on that man?
- 33:44Speaker 4: Man?
- 33:46Speaker 3: You right up on the back end of that man
- 33:48Speaker 3: old job for tailgating?
- 33:51Speaker 13: Is this your car?
- 33:53Speaker 6: Okay?
- 33:54Speaker 13: Cool?
- 33:55Speaker 6: Where you headed?
- 33:57Speaker 7: Actually, well, we're coming from WSU.
- 34:03Speaker 4: Where are you headed? He later says, we're going for
- 34:07Speaker 4: tie food. And the dad's like what you are seeing?
- 34:11Speaker 4: Bodycam video when a Hancock County, Indiana Sheriff's Department bodycam
- 34:18Speaker 4: when they pull them over and ask to see Coburger's
- 34:23Speaker 4: driver's license. Now, it was argued back and forth, and
- 34:27Speaker 4: I claimed vehemently that this was no coincidence because there
- 34:32Speaker 4: were two pullovers by local l E law enforcement in
- 34:37Speaker 4: one trip home. When does that happen? How often do
- 34:41Speaker 4: you get pulled over? I rarely get pulled over. So
- 34:45Speaker 4: you get pulled over twice and you never even get
- 34:47Speaker 4: a ticket. Oh no, that's stunt to high heaven with
- 34:53Speaker 4: me right now. Howard Bloom, author of a brand new book,
- 34:57Speaker 4: When the Night Comes Falling a requiem for the ITO
- 34:59Speaker 4: student murders, which is amazing, and in his book he
- 35:04Speaker 4: outlines how these two pullovers nearly costs the FBI their investigation,
- 35:13Speaker 4: or so they thought.
- 35:15Speaker 1: Take a listen to more of the pullover. What's w
- 35:18Speaker 1: s U.
- 35:20Speaker 3: Yeah, that's burdens.
- 35:26Speaker 7: That is SWAT team area.
- 35:29Speaker 3: So we're okay, I have a hard time hearing you
- 35:32Speaker 3: because of the traffic.
- 35:33Speaker 13: So you're coming from Washington State University and you're going where?
- 35:40Speaker 14: Oh you going back to Okay, Yeah, we're a little light.
- 35:48Speaker 4: To Howard Bloom, I'm gonna circle back to the fact that, unasked,
- 35:52Speaker 4: he starts talking about talking about SWAT's team, SWAT Team
- 35:56Speaker 4: swarming the area. Methink, thou dost tests too much in
- 36:01Speaker 4: the immortal words of William Shakespeare. Nobody asked, nobody asked
- 36:06Speaker 4: about the Idaho murders. Yet he's dead. He's just regurgitating,
- 36:11Speaker 4: vomiting the information.
- 36:13Speaker 1: When nobody asked.
- 36:14Speaker 4: But I want to circle back to the so called
- 36:16Speaker 4: hat box operation that you described so well in your
- 36:21Speaker 4: book When the Night Comes Falling.
- 36:23Speaker 15: Explain and why did the FBI, who absolutely was following
- 36:28Speaker 15: Coburger as seen his dad across the country, thought that
- 36:33Speaker 15: their entire operation may go up in flames.
- 36:36Speaker 14: Well, as you point out, the FBI decided that Coburger
- 36:40Speaker 14: was a person of interest. They decided this earlier, before
- 36:45Speaker 14: they even told the Moscow Tesk Force. They kept this
- 36:48Speaker 14: to themselves for either one of two reasons. The first
- 36:52Speaker 14: reason was that it was the identification was based on
- 36:56Speaker 14: the genealogy genetics investigative genetic geneality, and they thought that
- 37:00Speaker 14: wouldn't hold up in court. Or a much more cynical
- 37:05Speaker 14: explanation would be that the FBI didn't want to share
- 37:08Speaker 14: the credit for Coburg's arrest with anyone else.
- 37:12Speaker 3: So they go off and follow him.
- 37:14Speaker 14: And they have cars, they have a plane in the
- 37:17Speaker 14: air that's following his route, and suddenly they see Coburger
- 37:22Speaker 14: being stopped, and they don't know what's going on, and
- 37:24Speaker 14: they don't know what to do. Had they think a
- 37:28Speaker 14: local cop, a local sheriff had seen the be on
- 37:32Speaker 14: the lookout for notice and swooped in on this Hondai
- 37:35Speaker 14: a Lantra, or they're also wondering how is Coburger going
- 37:40Speaker 14: to react he is a suspect in a quadruple homicide.
