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Kohberger Crossed Paths With Idaho Four Survivor Before Stabbing Spree | CRIME ALERT RECAP 01.03.2026 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime a Lord hourly update breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Dave Mac. Idaho murderer Brian Coberger may have come
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  Speaker 2: face to face with one of his victim's roommates just
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  Speaker 2: three days prior to the heinous killings. Coburger was in
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  Speaker 2: the same target within two hours of one of his
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  Speaker 2: victims surviving roommates, Bethany Funk. A police report shows a
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  Speaker 2: receipt at the department store for BF at four h
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  Speaker 2: nine pm November ten, twenty twenty two, three days before
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  Speaker 2: the massacre, and roughly an hour and a half before
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  Speaker 2: Coburger checked out of the same store at five point
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  Speaker 2: forty two pm. BF is an apparent reference to one
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  Speaker 2: of the surviving roommates, Bethany Funk. Funk shared the off
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  Speaker 2: campus house with five roommates in the small town of Moscow, Idaho,
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  Speaker 2: living roughly fifteen minutes from Coburger's apartment in Pullman, Washington.
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  Speaker 2: It is unclear what town the target was in now.
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  Speaker 2: Since Coberger began living his lifelong stint in prison, he's
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  Speaker 2: been making headlines for repeatedly complaining to his staff about
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  Speaker 2: inmates harassing him, and even complaining about the type of
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  Speaker 2: bananas he's being given. Coburger is not responding well to
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  Speaker 2: his new status, as reflected in his frequent complaints just
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  Speaker 2: days after his arrival at the facility. Brian Koeberger is
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  Speaker 2: also said to be deeply unpopular with the other inmates
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  Speaker 2: and guards, which seems to be linked to his alleged
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  Speaker 2: patronizing attitude. Adjusting to prison life might have been easier
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  Speaker 2: if the other inmates had accepted Coburger, but over five
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  Speaker 2: months into his sentence, he appears to have only made
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  Speaker 2: things worse for himself. He was met with a cold
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  Speaker 2: reception upon arrival, with many inmates reportedly taunting him through
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  Speaker 2: the events between filing complaints about the prison food and
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  Speaker 2: taunts from fellow inmates. Convicted killer Coburger has been trying
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  Speaker 2: to get in touch with serial killers from around the country.
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  Speaker 2: No word on if Coburger has been successful at establishing
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  Speaker 2: connections with those he feels worthy of his time. Director
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  Speaker 2: of the Cold Case Foundation McDonough says Coberger has been
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  Speaker 2: making overtures to other high profile killers and sees himself
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  Speaker 2: above everyone around him.
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  Speaker 1: A grieving mother was forced to witness the unthinkable as
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  Speaker 1: cemetery workers unearthed her son's final resting place to make
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  Speaker 1: room for a billionaire family's son. Paula Tinyo sixty two
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  Speaker 1: sat in the grass at Skyline Memorial Gardens, pleading with
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  Speaker 1: crews to halt the exhumation of her twenty year old son,
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  Speaker 1: Tiber Harrison, after a judge ruled the plot legally belonged
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  Speaker 1: to the science of a massive food empire. The devastating
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  Speaker 1: incident was triggered by a clerical error at the Northwest
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  Speaker 1: Portland Funeral Home, which sold the same burial plot twice.
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  Speaker 1: Tinyo's husband, David Williams, spoke to the media.
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  Speaker 3: I think the humanity or lack of it, the cruelty
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  Speaker 3: and someone feeling so entitled that they just wanted that
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  Speaker 3: piece of property when someone's son is already in the ground.
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  Speaker 3: It was sort of unfathomable.
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  Speaker 1: The Reser family, owners of the multi billion dollar Resour's
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  Speaker 1: Fine Foods company, purchased the site in twenty nineteen following
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  Speaker 1: the overdose death of their son Alex. Unaware of the
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  Speaker 1: prior sale, Tinyo bought the same allegedly newly created space
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one to house a vault containing Tiber's
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  Speaker 1: baby teeth, a lock of hair, and a portion of
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  Speaker 1: his ashes. The promising twenty year old student had been
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  Speaker 1: killed on March twenty ninth of twenty sixteen when a
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  Speaker 1: truck plowed into him as he walked near the University
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  Speaker 1: of Central Florida campus in Orlando. When the blunder was discovered,
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  Speaker 1: the cemetery admitted to negligence over the double booking, but
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  Speaker 1: insisted on honoring the Reser's earlier contract. Skyline tried to
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  Speaker 1: make things right by reportedly offering a refund of the
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  Speaker 1: sixteen thousand dollars that Tinyo paid. It also offered to
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  Speaker 1: rebury her son's vault just a few feet away, but
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  Speaker 1: she reportedly never responded to the offer. A Moltnomah County
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  Speaker 1: judge ultimately sided with the Reeser family, ordering the removal
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  Speaker 1: of Tiber's remains and his memorial bench. While the Reser
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  Speaker 1: family was reportedly ordered into the litigation against their wishes,
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  Speaker 1: they maintained their claim to the plot, where they intend
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  Speaker 1: to install their own memorial bench near their son's grave.
