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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:07Speaker 2: The prosecutor strikes a deal with the devil, then breaks
- 0:13Speaker 2: down and cries in court. He should be crying. Coburger.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Brian Coburger kills three murders, savages four beautiful Idaho University
- 0:29Speaker 2: students virtually in their sleep, takes a plea deal to
- 0:35Speaker 2: save his own skin? Why was that allowed? Good evening,
- 0:42Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime Stories. I want to
- 0:44Speaker 2: thank you for being with us.
- 0:47Speaker 3: Of the emergency.
- 0:52Speaker 2: You don't know what the emergency one one. I don't
- 0:59Speaker 2: know you're like me, But every time I hear that
- 1:01Speaker 2: nine one one call of the survivors desperately seeking help,
- 1:07Speaker 2: four of their friends, their roommates, massacred, butchered in their sleep.
- 1:15Speaker 2: How in the world did Brian Koberger escape trial in
- 1:23Speaker 2: the last hours? That deal with the devil goes down
- 1:26Speaker 2: in open court. But I want you to see the
- 1:29Speaker 2: prosecutor choking on his own words, breaking down, crying in court.
- 1:34Speaker 4: Watch On November thirteenth, twenty twenty two, excuse me, miss
- 1:43Speaker 4: Coberger entered the residents of eleven twenty two King Road
- 1:46Speaker 4: in Moscow, Idaho. He did that with the intent to kill.
- 1:50Speaker 4: We will not represent that he intended to commit all
- 1:53Speaker 4: of the murders that he did that night, but we
- 1:55Speaker 4: know that that is what resulted, and that he then
- 1:59Speaker 4: killed intentionally, willfully, deliberately, with premeditation and with mouse forethought.
- 2:08Speaker 4: Maddy Mogen Kate, we consolfics, Ethan Chapin and that credal.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Thank you really save it, your tears me nothing. You
- 2:25Speaker 2: stood there and you took the deal over the objections
- 2:31Speaker 2: of some victims' families, and I agree with them. At
- 2:36Speaker 2: first I thought it wouldn't happen. I thought maybe the
- 2:39Speaker 2: media was wrong. Reports could be wrong, couldn't they But
- 2:42Speaker 2: then it went down in the last hours in a
- 2:46Speaker 2: court of law. It's done. It's over. Brian Cooberger will
- 2:52Speaker 2: never face the death penalty. He won't even face trial.
- 2:58Speaker 2: The victims' families will never have answers Straight out to
- 3:02Speaker 2: Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensicks, Jacksonville State University, author of
- 3:07Speaker 2: Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon, didn't intend to kill
- 3:13Speaker 2: the victims. What didn't he go in the home with
- 3:17Speaker 2: a k bar knife? I don't know, Joe Scott, do
- 3:20Speaker 2: you go into other people's homes carrying a military style
- 3:25Speaker 2: k bar knife. I don't why did he? Do you
- 3:28Speaker 2: sneak in and break and adore Joe Scott? Do you
- 3:31Speaker 2: sneak around at three or four o'clock in the morning
- 3:34Speaker 2: trying not to wake them up so you can have
- 3:37Speaker 2: the element of surprise on your victims? Any of that?
- 3:42Speaker 2: Do you dress in an outfit that you can shed
- 3:47Speaker 2: the moment you get out of the home like this,
- 3:51Speaker 2: so you leave nothing behind? Do you wear a face
- 3:54Speaker 2: mask in gloves when you encounter the residents of the home? No,
- 3:58Speaker 2: this was his intent. Under the law, there are two
- 4:03Speaker 2: types of intent. Those types of intent evidence are implied
- 4:09Speaker 2: and explicit. Explicit intent is when I say something like
- 4:14Speaker 2: just got Morgan, I'm going to kill you, and then
- 4:18Speaker 2: I shoot you dead. That's explicit. Implicit is intent manifested
- 4:24Speaker 2: by your actions, such as every action conducted by Brian
- 4:30Speaker 2: Coburger didn't intend Just got Morgan? Explain how wrong that is?
- 4:37Speaker 2: No wonder the prosecutor was crying.
- 4:39Speaker 5: Yeah. The only time I've ever carried a military knife
- 4:41Speaker 5: anywhere was when I was in the army, and I
- 4:44Speaker 5: don't ever really remember uncheathing at all all those years ago.
- 4:49Speaker 5: I had it as part of my equipment, and no,
- 4:52Speaker 5: I would not dress like this unless I had specific
- 4:56Speaker 5: intent to do great bodily harm and bring an instant nancy.
- 5:00Speaker 5: I've talked about this before, an instrument of death with me.
- 5:04Speaker 5: That's what the k bar is made for. And then
- 5:07Speaker 5: you purpose yourself. And the only way I can really
- 5:10Speaker 5: think of this nancy is through my eyes and experience
- 5:13Speaker 5: as a forensic scientist and crime sending investigator death in investigator,
- 5:18Speaker 5: is that I'm trying to create barriers, layers between myself
- 5:22Speaker 5: and the environment in which I'm in. I always go
- 5:25Speaker 5: back to the godfather of forensics, and that is Edmund Lecarte.
- 5:30Speaker 5: Every contact leaves a trace, it's for cards extreme exchange principle.
- 5:35Speaker 5: I think he's probably been exposed to that, at least peripherally.
- 5:39Speaker 5: He understands that construct and so based upon that, he's
- 5:43Speaker 5: trying to keep himself from shedding any kind of evidence
- 5:48Speaker 5: that might fall from him, hair, skin, any fibers off
- 5:52Speaker 5: of his clothing he would commonly wear. And then you
- 5:55Speaker 5: take I don't know, maybe I don't know, let's just
- 5:57Speaker 5: say a Dicky's jumpsuit. Where have I heard that before?
- 6:01Speaker 5: And you pursue yourself in this and then you could
- 6:04Speaker 5: take it off after its bloodship soak Nancy.
- 6:08Speaker 2: Didn't intend, then why did he go into the hum? Hey?
- 6:12Speaker 2: You know what, I just want to watch the prosecutor
- 6:15Speaker 2: choking up again in court and crying.
- 6:17Speaker 1: As he.
- 6:19Speaker 2: Choked down the words accepting a guilty plea over the
- 6:24Speaker 2: objections of some of the victims' families, who go on
- 6:28Speaker 2: to call the prosecutor a gutless coward who saved a
- 6:34Speaker 2: killer's life. Let's watch this again.
- 6:36Speaker 4: On November thirteenth, twenty twenty two. Excuse me, miss Coberger
- 6:46Speaker 4: entered the residents of eleven twenty two King Road in Moscow, Idaho.
- 6:49Speaker 4: He did that with the intent to kill. We will
- 6:53Speaker 4: not represent that he intended to commit all of the
- 6:55Speaker 4: murders that he did that night, but we know that
- 6:58Speaker 4: that is what results, and that he then killed intentionally, willfully, deliberately,
- 7:06Speaker 4: with premeditation and with mouse forethought. Manny Mogen Cake. We
- 7:12Speaker 4: consult us, Ethan Chapin and Satak.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Thank you joining us now. Investigative reporter chaef us reporter
- 7:22Speaker 2: for Dailymail dot Com. Harmania Rodriguez, Harmonia. What happened in court?
