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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Convicted killer Brian Coburger says, I owe the victims nothing.
- 0:14Speaker 1: This as Coburger is.
- 0:16Speaker 2: Cost price a shopping at Costco and at a coffee
- 0:21Speaker 2: shop immediately after the murders.
- 0:25Speaker 1: So let me understand.
- 0:27Speaker 2: He has pled guilty to slaughtering four people that he
- 0:31Speaker 2: thought he would find a sleep in their beds after
- 0:34Speaker 2: he had dreamed about raping comatose women, and then after
- 0:40Speaker 2: slaughtering them, leaving the scene, boiling himself in the shower.
- 0:47Speaker 1: He goes to Costco to Price shop.
- 0:51Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. I want to
- 0:53Speaker 2: thank you for being with us.
- 0:56Speaker 3: And I don't know.
- 0:56Speaker 4: I'm okay, no way me these stairs which she found
- 1:06Speaker 4: those stairs? Maybe she was listen.
- 1:13Speaker 2: First, I want to make sure I've got my facts
- 1:16Speaker 2: straight before I go out to a forensic psychologist. Alside Paganelli,
- 1:22Speaker 2: Susan Hendricks is joining me investigative journalists.
- 1:25Speaker 1: She's on the Coburger case from the get go.
- 1:27Speaker 2: She is the author of a brand new book, Down
- 1:30Speaker 2: the heel My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi. Susan,
- 1:35Speaker 2: I just want to make sure I understand this. The
- 1:37Speaker 2: timeline here and McDonough jump in if you know better, Susan,
- 1:44Speaker 2: Brian Coburger, We're not just supposing, We're not hypothesizing. Brian
- 1:49Speaker 2: Coberger admitted pled guilty to four murders.
- 1:54Speaker 1: They were worse than murders.
- 1:56Speaker 2: They were slaughters of four innocent college students University Idaho.
- 2:02Speaker 1: And now do I have this right, Susan Hendrix.
- 2:05Speaker 2: He then goes home, boils himself in the shower, takes
- 2:11Speaker 2: a few selfies.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Hey, control room, can I.
- 2:12Speaker 2: See the shower selfies he took like an hour after
- 2:16Speaker 2: he gets home to his apartment in Pullman with the
- 2:19Speaker 2: thumbs up, all fresh and clean from the quadruple murder.
- 2:23Speaker 2: And then he goes out to Costco to price shop
- 2:26Speaker 2: and get an expensive cup of coffee.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Do I have that right, Susan Hendricks.
- 2:31Speaker 5: Yes, And by the way, before taking that selfie, he
- 2:34Speaker 5: goes back to the crime scene a little after nine am.
- 2:37Speaker 5: Was it to look for the evidence he left behind?
- 2:40Speaker 6: And we do know that he.
- 2:41Speaker 5: Called his mother as well, But Raight just goes into Costco.
- 2:45Speaker 5: He wasn't able to get inside. I don't know if
- 2:46Speaker 5: he didn't know you needed a card to get in.
- 2:48Speaker 5: But he's just acting like it's a normal day after slaughtering,
- 2:52Speaker 5: as you said, for college students.
- 2:54Speaker 1: Yeah, you need a car to get into cost Co.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to show you the video of him
- 2:59Speaker 2: and Costco. He is drinking out of a water there he.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Goes and watch this.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Yep, hide that left hand, Hide that he keeps that
- 3:08Speaker 2: in his left pocket. I'm surprised he didn't go off
- 3:14Speaker 2: on the female Costco person, the diminutive lady there.
- 3:18Speaker 1: With the blonde ponytail. He's like, what, I need a
- 3:21Speaker 1: car to get in Costco?
- 3:22Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 3:23Speaker 1: Co Burger, you need a card, it says Costco. Want it.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Alison Paganelli joining us on board.
- 3:30Speaker 2: A certified forensic psychologist affiliated with Park Deets and Associates,
- 3:36Speaker 2: eighteen years of experience. Alison, I'm not a shrink. I'm
- 3:42Speaker 2: just a JD. But who goes from a slaughterhouse where
- 3:46Speaker 2: you murder four people to price shopping in Costco.
