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- 0:00Speaker 1: And welcome back to the program.
- 0:03Speaker 2: As we continue to talk about the Hyundai Elantra, I
- 0:07Speaker 2: stumbled upon this article in Fox News talking about the
- 0:10Speaker 2: digital footprint of this type of Hyundai and how it's
- 0:14Speaker 2: basically non-existent. You know how in newer models you have
- 0:18Speaker 2: like LoJack or Bluetooth or, you know, different ways that
- 0:21Speaker 2: people might be able to track that vehicle via your
- 0:24Speaker 2: digital footprint? Well, this Hyundai Elantra, the model that we're
- 0:28Speaker 2: talking about here, It doesn't have that. So there's no
- 0:31Speaker 2: way for them to track, you know, using instruments within
- 0:35Speaker 2: the vehicle. It doesn't have a navigation system or anything
- 0:39Speaker 2: like that.
- 0:39Speaker 1: So pretty bare bones, right?
- 0:42Speaker 2: And obviously that makes things much more difficult for investigators
- 0:46Speaker 2: as they try and build this blueprint, this footprint of
- 0:50Speaker 2: the Hyundai Elantra and where it was and what it
- 0:53Speaker 2: was up to. So today we have an article, like
- 0:56Speaker 2: I said, from Fox News that's talking a little bit
- 0:59Speaker 2: more about the digital footprint of this type of Hyundai Elantra.
- 1:03Speaker 2: So let's get to it. Headline, Idaho murders. Digital footprint
- 1:08Speaker 2: for type of Hyundai Elantra is being sought, likely slim
- 1:12Speaker 2: to none, expert says. December 13th marked one month since
- 1:17Speaker 2: the four University of Idaho students were killed inside an
- 1:21Speaker 2: off-campus home. This article was authored by Stephanie Pagonis. And
- 1:27Speaker 2: as you continue to build a profile here and you
- 1:30Speaker 2: try to find out who's driving this Elantra, well, it's
- 1:34Speaker 2: important to be able to have all the information possible, right?
- 1:38Speaker 2: And digital information, that would go a long way to
- 1:41Speaker 2: help the investigators. But unfortunately, that's not going to be
- 1:44Speaker 2: a road they're going to be able to explore, at
- 1:46Speaker 2: least via the vehicle. Investigators working the ongoing case involving
- 1:53Speaker 2: four University of Idaho students savagely killed last month are
- 1:57Speaker 2: likely limited in how they can go about tracking a
- 2:00Speaker 2: Hyundai Elantra spotted in the area at the time of
- 2:03Speaker 2: the slayings, an expert told Fox News Digital. in a
- 2:14Speaker 2: grainy ass photo and they can tell you, oh yeah,
- 2:17Speaker 2: that's the model. That's what kind of car it is.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Yada, yada, yada.
- 2:20Speaker 2: And that's the kind of expert that they're talking to here.
- 2:24Speaker 2: Law enforcement officers are sorting through information on approximately 22,000
- 2:28Speaker 2: Hyundai Elantras that match the description of the one scene
- 2:32Speaker 2: near the crime scene at the time of the murders.
- 2:35Speaker 2: It was white and its model year was between 2011
- 2:38Speaker 2: and 2013, police have said.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Now, how many Hyundai Elantras are out there that fit
- 2:46Speaker 1: this description? A whole hell of a lot.
- 2:48Speaker 2: If they already have 22,000, and that's just in the region,
- 2:52Speaker 2: I'm guessing, can you imagine how many are outside of
- 2:56Speaker 2: that area in neighboring states or throughout the country? But
- 3:03Speaker 2: investigators will likely not have the assistance of advanced tracking
- 3:07Speaker 2: and GPS technology, at least not any software within the
- 3:11Speaker 2: vehicle itself. because Hyundai Elantras were not outfitted with Blue
- 3:16Speaker 2: Link technology until 2014, mobile forensics expert Tom Slavensky told
- 3:22Speaker 2: Fox News Digital. And I know a lot of people
- 3:24Speaker 2: have this question, like if anyone was going to be
- 3:26Speaker 2: able to track, you know, via, if they found the
- 3:29Speaker 2: vehicle or whatever, be able to use that information to
- 3:32Speaker 2: track it with the instruments on board. And with this
- 3:36Speaker 2: model number not having that stuff onboarded until a year after,
- 3:40Speaker 2: That's not going to be a possibility, at least according
- 3:43Speaker 2: to this expert. A spokesperson for Hyundai would not comment
- 3:48Speaker 2: when contacted multiple times for confirmation regarding the Blue Link software.
- 3:54Speaker 1: And remember, we've talked.