- 7:28Speaker 6: This all really went down very quickly, as you mentioned
- 7:31Speaker 6: half of the victims' families disapproved strongly of this deal,
- 7:36Speaker 6: and they said so before yesterday when it all took
- 7:40Speaker 6: place in court, we saw an ice cold Brian Cooberger
- 7:44Speaker 6: get up, swear that he was going to tell the
- 7:46Speaker 6: truth and really simply replying yes. As the judge went
- 7:51Speaker 6: through the plea deal. As you mentioned, he said the
- 7:55Speaker 6: prosecution said they couldn't be sure how many people he
- 7:59Speaker 6: intended to kill, but in his plea deal, Brian Coberger
- 8:03Speaker 6: said he killed these four young people, he meant to
- 8:07Speaker 6: do so, and he is accepting responsibility for it. However, Nancy,
- 8:11Speaker 6: one of the tragic things about this plea deal is
- 8:13Speaker 6: that it did not require Coburger to tell the world
- 8:16Speaker 6: what really happened, and that was one of the issues
- 8:20Speaker 6: that some of the families have with it.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Exactly what happened is that Brian Coberger plaed guilty, escaping
- 8:28Speaker 2: the death penalty. Hermione Rodriguez joining us dalemail dot com.
- 8:32Speaker 2: What were the terms of the deal.
- 8:34Speaker 6: Basically, the defense just wanted to spare Coberger's life. We've
- 8:38Speaker 6: seen them try everything so in exchange for him pleading
- 8:41Speaker 6: guilty to these four murders with no details he now
- 8:46Speaker 6: gets to spend the rest of his life in prison
- 8:49Speaker 6: for life sentences at a maximum security prison. He doesn't
- 8:52Speaker 6: get to appeal his sentence. However, he gets to live
- 8:56Speaker 6: the rest of his life in this prison as the
- 8:59Speaker 6: Famili's meant. He gets to build relationships, he gets to
- 9:02Speaker 6: read books, and he will not face the death penalty.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 9:18Speaker 2: Joining me is Chris McDonough, director of the Cold Case Foundation,
- 9:21Speaker 2: former homicide detective, intimately familiar with this case, has been
- 9:26Speaker 2: to the scene multiple times, over three hundred homicides under
- 9:30Speaker 2: his belt. You can find him now on the interview
- 9:33Speaker 2: room on YouTube. Chris McDonough, Really, what did that buy me? Nothing?
- 9:41Speaker 2: Every case gets appealed. Every case, every conviction, every felamy
- 9:46Speaker 2: conviction gets appealed. Done check. So to say oh, we
- 9:51Speaker 2: did it to avoid an appeal, that's let me just say,
- 9:54Speaker 2: legal term crap, because you know every case that is
- 9:58Speaker 2: a conviction appealed. If they cannot afford a new appellant attorney,
- 10:04Speaker 2: the state will give them an appellant attorney for free.
- 10:08Speaker 2: So it's no skin off the state's back for the
- 10:11Speaker 2: to say, oh, now there's no chance of appeal that
- 10:14Speaker 2: bought me nothing. So what do you make of what
- 10:19Speaker 2: the prosecutor did? And I'm sick of looking at him
- 10:22Speaker 2: crying in court. Save the tears. The people that are
- 10:27Speaker 2: crying are the victims' families. So you know what, suck
- 10:30Speaker 2: it up, man, Go ahead me, Donna.
- 10:32Speaker 7: You know what, Nancy, you are one thousand percent right
- 10:34Speaker 7: once again, this case has been driven by emotional mitigation
- 10:40Speaker 7: for the horror of these events. And I have information
- 10:44Speaker 7: that they met with the AG's office, and the AG's office,
- 10:49Speaker 7: you know, did not invite the families to the table.
- 10:52Speaker 7: They sent that email out with an attachment letter. And
- 10:55Speaker 7: then the discussion was there was half of the victims
- 11:00Speaker 7: families that wanted the deal and have did not. But
- 11:04Speaker 7: the age leaned towards the cost of the trial. Up
- 11:08Speaker 7: to fifteen million dollars was the projection, and so they
- 11:12Speaker 7: went with the state and they left the victims out
- 11:16Speaker 7: to try and part of that deal would be he
- 11:19Speaker 7: would have to write out you know, exactly what he did,
- 11:22Speaker 7: but that information's not available yet and sold.
- 11:25Speaker 2: Chris McDonough, please stop, are you saying, yep? That part
- 11:30Speaker 2: of the deal it was a deal for the defendant,
- 11:33Speaker 2: not for the state or the victims' families. Was that
- 11:36Speaker 2: Brian Coburger right out what he did? In other words,
- 11:41Speaker 2: I committed murder. I committed murder. What write it out
- 11:44Speaker 2: five hundred times and it's all over? Are you serious
- 11:48Speaker 2: that I'm going to believe what Ja Coburger says. That
- 11:52Speaker 2: was the deal. That's what I got out of this.
- 11:54Speaker 7: Yeah, that's my understanding as well. Nancy. It's horrible. I mean,
- 11:58Speaker 7: you know, you know more than anybody, how many times
- 12:03Speaker 7: would the guys like me come to you and present
- 12:06Speaker 7: a death penalty case and you guys have an ethical
- 12:10Speaker 7: responsibility to file a death penalty enhancement with the idea though,
- 12:15Speaker 7: that you're not going to extract the plea? Hey, in
- 12:19Speaker 7: this case, did this da go into this whole thing
- 12:23Speaker 7: knowing he was going to extract the plea all along?
- 12:27Speaker 7: If so, I just find that's disturbing as well. If
- 12:30Speaker 7: that's the case.
- 12:31Speaker 2: I mean, the reality is that you expect straight out
- 12:36Speaker 2: to Andy Kahn joining me, direct to victim Services and
- 12:38Speaker 2: advocacy crime Stoppers Houston, Texas. They don't play I mean, really, Andy,
- 12:50Speaker 2: out of this. I gave up a jury trial, right
- 12:53Speaker 2: the state, not me? The state gave up a jury trial,
- 12:57Speaker 2: gave up ever giving the family answers about what really happened.
- 13:03Speaker 2: They'll never know. You know, Andy Cohn, in my fiance's case,
- 13:07Speaker 2: he was murdered, as you know, shortly before our wedding.
- 13:09Speaker 2: I know what happened. There was a trial. I know
- 13:13Speaker 2: what happened. He had a summer job on a construction crew.
- 13:16Speaker 2: He was out in a remote rural area building I
- 13:19Speaker 2: think an office building with the crew. He left it
- 13:22Speaker 2: lunchtime to go get soft drinks for everybody else. He
- 13:25Speaker 2: comes back in and an angry employee that had just
- 13:28Speaker 2: been fired sees the company truck and opens fire on
- 13:33Speaker 2: Keith and shoots him five times in the neck, the face,
- 13:38Speaker 2: and the back, and he died. That's what happened. Okay,
- 13:42Speaker 2: it's been twisted around in the MUNI that's what happened.
