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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Welcome to Crime Stories tonight.
- 0:09Speaker 1: It's a very special night, and I'm speaking on behalf
- 0:13Speaker 1: of not just myself, but our entire staff across the
- 0:19Speaker 1: country as they are, and all of our families, because
- 0:23Speaker 1: we are speaking one on one with two very special people,
- 0:30Speaker 1: people that you had never heard of just a few
- 0:34Speaker 1: years ago, but now are icons in the crime victim
- 0:40Speaker 1: community and across the world. Christy and Steve Gonsolve us
- 0:45Speaker 1: are joining us tonight. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
- 0:50Speaker 1: I want to thank you for being with us.
- 0:52Speaker 2: You want the truth.
- 0:54Speaker 3: Here's the one you'll hate the most. If you hadn't
- 0:56Speaker 3: attached them in their sleep in the middle of the
- 0:59Speaker 3: night like a pedophile, Kaylee would have kicked your us.
- 1:05Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 1:05Speaker 1: I wanted to open with sound from your daughter speaking
- 1:11Speaker 1: out at Brian Coberger sentencing. I got to tell you something.
- 1:18Speaker 1: You did something right the way you have raised your children,
- 1:26Speaker 1: Missus Gonsalvius. Weren't you so proud of her? And under
- 1:32Speaker 1: the worst conditions she stood strong.
- 1:39Speaker 4: She has never ceased to amaze me throughout this whole
- 1:41Speaker 4: entire process. She has just been just amazingly strong and
- 1:46Speaker 4: when we went to the sentencing, we actually did not
- 1:49Speaker 4: know what each other was going to say because we
- 1:51Speaker 4: did not want to influence each other's speeches, so we
- 1:56Speaker 4: did not know, and it was all new. And she
- 1:59Speaker 4: got up there and I was just as sounded. I
- 2:03Speaker 4: was just beside myself. And then when she was done,
- 2:07Speaker 4: the audience or the courtroom clapped, and it was like,
- 2:12Speaker 4: is that normal.
- 2:13Speaker 2: I don't think people normally clap, but it was. It
- 2:16Speaker 2: was very surreal.
- 2:17Speaker 4: It was very oh my gosh, what happened. And then
- 2:21Speaker 4: you know, we I'm like, I have to hear that again.
- 2:23Speaker 4: It was just so good, just so proud of her,
- 2:26Speaker 4: of what she said and the way she articulated it
- 2:30Speaker 4: was was perfect.
- 2:32Speaker 1: I am going to play some of your daughter speaking,
- 2:35Speaker 1: But as I'm looking at the two of you sitting there,
- 2:37Speaker 1: so close together, connected, clearly connected. You know, when marriages
- 2:45Speaker 1: face the slightest problem, like you don't have enough money,
- 2:49Speaker 1: or there's an illness in the family, or just any
- 2:53Speaker 1: number of things, marriages break apart. But under the single
- 2:59Speaker 1: word first thing that could happen to a mother and
- 3:03Speaker 1: a father, the death of your child, which most of
- 3:07Speaker 1: us can't even imagine. You too, same, even stronger, you see,
- 3:14Speaker 1: even closer. How is that happening, Christy?
- 3:18Speaker 4: I honestly it has brought us closer, just because the
- 3:23Speaker 4: pain and the anxiety that we have had are especially me.
- 3:28Speaker 4: Steve has just been so amazing. He's been so gentle
- 3:33Speaker 4: with me. He's given me grace, He's given me time
- 3:36Speaker 4: to heal.
- 3:38Speaker 2: You know, what do you need? Can I help you?
- 3:40Speaker 4: And you know I tried to be that person for
- 3:42Speaker 4: him as well, and you know, I sometimes I just
- 3:49Speaker 4: need a hug when he gets home. I'm like, I
- 3:51Speaker 4: just need a big hug, and he just wraps his
- 3:53Speaker 4: arms around me, gives me this big old hug, and
- 3:56Speaker 4: I just feel better. And I mean he's been my
- 4:00Speaker 4: it has been for almost thirty years, and you know,
- 4:02Speaker 4: five kids, and he's the epitome of an amazing man,
- 4:06Speaker 4: an amazing father, amazing.
- 4:07Speaker 2: Husband all wrapped up in one. I was blessed.
- 4:11Speaker 1: You know what's interesting. So many things about you two
- 4:14Speaker 1: are interesting, and so many millions of people have been
- 4:19Speaker 1: watching you at a distance, and I'm just so honored
- 4:23Speaker 1: that I get to actually talk to you, not just
- 4:25Speaker 1: watch you in a courtroom or on a camera. Mister Gonsalves,
- 4:31Speaker 1: you have been very outspoken, very outspoken throughout this entire nightmare,
- 4:40Speaker 1: and a lot of people have attacked you. I don't
- 4:43Speaker 1: get it. Do you even care what they say? I
- 4:46Speaker 1: hope not.
- 4:47Speaker 5: Now it just rolls right off my shoulders. I play
- 4:52Speaker 5: support my whole life. I'm used to like constructive criticism,
- 4:55Speaker 5: so that'll take to heart. And you know, sometimes I
- 4:58Speaker 5: will misspeak or I'll say something.
- 5:00Speaker 6: That you know I'll take back because I got I
- 5:02Speaker 6: got my facts wrong.
- 5:04Speaker 5: But I'm defending my children and my daughter and my wife,
- 5:09Speaker 5: so I don't really take to heart them. I know
- 5:12Speaker 5: that there's going to be some people who side with,
- 5:15Speaker 5: you know, the other side, and I just I just
- 5:18Speaker 5: keep it at that.
- 5:19Speaker 6: I think they have.
- 5:20Speaker 5: More in harmony with evil than they do good, and
- 5:24Speaker 5: their actions reflect that, so I don't waste my time
- 5:27Speaker 5: on them.
- 5:27Speaker 1: Well, our family, the Grace family, has a very old saying,
- 5:35Speaker 1: screw them and the horse they rode in on. So
- 5:37Speaker 1: that's my legal advice to you. I'm want to circle
- 5:40Speaker 1: back to your daughter, who was absolutely amazing. You know what,
- 5:47Speaker 1: that doesn't just happen. She's amazing because you raise her
- 5:53Speaker 1: to be amazing. She didn't just come out that way.
- 5:57Speaker 1: She has had years of you, you as her example.
- 6:01Speaker 1: What am I talking about? Listen?
- 6:04Speaker 3: You thought you were exceptional all because of a grade
- 6:06Speaker 3: on a paper. You thought you were elite because your
- 6:10Speaker 3: online IQ test from twenty ten told you so. All
- 6:15Speaker 3: of that effort just to seem important.
- 6:17Speaker 2: It's desperate.
- 6:19Speaker 3: There is a name for your condition, though your inflated
- 6:22Speaker 3: ego just didn't allow you to see it.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Want to be.
- 6:27Speaker 3: You act like no one could ever understand your mind.
- 6:30Speaker 3: But the truth is you're basic. You're a text bookcase
- 6:33Speaker 3: of insecurity disguised as control. Your patterns are predictable, your
- 6:38Speaker 3: motives are shallow.
- 6:40Speaker 1: You are not profound. You're pathetic.
- 6:44Speaker 3: You aren't special or deep, not mysterious or exceptional. Don't
- 6:49Speaker 3: ever get it twisted again. No one is scared of
- 6:54Speaker 3: you today. No one is intimidated by you, No one
- 6:57Speaker 3: is impressed by you.
- 6:59Speaker 1: No one thinks that you.
- 7:00Speaker 2: You are important.
- 7:02Speaker 3: You orchestrated this like you thought you were God. Now
- 7:05Speaker 3: look at you begging a courtroom for scraps. You spent
- 7:10Speaker 3: months preparing, and still all it took was my sister,
- 7:12Speaker 3: and as she you work so hard to see him
- 7:15Speaker 3: dangerous but real control doesn't have to prove itself.
- 7:19Speaker 1: I love her. Did you have any idea what she
- 7:23Speaker 1: was going to say? Christy?
- 7:26Speaker 2: No, no, we didn't.
- 7:28Speaker 4: We didn't share our speeches with each other because we
- 7:31Speaker 4: didn't want to influence them, and we were writing them
- 7:35Speaker 4: up to the minute, literally like editing and adding and
- 7:39Speaker 4: taking away.
- 7:40Speaker 2: So no, she got up there and she flipped the table.
- 7:45Speaker 2: I mean she flipped it all upside down.
- 7:47Speaker 4: We were like, oh, oh, my goodness, you know, and
- 7:51Speaker 4: she she did great. People love her, and you know,
- 7:57Speaker 4: we love her. She's our oldest girl, our oldest child,
- 8:00Speaker 4: and she's been through a lot with us, you know,
- 8:03Speaker 4: being the oldest. So she's very resilient, she's very brave,
- 8:08Speaker 4: she's the best big sister to all the kids, and
- 8:12Speaker 4: she's incredibly smart, incredibly smart.
- 8:15Speaker 2: She blows my mind all the time, all the time.