- 3:55Speaker 2: About it a little bit before, but this model of
- 3:57Speaker 2: Hyundai and Hyundais in general, along with Kias, are the
- 4:01Speaker 2: most stolen vehicle in America right now. And there's like
- 4:04Speaker 2: a TikTok challenge about it. All you need is a
- 4:07Speaker 2: USB cable and you can jumpstart or hotwire, I guess
- 4:11Speaker 2: you would say, one of these Hyundais. So how difficult
- 4:15Speaker 2: would it be for somebody to watch one of those
- 4:17Speaker 2: videos and then hotwire one of these and steal one? Now, again,
- 4:22Speaker 2: I have no evidence that that's what happened. But logically speaking,
- 4:26Speaker 2: why would you use your own vehicle to commit a
- 4:29Speaker 2: crime like this? Slavensky, founder and president of Cellular Forensics LLC,
- 4:35Speaker 2: said his research showed the Hyundai Elantras from before 2014
- 4:40Speaker 2: do not include third party technology that would allow investigators
- 4:44Speaker 2: to pinpoint vehicles locations at certain dates and times. So
- 4:50Speaker 2: Debbie Collier is a woman who died down in Georgia
- 4:53Speaker 2: and they thought it was a murder. Well, it ended up,
- 4:55Speaker 2: according to the official report, that she killed herself. but
- 4:59Speaker 2: they were able to track her due to the onboarded
- 5:01Speaker 2: equipment in this rental vehicle. They were able to track
- 5:04Speaker 2: her location through all of that. And this vehicle, unfortunately,
- 5:09Speaker 2: doesn't have that. So if they do catch the person,
- 5:11Speaker 2: they won't be able to go back and build that
- 5:13Speaker 2: digital footprint the way they would be able to if
- 5:17Speaker 2: it was a newer vehicle. For that car, the only
- 5:21Speaker 2: thing it has is internal information. In other words, when
- 5:24Speaker 2: they find the car, they can then try to download
- 5:26Speaker 2: what phone was connected to it, he said. describing the
- 5:29Speaker 2: kind of information that could later be gleaned from the vehicle.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Police revealed December 7th that they had gathered information through
- 5:37Speaker 2: tips and leads about a 2011 to 2013 white Hyundai
- 5:42Speaker 2: Elantra being in the immediate area of the King Street
- 5:45Speaker 2: residence during the early morning hours of November 13th. So
- 5:50Speaker 2: they can use whatever was internalized, right? Say somebody plug
- 5:54Speaker 2: their phone in to the radio or whatever, to the
- 5:57Speaker 2: car with their USB connector, well, they'll be able to
- 6:00Speaker 2: look at that because it's internalized onto the computer. But
- 6:05Speaker 2: as far as onboarded equipment, just not going to work.
- 6:08Speaker 2: Or for instance, say there's some Bluetooth, if they Bluetoothed
- 6:11Speaker 2: into it, then they'll be able to track it that
- 6:14Speaker 2: way as well. Investigators have since been collecting surveillance footage
- 6:19Speaker 2: related to the vehicle and the case. Kane Franichich, a
- 6:23Speaker 2: landlord for a property 0.3 miles away from the home
- 6:27Speaker 2: where the students were killed, told Fox News Digital he
- 6:30Speaker 2: handed over hours of video footage from the building surveillance system.
- 6:34Speaker 2: He provided police with footage on November 14th, and the video,
- 6:38Speaker 2: which included footage of a white vehicle, spanned from 2 a.m.
- 6:42Speaker 2: through noon on the day of the killings, he said. Damn.
- 6:45Speaker 1: Okay, well, look.
- 6:47Speaker 2: This is how they figured out that this white vehicle
- 6:50Speaker 2: is a vehicle of interest. They went through all of
- 6:53Speaker 2: these different videos that they collected, surveillance videos, and my
- 6:57Speaker 2: guess is they saw this white vehicle in multiple videos
- 7:02Speaker 2: throughout the area of where the murders happened. And then
- 7:05Speaker 2: going back to reconstruct that, they built this footprint of
- 7:09Speaker 2: where this vehicle might have been. On Tuesday, police went
- 7:13Speaker 2: to a gas station on Troy Road in Moscow to
- 7:15Speaker 2: collect eight hours of surveillance footage, including a portion of
- 7:19Speaker 2: that showed a white sedan passing the area around 3.45 a.m.
- 7:23Speaker 2: on the morning of the murders, Fox News Digital previously reported.
- 7:28Speaker 2: And all of these little clues add up to build
- 7:30Speaker 2: the bigger picture. And eventually, if you have enough of
- 7:33Speaker 2: these little clues, you can start to piece together where
- 7:37Speaker 2: this car was at and what it was up to.
- 7:41Speaker 2: Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Gonsalves, Zanaker Nodal, and Madison Mogan were
- 7:46Speaker 2: discovered fatally stabbed inside their three-story King Road residence just
- 7:50Speaker 2: before noon, November 13th. The home is located just one
- 7:54Speaker 2: block from the University of Idaho campus within view of
- 7:58Speaker 2: some of the fraternity houses. Officials have said they believe
- 8:03Speaker 2: the victims were asleep when they were attacked between 3 a.m.
- 8:06Speaker 1: And 4 a.m.
- 8:08Speaker 2: Each victim suffered several stab wounds and some showed signs
- 8:11Speaker 2: of trying to defend themselves. I have a funny feeling
- 8:14Speaker 2: when all is said and done, we're going to hear
- 8:16Speaker 2: a lot more about them trying to defend themselves. I'm
- 8:20Speaker 2: not too sure if it was as straightforward as we're
- 8:23Speaker 2: being told because we're hearing other stories, right? That there
- 8:25Speaker 2: was some sort of scuffle, stuff like that. And usually
- 8:28Speaker 2: where there's some smoke, there's some fire. So my guess
- 8:31Speaker 2: is that there were some more defensive wounds than we're
- 8:35Speaker 2: even hearing about. The homicides were carried out on the
- 8:38Speaker 2: second and third floors. Two other roommates were on the
- 8:41Speaker 2: bottom floor of the home. and were unharmed, police said.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Moscow police officers responded around 11.58 a.m. to a report
- 8:50Speaker 2: of an unconscious person at the address, but several people
- 8:54Speaker 2: had gathered at the crime scene by the time police arrived,
- 8:57Speaker 2: officials said. And again, that is so bad for the
- 9:01Speaker 2: crime scene, having so many people present. When you're going
- 9:05Speaker 2: through as an investigator, that's the worst thing that could
- 9:08Speaker 2: possibly happen. That's why when somebody is murdered or any
- 9:11Speaker 2: crime is committed, they rope the area off right away
- 9:15Speaker 2: so they can have as sterile of a crime scene
- 9:17Speaker 2: as possible. That way you can get the evidence that
- 9:19Speaker 2: you need to get you a conviction later on. The
- 9:23Speaker 2: 911 call originated from inside the residence and came from
- 9:27Speaker 2: one of the surviving roommates. Police said multiple people allegedly
- 9:31Speaker 2: spoke to the dispatcher before officers arrived. Police are analyzing
- 9:35Speaker 2: 113 pieces of physical evidence and about 4,000 photos from
- 9:40Speaker 2: the scene. They have also received more than 2,645 emails
- 9:45Speaker 2: and over 2,770 calls to the city of Moscow tip line,
- 9:49Speaker 2: police said. The FBI has received more than 1,084 digital
- 9:54Speaker 2: media submissions. Now, every time we go through and we
- 9:57Speaker 2: do the official police release, the Moscow police release, they
- 10:02Speaker 2: don't update those numbers. They just say more than. So
- 10:05Speaker 2: my guess is they're getting a ton of information. A
- 10:08Speaker 2: ton of tips are coming in. How many of those
- 10:10Speaker 2: tips are good tips?