- 3:51Speaker 7: Well, it's hard to say why he was doing those
- 3:56Speaker 7: things right after slaughtering college students. Could have been trying
- 4:01Speaker 7: to get some security footage of him looking.
- 4:04Speaker 6: Like just a regular guy.
- 4:07Speaker 7: He might have been kind of sniffing around to see
- 4:09Speaker 7: if anybody recognized him or had tied him to the crime.
- 4:12Speaker 6: Yet it is unusual order.
- 4:15Speaker 1: The mind of someone that could pull this off. But
- 4:18Speaker 1: he bought up a really good point.
- 4:19Speaker 2: I'm gonna circle back to you because I got to
- 4:21Speaker 2: go throw this to Eric Fattus. Eric Fattus is a
- 4:24Speaker 2: veteran criminal defense attorney joining us TV Legal analyst founding
- 4:28Speaker 2: partner Varner Fattus, Elite legal, and former Fellony prosecutor.
- 4:33Speaker 1: We know what he was doing, fattest. I believe Alison.
- 4:37Speaker 2: Took me quite literally. I want her to go into
- 4:40Speaker 2: the mind like, who can do that? Fattus?
- 4:44Speaker 1: Clearly he's trying to establish an alibi.
- 4:47Speaker 2: See him all clean and crisp and bright and shiny
- 4:50Speaker 2: here in Costco.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Who could do that? Well?
- 4:53Speaker 2: Him, he could do that because we know he's already
- 4:55Speaker 2: admitted to doing it. But he was trying to establish
- 4:57Speaker 2: an alibi. And now I've got the footage to show it.
- 5:00Speaker 8: Yeah, Nancy, I mean when it comes to an alibi,
- 5:03Speaker 8: you have to be seen by someone, you have to
- 5:04Speaker 8: have an alibi witness, you have to have some evidence
- 5:08Speaker 8: that you were somewhere else, and so yeah, it makes
- 5:10Speaker 8: sense strategically to try and go out and be seen
- 5:14Speaker 8: and be on camera and find people who view you
- 5:18Speaker 8: who would say, hey, yeah, I saw him at Costco.
- 5:20Speaker 8: He couldn't have been conducting these heinous murders, you know,
- 5:24Speaker 8: moments before this. I think that was likely his intention
- 5:27Speaker 8: and his alibi, and the case was garbage, and this
- 5:30Speaker 8: was kind of a trash attempt at accomplishing that as well.
- 5:34Speaker 2: And then it didn't work because Dingjong didn't know you
- 5:38Speaker 2: have to have a card to go sauntering around the
- 5:40Speaker 2: aisles at Costco and taste all the samples. It didn't work,
- 5:45Speaker 2: so we had to leave and get another alibi where
- 5:48Speaker 2: he could be lingering. So where did he go? A
- 5:52Speaker 2: coffee kiosk? Let's see that one control room. He goes
- 5:56Speaker 2: into what looks like a grocery store, headed straight for
- 5:59Speaker 2: I think to be a Starbucks kiosk, wearing the same
- 6:03Speaker 2: outfit as we saw before. There he goes Okay, back
- 6:09Speaker 2: to Allison Paganelli joining us for certified forensic Psychologists. So
- 6:14Speaker 2: what I'm asking you is how do you switch gears
- 6:19Speaker 2: like that? Most people would be upset about what had
- 6:23Speaker 2: just happened. I mean, I've mentioned this before. I've seen
- 6:26Speaker 2: Rookie Copps vomit on a murder scene where there was
- 6:29Speaker 2: just one dead body, much less four people slaughtered. I mean,
- 6:34Speaker 2: for Pete's sake, Killy Gonsovas was disfigured. She was stabbed
- 6:37Speaker 2: over thirty times in the face, and then he is
- 6:42Speaker 2: all right and shiny going into Costco. What kind of
- 6:46Speaker 2: mind can do that?
- 6:49Speaker 1: Well?
- 6:49Speaker 7: I first I want to say I've never met Brian Colberger.
- 6:52Speaker 1: I've never evaluated him.