- 8:19Speaker 1: I just want to play one more time. I've got
- 8:21Speaker 1: so many questions for you, but I just got to
- 8:23Speaker 1: play one more tiny snippet of your daughter.
- 8:26Speaker 3: The truth is the scariest part about you. It's how
- 8:30Speaker 3: painfully average you turned out to be. The truth is
- 8:34Speaker 3: as dumb as they come, stupid, clumsy, slow, sloppy, weak, dirty,
- 8:44Speaker 3: let me be very clear, don't ever try to convince
- 8:48Speaker 3: yourself you mattered just because someone finally said your name
- 8:51Speaker 3: out loud. I see through you.
- 8:56Speaker 2: You want the truth.
- 8:57Speaker 3: Here's the one you'll hate the most. If you had
- 9:00Speaker 3: attacked them in their sleep in the middle of the
- 9:03Speaker 3: night like a pedophile, Kaylee would have kicked yourss.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, and all over the world people
- 9:17Speaker 1: joined in that applause. She's amazing. Steve, did you have
- 9:21Speaker 1: any idea what she was going to say before she
- 9:23Speaker 1: said it?
- 9:24Speaker 6: I did know a little bit of details.
- 9:25Speaker 5: We kind of did. We talked about topics, and she
- 9:28Speaker 5: said she wanted to use his questions against him, and
- 9:32Speaker 5: we all had that same idea. We thought about that,
- 9:34Speaker 5: but she earned it, she needed that, and I was
- 9:37Speaker 5: glad to give that to her, and that was her
- 9:39Speaker 5: talking point. So that was the kind of collaboration we did.
- 9:42Speaker 5: But I think when you see here you have a
- 9:44Speaker 5: glimpse of who Kaylee was as well. And when you
- 9:46Speaker 5: hear my son he was speaking as well. When you
- 9:49Speaker 5: see the two kids, you see who these kids, who
- 9:52Speaker 5: Kaylee was, And that was our best way of showing
- 9:56Speaker 5: the world what had been stolen from us. He was
- 10:01Speaker 5: very average, but his victims were exceptional, and that's what
- 10:07Speaker 5: we wanted to convey. That's what we were missing, and
- 10:09Speaker 5: we wanted the world to know about that, like what
- 10:11Speaker 5: we're missing and what kind of a person she.
- 10:13Speaker 1: Was miss Right now, seemingly every headline is about b
- 10:21Speaker 1: K Brian Coburger, what he's going through, what his complaints are,
- 10:26Speaker 1: where he's housed. I'm so overhearing about Brian f ing Coburger.
- 10:36Speaker 1: I want to talk about the victims. Victims all over
- 10:41Speaker 1: the world are watching you and getting strength from you.
- 10:49Speaker 1: I remember the moment that I turned into a crime victim,
- 10:54Speaker 1: the moment I knew my fiance had been murdered. I
- 11:00Speaker 1: was standing at a payphone and I could talk, but
- 11:05Speaker 1: I couldn't dial the numbers. My hand was like a
- 11:08Speaker 1: moth trying to get to the flop to the light.
- 11:12Speaker 1: I couldn't punch the numbers. I remember it exactly when
- 11:20Speaker 1: Missus Gonsalves did you know, without a doubt, something horrible
- 11:30Speaker 1: had happened.
- 11:31Speaker 2: It was Sunday, November thirteenth.
- 11:34Speaker 4: We were all here watching the football game, and my
- 11:38Speaker 4: niece called me and she told me that something terrible
- 11:41Speaker 4: had happened to Kaylee, her cousin or her husband's cousin
- 11:46Speaker 4: went to you and I and something was going on,
- 11:49Speaker 4: and she believed that Kaylee was dead.
- 11:54Speaker 2: And I threw my phone across the room and I
- 11:57Speaker 2: started calling.
- 11:57Speaker 4: Kaylee and her was going straight to voice Belfore I
- 12:01Speaker 4: started calling Maddie and nothing. So I called Olivia and
- 12:04Speaker 4: got Olivia on the phone and had told.
- 12:06Speaker 2: Her what was going on.
- 12:07Speaker 4: But we're still trying to stay calm, saying it's going
- 12:11Speaker 4: to be okay, it's going to be something just is wrong. Well,
- 12:14Speaker 4: as hours went by and we called police stations and
- 12:16Speaker 4: hospitals and.
- 12:17Speaker 2: We got nothing, no information.
- 12:19Speaker 4: But we see her house on TV and it's purten
- 12:22Speaker 4: off with yellow tape. I knew, I knew in my
- 12:26Speaker 4: heart that something terrible had happened, but for sure when
- 12:31Speaker 4: the sheriff showed up around five and came to the
- 12:33Speaker 4: door and told us there was four homicides.
- 12:37Speaker 1: Mississ go salmis, what do you mean? Because I knew
- 12:41Speaker 1: Keith was dead before they said he's dead. I knew
- 12:46Speaker 1: when you said you knew in your heart, how did
- 12:50Speaker 1: you know in your heart? And what was that feeling?
- 12:52Speaker 1: How did you know? And I've heard many many other
- 12:55Speaker 1: violent crime victims say the same thing they knew before
- 12:58Speaker 1: they were told.
- 12:59Speaker 4: Well, I knew just because of my niece calling me.
- 13:03Speaker 4: You know, she's a very responsible adult, she's a mother,
- 13:06Speaker 4: she's a nurse. I knew that Sabrina would not have
- 13:09Speaker 4: made that call.
- 13:09Speaker 2: To me had she not new ad facts.
- 13:16Speaker 4: So I knew, even though, like we didn't have confirmation.
- 13:22Speaker 4: But I kept telling Olivia and the kids.
- 13:25Speaker 2: She's gone. She's gone, guys, I don't.
- 13:27Speaker 4: You know, we don't know what happened, but you know,
- 13:29Speaker 4: And we're running around the house frantic.
- 13:31Speaker 2: I'm crying, everybody's crying.
- 13:32Speaker 4: We're trying to get in touch with somebody to get answers.
- 13:35Speaker 2: And I kept.
- 13:36Speaker 4: Saying, the sheriff will come. If it's true, the sheriff
- 13:39Speaker 4: will come. And it was that evening and I looked
- 13:43Speaker 4: out my front window and I saw the sheriff pull up,
- 13:45Speaker 4: and I said, the sheriff's here, and I took off
- 13:48Speaker 4: to my bedroom. I ran to my bedroom and everybody
- 13:51Speaker 4: answered the door, and I came back out about a
- 13:55Speaker 4: minute later and stood here at the front door and
- 14:00Speaker 4: ask them what happened, you know, And he said it
- 14:04Speaker 4: was a homicide. And I said they were murdered. And
- 14:10Speaker 4: I asked if one of them was Maddie, because at
- 14:12Speaker 4: that time the thing started clicking, that could possibly Maddie
- 14:16Speaker 4: because she hadn't answered.
- 14:17Speaker 2: Me all day long.
- 14:18Speaker 4: And they said yes, and we said how and they
- 14:23Speaker 4: said we can't.
- 14:25Speaker 2: We don't know.
- 14:27Speaker 4: Here's a card called this person in the morning, and
- 14:32Speaker 4: we're like, should we go down there?
- 14:34Speaker 2: Said no. I said what are we supposed to do?
- 14:38Speaker 2: What do we do? And he said, just call in
- 14:41Speaker 2: the morning.
- 14:41Speaker 1: I'm trying to I feel like I'm seeing it all
- 14:45Speaker 1: play out right in front of me right now. I
- 14:49Speaker 1: remember I was holding this big stack of school books.
- 14:52Speaker 1: I had just come out of a statistic exam, and
- 14:55Speaker 1: I remember dumping, just dropping everything, and it was so unreal.
- 15:03Speaker 1: You said, he ran out into the yard. Do you
- 15:07Speaker 1: remember that moment? Where did you think you were going?
- 15:10Speaker 1: What were you going to do?
- 15:11Speaker 2: Well?
- 15:11Speaker 4: I actually ran to my bedroom and I just as
- 15:14Speaker 4: soon as I saw that sheriff call up, I just
- 15:16Speaker 4: I was I don't know, I don't know what it was.
- 15:20Speaker 2: I didn't want to hear it. I was running away.
- 15:22Speaker 4: I just ran back to that room, and you know,
- 15:25Speaker 4: I just I was crying and it just all hit
- 15:29Speaker 4: me like this is not a weird situation. This isn't
- 15:35Speaker 4: and you know, Kylee's gone, even though I had know,
- 15:40Speaker 4: like I knew all day, but I didn't know. It
- 15:42Speaker 4: was just hard to explain, but in my heart I
- 15:43Speaker 4: felt it and it was just the finality, like this
- 15:47Speaker 4: officer is here and he's here for a reason, you know,
- 15:53Speaker 4: And it just it was your whole body hurts, like
- 15:57Speaker 4: everything just aches, like your fingertips, your your toes, your knees,
- 16:01Speaker 4: you get shaky, like that really happens, like the shaking
- 16:04Speaker 4: and the knees, and it's real. And I think at
- 16:09Speaker 4: that point I went into shop, and I think that
- 16:13Speaker 4: shock lasted for quite a while for me. I don't
- 16:16Speaker 4: remember a whole lot after that. I have pretty big
- 16:20Speaker 4: gaps my memory.