- 10:12Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 10:13Speaker 2: But the point is, the more tips that come in,
- 10:15Speaker 2: at least in my opinion, the better off we are.
- 10:20Speaker 2: The Moscow Police Department is urging the public to submit
- 10:23Speaker 2: any images or information that they think could be important
- 10:26Speaker 2: or useful to their investigation. They can do so by
- 10:29Speaker 2: calling 208-883-7180. Or you could submit tips through the tip
- 10:35Speaker 2: line at tipline at ci.mosco.id.us and sending digital media to
- 10:42Speaker 2: the FBI link. So there's where we're at, folks, about
- 10:47Speaker 2: the car. And I thought it was interesting to add
- 10:49Speaker 2: this little bit because I know there's a lot of
- 10:51Speaker 2: people out there who aren't car buffs just like me.
- 10:54Speaker 2: I have no idea about cars. Zero, zero idea. So
- 10:58Speaker 2: I know people had those questions. Is there a way
- 10:59Speaker 2: to track this car? Was there GPS in it? You know,
- 11:02Speaker 2: all of that stuff. And now we know from an
- 11:05Speaker 2: expert that those base models anyway, don't come on boarded
- 11:09Speaker 2: with that. So unless there was upgrades and they put
- 11:12Speaker 2: that in themselves, we're dealing with a pretty basic vehicle.
- 11:16Speaker 2: So the police certainly have their work cut out for them.
- 11:19Speaker 2: Let's hope that they're continuing to build this profile. And
- 11:22Speaker 2: let's hope that soon, when we get together here on
- 11:25Speaker 2: the podcast, we can talk about the sick bastard or
- 11:28Speaker 2: bastards being caught. All right, folks, that's going to do
- 11:32Speaker 2: it for this one. If you'd like to contact me,
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- 11:52Speaker 2: found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome
- 11:56Speaker 2: back to the program. Anytime you have a story that
- 12:00Speaker 2: catches the headlines like the murders in Moscow have, you're
- 12:04Speaker 2: going to have a lot of people that come out
- 12:06Speaker 2: and have some opinions about what went down. And a
- 12:10Speaker 2: lot of those opinions obviously are coming from ex-lawyers or
- 12:14Speaker 2: federal prosecutors or FBI agents. And it's interesting to see
- 12:20Speaker 2: how each one of them, depending on what their background is,
- 12:23Speaker 2: how they approach things. You have the defense attorneys who
- 12:26Speaker 2: are always talking about how you can punch holes in this,
- 12:29Speaker 2: that or the other thing.
- 12:30Speaker 1: And then you have the former.
- 12:31Speaker 2: Prosecutors or FBI agents who get out there and talk
- 12:35Speaker 2: about how strong all of the evidence in the affidavit is. Well,
- 12:40Speaker 2: it can't be both ways, right? It's either one or
- 12:43Speaker 2: the other. Either that evidence is strong or false. They're
- 12:46Speaker 2: going to be able to punch some holes in it. Now,
- 12:48Speaker 2: my guess is they'll be able to punch some holes
- 12:51Speaker 2: in certain pieces of evidence that get provided. However, we
- 12:56Speaker 2: have to keep in mind that we have only seen
- 12:58Speaker 2: just the very surface of what the investigators have cooking up.
- 13:04Speaker 2: And even in this probable cause affidavit that was released,
- 13:08Speaker 2: they gave us more information than we usually get in
- 13:11Speaker 2: one of those probable cause affidavits. So that leads me
- 13:14Speaker 2: to believe that they have a lot more that they
- 13:17Speaker 2: just didn't want to put in there yet. So with
- 13:19Speaker 2: that in mind, we're going to hop into our article
- 13:22Speaker 2: from Law and Crime, where we're going to hear from
- 13:24Speaker 2: Scott Peterson's former attorney, who says that the Kohlberger defense
- 13:29Speaker 2: can poke holes in every single piece of evidence against him. Now,
- 13:33Speaker 2: I don't know how much advice I'd be taking from
- 13:36Speaker 2: Scott Peterson's lawyer, considering Scott Peterson is never getting out
- 13:40Speaker 2: of jail again. But here we are once again hearing
- 13:43Speaker 2: from a defense attorney who lost a major case talking
- 13:46Speaker 2: about how somebody else is going to win theirs.
- 13:50Speaker 1: Headlined.
- 13:51Speaker 2: Scott Peterson's former attorney says Brian Koberger's defense can poke
- 13:55Speaker 2: holes in every single piece of evidence against him. Yeah,
- 13:59Speaker 2: you mean the evidence that you've seen? What about all
- 14:02Speaker 2: of the evidence that hasn't been provided yet? And I
- 14:05Speaker 2: wonder if she was this confident before Scott Peterson got
- 14:08Speaker 2: sent to the clink for the rest of his life.