- 6:54Speaker 7: But for some people who meet criteria for a psychopathic personality,
- 7:02Speaker 7: it research has shown that the part in their brain,
- 7:06Speaker 7: the amygdala, which is activated when something's highly emotional, that
- 7:11Speaker 7: they're amygdalah, doesn't function like the rest of us. They're
- 7:14Speaker 7: they're not as scared of things as we are. I
- 7:17Speaker 7: do find it odd that he was involved in such
- 7:19Speaker 7: a physical crime and then to go, as you said,
- 7:25Speaker 7: casually saunter around these stores. You know, the adrenaline alone
- 7:31Speaker 7: you would think would keep him from doing that. But
- 7:33Speaker 7: clearly this is planful behavior. And it's not that he
- 7:37Speaker 7: was you know, numbed out and didn't know what he did.
- 7:40Speaker 7: This was, you know, a plan for an alibi. But
- 7:43Speaker 7: let's just say his amygdala wasn't firing as it should
- 7:47Speaker 7: have been.
- 7:48Speaker 1: Again. I'm not diagnosing him with anything.
- 7:50Speaker 6: I've never met him, but that's my best guess.
- 7:52Speaker 2: Chris mcdonna joining us to JIC Cold Case Foundation, former
- 7:55Speaker 2: homicide detective with over three hundred homicides under his belt,
- 8:02Speaker 2: Star of the Interview Room on YouTube. Chris, I hear
- 8:09Speaker 2: what Alison Paganelli is saying about the Amigdala.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Don't care. I don't even really know what that means.
- 8:18Speaker 2: She's saying a part of his brain doesn't fire, in
- 8:21Speaker 2: other words, to function the way ours does. That it
- 8:23Speaker 2: is not legal insanity, that's not even a meddal defect.
- 8:27Speaker 2: I hear her. I don't doubt her, but I mean
- 8:31Speaker 2: balls the size of coconuts. That's how I would diagnose it.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Because this guy admits we know he did it. He
- 8:40Speaker 1: admitted in.
- 8:41Speaker 2: Court he slaughtered four people, three girls.
- 8:46Speaker 1: And one sleeping guy.
- 8:49Speaker 2: And now he's, as I said, sauntering through the aisles.
- 8:56Speaker 2: He's going into a grocery store for coffee because that
- 8:59Speaker 2: first first alibi thing didn't work out, where he wanted
- 9:02Speaker 2: to go up and down the aisles of Costco and
- 9:05Speaker 2: get caught on every single surveillance camera they've got. So
- 9:08Speaker 2: then he had to go somewhere else. I mean, what
- 9:12Speaker 2: is this guy?
- 9:14Speaker 9: He is also continuing to make conscious decisions, Nancy. If
- 9:18Speaker 9: you notice when he comes into Costco, his shirt is untucked,
- 9:22Speaker 9: it's disheveled, his right rear pocket is inside out. You know,
- 9:26Speaker 9: did he play a game like, oh, I forgot my wallet.
- 9:30Speaker 9: But then when you see him at the coffee shop,
- 9:33Speaker 9: he has made a decision to tuck in his shirt
- 9:37Speaker 9: and walk through that coffee shop. So he is consciously
- 9:40Speaker 9: thinking about his appearance. And I still believe you know,
- 9:45Speaker 9: at this moment he's playing a game.
- 9:47Speaker 1: What game?
- 9:49Speaker 10: The game of?
- 9:51Speaker 9: You know you're not going to catch me? And this
- 9:53Speaker 9: goes towards his consciousness of guilt that he's thinking through
- 9:58Speaker 9: every move that he makes.
- 10:00Speaker 1: Mm hmmm hm.
- 10:03Speaker 2: He could have argued you a jury, Look how clean
- 10:07Speaker 2: and pristine I am after a bloodbath.
- 10:12Speaker 1: Nobody could pull this off.
- 10:14Speaker 2: You've got the wrong guy. I was at Costco, sitting
- 10:17Speaker 2: in the parking lot when this happen. Whatever he wanted
- 10:20Speaker 2: to say, but that's why he's there. But the Costco
- 10:23Speaker 2: thing didn't work out. When the attendant told him he
- 10:25Speaker 2: couldn't get in, he would have probably spent an hour
- 10:28Speaker 2: in there trying to look like a normal person.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Guys.