- 16:21Speaker 1: Steve, do you remember her running running to the bedroom
- 16:26Speaker 1: and hiding when the LA Law enforcement came up the driveway?
- 16:30Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember her running that way.
- 16:33Speaker 5: Aubrey went up the steps and she went on her
- 16:35Speaker 5: computer and she started. We just at first, we thought
- 16:38Speaker 5: of it was just like a rumor, some drama, some
- 16:43Speaker 5: fake thing amidst college town parties happened, kids do pranks.
- 16:47Speaker 5: We thought there was something else going on, at least
- 16:50Speaker 5: I did. That's why we're like, if the cop shows up,
- 16:52Speaker 5: then you know that's not a prank, that's this is
- 16:55Speaker 5: something serious. And even then I still couldn't fully understand what.
- 17:01Speaker 5: You know, you don't know what death is unless you're
- 17:04Speaker 5: familiar with it, and we weren't. This family hadn't been
- 17:07Speaker 5: struck like that. So yeah, we missed that door right
- 17:11Speaker 5: there behind us and opened that up, and there's a
- 17:13Speaker 5: sheriff there I had never seen before in.
- 17:15Speaker 6: My life and Coutney County car and.
- 17:20Speaker 5: Thankfully he gave us a little bit more information than
- 17:24Speaker 5: we had had at that point, and he cleared up
- 17:27Speaker 5: the fact that it was a homicide or that, and
- 17:31Speaker 5: Maddy was involved as well, And we knew Mattie's mom
- 17:33Speaker 5: was on the way down there, so we were like,
- 17:36Speaker 5: do we call her?
- 17:36Speaker 6: Do we let her know that.
- 17:40Speaker 5: They weren't going to they already told us, so we
- 17:42Speaker 5: couldn't go down there and see them. We couldn't go
- 17:44Speaker 5: down there and pick.
- 17:45Speaker 6: Her up or anything like that. So mean's ongoing investigations.
- 17:49Speaker 6: So we just sat in.
- 17:51Speaker 5: The house and just thought of ways to get a
- 17:54Speaker 5: hold of people that had been around the children in
- 17:56Speaker 5: the last twenty forty eight hours and figure out going on.
- 18:00Speaker 5: Was this some random act of violence?
- 18:02Speaker 6: Was this what was this.
- 18:04Speaker 2: Just shooting from a party? Was it the night?
- 18:07Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 18:07Speaker 5: I just you know, yeah, we just know people are
- 18:11Speaker 5: saying it was betanol and you know, all the factors
- 18:15Speaker 5: that would go around, so and you know, they wouldn't
- 18:18Speaker 5: even tell us any details. I mean, it was months
- 18:22Speaker 5: before we actually eve knew how they were killed, so
- 18:25Speaker 5: it was very frustrating. We got the vandal alert that.
- 18:27Speaker 6: Told us that there was four homicides.
- 18:29Speaker 5: Before we even knew what was going on, So they
- 18:32Speaker 5: knew before we knew.
- 18:33Speaker 1: Just trying to imagine everything that you're saying, and the
- 18:38Speaker 1: officer gives you a card when you go, well, what
- 18:41Speaker 1: do we do because we'll just call them in the morning.
- 18:44Speaker 1: It's almost like a bank with bankers hours. You can
- 18:47Speaker 1: get back to them in the morning. So what do
- 18:49Speaker 1: you do all night long? When you have this knowledge?
- 18:55Speaker 1: You can't go there, there's nothing you can do there.
- 18:59Speaker 1: What do do you do that night?
- 19:01Speaker 4: I did not sleep at all that night because after
- 19:05Speaker 4: what we were, you know, going through. I also called
- 19:09Speaker 4: Olivia and she lives down in La and she threw
- 19:12Speaker 4: her kids in the car, and her and her husband
- 19:14Speaker 4: jumped in the car and they drove up here. So
- 19:16Speaker 4: they drove through the night. That was about five six
- 19:18Speaker 4: o'clock at night when they left LA. It's a twenty
- 19:20Speaker 4: hour drive, so you know, I was worried about them
- 19:26Speaker 4: driving all night, you know as well, and I just
- 19:29Speaker 4: couldn't sleep, and I just my mind just it went crazy.
- 19:34Speaker 2: I went crazy.
- 19:37Speaker 5: Yeah, we knew that Gayle had mentioned being stopped, even
- 19:41Speaker 5: right up until the weeks that this had came up
- 19:44Speaker 5: to that, so I felt like we I kind of
- 19:47Speaker 5: wanted my family to be focused on something other than
- 19:49Speaker 5: just the devastation. So I was like, you're finding that information,
- 19:54Speaker 5: get a hold of a neighbor. And the more information
- 19:57Speaker 5: that we found, it just felt like that was at
- 19:59Speaker 5: least something to grab, that's something we could control, go
- 20:02Speaker 5: away from just being victims to being investigators of what
- 20:07Speaker 5: happened to our child. And we did find out a
- 20:10Speaker 5: bunch of things that those forty eight hours from people
- 20:14Speaker 5: that were just reaching out and saying, hey, you know,
- 20:17Speaker 5: this is what I know. I was right across the street,
- 20:20Speaker 5: this is what's going on, Yeah, and were just looking there.
- 20:24Speaker 1: I remember what you said, Steve.
- 20:27Speaker 7: Listen, within hours, within hours, we had your white car
- 20:31Speaker 7: on a camera.
- 20:33Speaker 6: We knew, we knew from the very beginning, we had you.
- 20:37Speaker 7: Police officers tell us within minutes they had your DNA
- 20:41Speaker 7: like a calling card. You were that careless, that foolish,
- 20:45Speaker 7: that's stupid, master degree.
- 20:51Speaker 6: You're a joke, complete joke.
- 21:00Speaker 1: With Nancy Grace. So at the very beginning, Steve and Christy,
- 21:08Speaker 1: you were already focusing or trying to focus off the
- 21:13Speaker 1: pain and focus on what happened and finding the truth.
- 21:18Speaker 4: Yes, because Jack actually wound up coming here because he
- 21:23Speaker 4: left Moscow and he came here, and.
- 21:26Speaker 2: Obviously he was there at the scene.
- 21:28Speaker 4: And stuff, so he had heard what Dylan was seeing.
- 21:33Speaker 4: So once he told us that because, like I said,
- 21:38Speaker 4: the officer said that it was a homessidea were murdered.
- 21:43Speaker 4: But then Dylan was saying, there was a mass man
- 21:46Speaker 4: in our house, and and you know, there was somebody
- 21:49Speaker 4: in the tree and all this stuff, and it quickly
- 21:54Speaker 4: was clear that this sounded like a stranger murder, you know,
- 21:58Speaker 4: not like somebody that knew or whatnot. So it really
- 22:02Speaker 4: changed things. It felt like a huge I mean just
- 22:07Speaker 4: a huge violation and we just were like, we've got
- 22:11Speaker 4: a murder that And at that time before I just
- 22:15Speaker 4: kind of thought they were going to get him. You know,
- 22:16Speaker 4: it was some kid he went and he shot up,
- 22:18Speaker 4: shot up the house or something, and they got you know,
- 22:21Speaker 4: he's walking down the street. And I just kept waiting
- 22:23Speaker 4: for the news to say they've rested somebody.
- 22:24Speaker 2: They rested somebody.
- 22:26Speaker 4: And when Jack told us that, I was kind of like,
- 22:31Speaker 4: you know, this sounds a little different than whatever we're
- 22:34Speaker 4: thinking type of murder.
- 22:37Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you're right, because we were all led
- 22:40Speaker 1: to believe Steve and Chris say that, oh they died
- 22:44Speaker 1: in their sleep. That is not what happened at all.
- 22:50Speaker 5: Steve, you don't expect the prosecutor to lie to you,
- 22:53Speaker 5: and we were lied to. All the parents were lied to.
- 22:55Speaker 5: We weren't given the details. They're asking us to make
- 22:59Speaker 5: a decision on life or death, and they're not even
- 23:01Speaker 5: given us the details of our own children, let alone
- 23:03Speaker 5: the whole.
- 23:04Speaker 6: Circumstance of what happened to them. I know for a fact.
- 23:06Speaker 5: That's when one of the mothers heard what happened to Kayley,
- 23:09Speaker 5: she said, this would have changed everything. So it was disgusting.
- 23:14Speaker 5: You know, and they kept saying stuff like crime of
- 23:15Speaker 5: passion and ounce or a party house. We're like, what's
- 23:20Speaker 5: going on here. I'm literally watching the surveillance of this
- 23:23Speaker 5: this road and this car keeps flying around this house
- 23:26Speaker 5: over and over again.
- 23:27Speaker 6: They were clearly stocked. I don't care what the prosecutor.