- 14:11Speaker 2: It always cracks me up with these big talking defense
- 14:13Speaker 2: attorneys who end up having their biggest clients lose their cases,
- 14:18Speaker 2: and go to prison forever. But yet they're going to
- 14:21Speaker 2: get out here and talk about how this one should
- 14:23Speaker 2: punch holes in that piece of evidence.
- 14:25Speaker 3: Okay.
- 14:27Speaker 2: This article was authored by Colin Kambacher. A former attorney
- 14:33Speaker 2: for convicted murderer Scott Peterson says that Brian Koberger's defense
- 14:37Speaker 2: counsel should be able to poke holes in every single
- 14:41Speaker 2: piece of this evidence law enforcement has publicly released in
- 14:44Speaker 2: the case accusing the criminal justice graduate of the grisly
- 14:48Speaker 2: quadruple homicide that took the lives of four University of
- 14:52Speaker 2: Idaho students late last year. Well, yeah, of course, any
- 14:56Speaker 2: halfway competent attorney should be able to look at this
- 15:00Speaker 2: evidence and try and punch some holes in it. The
- 15:03Speaker 2: question is, what strategy are you going to use to
- 15:06Speaker 2: punch those holes? Is it going to be all based
- 15:10Speaker 2: on technical. Oh, well, this couldn't have happened or his
- 15:13Speaker 2: phone pinged here because he lived 10 miles away. That's
- 15:17Speaker 2: all fine and well. And that's something that you can say,
- 15:20Speaker 2: but you're going to have to prove that in a
- 15:22Speaker 2: court of law. So I find all of this bombastic
- 15:26Speaker 2: talk about how this is going to get a hole
- 15:28Speaker 2: punched in it, or that's going to get a hole
- 15:30Speaker 2: punched in it to be laughable, honestly, because all of
- 15:34Speaker 2: this talk usually ends up fizzling out and turning into nothing.
- 15:40Speaker 2: I remember Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers popping off at the lip
- 15:43Speaker 2: about this and that and the other thing and about
- 15:45Speaker 2: how their experts are going to come in and you'll
- 15:48Speaker 2: see how innocent their client was. Yeah, okay, that worked
- 15:52Speaker 2: out well for everybody involved. Because guess what, folks? If
- 15:57Speaker 2: you're not innocent, it doesn't matter what sort of histrionics
- 16:02Speaker 2: your lawyer goes through. It doesn't matter what sort of
- 16:05Speaker 2: pomp and circumstance he or she tries to create. Because
- 16:09Speaker 2: if there's no evidence to back that up, then it's
- 16:12Speaker 2: nothing more than a dog and pony show put on
- 16:15Speaker 2: by the defense team to try and sow some seeds
- 16:17Speaker 2: of doubt in the minds of the jurors. But unfortunately
- 16:21Speaker 2: for a lot of these defense teams, the jurors are
- 16:24Speaker 2: a lot smarter than that. And they take their time
- 16:26Speaker 2: to go through the evidence, process the evidence, and look
- 16:29Speaker 2: at what the truth is. Not what the spin is,
- 16:33Speaker 2: not what the might have beens are, what the actual
- 16:36Speaker 2: facts in the case are. And of course, the defense
- 16:40Speaker 2: is going to try and use every single thing available
- 16:43Speaker 2: to them to get their client off.
- 16:45Speaker 1: And they should do that.
- 16:47Speaker 2: But the hard part is getting the jury to buy
- 16:50Speaker 2: the bullshit that you're selling. During the early morning hours
- 16:54Speaker 2: of November 13th, 2022, Ethan Chapin, Zanna Kernodle, Kaylee Gonsalves,
- 17:00Speaker 2: and Madison Mogin were stabbed to death on the second
- 17:03Speaker 2: and third floors of an off-campus house in the college
- 17:06Speaker 2: town of Moscow. Some of the victims were killed as
- 17:09Speaker 2: they slept, according to the Latah County Coroner. Notice how
- 17:14Speaker 2: the narrative has shifted, right? To some of them have
- 17:17Speaker 2: been killed while they slept. Remember when we first heard
- 17:20Speaker 2: about the story, it was they were all killed while
- 17:23Speaker 2: they were sleeping. But that's obviously not the case considering
- 17:27Speaker 2: what we heard in that affidavit. Koberger was arrested earlier
- 17:32Speaker 2: this month at his parents' home in Pennsylvania after a
- 17:36Speaker 2: cross-country trek with his father in a white Hyundai Elantra,
- 17:39Speaker 2: the same make and model of a car that law
- 17:42Speaker 2: enforcement identified as the subject of their investigation in the
- 17:46Speaker 2: aftermath of the shocking massacre. Lara Uretzian sat down for
- 17:52Speaker 2: an interview with Law and Crime Network reporter Annette Levy
- 17:56Speaker 2: during a recent episode of Sidebar. Near the end of
- 17:59Speaker 2: the interview, the one-time member of Peterson's defense team took
- 18:02Speaker 2: issue with the strength of some of the evidence marshaled
- 18:05Speaker 2: against the defendant in a probable cause affidavit. So I
- 18:10Speaker 2: always like to present both sides of the argument here, right?
- 18:13Speaker 2: Because I want to follow the evidence wherever it leads us. However,
- 18:17Speaker 2: so far, the evidence that I have seen, it's not
- 18:20Speaker 2: looking good for Kohlberger. So all of these defense attorneys
- 18:24Speaker 2: that get out here and talk about how all these
- 18:26Speaker 2: holes are going to get punched in the affidavit, I
- 18:29Speaker 2: have my doubts about that. Levy recounted perhaps the most
- 18:33Speaker 2: dramatic account from that court document, an account by surviving
- 18:37Speaker 2: roommate Dylan Mortensen. The probable cause affidavit reads, DM stated
- 18:42Speaker 2: she opened her door for the third time after she
- 18:45Speaker 2: heard the crying and saw a figure clad in black
- 18:48Speaker 2: clothing and a mask that covered the person's mouth and
- 18:51Speaker 2: nose walking towards her. DM described the figure as 5'10
- 18:56Speaker 2: or taller, male, not very muscular, but athletically built with
- 19:00Speaker 2: bushy eyebrows. The male walked past DM as she stood
- 19:05Speaker 2: in a frozen shock phase. The male walked towards the
- 19:08Speaker 2: back sliding glass door. Now, this isn't going to be
- 19:12Speaker 2: really a home run hit for the prosecution here. There's
- 19:16Speaker 2: no doubt that this is something that can have some
- 19:19Speaker 2: holes poked in it. She didn't see his face. She
- 19:21Speaker 2: saw the bushy eyebrows. And a general vague description of
- 19:26Speaker 2: who she says was the person who committed these murders.