- 13:45Speaker 2: How do I know that because there was a trial
- 13:48Speaker 2: and they gave all that away so we could get
- 13:54Speaker 2: a I did it. I did it. I did it.
- 13:57Speaker 2: I did it five pages right, one hundred times and
- 14:00Speaker 2: free from Brian Toberger like he's going to tell the truth.
- 14:04Speaker 3: Con I'll tell you, Nancy, I serve on the board
- 14:06Speaker 3: of Parents and murdered children and surviving family members of homicide.
- 14:09Speaker 3: I've been with them for over thirty years. This is
- 14:12Speaker 3: about the ultimate sucker punch that I've seen in my
- 14:15Speaker 3: over thirty years. What's changed in three years. Nothing. The
- 14:20Speaker 3: defense ran out of options. The decision was made three
- 14:23Speaker 3: years ago to seek death. Nothing changed up until the
- 14:28Speaker 3: time the defense waved their white flag and said we
- 14:31Speaker 3: give up, we give up, will cut a deal with that?
- 14:34Speaker 3: There's no mitigating factors. Families for the last believe that
- 14:39Speaker 3: a trial was imminent, and for you to say the
- 14:43Speaker 3: plea deal is in the best interests of everybody. Get real.
- 14:47Speaker 3: To quote someone I know very well that I'm talking
- 14:50Speaker 3: to right now, that's a bunch of bs, and I
- 14:54Speaker 3: have a really big problem with the way this was
- 14:58Speaker 3: handled the plead. Are you sending a form letter that's
- 15:02Speaker 3: really cold, that is about unemotional announcing your decision. Victims'
- 15:08Speaker 3: families deserve to be treated with respect and dignity, and
- 15:14Speaker 3: they deserved better from this prosecution. That death penalty in
- 15:18Speaker 3: this country is so very rarely sought to begin with,
- 15:21Speaker 3: and for those that are truly worthy of the ultimate punishment.
- 15:26Speaker 3: Brian Coburger is at the top of the list right there.
- 15:29Speaker 3: Why even have a death penalty if.
- 15:31Speaker 2: You're not I mean, you know, That's what I was
- 15:34Speaker 2: just about to ask you, Andy Cohn, because and I'm
- 15:37Speaker 2: not debating death penalty, no death penalty. We have the
- 15:40Speaker 2: death penalty. So if you've committed to having the death penalty,
- 15:44Speaker 2: is there a better case than murdering for innocent, unarmed
- 15:52Speaker 2: University Idaho students asleep or sleepy in their beds of
- 15:59Speaker 2: stock them identifying them, and you, the PERV who have
- 16:05Speaker 2: been googling and searching raping women who are asleep, passed out, comatose.
- 16:13Speaker 2: You fulfill your fantasy and you murder four people, one
- 16:18Speaker 2: of them running down the stairs trying to get away
- 16:22Speaker 2: from you. You chase her down and murder her. So,
- 16:27Speaker 2: if we're going to have the death penalty, what is
- 16:29Speaker 2: that not the poster case for the DP?
- 16:33Speaker 3: Why have the death penalty if you're not going to
- 16:36Speaker 3: have it for Coburger? Basically, the state of Idaho is
- 16:39Speaker 3: basically abdicated to death penalty for any future cases if
- 16:43Speaker 3: you're not going to do it for Brian Coberger. When
- 16:46Speaker 3: you take four lives, especially in the manner that he did,
- 16:50Speaker 3: this is the only possible outcome. The families now get
- 16:56Speaker 3: zero answers, They get nothing out of this, and basically
- 17:00Speaker 3: you're allowing him to call the shots. The evidence was
- 17:03Speaker 3: so clear and convincing. He slaughtered four young college students.
- 17:10Speaker 3: He deprived one, two, three, four people of their lives,
- 17:15Speaker 3: and you're not going to deprive him of him. Where's
- 17:18Speaker 3: the equity in that.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Or at least offer it to a jury. This heaping
- 17:24Speaker 2: pain on the victims' families. Now they have this to
- 17:29Speaker 2: carry with them the rest of their lives that the
- 17:32Speaker 2: state didn't even try. What are they afraid to try?
- 17:34Speaker 2: At Ace? For Pete's sake. That's your job, man, to
- 17:38Speaker 2: get in there and do.
- 17:39Speaker 1: The best you can win or lose.
- 17:43Speaker 2: To Joseph Scott Morgan again the host of a hit
- 17:46Speaker 2: series podcast Body Bags with Joe Scott Morgan, Joe Scott
- 17:51Speaker 2: explained the injuries to the four victims.
- 17:54Speaker 5: What we know, Nancy, is that these are a collection
- 17:58Speaker 5: of sharp horse injuries. I think people have simply assumed
- 18:03Speaker 5: that they're all stab wounds. We know that based upon
- 18:07Speaker 5: one of the victims, well actually several of them, that
- 18:10Speaker 5: some of these injuries are more than likely in sized
- 18:13Speaker 5: wounds which are slices. So you've got a combination of
- 18:16Speaker 5: both of these. Either way, you have a mill to
- 18:20Speaker 5: blade that is penetrating the skin. Stab wounds the way
- 18:23Speaker 5: we delineate them from in sized wounds is that stab
- 18:27Speaker 5: wounds are deeper than long, and in sized wounds are
- 18:31Speaker 5: longer than deep. So you know, you're a Shakespeare officionado,
- 18:37Speaker 5: you know the what is it death by a thousand cuts?
- 18:41Speaker 5: That idea applies here as well. It's painful, It would
- 18:46Speaker 5: not have gone quickly. This was a very bloody affair,
- 18:52Speaker 5: and you know that. I think therein lies a real tragedy, Nancy,
- 18:58Speaker 5: because he will not be held to account for this
- 19:03Speaker 5: carnage in the sense that we would want him to
- 19:06Speaker 5: be held in account. I'm not talking about the death
- 19:08Speaker 5: penalty here either. I'm talking about having to hear about
- 19:12Speaker 5: this in court and actually what he did so that
- 19:16Speaker 5: it burns into his ears, so that you know, you
- 19:20Speaker 5: think you're reliving it right now. He's you know, in
- 19:23Speaker 5: this kind of fantastic state in his brain. This is
- 19:26Speaker 5: not fantastic, this is reality. He will be able to
- 19:30Speaker 5: sit there and hear what they have to say. But
- 19:33Speaker 5: of course that ain't going to happen. It's never going
- 19:36Speaker 5: to happen now because the DA has offered this fleet.
- 19:40Speaker 5: Well he has been accepted, and we're left wanting correction.
- 19:46Speaker 2: And I so rarely get to do this. But dying
- 19:50Speaker 2: a thousand deaths is from Shakespeare. Death by a thousand
- 19:55Speaker 2: cuts is from Imperial China. But that said, joining me
- 20:00Speaker 2: now in addition to Andy Kahn and renowned Joe Scott Morgan,
- 20:05Speaker 2: doctor Kendall Crowns is joining US chief medical Examiner Terran County.