- 23:30Speaker 5: Maybe he can't prove it because he can't. He's just
- 23:33Speaker 5: not that good. But they were clearly stocked. He was
- 23:36Speaker 5: there multiple times. The officers were distracted with given miners
- 23:40Speaker 5: and possessions when they really when they're literally filming the
- 23:43Speaker 5: house that these kids get murdered in. I mean, it's
- 23:45Speaker 5: that town has to clear up some priorities and realize that,
- 23:50Speaker 5: you know, noise complaints and alcohol is only a part
- 23:54Speaker 5: of their job, and they need to make sure that
- 23:56Speaker 5: they're protecting these kids if they if they want to
- 23:58Speaker 5: keep doing business.
- 23:59Speaker 1: I was stunned when I heard there was going to
- 24:02Speaker 1: be a plea. I remember the moment, I'm like, what
- 24:06Speaker 1: a plea? I want to circle back to something you said, okay, Kelly,
- 24:12Speaker 1: and we heard dribbles about this at the beginning, had
- 24:15Speaker 1: stated that she was being stalked, okay, but then the
- 24:18Speaker 1: prosecution says there was no stalking. We have no evidence
- 24:21Speaker 1: of stalking. I mean, how many times can we place
- 24:24Speaker 1: that Elantra stalking the king wrote address and Kelly knew
- 24:30Speaker 1: she was being stalked. So that is a lie. You stated,
- 24:36Speaker 1: the DA lied to you. I believe that because there
- 24:41Speaker 1: was no way the parent all the parents would have
- 24:44Speaker 1: acted like they were going along with this plea if
- 24:46Speaker 1: they had known what we're learning now with all these
- 24:50Speaker 1: videos and body cam and crime scene photos coming out,
- 24:54Speaker 1: that is not what everybody was told happened.
- 24:57Speaker 5: Yeah, thirteen incidents assue before this individual was let go
- 25:04Speaker 5: or defunded, whatever that, whatever spin these universities want to
- 25:08Speaker 5: put on it. This guy was a nightmare, throwing up
- 25:11Speaker 5: red flags everywhere. And those are the type of details
- 25:15Speaker 5: that we gotta. We got to force our courtrooms to
- 25:19Speaker 5: be more honest, and we shouldn't be seling things up
- 25:22Speaker 5: in a case like this. I mean, it's not national security,
- 25:26Speaker 5: it's getting abused. They're abusing.
- 25:29Speaker 6: These rules that they say, oh, we got to protect.
- 25:32Speaker 6: They didn't have anyone to protect.
- 25:33Speaker 5: They didn't even have the guy until almost seven weeks
- 25:36Speaker 5: and they were still hiding everything.
- 25:38Speaker 6: So it was just a lie. And you know when
- 25:41Speaker 6: you call.
- 25:42Speaker 1: What were they hiding?
- 25:43Speaker 6: Just telling us our child was stabbed brutally? You know
- 25:47Speaker 6: how many times?
- 25:48Speaker 2: How many times?
- 25:49Speaker 4: We just learned the day or the day before the sentencing,
- 25:54Speaker 4: how many times Kaylie had been stabbed?
- 25:56Speaker 1: White a minute. I am stunned because she was stabbed
- 26:00Speaker 1: so many times they could not identify her, and you
- 26:06Speaker 1: just learned about that when the plea was set to
- 26:09Speaker 1: go down.
- 26:10Speaker 2: We learned about it after.
- 26:11Speaker 4: The plea the day before the sentencing because they lifted
- 26:14Speaker 4: the gag orders.
- 26:15Speaker 2: So the detective said that they would.
- 26:16Speaker 1: Talk to us.
- 26:18Speaker 4: So we talked to them briefly, and we had questions
- 26:22Speaker 4: about Kaylee. You know, how many times was she stabbed?
- 26:24Speaker 4: I mean, none of that's not in her on her
- 26:25Speaker 4: death certificate. The coroner never told us. She just said
- 26:30Speaker 4: around twenty is what she said. So we really didn't know,
- 26:33Speaker 4: and we didn't know where. So we asked them that
- 26:38Speaker 4: and they told us they told us thirty eight times,
- 26:43Speaker 4: and then we were like okay, and they said Kaylie
- 26:47Speaker 4: had really bad damage to her mouth, and I asked
- 26:52Speaker 4: them if her teeth were intact, and they told me no.
- 26:58Speaker 4: And then the day of the sentencing, the docs were dropped.
- 27:03Speaker 4: The Moscow docs were dropped, and the next day we
- 27:06Speaker 4: were driving home and I was reading some of them
- 27:08Speaker 4: and I read that Kaylee was they couldn't yeah, unrecognizable,
- 27:15Speaker 4: and that was that word the will forever like trauma
- 27:21Speaker 4: traumatized me.
- 27:25Speaker 2: I didn't expect that.
- 27:26Speaker 4: And then to read another report that said the same thing, unrecognizable,
- 27:30Speaker 4: and then to read a third report that said he
- 27:33Speaker 4: wasn't sure what he was really looking at because the
- 27:36Speaker 4: facial structure had been so badly damaged.
- 27:40Speaker 5: So that's why we were discussed with this prosecution team.
- 27:43Speaker 2: I mean, and we did not know any of that
- 27:45Speaker 2: for two years and nine months. We did not know
- 27:48Speaker 2: that because of.
- 27:49Speaker 1: The GAD order.
- 27:49Speaker 5: And they're telling us, are you okay with us giving
- 27:52Speaker 5: them life in prison? We're like, no, we're not. And
- 27:54Speaker 5: the people who are they don't know what we know,
- 27:57Speaker 5: and we don't know what they know. I don't know
- 27:59Speaker 5: what happened to their child. They don't know what happened
- 28:01Speaker 5: to mine. It was a protective business over the victims,
- 28:05Speaker 5: over justice. We're still fighting with it. I mean, we're
- 28:09Speaker 5: still fighting with it to this day because we're hearing
- 28:12Speaker 5: details that he was following girls out to their car,
- 28:15Speaker 5: and one of the professors said that this guy's going
- 28:18Speaker 5: to be a problem that he gets his PhD. He's
- 28:22Speaker 5: going to harass students, he's going to freaking abuse his power.
- 28:25Speaker 5: All the things that we suspected that were going on.
- 28:28Speaker 5: We find this out afterwards while they go on a
- 28:30Speaker 5: media tour. They only told us so they could go
- 28:33Speaker 5: do a media tour and tell all you guys. So
- 28:36Speaker 5: they're like, well, we have to tell them before we
- 28:38Speaker 5: tell the world. So basically, twelve hours earlier, they tell us,
- 28:41Speaker 5: and then they grab a microphone and tell the world
- 28:44Speaker 5: that's what happened.
- 28:44Speaker 1: I'm I'm just so stunned at how this was, how
- 28:51Speaker 1: this went down on you. And there's something about the
- 28:56Speaker 1: victim's face, because I know I'm projecting. Keith was shot
- 29:03Speaker 1: five times in the neck, the face, the back, and
- 29:12Speaker 1: I tried not to think about it because it throws
- 29:15Speaker 1: me into a horrible depression because I think about the
- 29:19Speaker 1: bullets tearing through his face. He had these beautiful blue eyes,
- 29:26Speaker 1: and I wonder were they shot, what happened? Did he
- 29:31Speaker 1: feel it when you learned how many times she had
- 29:37Speaker 1: been stabbed in the face? Were you full of rage?
- 29:43Speaker 1: Were you full of tears. What went through your mind
- 29:47Speaker 1: when you learned the truth too late?
- 29:50Speaker 4: So we actually learned all the truth from her autopsy report,
- 29:55Speaker 4: and we were given her autopsy report.
- 29:57Speaker 2: On a thumb drive during the sentence.
- 30:00Speaker 4: The investigator walked into the courtroom that day and said,
- 30:03Speaker 4: and we had to arranged that, and he said, here's
- 30:05Speaker 4: the autops report. So in reading that autops report, we
- 30:10Speaker 4: found out that Kaylie had been stabbed twenty four times
- 30:15Speaker 4: to her face and head. She had eleven to her chest,
- 30:21Speaker 4: neck and like torso area, and three to her upper extremities.
- 30:27Speaker 4: So I thought about her eyes too. I was like,
- 30:30Speaker 4: was her eyes stabbed? But somehow or another, Kaylie's eyes
- 30:35Speaker 4: had not been stabbed. Kaylee did have really bad facial damage.
- 30:42Speaker 4: She or some of her teeth were we're missing, several
- 30:47Speaker 4: were broken, and she had two subdural hematomas to her head, so.
- 30:58Speaker 2: Her nose was broken badly.
- 31:01Speaker 5: Yeah, So that for me, it was outrage because my
- 31:04Speaker 5: daughter was fighting up to her very last breath over
- 31:07Speaker 5: and over. She kept trying to get out of that
- 31:09Speaker 5: bed and he was just drilling her and she's fighting
- 31:13Speaker 5: for her last breath. And I got this old Santa Claus,
- 31:15Speaker 5: who's just thrown out a white towel, just saying, oh,
- 31:18Speaker 5: let's just make it all go away. And I want
- 31:21Speaker 5: these type of killings to stop, and you don't do
- 31:24Speaker 5: that with weak prosecutors.