- 19:29Speaker 2: So that's going to be something that the defense can
- 19:32Speaker 2: certainly sink their teeth into.
- 19:34Speaker 1: No doubt about that.
- 19:36Speaker 2: But when you look at everything else that has been
- 19:38Speaker 2: added to this, all of the other evidence, I just
- 19:41Speaker 2: don't see a way out for Koberger here. She says
- 19:45Speaker 2: she saw a man clad in black, walk toward her door,
- 19:48Speaker 2: going out the sliding glass door. And she said he
- 19:51Speaker 2: had bushy eyebrows. The host prompted her guest. To our knowledge,
- 19:55Speaker 2: she hasn't said, yeah, that was him, but she gives
- 19:58Speaker 2: a description. And I said this earlier when we first
- 20:00Speaker 2: got this information. While I think it's a decent bit
- 20:04Speaker 2: of evidence to have, it's not truly an eyewitness statement.
- 20:08Speaker 1: Account of what went down.
- 20:10Speaker 2: So I don't know how strong that's going to be
- 20:13Speaker 2: as far as testimony in the courtroom. I don't know
- 20:15Speaker 2: if this is going to be like a home run
- 20:17Speaker 2: for the prosecution, but it'll add a little bit of
- 20:20Speaker 2: flavor to the sauce. She can't say that it was
- 20:24Speaker 2: him because his face is covered. You're Etsy and replied again.
- 20:28Speaker 2: All of this is circumstantial evidence. And I would expect
- 20:31Speaker 2: the defense to be attacking every single piece of evidence
- 20:34Speaker 2: that they had at least mentioned in that affidavit because
- 20:38Speaker 2: there are ways to poke holes in every single of
- 20:41Speaker 2: these pieces, right? Well, of course there is if you're
- 20:44Speaker 2: doing it in a singular manner. But in the totality
- 20:48Speaker 2: of everything we know, it makes it a lot more difficult.
- 20:51Speaker 2: You have to take a lot of leaps and go
- 20:53Speaker 2: to a lot of places where you're giving Koberger a
- 20:57Speaker 2: big time benefit of the doubt. In the face of
- 21:00Speaker 2: some pretty strong evidence. Now, obviously, dude hasn't been convicted yet.
- 21:05Speaker 2: So we can't run around and say, oh, he definitely
- 21:08Speaker 2: did it. But when you look at everything and the
- 21:11Speaker 2: totality of it all, I don't know how any of
- 21:14Speaker 2: these defense attorneys consider and say, oh, yeah, this is
- 21:17Speaker 2: going to.
- 21:17Speaker 1: Be an easy one. We can poke a lot of
- 21:19Speaker 1: holes in all of this.
- 21:21Speaker 2: It's real easy to be confident when you're sitting on
- 21:24Speaker 2: a TV show talking about this. I don't think that
- 21:27Speaker 2: Ann Taylor is lawyer shares your confidence. The defense attorney
- 21:32Speaker 2: then went on to analyze how Koberger's own lawyers might
- 21:35Speaker 2: dispute the DNA evidence found at the scene on a
- 21:38Speaker 2: sheath for a knife believed to be the murder weapon.
- 21:41Speaker 2: The Moscow Police Department alleges the DNA on the sheath
- 21:45Speaker 2: leads back to Koberger through a genealogical test based on
- 21:49Speaker 2: the suspect's father's DNA. So very strong stuff here. This
- 21:53Speaker 2: is stuff that's been used in court forever. It's like
- 21:55Speaker 2: basically a paternity test, right? So the accuracy is pretty staggering.
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- 22:33Speaker 2: On December 28th, 2022, Idaho State Lab reported that a
- 22:38Speaker 2: DNA profile obtained from the Koberger family's trash and the
- 22:42Speaker 2: DNA profile obtained from the sheath identified a male as
- 22:46Speaker 2: not being excluded as the biological father of the suspect.
- 22:50Speaker 2: The affidavit says at least 99.9998% of the male population
- 22:56Speaker 2: would be expected to be excluded from the possibility of
- 22:59Speaker 2: being the suspect's biological father. Uretzian was less than impressed.
- 23:06Speaker 2: Wait a minute, hold on. A defense attorney who's not
- 23:08Speaker 2: impressed with forensic evidence? This could have been something that
- 23:13Speaker 2: maybe he touched it at some other time. Transfer type DNA.
- 23:17Speaker 2: It could have happened on a previous night, on a
- 23:19Speaker 2: previous date, she mused. Or there may be issues with
- 23:22Speaker 2: the DNA testing itself. And I'm sure the defense will
- 23:25Speaker 2: hire their own expert and do their own testing. Now, look,
- 23:29Speaker 2: that sounds great while you're sitting in a studio somewhere
- 23:32Speaker 2: or in your house on a Zoom call doing an interview.
- 23:35Speaker 1: How do you think a jury is going to look
- 23:36Speaker 1: at that?