- 10:44Speaker 2: Also, we are learning that Kelli Gounsovs's sister confronts the prosecutor,
- 10:51Speaker 2: Bill Thompson that dropped the ball and whipped out on
- 10:56Speaker 2: the death penalty, about what really happened to her sister.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Listen.
- 11:02Speaker 11: Olivia Gonsolves asked Bill Thompson if there's any possibility the
- 11:06Speaker 11: victims autopsy photos could wind up plastered across the internet,
- 11:10Speaker 11: and Thompson warns her of his.
- 11:12Speaker 1: Fears of a leaker in their department who has yet
- 11:14Speaker 1: to be caught.
- 11:15Speaker 11: Olivia makes the difficult decision to view the state's exhibits
- 11:19Speaker 11: from Kaylee's autopsy, wanting to be prepared in case she
- 11:22Speaker 11: ever ran into them. Unexpectedly, Olivia learns that what she
- 11:26Speaker 11: was led to believe were defensive wounds may have been
- 11:29Speaker 11: something else.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Entirely, something else entirely not defensive wounds. In a nutshell
- 11:36Speaker 2: to Chris McDonough, you've seen defensive wounds on murder victims,
- 11:41Speaker 2: probably since.
- 11:42Speaker 1: The day one.
- 11:43Speaker 2: They can be on your arms, your hands when you
- 11:46Speaker 2: try to fight off an attacker, if the victim goes
- 11:49Speaker 2: into a fetal position.
- 11:51Speaker 1: You will see defensive wounds.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Even on their knees and their legs where they're trying
- 11:56Speaker 2: to curl up and fight off the attacker. What defensive
- 11:59Speaker 2: woos would you have expected on the victims in this case.
- 12:05Speaker 9: You would see them on their hands, because you know
- 12:08Speaker 9: they're placing their hands up into a position to prevent
- 12:13Speaker 9: you know, a knife. In this case, you would probably
- 12:16Speaker 9: get them here on the four arms as well, and
- 12:19Speaker 9: you'd be able to tell, you know, post mortem, if
- 12:23Speaker 9: they were post mortem or if they actually occurred during
- 12:27Speaker 9: the homicide itself.
- 12:29Speaker 2: So now we are hearing physical slace family that some
- 12:33Speaker 2: of the wounds may have been interpreted as defensive, but
- 12:38Speaker 2: they're not listen.
- 12:40Speaker 3: I don't want to be doing this, but no one
- 12:44Speaker 3: on the state side standing up and giving details like this.
- 12:48Speaker 3: And I get it to some extent, but he's creating
- 12:51Speaker 3: like massive amounts of chaos. The guy order protected an
- 12:55Speaker 3: absolute monster. It's disgusting.
- 12:58Speaker 12: Olivia Gonzabz lies Idaho for a face to face meeting
- 13:01Speaker 12: with Bill Thompson to get answers to lingering questions about
- 13:04Speaker 12: her sister's murder. The prosecutor goes over the full list
- 13:08Speaker 12: of Kaylee's wounds with Olivia and that to discuss his
- 13:11Speaker 12: decision not to take the case to trial. Olivia and
- 13:14Speaker 12: her family still do not agree with the plea deal, you.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Know, Susan Hendrix. To think that the sister of Kale Gosauvace. Oh,
- 13:21Speaker 2: by the way, some of that was from Olivia gosface
- 13:23Speaker 2: on TikTok has to get on a plane at her
- 13:26Speaker 2: own expense and fly to ask the prosecutor questions because
- 13:31Speaker 2: she can't get answers about what happened to her sister.
- 13:35Speaker 1: That's crime and shame.
- 13:37Speaker 5: Yeah, we're coming up on three years, Nancy, and to
- 13:39Speaker 5: think they still don't have the answers they want. And
- 13:42Speaker 5: what comes out of Bill Thompson's mouth always shocks me.