- 31:26Speaker 6: And this man is extremely bad at his job.
- 31:30Speaker 5: And just yesterday we asked AI what are the safest
- 31:33Speaker 5: countries in the world, And out of the top ten,
- 31:36Speaker 5: every single one.
- 31:37Speaker 6: Of them have the death penalty.
- 31:38Speaker 5: Well eight of them have the capital So for somebody
- 31:43Speaker 5: to think that capital murder doesn't work, well, the safest
- 31:45Speaker 5: countries in the world use it, and they don't use
- 31:48Speaker 5: it like how we are in America. It's just a
- 31:51Speaker 5: bargaining chip.
- 31:52Speaker 2: Yeah, Idaho has it.
- 31:53Speaker 4: But our guys have been there for a long time
- 31:55Speaker 4: and we knew, we knew this wasn't going to happen fast.
- 31:58Speaker 4: He was going to be on death row. It's the principle.
- 32:00Speaker 4: He deserves to ultimately die. Now, maybe he's going to
- 32:04Speaker 4: die of natural causes or just because he gets old
- 32:07Speaker 4: in there, but we were hoping because they just brought
- 32:09Speaker 4: back to the firing squad that here, and I know
- 32:11Speaker 4: things were going to pick back up and they were
- 32:13Speaker 4: going to start, you know, executing these murderers and these criminals.
- 32:16Speaker 2: That are on death row.
- 32:18Speaker 4: But we knew it wasn't going to be anytime soon.
- 32:20Speaker 4: We didn't think they were just going to take him
- 32:22Speaker 4: out back and shoot him. I mean, that would be great.
- 32:24Speaker 4: But even if it was exactly how they told us,
- 32:28Speaker 4: they were just sleeping in their beds, they probably never
- 32:30Speaker 4: even woke up, and they were just stabbed.
- 32:32Speaker 1: To death, little package of bow.
- 32:34Speaker 4: On it, we still would have wanted the death penalty,
- 32:36Speaker 4: you know, we still would We wanted it from the
- 32:39Speaker 4: very beginning.
- 32:39Speaker 2: As soon as we found out that.
- 32:40Speaker 1: They were is that you were led to believe, Christy,
- 32:44Speaker 1: did they Because that's what I was led to believe.
- 32:46Speaker 1: That they were attacked in their sleep and they were
- 32:48Speaker 1: basically dead before they could even wake up.
- 32:50Speaker 5: Yes, And then they went to those parents and said,
- 32:52Speaker 5: this is what it is. Do you want to make
- 32:54Speaker 5: a deal. I mean, that's what it is. No, they
- 32:56Speaker 5: didn't know little shoes punch or face was crushed in,
- 32:59Speaker 5: or teeth or not. They didn't give those just because
- 33:01Speaker 5: they knew it would be enraging and then they would.
- 33:05Speaker 6: Have a problem. So the truth was a problem. Truth
- 33:08Speaker 6: was a problem for the prosecutor, and I don't like it.
- 33:10Speaker 6: I don't like it one bit.
- 33:12Speaker 1: You stated that you are still fighting about it. Number one,
- 33:18Speaker 1: God bless you and give you strength because you're going
- 33:22Speaker 1: to need it for the rest of your life. You
- 33:26Speaker 1: were going to be scrutinized, you were going to be followed,
- 33:29Speaker 1: you were going to be photographed. Everything you say is
- 33:32Speaker 1: going to be parsed and analyzed and attacked. But you
- 33:37Speaker 1: said you're still fighting.
- 33:41Speaker 4: How trying to get We're still trying to get them
- 33:43Speaker 4: to release documentation. They told us that when as soon
- 33:46Speaker 4: as we were out of court, they were going to
- 33:47Speaker 4: give us all of the discovery. Just two days ago
- 33:49Speaker 4: they sent us an email and said, no, that we
- 33:51Speaker 4: have to go through it as.
- 33:52Speaker 2: The the freedom of information at it.
- 33:55Speaker 1: And we were in a meeting with you are kidding me,
- 33:58Speaker 1: They're making you file a four your request for the documents.
- 34:02Speaker 6: Yeah, these people don't.
- 34:03Speaker 4: Two days ago because we kept saying where's our because
- 34:05Speaker 4: they told us they would.
- 34:06Speaker 2: Give it to us, They said that we'll give you
- 34:08Speaker 2: all a discovery and Channon.
- 34:09Speaker 4: Said they're not going to have to go dig for
- 34:11Speaker 4: it and get in line with everybody else, and they
- 34:12Speaker 4: said no, no, no, no, no, nope, we'll give it
- 34:14Speaker 4: to them, and we keep on asking, and then two
- 34:17Speaker 4: days ago, beyond email said you're just gonna here's the
- 34:19Speaker 4: links you need to get on here and you need
- 34:21Speaker 4: to file these forms and these requests and there you go, which.
- 34:25Speaker 6: Which I did.
- 34:26Speaker 5: And then it came back and said we can't find
- 34:28Speaker 5: any records on Kayle. And I was like, all right, guys,
- 34:31Speaker 5: tell me what department FBI has, Like, let's you see
- 34:35Speaker 5: over ten and it's probably closer to twenty.
- 34:38Speaker 6: And I didn't know what department.
- 34:39Speaker 5: I went for Criminology, Justice, I believe is where I
- 34:43Speaker 5: did for you, and they said this is the wrong department.
- 34:45Speaker 5: So I went back to them and said, can you
- 34:46Speaker 5: at least tell me what department I'm getting a Freedom
- 34:48Speaker 5: of Information Act on? And they're like, uh, we don't
- 34:51Speaker 5: have anyone to even talk to you to.
- 34:53Speaker 6: Know, so they don't even know. And I'm like, you
- 34:56Speaker 6: guys are clowns. You guys are clowns.
- 34:58Speaker 5: This you should be you should embarrassed to be this
- 35:01Speaker 5: bad at your job. And I'll hold you accountable. And
- 35:05Speaker 5: I think every family, when you lose your child, you
- 35:07Speaker 5: have to like expect the most when you're talking about.
- 35:09Speaker 6: Life and death.
- 35:10Speaker 5: You have to you have to take charge situation. There's
- 35:14Speaker 5: going to be a time for you to struggle and
- 35:15Speaker 5: be a victim. But if you can rally up and
- 35:19Speaker 5: then go into that system and say and demand justice
- 35:21Speaker 5: and demand that.
- 35:22Speaker 6: Your child is treated as fair.
- 35:24Speaker 5: As possible, and you'll feel better when it's all said
- 35:28Speaker 5: and done.
- 35:28Speaker 6: You know, it's never going to bring them back.
- 35:30Speaker 5: And I literally had a judge scream at me, you're
- 35:32Speaker 5: we're not going to bring her back, and I was like,
- 35:33Speaker 5: I don't That's not what this is about.
- 35:36Speaker 6: This is about you guys doing everything by the book.
- 35:38Speaker 2: This is like you.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Judge told you you're not going to bring her back.
- 35:42Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yelling at me, telling me he didn't want
- 35:44Speaker 5: me to talk to the media anymore. And I said, well,
- 35:46Speaker 5: that's that's not going to happen. I'm going to talk
- 35:48Speaker 5: to media every single time I want. He basically said,
- 35:50Speaker 5: well then we'll never have a trial.
- 35:52Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 35:53Speaker 2: He in a close hearing.
- 35:55Speaker 1: I can't believe. I judge told you how you're supposed
- 35:59Speaker 1: to be and you can't bring her back. That is
- 36:03Speaker 1: not appropriate for a judge to tell a grieving parent
- 36:07Speaker 1: you can't bring her back. Let's just let it go.
- 36:11Speaker 1: It's not going to bring her back. It's not about
- 36:14Speaker 1: her back. It is about justice.
- 36:16Speaker 2: Yeah, he actually said, he was talking. We all were
- 36:20Speaker 2: in the courtroom or on.
- 36:22Speaker 4: Zoom, all the families, and he actually said, and the
- 36:25Speaker 4: goods all this family, especially the dad needs to shut
- 36:29Speaker 4: his mouth.
- 36:30Speaker 2: And he said, I don't. I don't agree with that.
- 36:34Speaker 4: And he said, I don't care if you don't agree
- 36:35Speaker 4: with that. And Steve said, well, I mean, you know.
- 36:40Speaker 2: Me, I'm fighting for justice for my daughter.
- 36:42Speaker 4: And he says, do you think that that you're going
- 36:45Speaker 4: to bring her back?
- 36:46Speaker 2: Doing this all is talking to the media is going
- 36:49Speaker 2: to bring her back? And Steve goes, no, I mean
- 36:51Speaker 2: I know that that's not going to bring her back.
- 36:53Speaker 2: But you know I still have a voice, you know,
- 36:59Speaker 2: And well.
- 37:00Speaker 1: Does he get off saying it's not going to bring
- 37:03Speaker 1: her back to you who have lost your precious pearl.
- 37:08Speaker 1: And he is telling you to speak? Are you not
- 37:11Speaker 1: to speak?
- 37:12Speaker 5: I mean I still had a son at that college.