- 23:38Speaker 2: So as a defense attorney, you mean to tell me
- 23:40Speaker 2: you're going to walk into a courtroom and you're going
- 23:42Speaker 2: to allege that what? There was a relationship between Brian
- 23:46Speaker 2: Koberger and one of these girls and the relationship was
- 23:50Speaker 2: so deep and so heavy and they loved him so
- 23:53Speaker 2: much that they slept with the night sheath that he
- 23:56Speaker 2: gave them. I mean, how are you going to sell
- 23:58Speaker 2: this to the jury? I just don't understand how you
- 24:02Speaker 2: can do that without any receipts. And by receipts, I mean,
- 24:05Speaker 2: if you're going to come out here and say, that
- 24:07Speaker 2: Brian Koberger knew them previously. And that's how the, the
- 24:11Speaker 2: touch DNA got on the knife sheath. You have to
- 24:14Speaker 2: prove that you just saying that to try and sow
- 24:18Speaker 2: seeds of doubt in the minds of the jury, that's
- 24:20Speaker 2: not going to cut it. So it sounds all fine
- 24:24Speaker 2: and well right now and something to sink your teeth
- 24:27Speaker 2: into if you're the defense, but When the rubber meets
- 24:30Speaker 2: the road and we get down to it, I highly
- 24:33Speaker 2: doubt any of that kind of nonsense, that contrived BS,
- 24:36Speaker 2: is going to work.
- 24:38Speaker 1: What's next? It was Bigfoot?
- 24:41Speaker 2: If there's any issues, they're going to bring it up,
- 24:43Speaker 2: the attorney went on. In her most critical tone, Uretzian
- 24:47Speaker 2: dismissively referred to the phone-related information cited by law enforcement
- 24:51Speaker 2: so far. According to MPD Corporal Brett Payne, Kohlberger's phone
- 24:56Speaker 2: used the same cellular tower that provided coverage to the
- 24:59Speaker 2: victim's house on at least 12 occasions prior to November 13th, 2022.
- 25:06Speaker 2: He could have been anywhere, the defense attorney said. He
- 25:08Speaker 2: lives 8 to 10 miles away from this location where
- 25:11Speaker 2: the crime occurred. So how many other times did it ping?
- 25:14Speaker 2: Does the tower always pick up his phone while it's
- 25:17Speaker 2: at his house? Pretty simple way to figure that out, right?
- 25:20Speaker 2: Bring the phone that the police sees to his house
- 25:23Speaker 2: and see what happens. So she talks about all these
- 25:26Speaker 2: holes that can be punched in the evidence. Her arguments
- 25:29Speaker 2: are pretty flimsy here. And I'm certainly not a prosecutor.
- 25:34Speaker 2: He could have just been eight to 10 miles away
- 25:36Speaker 2: and the cell towers would have, he would have, his
- 25:39Speaker 2: phone would have picked up the cell tower in the
- 25:41Speaker 2: area of the residence where the students were.
- 25:44Speaker 1: That's nothing strange. Okay, sure.
- 25:47Speaker 2: I'm sure the jury is going to feel the same
- 25:49Speaker 2: way as defense attorney for Scott Peterson here. And here's
- 25:54Speaker 2: the cincher for me. All of those houses that he
- 25:57Speaker 2: was driving by, including the Moscow house, allegedly. Did any
- 26:02Speaker 2: of those Wi-Fi routers pick up his cell phone? My
- 26:07Speaker 2: guess is they might have. So. The police definitely have
- 26:11Speaker 2: that information. That was all part of the digital warrants
- 26:13Speaker 2: that they were serving. And if they're using geofence warrants,
- 26:16Speaker 2: forget it. This dude is as good as cooked. And
- 26:20Speaker 2: for me, I expect the government to prove this case, right?
- 26:23Speaker 2: I'm not giving them a free pass here. They're going
- 26:25Speaker 2: to have to prove this case in a court of law.
- 26:28Speaker 2: And so far, with what we have seen with probable
- 26:30Speaker 2: cause and with the investigation up to this point, it
- 26:34Speaker 2: looks like they're on the right path. Now, Koberger is
- 26:37Speaker 2: going to get his chance. He's going to have his
- 26:39Speaker 2: day in court. He's going to get to present his evidence.
- 26:42Speaker 2: And when that's presented, we'll certainly talk about it. But here,
- 26:45Speaker 2: this is how the first stage works. This is the
- 26:48Speaker 2: charging phase. This is when the prosecution is really on
- 26:52Speaker 2: the offense. So that's why we're getting the information that
- 26:55Speaker 2: we're getting. And that's why we're hearing what we're hearing
- 26:58Speaker 2: so far. But Koberger is going to get his chance
- 27:00Speaker 2: as well. And that's why the gag order is crucial,
- 27:04Speaker 2: because there's not going to be any information from official sources.
- 27:07Speaker 2: So all of the talk about him being prosecuted in
- 27:10Speaker 2: public is a bunch of BS. The public's going to
- 27:13Speaker 2: do what the public's going to do. No matter what
- 27:16Speaker 2: our opinions are, that's not going to affect what a
- 27:19Speaker 2: jury sees or hears in that courtroom. And that's where
- 27:23Speaker 2: Brian Koberger better make his arguments.
- 27:26Speaker 1: All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one.
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- 27:50Speaker 1: Hello, it is Ryan.
- 27:51Speaker 2: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. In
- 27:55Speaker 2: this episode, we're going to spin right back up to
- 27:56Speaker 2: Moscow and we're going to dive right back into those
- 27:59Speaker 2: court documents. This time, we're taking a look at the
- 28:02Speaker 2: defendant's objection to the state's notice of intent to use
- 28:06Speaker 2: IRE 404B evidence. Case number CR01-24-31665 State of Idaho Plaintiff vs.
- 28:17Speaker 2: Brian C.
- 28:18Speaker 1: Kohlberger, the defendant. Comes now. Brian C.