- 37:45Speaker 14: Is he going to get on the put his foot
- 37:47Speaker 14: on the accelerator and tear out, or perhaps he's going
- 37:50Speaker 14: to shoot anything as possible of the officer who's coming
- 37:56Speaker 14: in to give him this traffic ticket.
- 37:58Speaker 3: Then nine minutes later.
- 38:00Speaker 4: It's almost laughable, Howard, because the FBI actually has a
- 38:04Speaker 4: bird in the air watching. They see one pullover by
- 38:09Speaker 4: the Hancock Keunty sheriffs, and Coburger goes on his way.
- 38:14Speaker 1: And then there's another pullover.
- 38:16Speaker 4: Don't you know they're like, what is happening down there?
- 38:21Speaker 4: Why are they pulling over our quadruple murders suspect. I'm
- 38:26Speaker 4: sure they were just and they couldn't say anything. And
- 38:29Speaker 4: they're watching from a bird right.
- 38:33Speaker 14: Yes, they have assess and they're flying overhead. You know,
- 38:35Speaker 14: it's a hawk, waiting to swoop down in case anything happens.
- 38:38Speaker 14: In effect, and they've been building this case for six
- 38:41Speaker 14: weeks and they're finally getting closer, and they think the
- 38:44Speaker 14: whole case is going to be blown apart before they've
- 38:47Speaker 14: connected all the dots, and they are filled with a
- 38:51Speaker 14: sense of panic.
- 38:53Speaker 3: But discipline what Howard.
- 38:55Speaker 4: They were right and this is no offense to Indiana
- 38:58Speaker 4: at all. But I understand where the FBI is coming from,
- 39:02Speaker 4: and you know how much I hate the Feds.
- 39:03Speaker 1: But that said Chris.
- 39:05Speaker 4: Mcdonnald joining me, Director Cole Case Foundation, former homicide detective
- 39:09Speaker 4: and star of The Interview Room on YouTube. Chris, if
- 39:14Speaker 4: they had stopped Coburger and he nutted up and they
- 39:19Speaker 4: arrested him or sped off, anything could have happened. Because
- 39:22Speaker 4: we can't we can't predict what Coburger is going to do.
- 39:26Speaker 4: Just like his father, he had no idea what his
- 39:28Speaker 4: son might do. We would never have gotten the evidence
- 39:32Speaker 4: that we got. When they finally got home to the
- 39:35Speaker 4: Pocono area, remember they were surveilled. They went in finally
- 39:39Speaker 4: or in the early morning hours, they catch him I
- 39:41Speaker 4: think in his shorts or underwear, wearing plastic gloves and
- 39:45Speaker 4: separating his trash from everybody else's trash, and they see
- 39:49Speaker 4: him go throwing trash in the neighbor's receptacle. None of
- 39:54Speaker 4: that would have happened if local authorities had arrested Coburger
- 40:00Speaker 4: or for a traffic violation, or if Kyburger spun out
- 40:04Speaker 4: and brought about his own arrest.
- 40:07Speaker 1: So I understand why they were worried.
- 40:09Speaker 3: Yeah, and absolutely, and not only that. If you remember,
- 40:13Speaker 3: this officer is leaning in, so if he would have
- 40:16Speaker 3: seen anything in plane view, you know what Doc Morgan
- 40:19Speaker 3: was talking about, you know, any blood transfer or anything
- 40:22Speaker 3: like that. Well, the clock starts ticking right then and there.
- 40:25Speaker 3: If this officer starts diving into this traffic stop, that
- 40:30Speaker 3: you may have this fugitive task for surveillance team, you know,
- 40:33Speaker 3: overhead and behind him going hey, what the heck is
- 40:37Speaker 3: going on here? So, and quite frankly, I hate to
- 40:40Speaker 3: say it, but I've seen this as well as many others,
- 40:43Speaker 3: numerous at times where you know, this thing could have
- 40:47Speaker 3: gone south really fast. But fortunately they cut him loose
- 40:51Speaker 3: and they were able to connect those stocks.
- 40:54Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfolds. Nancy Grace signing off, good
- 41:00Speaker 1: bye friend,