- 37:15Speaker 5: There was another victim's sister that went to WSU. We
- 37:19Speaker 5: had we had lives still on the line making sure
- 37:22Speaker 5: that that place was protected. And when we're sitting there saying, hey,
- 37:25Speaker 5: we need to know the facts. We need to know
- 37:28Speaker 5: where they stop, what's going We have kids still going
- 37:30Speaker 5: to school here, and they're just like, no, you don't
- 37:32Speaker 5: have the right to know anything.
- 37:36Speaker 1: Yeah, did you say the other parents were duped? Do
- 37:39Speaker 1: you think the other parents were duped? They didn't understand
- 37:43Speaker 1: the facts where they agreed to that play.
- 37:45Speaker 2: So the plea.
- 37:47Speaker 4: They set up a meeting with us via zoom, our
- 37:49Speaker 4: whole family on a Friday afternoon.
- 37:53Speaker 2: It was like an hour and a half.
- 37:54Speaker 4: Long, and we talked about logistics of trial becauespecially of themecurity,
- 38:00Speaker 4: where we're going to park, how we're going to have
- 38:03Speaker 4: to phone in every day and tell who's coming, and YadA.
- 38:06Speaker 2: YadA, YadA YadA.
- 38:07Speaker 6: Our car had already been vandalized in their parking.
- 38:09Speaker 2: Lot the Late Ada County, So we're like, how.
- 38:12Speaker 6: Do we make sure this doesn't happen anymore? Guys?
- 38:14Speaker 4: And ironically, that day that we went to court, there
- 38:17Speaker 4: was a bunch of pro Burgers on the other side
- 38:19Speaker 4: sitting behind Brian doing this and hmmm on the camera
- 38:23Speaker 4: and or we vandalized.
- 38:25Speaker 2: We're like, so, speaking of.
- 38:29Speaker 1: The pro Burgers, you know what I have in my hand,
- 38:34Speaker 1: all of Coburger's complaints. I know it's kind of irrelevant.
- 38:38Speaker 1: All that matters is Kelly is gone and her friends
- 38:42Speaker 1: are gone, and he murdered them, and we're paying for
- 38:46Speaker 1: his three hots and a cot. That's what matters. And
- 38:50Speaker 1: is there any way under God's son that it can
- 38:54Speaker 1: be fixed? But I find it ironic that he is
- 39:00Speaker 1: filing complaints that he is being threatened sex harassment through
- 39:05Speaker 1: the air vent, like he was the one looking up
- 39:10Speaker 1: online attacking and raping women in their sleep, when they
- 39:15Speaker 1: were drugged, when they were passed out, when they were comatose.
- 39:18Speaker 1: That's his fantasy. That's why he broke in that night
- 39:23Speaker 1: when he assumed the girls would be asleep. He's whining
- 39:26Speaker 1: that Mommy, they're threatening me through the air vent and
- 39:32Speaker 1: there he's actually I love this one that he's complaining
- 39:38Speaker 1: about the food on his tray and his nutritional value
- 39:43Speaker 1: of his food, and he refers to bringing the food
- 39:49Speaker 1: like a butler. The service just hasn't been that hasn't
- 39:52Speaker 1: been that good.
- 39:55Speaker 6: He's the property of Idaho now and he's going to
- 39:58Speaker 6: get worse.
- 40:00Speaker 4: To you that. I, like you said, I think it's
- 40:01Speaker 4: very ironic. I'm like, you know, for him to get
- 40:06Speaker 4: there and so quickly start complaining and even throwing out
- 40:09Speaker 4: other inmates' names and CEO names. It's like you were
- 40:13Speaker 4: in prison. I mean, do you like this is not
- 40:16Speaker 4: his forte? I mean, his forte is to kill, but
- 40:19Speaker 4: not to be killed. You know, his forte is to
- 40:21Speaker 4: you know, possibly I mean he didn't rape any of
- 40:23Speaker 4: our kids, but possibly rape but not get raped. I mean,
- 40:26Speaker 4: you know, it's good for the goose, is not good
- 40:28Speaker 4: for the gander here, you know. And I think it's
- 40:31Speaker 4: just so ironic that he is complaining with written complaints
- 40:36Speaker 4: and saying this inmate so and so so is doing
- 40:40Speaker 4: this to me and saying this to me and this,
- 40:42Speaker 4: and and he expects them to come and save him.
- 40:48Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, well they've they've been beating him, and we
- 40:51Speaker 5: paid our prisoners. And when when you become the property
- 40:54Speaker 5: of a state, you should lose your constitutional rights. You
- 40:57Speaker 5: shouldn't have all these rights as if you were a
- 41:01Speaker 5: tax paying citizen doing your best job, going to work
- 41:04Speaker 5: every single day. We got to we've got to fix
- 41:05Speaker 5: some of these things. And we have been talking with legislators,
- 41:08Speaker 5: you asking of us things that we've done. We're not
- 41:10Speaker 5: going to take this lightly. We're we're going to do
- 41:12Speaker 5: everything from a victim's perspective. We've become advocates and witnesses
- 41:15Speaker 5: for our kids, and we're trying to change it. And
- 41:19Speaker 5: I think you guys can see that that's that went
- 41:22Speaker 5: all the way down to you, my daughter in the
- 41:24Speaker 5: courtroom going after him and letting them know that we're
- 41:26Speaker 5: not just going to be victims that you can keep
- 41:29Speaker 5: down and keep trying to hurt, you know.
- 41:31Speaker 4: I do also think that they really up the Annie
- 41:34Speaker 4: taking them to prison, which is what we were hopeful for,
- 41:37Speaker 4: because I think that lay Talk County Jail was a
- 41:39Speaker 4: kkewalk and then and then Ada maybe.
- 41:42Speaker 1: Got little Mayberry. It was myberry. I couldn't believe that
- 41:49Speaker 1: this guy's kind of how a tablet. He can't watch movies,
- 41:52Speaker 1: he can communicate with the outside world. I guarantee you
- 41:56Speaker 1: just give it a minute until people think this has
- 42:01Speaker 1: died down. He is going to zoom at some symposium.
- 42:05Speaker 1: He's going to be have this weird cult following like
- 42:09Speaker 1: you mentioned the pro Burgers. He can write a book.
- 42:12Speaker 1: There's no son of Sam laws in Idaho. I don't
- 42:14Speaker 1: believe he can even get married. I mean, I feel
- 42:22Speaker 1: like running out in the street and screaming.
- 42:26Speaker 4: I think I just read somewhere the other day, which
- 42:28Speaker 4: I know I did, that does one of the Meninda's
- 42:30Speaker 4: brothers have a child?
- 42:32Speaker 6: Yes, he has a daughter.
- 42:35Speaker 1: Even your vander Slut, you know, Jorn vander Slute that
- 42:38Speaker 1: murdered two young girls, murdered Natalie Holloway and Stephanie Tasciana
- 42:43Speaker 1: Florides under similar circumstances as judge Daddy protected him. He's
- 42:48Speaker 1: had not one but two babies behind bars. He drinks,
- 42:52Speaker 1: he does drugs, he smokes, he gambles. It's like an
- 42:57Speaker 1: insane But again, screw them and the horse they rode
- 43:01Speaker 1: in on. I want to talk about what, if anything,
- 43:04Speaker 1: can be done now, starting with do you believe the
- 43:08Speaker 1: other families were duped? If they had known the truth,
- 43:12Speaker 1: would they have gone along with the plea?
- 43:14Speaker 2: I can't say one hundred percent.
- 43:16Speaker 4: But the thing is, I don't want to speak on
- 43:19Speaker 4: behalf of them by any means.
- 43:20Speaker 2: But I don't.
- 43:22Speaker 4: Think that the other families necessarily wanted the truth.
- 43:27Speaker 2: They didn't want to be lied to, but they didn't
- 43:29Speaker 2: want details. And we did.
- 43:33Speaker 4: We weren't just like Okay, she was seventy at the round.
- 43:36Speaker 2: Twenty, We're like, how many you know where?
- 43:39Speaker 4: And because I do talk to Mattie's mom, and Maddie's
- 43:43Speaker 4: mom is like please please please, like I don't you know,
- 43:45Speaker 4: so I don't say anything to her. When I speak
- 43:48Speaker 4: to her about you know, what happened, She's like, I
- 43:51Speaker 4: don't read that stuff. I don't I don't watch it.
- 43:54Speaker 2: Our thing is we have kids, you know.
- 43:55Speaker 4: We have two that are older, we have two that
- 43:58Speaker 4: are younger, and you can't tell them this day on
- 44:00Speaker 4: social media for the rest of their lives. And I
- 44:02Speaker 4: don't want one of them opened up TikTok and seeing
- 44:04Speaker 4: cremsy photos of their sister or bodycam.
- 44:08Speaker 2: So we were like, we're trying to stay one ahead.
- 44:11Speaker 4: And as a mother, even if I didn't have children,
- 44:15Speaker 4: I would still as much as it has traumatized me,
- 44:19Speaker 4: I would still want to know what happened.
- 44:21Speaker 2: I want I want to know what happened.