- 20:11Speaker 2: That's Fort Worth never lack a business in their morgue.
- 20:14Speaker 2: And he is a star of a new podcast set
- 20:17Speaker 2: to launch, Mayhem in the Morgue. He is an esteemed
- 20:21Speaker 2: lecturer at the Burnette School of Medicine and is joining
- 20:25Speaker 2: us now Doctor Kendall Crowns. Following up on what Joe
- 20:29Speaker 2: Scott Morgan just told us, what actually caused the deaths
- 20:34Speaker 2: of the four students? What did their lungs fill up
- 20:37Speaker 2: with blood and they asphyxiated? Did their heart get slashed?
- 20:41Speaker 2: I mean, how does a knife attack like that end
- 20:44Speaker 2: up actually killing you as opposed to being wounds that
- 20:49Speaker 2: could be repaired in the ear, so.
- 20:52Speaker 8: In stab wounds and in size wounds, you basically die
- 20:56Speaker 8: from blood loss. They're going to be bleeding from all
- 20:59Speaker 8: these wounds, bleeding out onto the bed or the surface
- 21:04Speaker 8: around them, and also they'll be bleeding internally, so their
- 21:08Speaker 8: chest cavity will fill up with blood and it'll make
- 21:10Speaker 8: it hard for their lungs to expand, which will cause
- 21:13Speaker 8: them to basically suffocate in their own blood. If the
- 21:16Speaker 8: heart is hit, the heart can actually bleed into the
- 21:19Speaker 8: sack surrounding the heart, which is called the paracardial sack,
- 21:22Speaker 8: and that fills up with blood. It makes it hard
- 21:24Speaker 8: for the heart to beat, and you die from heart
- 21:27Speaker 8: failure that way. And then also if there is compromise
- 21:31Speaker 8: where the lungs are stabbed and then it communicates with
- 21:34Speaker 8: the airway, you can be coughing up blood and then
- 21:37Speaker 8: reswallowing the blood and inhaling the blood and dying that way.
- 21:42Speaker 8: So it's a combination of the blood loss with the
- 21:45Speaker 8: possible asshixiation from blood filling the chest cavity, or heart
- 21:49Speaker 8: failure from blood filling the pericardial sack or compromising the heartbeat.
- 21:55Speaker 8: It's any number of things, but it's essentially blood loss.
- 22:00Speaker 5: Tell me exactly what's going on one of the roommates
- 22:03Speaker 5: has passed and she's strong class.
- 22:07Speaker 8: Oh and they tell some man in their health close.
- 22:12Speaker 9: In Moscow, Idaho, with the intent to commit the felony
- 22:14Speaker 9: crime of murder. Yes, did you on November thirteenth, twenty
- 22:22Speaker 9: twenty two, in Leayta County, State of Idaho, kill and
- 22:29Speaker 9: murder Madison Mogan, a human being?
- 22:32Speaker 1: Yes?
- 22:33Speaker 9: And did you do that willfully and lawfully, deliberately and
- 22:35Speaker 9: with premeditation and meliss a forethought?
- 22:38Speaker 5: Yes?
- 22:39Speaker 2: Okay, So the state does a deal with the devil,
- 22:43Speaker 2: the devil being Brian Coburger in this scenario, and for
- 22:47Speaker 2: what to get Brian Coberger's version of what happened that night.
- 22:51Speaker 2: There have been a lot of attacks online and call
- 22:56Speaker 2: bombing the judge in this case. The judge cannot force
- 23:03Speaker 2: the state to go forward with the death penalty. The
- 23:07Speaker 2: judge cannot force the state to go forward on any prosecution.
- 23:14Speaker 2: The judge can forward a lack of prosecution to the
- 23:17Speaker 2: state's age to review what's happening within the District Attorney's office,
- 23:23Speaker 2: But the judge can't make the state do anything. The
- 23:28Speaker 2: state can't make the judge do anything. It's a balance
- 23:32Speaker 2: of power so everybody call bombing and emailing the judge.
- 23:38Speaker 2: So just follow this through. Let me bring in Philip Debay, guys,
- 23:42Speaker 2: our renowned attorney in the LA jurisdiction. Debay, Under our law,
- 23:51Speaker 2: the judge is immune from being forced by the state
- 23:57Speaker 2: or the defense to really do anything. For instance, if
- 24:02Speaker 2: the judge had rejected the plea and said, hey, I
- 24:06Speaker 2: want the death penalty to Hay with this, the state
- 24:10Speaker 2: could have actually just gotten another judge to take the plea.
- 24:14Speaker 2: The state cannot force the judge cannot force the state
- 24:18Speaker 2: to seek the death penalty. It doesn't work that way.
- 24:23Speaker 2: Could you explain it, Philip Debate.
- 24:24Speaker 10: Yes, we have what's called the separation of powers, both
- 24:27Speaker 10: at the state and the federal level, and what that
- 24:29Speaker 10: means is we have three coordinate branches of government. We
- 24:33Speaker 10: have the executive branch, which is basically the governor, the
- 24:36Speaker 10: attorney general, and prosecutors. And of course we have the
- 24:39Speaker 10: legislative branch, which at the federal level is Congress. At
- 24:42Speaker 10: the state level we have the legislature, and certainly at
- 24:45Speaker 10: the local level you have your city council. Additionally, we
- 24:49Speaker 10: have the judiciary, which is our courts, and to ensure
- 24:53Speaker 10: that we have this fair balance of power, neither branch
- 24:57Speaker 10: can encroach upon the powers of either wise you get
- 25:00Speaker 10: anarchy and you get an unjust system. And here what
- 25:05Speaker 10: you have is prosecutors within the executive branch alerting the
- 25:10Speaker 10: judiciary that a settlement has been reached. Yes, the court
- 25:14Speaker 10: can reject that settlement agreement, but the prosecution doesn't have
- 25:18Speaker 10: to go forward with penalty. The prosecution can just go
- 25:21Speaker 10: forward with the guilt phase. And if they would have
- 25:23Speaker 10: commit the jury would have come back guilty on all
- 25:25Speaker 10: four homicides, then Brian Coolberger would have got what we
- 25:30Speaker 10: affectionately call LWOP life without parole. So it was a
- 25:34Speaker 10: lose lose for the court, and sadly it is a
- 25:37Speaker 10: lose lose for the victims' families. On the brighter side
- 25:41Speaker 10: of things, though the case is over, he will never
- 25:44Speaker 10: get out. There will be no appeals. They will never
- 25:47Speaker 10: ever be able to decide whether or not the denial
- 25:50Speaker 10: of this motion was accurate, whether or not the Atkins
- 25:55Speaker 10: denial was accurate regarding.
- 25:57Speaker 2: His I don't know that. You don't know any of that. Well,
- 26:00Speaker 2: remember when Charles Manson, remember him psycho freaky killer. Yes,
- 26:05Speaker 2: remember that the Manson murders. There's been a lot of
- 26:08Speaker 2: movies about it. Yes, Charles Manson got the death penalty,
- 26:11Speaker 2: didn't he didn't he get the death penalty? That's a yes, yes, okay.