- 28:22Speaker 2: Kohlberger buying through his attorneys of record and hereby objects
- 28:26Speaker 2: to the state's notice of intent to use IRE 404B evidence.
- 28:31Speaker 2: Filed on February 4, 2025, pursuant to IRE 404B2, the
- 28:36Speaker 2: state intends to present evidence of crimes, wrongs, and other acts. Specifically,
- 28:41Speaker 2: the state intends to use the video of a traffic
- 28:43Speaker 2: stop on August 21, 2022, and the citation regarding the
- 28:48Speaker 2: same traffic stop for the purpose of proving defendant's identity,
- 28:52Speaker 2: vehicle address, and phone number. For the reasons set forth below, Mr.
- 28:56Speaker 2: Kohlberger objects to the use of this evidence.
- 29:00Speaker 1: Argument.
- 29:01Speaker 2: The state misconstrues the identity aspect of Rule 404B because
- 29:06Speaker 2: the August 21, 2022 traffic stop bears no resemblance to
- 29:10Speaker 2: the crime charged and should be excluded from the evidence.
- 29:14Speaker 2: When the state presented the video of a traffic stop
- 29:16Speaker 2: on August 21, 2022 and the corresponding citation as evidence
- 29:21Speaker 2: to the grand jury, Page 43.
- 29:22Speaker 1: Page 44.
- 29:30Speaker 2: On grounds of biased grand jury, inadmissible evidence, lack of
- 29:33Speaker 2: sufficient evidence, and prosecutorial misconduct. Page 43. The state misconstrues
- 29:40Speaker 2: the identity aspect of IRE 404B. Evidence of prior misconduct
- 29:44Speaker 2: is relevant on the issue of identity when the evidence
- 29:47Speaker 2: demonstrates sufficiently similar as well as distinctive characteristics or patterns
- 29:53Speaker 2: between the prior misconduct and the charged crime.
- 29:56Speaker 1: State v.
- 29:57Speaker 2: Levitt 171 Idaho 757 2023, citing State v. Porter, 130, Idaho, 772, 783, 948, p. 2d, 127, 128, 1997.
- 30:09Speaker 2: When the other act's evidence is introduced to prove identity,
- 30:16Speaker 2: as proposed by the state in this case, the characteristics
- 30:19Speaker 2: of the other crime or act must be sufficiently distinctive
- 30:22Speaker 2: to warrant an inference that the person who committed the
- 30:25Speaker 2: act also committed the offense at issue. Neither the video
- 30:29Speaker 2: nor of a traffic stop on August 21, 2022, nor
- 30:34Speaker 2: the corresponding citation, are similar to the charge of defense
- 30:37Speaker 2: of murder, see United States v. Schramm, 746, Federal Appendix 688,
- 30:44Speaker 2: 690 and 91, 9th Circuit, 2018. Conviction reversed and remanded
- 30:50Speaker 2: where video and audio evidence of a defendant's prior encounters
- 30:54Speaker 2: with police was offered to prove identity and admission of
- 30:57Speaker 2: such evidence, prejudice, defendants, substantial rights. The state has other
- 31:02Speaker 2: ways to prove Mr. Koberger's identity without using a prior
- 31:06Speaker 2: bad act. B. Rule 404B excludes the reference to the
- 31:10Speaker 2: August 21, 2022 traffic stop as evidence in this case.
- 31:16Speaker 2: Evidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not
- 31:18Speaker 2: admissible to prove a person's character in order to show
- 31:21Speaker 2: that on a particular occasion the person acted in accordance
- 31:25Speaker 2: with character.
- 31:26Speaker 1: IRE 404B1.
- 31:28Speaker 2: Permitted uses of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is when
- 31:31Speaker 2: the evidence is being used for another purpose such as
- 31:35Speaker 2: proving motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, absence of mistake,
- 31:42Speaker 2: or lack of accident.
- 31:44Speaker 1: IRE 404B2.
- 31:46Speaker 2: The prejudicial effect of character evidence is that it induces
- 31:50Speaker 2: the jury to believe the accused is more likely to
- 31:53Speaker 2: have committed the crime on trial because he is a
- 31:56Speaker 2: man of criminal character.
- 31:57Speaker 1: State v. Grist, 147, Idaho 49, 52, 205, p. 3d, 1185, 1188, 2009,
- 31:59Speaker 1: citing State v. Wren, 99, Idaho 506, 510, 584, p.
- 32:00Speaker 3: 2d, 1231, 1235, 1978.
- 32:01Speaker 2: Character evidence, therefore, takes the jury away from their primary
- 32:03Speaker 2: consideration of the guilt and or innocence of the particular
- 32:25Speaker 2: crime on trial.
- 32:27Speaker 1: The drafters of the.
- 32:28Speaker 2: IRE 404B were careful to guard against the admission of
- 32:32Speaker 2: evidence that would unduly prejudice the defendant, while still allowing
- 32:36Speaker 2: the prosecution to present probative evidence. Admissibility of misconduct evidence
- 32:42Speaker 2: is subject to a two-tiered analysis, State v. Anderson, 168
- 32:45Speaker 2: Idaho 758, 769 and 70, 47 P. 3D 350, 361 and 62, 2021,
- 32:53Speaker 2: citing State v. Grist, 147, Idaho, 49, 51, 205, p. 3d, 1185, 1187, 2009.
- 32:55Speaker 1: State v. Field, 144, Idaho, 559, 569, 165, p.
- 32:56Speaker 2: 3d, 273, 283, 2007. First, the court must determine what
- 32:58Speaker 2: the evidence is relevant to a material or and disputed
- 33:23Speaker 2: issue concerning the crime charged. Field 144, Idaho at 569, P. 3D
- 33:29Speaker 2: at 283. Second, the court must determine what the probative
- 33:33Speaker 2: value of the evidence is outweighed by the danger of
- 33:36Speaker 2: unfair prejudice to the defendant. See also State v. Anderson 168,
- 33:40Speaker 2: Idaho 758, 769, and 70. 487, P. 3D 350, 361, and 62, 2021.