- 44:23Speaker 1: Top to body Christy, isn't it true? You basically got
- 44:26Speaker 1: an email saying, hey, we got a deal.
- 44:29Speaker 4: Yes on a Sunday Sunday afternoon. They sent it at
- 44:33Speaker 4: four fifty three pm. We happen to see what happened
- 44:36Speaker 4: to be checking his email a little later, around six
- 44:37Speaker 4: or so.
- 44:38Speaker 2: And he said what and we lost our minds.
- 44:42Speaker 4: We immediately emailed them and said we need to talk
- 44:44Speaker 4: like now, like what has this been sent yet?
- 44:48Speaker 2: Have you offered it yet? What is going on?
- 44:50Speaker 4: They sent us an email the next morning and said
- 44:53Speaker 4: we can meet at three today and we said, you
- 44:55Speaker 4: didn't answer, has this been sent already? And they said yes,
- 44:59Speaker 4: it was sent yesterday evening to the defense. And so
- 45:04Speaker 4: we met with them at three that day on Monday,
- 45:07Speaker 4: and the plea had already been accepted, and we lost
- 45:11Speaker 4: our minds.
- 45:12Speaker 2: We were in that meeting.
- 45:13Speaker 4: I mean we were screaming, we were cussing, we were yelling,
- 45:16Speaker 4: we were.
- 45:16Speaker 2: Saying why did you do this? How did you do this?
- 45:19Speaker 2: You know what happened?
- 45:21Speaker 4: You just talked to us on Friday and told us that,
- 45:24Speaker 4: you know, you had every anticipation of taking this all
- 45:29Speaker 4: the way. We talked about port I mean we talked
- 45:33Speaker 4: about a plea deal for like a like a second
- 45:36Speaker 4: and he just said, oh, I think that they might
- 45:38Speaker 4: be wanting one, but we have no reason to give
- 45:41Speaker 4: them one.
- 45:43Speaker 2: You know, why would we? And we're like, yeah, right,
- 45:46Speaker 2: why would we?
- 45:47Speaker 4: And he said, how do you guys feel about a
- 45:49Speaker 4: plea deal, and we're like no, no, no, no, no
- 45:51Speaker 4: no no.
- 45:52Speaker 1: Boom moved on.
- 45:53Speaker 5: Yeah, he accepted the plea deal within the same hour
- 45:56Speaker 5: that he got it. This man never wanted to fight
- 45:59Speaker 5: for our children, literally, I mean it. They fought for
- 46:01Speaker 5: their lives, for their very last breath, and this man
- 46:05Speaker 5: had no fighting it.
- 46:06Speaker 6: They fought hard all.
- 46:07Speaker 5: The way to the end, and he gave up within
- 46:09Speaker 5: an hour of being given an opportunity.
- 46:12Speaker 6: To quit on these kids.
- 46:13Speaker 5: And that's the kind of prosecutor that you got to
- 46:16Speaker 5: get you. You got to get him out. You got
- 46:18Speaker 5: to get real prosecutors in Idaho. We've got some jobs
- 46:22Speaker 5: to do. We got some work to do there.
- 46:24Speaker 4: Yeah, you have to have a prosecutor that if you're
- 46:27Speaker 4: in depth inally state believes in capital punishment.
- 46:30Speaker 5: It's not your will, the victims will. If they don't
- 46:33Speaker 5: want it, then fine. But we had four people and Bill.
- 46:36Speaker 4: Thompson has never talked to us since that phone that
- 46:40Speaker 4: zoom meeting that we had, and we were just like,
- 46:43Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I can't believe that you did that.
- 46:45Speaker 1: You man. He's never talked to you since he's been
- 46:49Speaker 1: all over the media. But he hasn't talked to you.
- 46:53Speaker 5: When we did get a briefing, it was from the investigator,
- 46:57Speaker 5: the two investigators, and.
- 46:59Speaker 4: Ashley Jennings the deputy, but Bill Tump because I mean
- 47:02Speaker 4: we were going after him. I mean, our whole family
- 47:05Speaker 4: was in different media windows and we were all just
- 47:08Speaker 4: coming at here.
- 47:09Speaker 2: We were just like Bell, like how could you do this?
- 47:11Speaker 1: So this guy did not have the balls to talk
- 47:15Speaker 1: to you after the deal because he knew he had
- 47:18Speaker 1: done the wrong thing.
- 47:19Speaker 5: Yeah, I said, did you at least get some details?
- 47:22Speaker 5: Did you at least get find out about the kill kid,
- 47:25Speaker 5: the knife, anything? You go, Steeve, we will never get
- 47:28Speaker 5: those details. You're never going to get those details. It's
- 47:31Speaker 5: not important.
- 47:31Speaker 6: He's just going to lie to us.
- 47:32Speaker 5: And I said, you are absolutely idiot. You have no
- 47:36Speaker 5: idea who this person is. He is going to write
- 47:38Speaker 5: a book and I'm going to learn about the sickest details.
- 47:41Speaker 6: Through his profit book.
- 47:42Speaker 5: Through its sister, or through some professor, whatever way he
- 47:45Speaker 5: does it.
- 47:45Speaker 6: I'm going to hear about him. And you're an idiot
- 47:48Speaker 6: for not even knowing who. You're dealing with.
- 47:55Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace. What do you believe Coburger's
- 48:03Speaker 1: motive was not that the state needs to prove it.
- 48:06Speaker 1: I don't know why they kept talking about we can't
- 48:08Speaker 1: prove motive. It doesn't matter. You don't have to prove
- 48:10Speaker 1: motive in a murder case. But what do you believe
- 48:14Speaker 1: was his motive?
- 48:15Speaker 4: I think that he had been watching either Kailee or Maddie,
- 48:21Speaker 4: and I don't think the others were involved, and that's
- 48:26Speaker 4: why he went straight up to that room. That house
- 48:29Speaker 4: is so confusing. It's just just a build on from hell.
- 48:32Speaker 4: They just built on and built on and built on
- 48:35Speaker 4: throughout the years. So it is a very confusing floor plan.
- 48:39Speaker 4: And we know that he went in there very quickly.
- 48:41Speaker 2: He wasn't you know. He went in and he went out.
- 48:44Speaker 6: And.
- 48:47Speaker 2: He may have tried to walk into Keailee's room first,
- 48:49Speaker 2: we don't know.
- 48:50Speaker 4: And Keeley's mid was empty, so he's like, I'm going
- 48:52Speaker 4: into Xantas or Maddie's. And maybe he went into Maddi's
- 48:55Speaker 4: and then got mad because Keaylee woke up and was like, oh,
- 48:58Speaker 4: there's two in here. But I think it was some
- 49:01Speaker 4: sort of an obsession, some sick, sick, twisted, you know, stalking.
- 49:09Speaker 2: Maybe he hated one of them, Maybe it was both.
- 49:14Speaker 2: I think it was hate.
- 49:15Speaker 6: There was no blood on Kayley's door, so that would.
- 49:19Speaker 5: Lead us to believe he went there first, opened the
- 49:21Speaker 5: door seeing the dog or seeing something, and then said, okay,
- 49:24Speaker 5: there's nobody here. Then he went to Then I'm thinking
- 49:28Speaker 5: he went to ADDIE's room. And you don't see blood
- 49:31Speaker 5: on that door, but the other door downstairs they do
- 49:34Speaker 5: see blood on it, So I think that was We're
- 49:37Speaker 5: just going through this reverse engineering it. We've talked to
- 49:40Speaker 5: detectives and things like that now and we believe that
- 49:43Speaker 5: that's that's explains who he was going for, and he
- 49:48Speaker 5: definitely stopped them. He stopped multiple girls on that hillside.
- 49:52Speaker 5: He's a copycat killer and he just was really poor
- 49:55Speaker 5: at it. And I mean you could look at his handwriting.
- 49:57Speaker 5: He might be a PhDe student and Sylvania, but he
- 50:01Speaker 5: would have.
- 50:02Speaker 6: Had a wee harder time out here. I mean he
- 50:05Speaker 6: looked like a little kid, like a little fifth grader
- 50:07Speaker 6: write in that paper. So I can't believe that.
- 50:09Speaker 1: That's Guys, why do you think everybody is attacking Dylan
- 50:14Speaker 1: and Bethany acting like they did something wrong or even
- 50:19Speaker 1: part of the murtyrs. It's insane.
- 50:22Speaker 2: I hate it.
- 50:22Speaker 4: We absolutely hate it, and it just I fear and
- 50:26Speaker 4: these girls are so young and for them to have
- 50:29Speaker 4: to deal with this.
- 50:29Speaker 1: For for forever.
- 50:31Speaker 2: And I mean, I'm not going to say that the
- 50:33Speaker 2: events that occurred that night were strange. Do we think
- 50:37Speaker 2: they were involved in anyway?
- 50:38Speaker 1: No?
- 50:39Speaker 2: Could they have saved the kids if they were there,
- 50:41Speaker 2: called nine one one right then and there. No. But
- 50:44Speaker 2: I mean, but you you know, when you go.
- 50:48Speaker 4: Into fear, you go into that fight or fight mode,
- 50:51Speaker 4: and maybe that was they thought.