- 26:16Speaker 2: He got sentenced to the death penalty. And what happened
- 26:18Speaker 2: The law changed? The law changed, right, yes, and suddenly
- 26:23Speaker 2: the death penalty was gone, and he came up over
- 26:26Speaker 2: and over and over to be released on parole. Can
- 26:30Speaker 2: you just agree to that much? Debate? I know you'll
- 26:32Speaker 2: want to fight with me, but isn't that much true?
- 26:35Speaker 5: Yes, it is true?
- 26:38Speaker 2: Okay, straight to Andy Kahn joining US Director of Victim
- 26:41Speaker 2: Services and Advocacy for Crime Stoppers Houston. Andy Kahn, remember
- 26:47Speaker 2: that moment when all the laws were reversed and Charles
- 26:54Speaker 2: Manson got life? The law was changed. Now, I understand
- 27:00Speaker 2: what debate is saying, and I agree with him, believe
- 27:03Speaker 2: it or not, to a certain extent. But we don't
- 27:06Speaker 2: know what wild hair is going to get up the
- 27:09Speaker 2: rear ends of the Idaho Assembly, do we or the
- 27:15Speaker 2: federal government. We don't know what's going to happen. But
- 27:18Speaker 2: I do know if Coburger is put to death, that
- 27:22Speaker 2: cannot be reversed. You know, who's to say or who's
- 27:26Speaker 2: not to say that in ten years somebody would rule.
- 27:31Speaker 2: I know it sounds crazy that life behind bars is
- 27:34Speaker 2: cruel and unusual. It's already been argued thousands of times
- 27:39Speaker 2: that that's cruel and unusual punishment, life behind bars without parole,
- 27:43Speaker 2: it's already been argued. Who's to say some crazy judge
- 27:48Speaker 2: doesn't go along with it and he walks. No one
- 27:53Speaker 2: is to say that.
- 27:54Speaker 3: We've seen this time and time again, and I tell
- 27:56Speaker 3: victims families, look, here's reality. Life without parole today doesn't
- 28:01Speaker 3: necessarily mean it's going to be life without parole ten
- 28:05Speaker 3: twenty years from now. And we've seen this repeated over
- 28:08Speaker 3: and over again. The other thing that we are now
- 28:10Speaker 3: seeing right now is so called elderly mercy release, and
- 28:15Speaker 3: particularly in the state of New York, where they're looking
- 28:17Speaker 3: at everyone from the ages of fifty five and over
- 28:21Speaker 3: for potential parole, including a serial killer by the name
- 28:25Speaker 3: of David Berkowitz. So again, it sounds good on the premise,
- 28:30Speaker 3: life without parole. You're never going to breathe free air again.
- 28:33Speaker 3: That's it. You don't have to worry about this appeal.
- 28:36Speaker 1: That appeal.
- 28:37Speaker 7: But I have seen it.
- 28:38Speaker 3: You have seen it. Things change, jurisdictions changed, and this
- 28:43Speaker 3: is why you're going to have to keep a close
- 28:45Speaker 3: abs on this, you know right now today. The bottom
- 28:48Speaker 3: line from my perspective in this case is you let
- 28:51Speaker 3: a cold blood and murderer win. You allowed him to
- 28:54Speaker 3: call the shots, You allowed him to dictate his own terms,
- 28:58Speaker 3: including I don't have to say any thing except for
- 29:01Speaker 3: one word. Yes. That's going to come back and haunt
- 29:05Speaker 3: the state of Idaho, and it's going to come back
- 29:07Speaker 3: and haunt victims' families for years down a road debate.
- 29:11Speaker 2: I know that you're a great trial lawyer. I know
- 29:14Speaker 2: you in a lot of cases for criminals to walk free.
- 29:19Speaker 2: I can't stop that. I know you've got a great
- 29:21Speaker 2: singing voice since he burst out into song at Christmas
- 29:25Speaker 2: with Oh Holy Night. I know that, but I didn't
- 29:30Speaker 2: know you were a clairvoyant. Please go get your crystal
- 29:33Speaker 2: ball and your turban, because I want to see you
- 29:35Speaker 2: predict that the law won't change regarding life with that
- 29:38Speaker 2: parole or mercy for the elderly and Coburger never walks free.
- 29:44Speaker 2: Okay waiting, Oh, are you going to read the tea leaves?
- 29:47Speaker 2: Would that work? Better for you. It'll never check tarot cards.
- 29:51Speaker 2: Never mind tarot cards, go ahead.
- 29:52Speaker 3: It'll never change in the state of Idaho.
- 29:54Speaker 10: It might if you were a youthful offender at the
- 29:57Speaker 10: time of the crime, but he was, what a ripe
- 30:00Speaker 10: twenty nine years old, so it's not as if he
- 30:03Speaker 10: was deprived of.
- 30:05Speaker 11: A review of all the youthful factors.
- 30:08Speaker 2: So you are a clairvoyant pretty much.
- 30:10Speaker 10: And it's based on statistics. It's based on what's going
- 30:13Speaker 10: on across the country.
- 30:14Speaker 2: You and Scott Peterson. You and Scott Peterson. Oh yeah,
- 30:19Speaker 2: O J. Simpson and his dream sequence that he really
- 30:23Speaker 2: killed Nicole Brown. I didn't need his dream to tell
- 30:26Speaker 2: me that. So you are of sorts of clairvoyant. Con
- 30:29Speaker 2: I'm giving you the last word on that.
- 30:30Speaker 3: We're seeing it right now, at least in several states
- 30:33Speaker 3: where they're taking a look at anyone from the ages
- 30:36Speaker 3: of fifty five or older, no matter what the actual
- 30:40Speaker 3: sentence is, for potential senior reliefs based upon the age factor.
- 30:46Speaker 3: So what's happening. You can't say unequivocally that life without
- 30:51Speaker 3: parole for Coleberger means he will never get out, because
- 30:55Speaker 3: we're watching it right now and.
- 30:57Speaker 11: A greatment of the He only negotiated with you before.
- 31:01Speaker 3: I was the old person not to negotiating.
- 31:03Speaker 5: He didn't give us a cooloder, seated.
- 31:05Speaker 11: To negotiate with us, even pretend he could have just
- 31:08Speaker 11: descended in light. But he didn't even pretend. He basically said,
- 31:12Speaker 11: your guys is input.
- 31:13Speaker 12: Is it.
- 31:19Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 31:38Speaker 2: I'm just not reporting it. I want you to hear
- 31:41Speaker 2: from killer Gonsovis's father, who has been very open about
- 31:46Speaker 2: the raw pain he has been enduring since his daughter
- 31:50Speaker 2: was murdered. Take a listen to mister Gonsal.