- 33:51Speaker 2: Citing State, Burr's Grist, 147, Idaho, 4951-205-P.3D, 1185-1187, 2009. C.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Rules 401, 402, and 403 exclude the traffic stop evidence
- 33:56Speaker 2: as irrelevant and unfairly prejudicial. In addition to exclusion under
- 34:02Speaker 2: Rule 404B and a reference to the video and citation
- 34:05Speaker 2: related to the August 21, 2022 traffic stop, must be
- 34:21Speaker 2: excluded as not relevant to the allegations in this case.
- 34:25Speaker 2: To be admissible, evidence must be relevant. IRE 402 Evidence
- 34:30Speaker 2: is relevant if a. It has any tendency to make
- 34:33Speaker 2: a fact more or less probable than it would be
- 34:36Speaker 2: without the evidence, and b. The fact is of consequence
- 34:40Speaker 2: in determining the action. IRE 401 See also State v.
- 34:45Speaker 2: Smith 107 Idaho 800 809 516 P. 3D 1071-1080-2022 State v.
- 34:49Speaker 2: Sheldon 145, Idaho 225-228-178 P. 3D 28-31-2008 Whether a fact is
- 34:50Speaker 2: of consequence or material is determined by its relationship to
- 34:53Speaker 2: the legal theories presented by the parties.
- 34:55Speaker 1: Smith 107, Idaho 809-516 P. 3D- 1080.
- 35:18Speaker 2: In this case, evidence that Mr. Kohlberger was stopped for
- 35:21Speaker 2: a traffic violation on August 21, 2022 is not reasonably
- 35:26Speaker 2: tied to a crime charged and must be excluded from
- 35:29Speaker 2: evidence as irrelevant and not material to the crimes charged
- 35:32Speaker 2: in this case. Under IRE 403, the court may exclude
- 35:37Speaker 2: character evidence if its probative value is substantially outweighed by
- 35:41Speaker 2: a danger of One or more of the following. Unfair prejudice,
- 35:45Speaker 2: confusing the issues, misleading the jury, undue delay, wasting time,
- 35:50Speaker 2: or needlessly presenting cumulative evidence. IRE 403. This rule requires
- 35:55Speaker 2: the court to balance the probative value of the evidence
- 35:59Speaker 2: against the danger that the evidence may be unfairly prejudicial.
- 36:03Speaker 1: State v.
- 36:03Speaker 2: Johnson, Idaho 544 P. 3d 766-774 Idaho 2024 See also IRE 403.
- 36:14Speaker 2: Even assuming this court concludes that the character evidence discussed
- 36:17Speaker 2: in the state's 404b notice is somehow relevant, whatever minimal
- 36:22Speaker 2: probative value it may have is substantially outweighed by the
- 36:26Speaker 2: danger of unfair prejudice and confusion of the issues. Unfair
- 36:30Speaker 2: prejudice is prejudice that tends to suggest a decision on
- 36:34Speaker 2: an improper basis. Johnson 544 p. 3d at 774 Citing State v. Diaz, 170, Idaho, 79, 91.
- 36:48Speaker 1: 507, P. 3D, 1109, 1121, 2022.
- 36:50Speaker 2: The character evidence identified in the state's 404B notice has
- 36:54Speaker 2: no nexus to the criminal charges against Mr.
- 36:56Speaker 1: Kohlberger.
- 36:57Speaker 2: This evidence confuses the issue. If the video and corresponding
- 37:01Speaker 2: citation for the traffic violation on August 21, 2022 is
- 37:06Speaker 2: is presented to the jury, the jury might believe that Mr.
- 37:09Speaker 2: Kohlberger is guilty of the crime's charge because he's a
- 37:12Speaker 2: person prone to wrongful behavior. As a consequence, there is
- 37:15Speaker 2: a danger that the jury would reach a decision on
- 37:18Speaker 2: an improper basis due to evidence that is unfairly prejudicial. D.
- 37:24Speaker 2: Admission of irrelevant evidence violates the process. Under the Federal Constitution,
- 37:29Speaker 2: Article 14. The admission of irrelevant character evidence violates due
- 37:35Speaker 2: process and can render a trial fundamentally unfair. McKinney v. Reese,
- 37:42Speaker 2: 993 F. 2d, 1378-1380, 9th Circuit, 1993. The rule against the
- 37:47Speaker 2: use of character evidence to show conformance with or propensity
- 37:51Speaker 2: is a historically grounded rule of evidence.
- 37:53Speaker 1: I.D.
- 37:54Speaker 2: At 1381. The evidence here is even more remote to
- 37:57Speaker 2: the alleged criminal conduct than that described in McKinney, the
- 38:01Speaker 2: possession and use of a knife by the appellant in
- 38:04Speaker 2: the context of his mother's homicide, there's no permissible inference
- 38:08Speaker 2: that could be drawn from the character evidence identified in
- 38:11Speaker 2: the state's 404b notice and therefore admission would violate Mr.
- 38:15Speaker 2: Kohlberger's due process to a fair trial.
- 38:18Speaker 1: Conclusion.
- 38:19Speaker 2: Based on the foregoing reasons Mr. Kohlberger respectfully requests that
- 38:23Speaker 2: this court issue an order denying the introduction and admission
- 38:27Speaker 2: of of the state's proposed IRE 404B evidence. This document
- 38:32Speaker 2: was dated March 17th of 2025 and it was signed
- 38:37Speaker 2: by Elisa G.
- 38:38Speaker 1: Massoff.
- 38:39Speaker 2: All of the information that goes with this episode, including
- 38:42Speaker 2: my contact information, can be found in the description box.