- 13:45Speaker 5: What do you mean they could be leaked? What about
- 13:47Speaker 5: the guy orders? So Olivia decides, I'm going to go
- 13:50Speaker 5: there by myself, take control. Look at the photos just
- 13:53Speaker 5: in case third leak that happened in del Fi, it
- 13:55Speaker 5: can happen. So she looked at her sister. If you
- 13:58Speaker 5: can imagine apt thirty four times. Some of the wounds,
- 14:03Speaker 5: as Chris was saying, there's some defensive wounds, some of
- 14:05Speaker 5: them were not defensive, investigators are saying, and they told
- 14:10Speaker 5: her they could be experimental. I think the minute he
- 14:12Speaker 5: got on campus in Washington State, he was obsessed with
- 14:15Speaker 5: committing this crime. And I believe it that they could
- 14:17Speaker 5: be quote unquote experimental.
- 14:19Speaker 1: Listen to Olivia go. Some of the.
- 14:23Speaker 3: Wounds that were made the Kayley were described as experimental.
- 14:27Speaker 1: So a wound that might typically.
- 14:31Speaker 3: And its presentation looked defensive might not have necessarily been
- 14:36Speaker 3: defensive because at some point he was inflicting wounds that
- 14:44Speaker 3: I mean, any logical person would know wouldn't be fatal.
- 14:47Speaker 3: So I don't want to speculate on you know, what
- 14:49Speaker 3: exactly he was doing, whether it was to you know,
- 14:51Speaker 3: just cause pain or whatnot.
- 14:55Speaker 2: But yeah, that's from Olivia gonsolvice TikTok. Now, let's analyze it.
- 15:01Speaker 2: She just said some of the wounds made to her
- 15:04Speaker 2: sister Keeley were described as quote experimental. It could have
- 15:10Speaker 2: presented as a defensive wound, but now the theory is
- 15:14Speaker 2: they were experimental, in other words, inflicting wounds that anyone
- 15:20Speaker 2: would know are not fatal for what the joy of
- 15:24Speaker 2: causing the pain?
- 15:26Speaker 1: With us renowned board.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Certified forensic pathologists, anatomic pathologist, doctor Priya Banergye with anchor
- 15:35Speaker 2: Forensic pathology consulting Doctor Priya, thank you for being with us.
- 15:39Speaker 2: What are experimental wounds and how can you identify them
- 15:44Speaker 2: or differentiate them from defensive wounds?
- 15:49Speaker 1: You really have to.
- 15:49Speaker 6: Look at why were there so many wounds?
- 15:53Speaker 13: And the most important thing is, as Chris mcdonna said,
- 15:57Speaker 13: you can differentiate anti mortem wounds meaning when she was
- 16:01Speaker 13: physiologically alive.
- 16:03Speaker 6: To post more to wounds, right.
- 16:05Speaker 13: Which means whether there's bleeding with the wounds or not.
- 16:07Speaker 13: And then we get into how deep are they and
- 16:10Speaker 13: are they injurious or are they almost like a torture right,
- 16:14Speaker 13: so very superficial repeated wounds.
- 16:16Speaker 6: We see that in torture cases.
- 16:18Speaker 13: But now if they don't have bleeding with them, is
- 16:21Speaker 13: he getting some sort of joy by just repeatedly stabbing
- 16:26Speaker 13: her or hurting her.
- 16:27Speaker 6: Even if she's basically passed away.
- 16:31Speaker 2: Experimental wounds are typically injuries created in a controlled setting,
- 16:39Speaker 2: for instance, to study wound healing or test therapies like
- 16:45Speaker 2: tissue repair or blood coagulation or inflammation.
- 16:51Speaker 1: But to you, Chris.
- 16:52Speaker 2: McDonough, that's not why experimental wounds were inflicted in this case, is.
- 17:02Speaker 9: No, not at all, Nancy. And you know what's probably
- 17:06Speaker 9: occurring here is, remember he is executing his fantasy and
- 17:14Speaker 9: nothing is going his way. And so the fact that
- 17:19Speaker 9: if those are post mortem wounds, as doctor Pria was
- 17:23Speaker 9: talking about, then you would expect to kind of connect
- 17:27Speaker 9: that either a to his fantasy or b to his
- 17:31Speaker 9: learning for the next victim, i e. If he got
- 17:36Speaker 9: away with this, he would try to do something else
- 17:39Speaker 9: to the next victim because he just learned from these
- 17:42Speaker 9: four victims.