- 31:54Speaker 11: He's gonna own this. He's gonna inherit what Thompson did,
- 31:57Speaker 11: and he's the only one that can fix it. He's
- 31:59Speaker 11: the only one who can't make it right. He needs
- 32:02Speaker 11: to protect those other surviving victims and make this person
- 32:05Speaker 11: say that they had nothing to do with it. He
- 32:07Speaker 11: did it solely, He did it all on his own
- 32:09Speaker 11: and nobody else was responsible, and then we won't keep
- 32:13Speaker 11: having this the supporters always saying that he you know,
- 32:17Speaker 11: he got set up, we know what he's planning on doing.
- 32:20Speaker 11: Somebody died, if that died, and he's going to try
- 32:23Speaker 11: to say that you put the blame on that person,
- 32:25Speaker 11: so he's not going to take accountability. And Compson didn't force.
- 32:27Speaker 7: Him to take accountability.
- 32:28Speaker 11: He didn't even negotiate it.
- 32:30Speaker 2: According to the Gunslvices and others, none of them were consulted.
- 32:35Speaker 2: No one had any input. And to the prosecutor who
- 32:39Speaker 2: wrote down crying in court when he did it deal
- 32:42Speaker 2: with the devil, listen.
- 32:43Speaker 11: And agreement, because the he only negotiated with the earner
- 32:47Speaker 11: A call you over the court.
- 32:48Speaker 5: I was the offen person, not really negotiating. He didn't
- 32:50Speaker 5: give us the public aggreciated.
- 32:52Speaker 13: To negotiate with us.
- 32:53Speaker 11: He even pretend he could have just descended in line,
- 32:56Speaker 11: but he didn't even pretend. He basically said, your.
- 32:59Speaker 2: Guys is straight out to Harmonia Rodriguez, the chief US
- 33:04Speaker 2: reporter for dailymail dot com, what happens now, Harmonia.
- 33:09Speaker 6: Well, we're gonna have still a sensus in hearing where
- 33:12Speaker 6: hopefully the victims' families will get a chance to tell
- 33:16Speaker 6: Brian Coberger what these horrific crimes have done in their lives.
- 33:21Speaker 1: Coburger should also.
- 33:22Speaker 6: Have a chance to say anything if he so chooses,
- 33:25Speaker 6: but from what we have seen, he doesn't have much
- 33:28Speaker 6: to say. In court he only said yes with no expression,
- 33:32Speaker 6: and then finally he will be moved to a maximum
- 33:36Speaker 6: security prison for worst of the worst. It's actually where
- 33:39Speaker 6: a lot of uh there's also a death row. It's
- 33:41Speaker 6: where Chad day Bell, the cult leader or also serial killer,
- 33:46Speaker 6: is held and he will be there for his life
- 33:50Speaker 6: according to the plea deal. Though I know, as you said,
- 33:53Speaker 6: there's a possibility that who knows in the future what
- 33:56Speaker 6: could happen, and he could be released the.
- 33:58Speaker 2: Only way he wouldn't be released as if he was
- 34:00Speaker 2: put to death. Okay, because we know, Harmonia, the law
- 34:04Speaker 2: can change, because it has changed post sentencing in murder cases.
- 34:10Speaker 2: And the one I gave you Charles Manson is just
- 34:14Speaker 2: one example. But two special guests joining us. In addition
- 34:18Speaker 2: to Harmonia Rodriguez, doctor Chavon Scott, psychotherapist. She's a best
- 34:23Speaker 2: selling author. Her newest release is night Bird. She also
- 34:28Speaker 2: wrote The Minds of mass Killers, Understanding and Interrupting the
- 34:33Speaker 2: Pathways to Violence, Good Luck with That and Game Addiction,
- 34:37Speaker 2: The Experience and the Effects. Doctor Javon Scott, thank you
- 34:41Speaker 2: for being with us. I asked Harmania Rodriguez from dailymail
- 34:44Speaker 2: dot com what happens now and she was correct. Well,
- 34:48Speaker 2: there's a lot more to that story. This is what happens.
- 34:51Speaker 2: Brian Coburger will do a book deal. The Son of
- 34:55Speaker 2: Sam laws were reversed by the US Supreme Court. All right.
- 35:01Speaker 2: People think, oh, they can't profit, Well, in many jurisdictions
- 35:04Speaker 2: they can unless the state has enacted its own state
- 35:08Speaker 2: claim against it. He'll write a book, there will be
- 35:14Speaker 2: a made for TV movie. There will probably be another
- 35:17Speaker 2: movie about his side of the story, his memoirs. It
- 35:22Speaker 2: will talk about his childhood, how isolated he felt, and
- 35:26Speaker 2: so forth and so on. He's going to have penpals
- 35:30Speaker 2: behind bars. Women are going to try and have conjugal
- 35:33Speaker 2: visits with him. I mean, look at Luigi Mangioni. Right.
- 35:37Speaker 2: There is a group out there called the Proburgers that
- 35:40Speaker 2: support Brian Coburger. They will send him money. He may
- 35:45Speaker 2: even get married behind bars like Youord van der Slut.
- 35:47Speaker 2: He's had I think two children from behind bars. He
- 35:52Speaker 2: has drugs, he has alcohol, he has women, he has parties.
- 35:59Speaker 2: That is what is going to happen now. And I
- 36:02Speaker 2: predict this, doctor Schavon Scott, that one day there will
- 36:07Speaker 2: be a big symposium, a conference of krim pro criminal
- 36:12Speaker 2: procedure students, much like you teach Joe Scott Morgan, and
- 36:16Speaker 2: the guest of honor will be zoomed in from the
- 36:20Speaker 2: penitentiary and that renowned guest will be Brian Coburger, where
- 36:29Speaker 2: he will develop even more groupies. That's what's going to happen. Yeah,
- 36:32Speaker 2: a perverse celebrity. And when we look at it from
- 36:36Speaker 2: the point of view that you just laid.
- 36:39Speaker 14: Out for us, he has a far richer life than
- 36:42Speaker 14: he ever had free, which is very twisted, but I
- 36:47Speaker 14: think you're right. He's now in the ranks of Bundy,
- 36:51Speaker 14: one of his idols, and it's sickening. It's absolutely sickening
- 36:57Speaker 14: and disturbing. And I can only imagine how the families
- 37:02Speaker 14: feel because they were given no sense of control over
- 37:07Speaker 14: any of this, which I think is really important for
- 37:10Speaker 14: their healing to have a sense of control here.
- 37:12Speaker 2: Why do you say that. I'm very curious because I
- 37:15Speaker 2: distinctly remember. I don't know that the prosecutor does, but
- 37:19Speaker 2: I remember, and Keith's family remembers. Before my fiance's murder
- 37:25Speaker 2: trial ever happened, the prosecutor came and spoke to us
- 37:28Speaker 2: about what he thought was the best course of action
- 37:31Speaker 2: and how we felt about it and what was our input.
- 37:34Speaker 2: I was so out of it. I've just, you know,
- 37:37Speaker 2: hardly even remember all the words that were said. But
- 37:40Speaker 2: I remember the gist of the conversation. I remember what
- 37:42Speaker 2: went down. I remember what Keith's parents said, and we did.