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  Speaker 1: In a separate civil trial, a jury found the cemetery
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  Speaker 1: negligent but determined it did not inflict severe emotional distress
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  Speaker 1: on Tienyo, largely because she had placed unauthorized cremains in
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  Speaker 1: the vault. Her attorney, Darien Stanford, called the outcome quote
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  Speaker 1: profoundly sad, noting that a mother should not be penalized
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  Speaker 1: for not reading the fine print while burying her child.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, the family says they will keep their
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  Speaker 1: son's remains at home until they find a place where
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  Speaker 1: Tiber can truly rest in peace.
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  Speaker 4: A well known farmer from California, Michael Obadi, has been
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  Speaker 4: extradited to Arizona and has pleaded not guilty to a
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  Speaker 4: charge of first degree murder in connection with the shooting
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  Speaker 4: death of his estranged wife. The sixty three year old
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  Speaker 4: entered his plea on Wednesday, December thirty one, during his
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  Speaker 4: initial court appearance at the Navajo County Superior Court held
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  Speaker 4: in California. Last month, the victim, Carrie n a Body
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  Speaker 4: fifty nine, was discovered dead at their second residence in Arizona,
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  Speaker 4: where she had relocated following their separation. Currently, a body
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  Speaker 4: is being held at the Navajo County Jail on a
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  Speaker 4: bond set at five point five million dollars. According to
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  Speaker 4: the prosecutors, His attorneys expressed their concerns regarding a Body's
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  Speaker 4: health and stated that if he were to be released,
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  Speaker 4: he would continue his medical treatment while adhering to the
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  Speaker 4: conditions of the bond. We urged the public to refrain
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  Speaker 4: from forming judgments, he remarked, for many years, he has
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  Speaker 4: been a respected member of the community, actively supporting charitable initiatives,
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  Speaker 4: and deserves a fair trial, just like anyone else facing
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  Speaker 4: serious allegations. Authorities alleged that on November twenty a body
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  Speaker 4: traveled from California to Arizona, committed the murder, and then
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  Speaker 4: returned to California shortly after. The Navajo County Sheriff's office
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  Speaker 4: announced on December twenty three that they conducted searches of
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  Speaker 4: various residents, properties, vehicles, and camp trailers linked to the
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  Speaker 4: Body family in California, recovering a significant amount of evidence
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  Speaker 4: that contributed to Michael Abodi's arrest. Regarding the motive, Sheriff
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  Speaker 4: David Klaus stated during a subsequent press conference that he
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  Speaker 4: couldn't pinpoint a specific reason, but acknowledged the couple's impending divorce.
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  Speaker 4: The one clear factor is that there is a divorce
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  Speaker 4: underway and they were unable to reach an agreement, said
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  Speaker 4: the sheriff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I can't get into the specifics, but I
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  Speaker 5: think one of the big things was she was living alone,
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  Speaker 5: and she had left her husband and was living in
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  Speaker 5: Pine Top, and Ted was working through a divorce that
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  Speaker 5: had been dragging on for a couple of years. Was
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  Speaker 5: the glaring things that were poking out.
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  Speaker 4: The couple owned a body farms in California, As reported
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  Speaker 4: by The Desert Sun, which accessed their divorce documents, Michael
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  Speaker 4: reportedly found the divorce unexpected, claiming that Carrie had left
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  Speaker 4: him in August twenty three while he was on a
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  Speaker 4: fishing trip. A pre trial conference and hearing regarding the
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  Speaker 4: possibility of release is set for Mark seventeen at the
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  Speaker 4: Novajo County Superior Court.
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  Speaker 2: Academy Award winning actor Will Smith accused of sexual harassment
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  Speaker 2: and deliberately grooming an artist hired to play violin on
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  Speaker 2: Smith's Based on a True Story twenty twenty five tour.