- 50:53Speaker 2: They flew, you know, and they cut up together. It
- 50:58Speaker 2: was very clear.
- 51:00Speaker 1: Interesting about what you said when you were talking about
- 51:03Speaker 1: you saw the LA law enforcement come up in your driva,
- 51:06Speaker 1: you ran to the bedroom. That I mean, it's hard
- 51:10Speaker 1: to explain in the heat of the moment, the fog
- 51:13Speaker 1: of war, why anybody does anything that they do. Why
- 51:17Speaker 1: did I throw all my books down? I don't know
- 51:20Speaker 1: why I did that? Why did you run to the bedroom?
- 51:24Speaker 1: I don't know. Why does anybody do anything? And attacking
- 51:28Speaker 1: those girls is just like more victimization, another thing I know,
- 51:32Speaker 1: you've got to go. I find it really interesting that
- 51:36Speaker 1: Washington State had this long history of his anti woman,
- 51:42Speaker 1: misogynist stalking behavior. And did nothing. That's really interesting. If
- 51:49Speaker 1: he had been thrown out, he wouldn't have even been
- 51:51Speaker 1: there exactly.
- 51:53Speaker 6: Yep, he should have been thrown out before he ever
- 51:55Speaker 6: killed these kids. That's the truth.
- 51:57Speaker 5: They should have set a standard and said it, Look,
- 52:00Speaker 5: we don't put up with this in our university. You
- 52:03Speaker 5: cross the line, you're done. It's not even our decision,
- 52:06Speaker 5: it's just your behavior. We're holding you accountable. You should
- 52:09Speaker 5: behave like this. That's the expectations in Washington State University.
- 52:13Speaker 6: And you either do it or you don't.
- 52:16Speaker 4: I mean, he had thirteen in the first semester. The
- 52:20Speaker 4: first one came in August, that's the first month that
- 52:22Speaker 4: you come.
- 52:23Speaker 2: To school, and then twelve twelve after and.
- 52:27Speaker 4: November I had a huge you know, Thanksgiving break, and
- 52:30Speaker 4: then he didn't even go the whole month of December.
- 52:32Speaker 4: He took off, like December ninth or tenth, and there's
- 52:36Speaker 4: thirteen formal complaints.
- 52:40Speaker 2: What were they doing?
- 52:40Speaker 1: Just do with it?
- 52:42Speaker 4: Following them, stalking them, just being would kind of act
- 52:46Speaker 4: aggressive and stand in doorways from what we've read, and
- 52:50Speaker 4: the girls.
- 52:50Speaker 2: Would have to like walk past them, and like all right, yeah.
- 52:53Speaker 5: Guy should have been punched in the face. He was
- 52:55Speaker 5: a creep man. He's a disgusting creep the kind of guy.
- 52:58Speaker 5: We even heard about it from the Seventh Iron's bar
- 53:00Speaker 5: where those girls put a little note saying, Hey, if
- 53:03Speaker 5: you get this credit card, watch out for this guy.
- 53:04Speaker 5: I mean, he's been doing this his whole life and
- 53:07Speaker 5: we didn't stand up to him. We need to start
- 53:09Speaker 5: standing up to these type of bullies. And hopefully Idaho
- 53:14Speaker 5: get it right. Hope hopefully this prisoner's in there, they'll
- 53:16Speaker 5: they'll do the real justice.
- 53:18Speaker 6: They'll they'll have like real.
- 53:19Speaker 5: Men in there, and they'll handle it the way that
- 53:21Speaker 5: it should be handled in the first place.
- 53:23Speaker 1: Is there any way in your mind that this plea
- 53:27Speaker 1: can be reversed or any way that the fans may
- 53:31Speaker 1: seek the federal death penalty.
- 53:33Speaker 4: We've heard that and we've seen that a lot of
- 53:35Speaker 4: people have reached out to us instead that you know,
- 53:37Speaker 4: this can happen. But we don't understand why it was
- 53:39Speaker 4: a federal in the first place. I mean, he crossed
- 53:44Speaker 4: the lines to Killy, we drove from Washington. I know,
- 53:48Speaker 4: we never understood why it wasn't a federal case in
- 53:51Speaker 4: the first place.
- 53:53Speaker 1: But just like it's don I've another question because a
- 54:00Speaker 1: lot of crime victims are watching me right now. Do
- 54:05Speaker 1: you ever feel Kelly's presence with you?
- 54:10Speaker 2: I do.
- 54:11Speaker 4: I do, not as much as I would like, but
- 54:15Speaker 4: once in a great while I do.
- 54:16Speaker 2: And it's funny because you know, like you're outside in.
- 54:19Speaker 4: A little ladybuggle, you know, a ladybug will land on
- 54:22Speaker 4: you and you're like, oh, you know, it's buck and
- 54:23Speaker 4: then you're like, lady bug.
- 54:26Speaker 2: You know.
- 54:26Speaker 4: So lady bugs really get me because it's not that
- 54:28Speaker 4: common that a ladybug will land on you.
- 54:31Speaker 2: But Kaylee was a bug.
- 54:32Speaker 4: She was our bug k bug and we all just
- 54:36Speaker 4: recently got lady bug tattoos.
- 54:38Speaker 2: But lady bugs are very special and I feel like,
- 54:42Speaker 2: you know. And then here's another thing, is Kaylee was
- 54:47Speaker 2: she loves Stitch when she was a little when she was.
- 54:49Speaker 4: Born, Stitch just came out the cartoon Stitch the Disney
- 54:52Speaker 4: and so we bought her everything Stitch Stitch, Stitch, Stitch, Stitch,
- 54:56Speaker 4: And it's very ironical.
- 54:57Speaker 2: Since Kaylee passed away, Stitch has been kind of brought back.
- 55:00Speaker 2: They've done a new movie with Stitches, their Stitch stuff everywhere.
- 55:03Speaker 4: So we'll be in the sore of this and that
- 55:04Speaker 4: we'll be like, and you'll see the most ironic little
- 55:08Speaker 4: stitch figure or stitch stuff animal in this whole mess
- 55:12Speaker 4: of other stuff animals in this little stitch face, and we'll.
- 55:15Speaker 2: Be like, oh my god, scally scaily, you know.
- 55:18Speaker 4: Just and in the strangest places you'll find a stitch
- 55:24Speaker 4: small or big or big one or something and it's
- 55:27Speaker 4: just like gaily, so stitch and ladybugs.
- 55:30Speaker 1: Guys, how do you speak with a straight face? How
- 55:34Speaker 1: do you keep being so strong? I'm looking at Steve
- 55:38Speaker 1: Gonsalmus and his face is like granite. How do you
- 55:44Speaker 1: stay so strong?
- 55:46Speaker 5: Because it's so important and I love our country, I
- 55:49Speaker 5: love the state of Idaho.
- 55:50Speaker 6: I want things to get better.
- 55:52Speaker 5: I don't want these kind of sick goes to prosper
- 55:55Speaker 5: and for us to for us.
- 55:57Speaker 6: To win, we need real leaders.
- 55:59Speaker 5: We need men and real strong women who can stand
- 56:02Speaker 5: up to these people. I'm making them, I'm raising them.
- 56:05Speaker 5: I got some of the strongest girls in the freaking world,
- 56:07Speaker 5: and he killed one of them.
- 56:09Speaker 6: Hold them accountable. I feel like we've got a job
- 56:11Speaker 6: to do.
- 56:12Speaker 5: And I think if parents get a little more proactive
- 56:16Speaker 5: and be a little bit more vocal, towards that prosecution.
- 56:19Speaker 5: They can force the media to help hold them accountable.
- 56:24Speaker 5: And I really believe that the government works for us.
- 56:27Speaker 5: I believe that government is servitude. You go in to serve,
- 56:30Speaker 5: You don't go in there for your own opinion. You
- 56:33Speaker 5: might not believe in the death penalty, we don't care.
- 56:36Speaker 5: It's the victims and their families. That's what you should
- 56:39Speaker 5: be negotiating for. You're their vote, You're proxying their will
- 56:42Speaker 5: through into the courtroom, and I think the court's lost
- 56:46Speaker 5: that and we're going to try to bring that back.
- 56:48Speaker 5: I mean, there's a reason why we took our daughter
- 56:51Speaker 5: to Texas. She had a full scholarship. We've said, you're
- 56:53Speaker 5: going to Texas because they honor their victims. They do
- 56:56Speaker 5: everything in their power. Florida's another not that we're going
- 56:59Speaker 5: to have another victim.
- 57:00Speaker 6: No, no, not happy.
- 57:02Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, and these are
- 57:05Speaker 1: not just empty words, but I want you to know,
- 57:10Speaker 1: from the beginning, the very beginning, you are the focus
- 57:15Speaker 1: of so many prayers for you, for your children, for Kelly,
- 57:21Speaker 1: not just for what you have endured, but what you
- 57:26Speaker 1: will endure. And I want to thank you so much
- 57:32Speaker 1: for being with us, thank you.
- 57:35Speaker 6: Thank you for your audience.
- 57:36Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Grace signing off, goodbye friend,