- 37:49Speaker 2: They did have that control to an extent. I mean,
- 37:54Speaker 2: the family doesn't get to call the witnesses or put
- 37:57Speaker 2: up the evidence, but they can steer the ship, right
- 38:01Speaker 2: if they want to. You how does control help anything?
- 38:05Speaker 14: I think the act of having your loved ones murdered
- 38:09Speaker 14: is I mean, we're also protective of our kids, right,
- 38:12Speaker 14: It's just we want to have some benign, benevolent control
- 38:17Speaker 14: over the way their lives go. We want to protect them,
- 38:20Speaker 14: and to have your kids murdered in this kind of way,
- 38:24Speaker 14: that psychological need is just ripped away from you. And
- 38:29Speaker 14: I think it's just important to feeling some kind of
- 38:33Speaker 14: emotional stability again, to feel like, Okay, this horrible thing happened.
- 38:38Speaker 14: I'm completely devastated. This has changed my identity forever, change
- 38:42Speaker 14: the trajectory of my life. But at least I get
- 38:46Speaker 14: this little bit of power over this, you know, search
- 38:51Speaker 14: for justice, this attempt to get some kind of justice here.
- 38:55Speaker 14: And I think it's a psychological need that most people have.
- 38:58Speaker 2: Andy Kahn, director of Victim Services in Houston through Crime Stoppers. Andy,
- 39:05Speaker 2: what's happened here, if it can even be imagined, is
- 39:08Speaker 2: after losing their child to whom they poured in all
- 39:13Speaker 2: their love, all their money, all their time, their hopes,
- 39:18Speaker 2: their dreams. Yeah, I mean, I've got a life, but
- 39:20Speaker 2: come on, Andy, you know about my twins. They're my
- 39:24Speaker 2: life now, they are my life, No pressure, twins. But
- 39:29Speaker 2: to have that ripped away, number one. Then to have
- 39:33Speaker 2: it ripped away the way that they were murdered, that
- 39:37Speaker 2: they were murdered at all, but then the way that
- 39:40Speaker 2: they were murdered, then the way the victims have been
- 39:43Speaker 2: dragged through the mud is being partiers and horrors and
- 39:46Speaker 2: sluts and blah blah blah. They were out too late,
- 39:49Speaker 2: they were drinking. Oh no, that whole thing happened, and
- 39:53Speaker 2: now this behind their backs. You heard Gon Solvus, He
- 39:57Speaker 2: wasn't consulted.
- 39:59Speaker 3: What an emotion old roller coaster for all these families.
- 40:04Speaker 3: And you let a wanna be budding, Ted Bundy, I'm
- 40:09Speaker 3: going to be a serial killer, beats you and that's
- 40:12Speaker 3: the reality right there. And you haven't heard the last
- 40:16Speaker 3: of Brian Koberger because guess what exactly what you were
- 40:20Speaker 3: saying earlier. He is going to talk, but he's going
- 40:25Speaker 3: to do it on his own terms. He is going
- 40:29Speaker 3: to write his memoirs. For my knowledge right now, I
- 40:32Speaker 3: don't see anything in the perspective plea deal preventing him
- 40:37Speaker 3: from meeting with journalists, from sending out submissions, from talking
- 40:42Speaker 3: about himself. And as someone who's been basically monitoring what
- 40:47Speaker 3: we now call murder Abelia, and that's items that are
- 40:51Speaker 3: sold from high profile defendants, killers, serial killers on the
- 40:56Speaker 3: open market, he's about to become the new Dar.
- 41:00Speaker 2: A deal goes down in a court of law, a
- 41:02Speaker 2: deal with the devil. The prosecutor in the Brian Coburger
- 41:06Speaker 2: case actually crying in court, choking on his words, and
- 41:09Speaker 2: he should have according to the victims' families. Joining me
- 41:14Speaker 2: now special guest doctor Dwayne Hendrix. Doctor Hendrix, former warden
- 41:18Speaker 2: at the NBC in Brooklyn that's now Piece of Cake,
- 41:21Speaker 2: but also served as warden and Sheridan, Oregon, former senior
- 41:26Speaker 2: warden with the US Department of Justice, with the Federal
- 41:28Speaker 2: Bureau of prisons, founder president of a New Daylight Foundation,
- 41:33Speaker 2: author of who Are You See It? Say It Sees It?
- 41:38Speaker 2: Doctor Dwayne Hendrix, who shot to fame during the Sean
- 41:42Speaker 2: Combs investigation. Doctor Hendrix, what can you tell me about
- 41:48Speaker 2: where Coburger will be housed? Most likely?
- 41:51Speaker 12: Yeah, he'll be housed at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution
- 41:56Speaker 12: near COONa, Idaho, which is nearly six hours from where
- 41:59Speaker 12: he brutally murdered those four beautiful souls.
- 42:03Speaker 2: It has.
- 42:04Speaker 12: The maximum security prison has capacity of five hundred and
- 42:07Speaker 12: forty nine inmates, and he'll be one of over one
- 42:11Speaker 12: hundred and thirty individuals serving a life sentence without parole.
- 42:15Speaker 12: His day to day activities will be very routine and
- 42:19Speaker 12: focused on stringent security, as maximum security facilities has the
- 42:23Speaker 12: greatest amount of focus on security and restricted movement. And
- 42:28Speaker 12: while the Idaho Department Corrections website doesn't clearly explicitly talk
- 42:32Speaker 12: about what programming is available to those who are incarcerated there,
- 42:37Speaker 12: I would beg to guess that he'll probably be involved
- 42:41Speaker 12: in some cognitive behavior therapy as well as mental health treatment.
- 42:48Speaker 12: And additionally, he will be able to visit on Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
- 42:52Speaker 12: and Sundays, and I was listening to the conversations earlier
- 42:57Speaker 12: with the other guests.
- 42:58Speaker 5: There is no.
- 42:59Speaker 12: Conjugal visits at this particular maximum secuity.
- 43:02Speaker 2: That's what they all say. And yet women get pregnant,
- 43:06Speaker 2: don't they?
- 43:07Speaker 12: Yes, they do, and typically that's probably due to a
- 43:10Speaker 12: staff member, a volunteer, or someone that's coming or a
- 43:13Speaker 12: contractor coming into those institutions.
- 43:16Speaker 2: That does happen, Hendrix. Doctor Hendrix, you know how I
- 43:22Speaker 2: feel about you. But I'm calling objection bs because you
- 43:26Speaker 2: know what, I just covered a case where the jail
- 43:30Speaker 2: house seems stress. Please remind me of the name of that. Wait,
- 43:33Speaker 2: it's all coming to me, Casey White. Wasn't that the
- 43:36Speaker 2: defensive Yeah, the jail house seamstress goes in a closet
- 43:41Speaker 2: and has affairs sex with a convicted felon. You think
- 43:47Speaker 2: that was sanctioned. No, it wasn't. And it all ended
- 43:51Speaker 2: at an escape with her helping and a shootout. Thank you,
- 43:55Speaker 2: thank you.
- 43:56Speaker 1: It happened.