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  Speaker 2: In a lawsuit filed in LA just before the new year,
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  Speaker 2: professional violinist Brian King Joseph alleges Smith was deliberately grooming
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  Speaker 2: and priming Joseph for further sexual exploitation. Joseph appeared on
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  Speaker 2: the TV show America's Got Talent in twenty eighteen, and
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  Speaker 2: after first performing with Smith in December twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: was hired to join Smith's twenty twenty five tour. Joseph
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  Speaker 2: claims the relationship grew even closer when Smith offered Joseph
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  Speaker 2: a chance to play on multiple tracks on his upcoming
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  Speaker 2: studio album. In the lawsuit, Joseph claims Smith and plaintiff
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  Speaker 2: began spending additional time alone, with Smith even telling plaintiff
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  Speaker 2: that you and I have such a special connection that
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  Speaker 2: I don't have with anyone else, and others similar expressions
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  Speaker 2: indicating his closeness to the plaintiff. According to the documents,
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  Speaker 2: Joseph allegedly joined the first leg of the tour in
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  Speaker 2: March twenty twenty five in Las Vegas, where he was
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  Speaker 2: provided a hotel room booked by Smith and his team.
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  Speaker 2: He claims no other individuals besides the crew and hotel
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  Speaker 2: staff would have access to his personal room. The violinist
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  Speaker 2: claims to place his room key in his bag, which
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  Speaker 2: was left in a van responsible for transporting the cast
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  Speaker 2: and crew around after a rehearsal at the venue. Management
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  Speaker 2: allegedly spent hours retrieving the bag When Joseph returned to
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  Speaker 2: his hotel room later that evening, he claims to have
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  Speaker 2: discovered evidence suggesting that an unknown person had unlawfully entered
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  Speaker 2: the room. Joseph subsequently called hotel security. The lawsuit states,
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  Speaker 2: quote the evidence included a handwritten note addressed to the
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  Speaker 2: plaintiff by name, which read Brian, I'll be back no
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  Speaker 2: later five point thirty just as, and then a drawn heart.
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  Speaker 2: Among the remaining belongings were wipes, a beer bottle, a
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  Speaker 2: red backpack, a bottle of HIV medication with another individual's name,
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  Speaker 2: an earring, and hospital discharge paperwork belonging to a person
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  Speaker 2: unbeknownst to the plaintiff. Joseph feared that an unknown individual
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  Speaker 2: would return to his room to engage in sexual acts,
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  Speaker 2: and he immediately notified hotel security and representatives for the defendant,
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  Speaker 2: obtained photo documentation, requested a room change, and called the
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  Speaker 2: local non emergency police line three one one to report
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  Speaker 2: the incident. Days later, Joseph claimed Smith's team began blaming
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  Speaker 2: him for the incident rather than being protected against further assault.
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  Speaker 2: The complaint states, for attempting to understanding plaintiff's complaint, plaintiff
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  Speaker 2: was shamed by defendant and told that he was being terminated.
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  Speaker 2: When the plaintiff requested for the reasoning, Tim Miller, acting
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  Speaker 2: on behalf of defendants, redirected the blame for the termination
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  Speaker 2: onto the plaintiff for applying quote I don't know you
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  Speaker 2: tell me because everyone is telling me that what happened
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  Speaker 2: to you is a lie. Nothing happened, and you made
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing up, So tell me, why did you
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  Speaker 2: lie and make this up? Unquote? Joseph, at the request
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  Speaker 2: of Miller, compiled a timeline to explain his traumatic series
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  Speaker 2: of events that occurred that evening. However, following plaintiff's report
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  Speaker 2: in termination, defendant hired another violinist to assume the same
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  Speaker 2: position on the tour. This hiring strongly suggested the defendant
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  Speaker 2: stated reason for the termination was pretextual. The facts strongly
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  Speaker 2: suggests that defendant Willard Carroll Smith the Second was deliberately
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  Speaker 2: grooming and priming mister Joseph for further sexual exploitation. The
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  Speaker 2: sequence of events, Smith's prior statements to plaintiff, and the
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  Speaker 2: circumstances of the hotel intrusion all point to a pattern
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  Speaker 2: of predatory behavior rather than an isolated incident. The lawsuit
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  Speaker 2: goes on to state defendant's actions caused plaintiff severe emotional distress,
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  Speaker 2: economic loss, reputational harm, and other damages. Plaintiff was also harmed.
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  Speaker 2: As a result of the stress of losing his job,
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  Speaker 2: his health deteriorated, causing major physiological damage. Plaintiffs suffered from
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  Speaker 2: PTSD and other mental illness as a result of determination.
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