- 43:58Speaker 2: It happens all the time where your inmates get women pregnant.
- 44:03Speaker 2: You do know about the birds and the bees, right,
- 44:05Speaker 2: doctor Henderson, You do know where babies come from? I
- 44:08Speaker 2: think you do don't you.
- 44:09Speaker 12: Yes, ma'am, I do. I have four beautiful children.
- 44:12Speaker 2: We pick them up at Walmart. Hendrix, you didn't pick
- 44:17Speaker 2: them up at Walmart. Okay. So women get pregnant by inmates,
- 44:23Speaker 2: however you want to claim it happens. It happens. I
- 44:27Speaker 2: don't care. If it's an employee, I don't care. If
- 44:28Speaker 2: it's a warden, I don't care. If it's a seamstress.
- 44:30Speaker 2: It happens. They Isn't it true? They get drugs and
- 44:33Speaker 2: alcohol and other contraband behind bars that say yes, no, Hendrix, Yes,
- 44:37Speaker 2: it is.
- 44:37Speaker 12: Everything that happens in the community happens behind those walls
- 44:41Speaker 12: in the prison setting. It happens every day, and fortunately
- 44:44Speaker 12: there to be more.
- 44:47Speaker 2: Yes, drugs, every alcohol, sex. They get tablets. We saw sadly.
- 44:56Speaker 2: I hate to bring it up, conjured up for your mind,
- 44:58Speaker 2: but I saw Alex on Double Killer in a shirtless selfie.
- 45:02Speaker 2: Why did I have to see that from behind bars?
- 45:04Speaker 2: Because he had a tablet? They get movie. Now, you
- 45:07Speaker 2: said they have visits and therapy, visits and therapy. Dave
- 45:13Speaker 2: mac joining me Crime Story's investigative reporter. What is he saying?
- 45:17Speaker 13: What they've got, Nancy is when you get into this
- 45:19Speaker 13: maximum security where Coburger is going to be. He's going
- 45:23Speaker 13: to have a life, Nancy. That's the saddest part of
- 45:26Speaker 13: all of this. He has access to everything that you
- 45:29Speaker 13: would pretty much have on the outside.
- 45:31Speaker 2: He's got his.
- 45:32Speaker 13: Own room, he'll have his own private area. He'll have
- 45:36Speaker 13: an hour a day to go out and do whatever
- 45:38Speaker 13: recreation he chooses to do. He can go to the
- 45:41Speaker 13: library and multipurpose room and go outside. He'll have access
- 45:45Speaker 13: to his own TV. He'll have his tablet like you
- 45:48Speaker 13: were talking about. We've seen that so many times he
- 45:50Speaker 13: watched older movies. His vegan diet, Nancy, you know that's
- 45:54Speaker 13: something that hasn't been talking about lately.
- 45:55Speaker 2: Well, it will be totally making me choke again. Wait
- 45:58Speaker 2: a minute up, Wait, doctor Dwayne Hendrix, did you not
- 46:03Speaker 2: hear what Dave mac just said, vegan diet? Yes, you
- 46:09Speaker 2: do know they're going to give him special meals, right Hendrix?
- 46:13Speaker 12: Yes, if he is not on a flesh diet, if
- 46:15Speaker 12: they call it common fare in the prison setting. Uh.
- 46:18Speaker 12: And basically he'll he'll get vegetables, fruits, and protein.
- 46:24Speaker 5: He'll he'll be on a no flesh diet. That's what
- 46:27Speaker 5: we would call it. We didn't call it Beacon, We
- 46:29Speaker 5: call it no flesh.
- 46:30Speaker 2: Okay, stop everything, just stop everything, Doctor Kendall Crowns, You,
- 46:38Speaker 2: of course, are a renowned medical examiner, the esteemed lecturer
- 46:42Speaker 2: at the Burnette School of Medicine. You're the star of
- 46:46Speaker 2: a podcast about to launch Mayhem and the Morgue. You've
- 46:50Speaker 2: handled mass killings, You've seen what happens to the victims.
- 46:57Speaker 2: Are you hearing this, Doctor Kendall crown That Brian Coburger
- 47:03Speaker 2: is going to get to watch movies, have visitation therapy
- 47:07Speaker 2: and special meals prepared for him. As he writes his memoirs, thoughts.
- 47:11Speaker 8: Well, it is the unfortunate way that our legal system,
- 47:15Speaker 8: in our justice system works in which the murderer and
- 47:19Speaker 8: the perpetrator of the violence and the terror on individuals
- 47:24Speaker 8: is allowed to then have a very comfortable life in
- 47:28Speaker 8: a basically a hotel and given anything and everything they want.
- 47:33Speaker 2: It is what it is, movie night, special vegan meals, visitations, memoirs.
- 47:42Speaker 2: That's what Brian Coburger will be doing behind bars while
- 47:46Speaker 2: the victims' families not only remember their murdered children, but
- 47:51Speaker 2: deal with the pain of being ambushed. According to them,
- 47:58Speaker 2: several of them, they had no idea this plea deal
- 48:02Speaker 2: was in the works and they oppose it. So doctor
- 48:05Speaker 2: Dwayne Hendricks joining us former warden, you didn't tell me
- 48:08Speaker 2: about movie night, did you? Or special meals? What happened
- 48:13Speaker 2: to that? What's he going to do next week? Have
- 48:16Speaker 2: yoga therapy? No? What may be a facial and a massage?
- 48:20Speaker 2: Oh wait, a mud bath? What's next for him? Is
- 48:24Speaker 2: he going to have a secretary taking down his memoirs?
- 48:27Speaker 2: Does he dictates?
- 48:28Speaker 3: No?
- 48:28Speaker 12: But he might have an inmate that might want to
- 48:31Speaker 12: take the notes for him. If a selmate might want
- 48:33Speaker 12: to do that. But in terms of just his meals,
- 48:37Speaker 12: I mean, if he doesn't want to eat me, he
- 48:39Speaker 12: doesn't have to. And the crazy thing out of all
- 48:42Speaker 12: of this, most individual serving life sentences. For every year
- 48:47Speaker 12: that they're you know, every year they're incarcerated, you can
- 48:50Speaker 12: typically take two years off their life. And I hope
- 48:52Speaker 12: I'm not speaking out a turn a doc who's the
- 48:55Speaker 12: medical examiner, But if this guy is going to be
- 48:58Speaker 12: living a somewhe healthy lifestyle, writing books, enjoying himself behind bars,
- 49:06Speaker 12: this is another sort of slapping the face to the
- 49:08Speaker 12: families who most of them who objected to this plea
- 49:12Speaker 12: agreement and not him not having the death penalty.
- 49:15Speaker 2: We wait as justice unfolds, and now we remember an
- 49:18Speaker 2: American hero, Officer Patricio Samaripa, Dallas PD, just thirty two,
- 49:25Speaker 2: shot in the line of duty, survived by grieving wife Christy,
- 49:30Speaker 2: daughter Lincoln, stepson Dylan. American hero Officer Patricio Samaripa. Nancy
- 49:38Speaker 2: gray SONI