- 17:44Speaker 2: So the point, I guess, Susan Hendricks would be that
- 17:47Speaker 2: many of the wounds on the victims were quote experimental wounds,
- 17:51Speaker 2: wounds that Kyburger would know would not cause death, but
- 17:55Speaker 2: they would cause extreme pain, like the thirty stabs to
- 18:00Speaker 2: Cally's face.
- 18:03Speaker 1: I mean, I still don't understand how.
- 18:06Speaker 2: The prosecutor thought it was a good idea not to
- 18:08Speaker 2: seek the maximum penalty in this case, at least present
- 18:12Speaker 2: the death penalty to the jury when we now understand
- 18:15Speaker 2: these were not defensive wounds, they were experimental wounds to
- 18:19Speaker 2: inflict pain, specifically before he murdered them.
- 18:24Speaker 5: I mean, it just gets more shocking the more we
- 18:26Speaker 5: find out. I believe there was a narrative that they
- 18:29Speaker 5: were spreading early on. As you know, the coroner, we
- 18:32Speaker 5: really never hear them interviewed covering these stories, and she said, oh,
- 18:35Speaker 5: they were all asleep. I remember that soon after.
- 18:38Speaker 1: No, they weren't.
- 18:39Speaker 5: The narrative wasn't even close to that. And now we're
- 18:42Speaker 5: hearing he had time for experimental and Xanichernodle stabbed fifty times.
- 18:48Speaker 1: What went on in that house?
- 18:49Speaker 5: I believe we'll never know the full extent of it,
- 18:51Speaker 5: but boy are we learning coming up on three years.
- 18:54Speaker 3: These wounds didn't necessarily make a lot of sense. They
- 18:57Speaker 3: were described to me as experimental, and on Kaylee specifically,
- 19:04Speaker 3: there was evidence that he continued the attack after she
- 19:10Speaker 3: was no longer even even fighting back. So just in
- 19:15Speaker 3: light of that, just because there was a wound on
- 19:20Speaker 3: a hand, or wound on a forearm, or wound on
- 19:23Speaker 3: you know, a risk, these really really classic defensive places. Unfortunately,
- 19:30Speaker 3: we just can't make that assumption.
- 19:32Speaker 1: From Olivia go on solvice on TikTok.
- 19:35Speaker 5: I remember I was in my room, am I turning
- 19:38Speaker 5: into bed and.
- 19:39Speaker 2: I heard Kaylee heard go.
- 19:41Speaker 5: Upstairs and okay, I'm gonna go to state.
- 19:42Speaker 4: Now you go upstairs to see in gostairs Kaylee and Dowdy.
- 19:50Speaker 6: He's not waking up.
- 19:56Speaker 2: Convicted quadrupe will killer Brian Coberg are sauntering through Costco
- 20:01Speaker 2: and toward a coffee Kiosk within hours after slaughtering four
- 20:07Speaker 2: beautiful University Idaho students, And now we are learning wounds
- 20:12Speaker 2: to the bodies were experimental. In other words, those wounds
- 20:17Speaker 2: are not defensive. They were inflicted by Coburger simply to
- 20:22Speaker 2: cause pain, not to kill.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Those were the other mortal wounds. These wounds were just
- 20:29Speaker 1: for the fun of it.
- 20:30Speaker 3: Listen, and even if they were, the body reacts and
- 20:37Speaker 3: there's reflexes to you know, protect your face, your head,
- 20:40Speaker 3: your neck. It doesn't mean that someone wasn't wasn't sleeping beforehand,
- 20:47Speaker 3: or you know, was just briefly woken.
- 20:51Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, that's Olivia Goosavis on TikTok, Kelly's sister.
- 20:59Speaker 2: But even given the fact that we now know many
- 21:03Speaker 2: of the wounds, the knife wounds were just to amuse Coburger,
- 21:08Speaker 2: to inflict pain on his victims. They weren't even fighting
- 21:12Speaker 2: back anymore. He just did it for his own amusement.
- 21:18Speaker 2: Even knowing that he is now saying I owe the
- 21:23Speaker 2: victims and their families.
- 21:25Speaker 14: Nothing listen, Bill Thompson's plea deal isn't keeping Brian Coberger
- 21:30Speaker 14: as quietly locked away as originally hoped. The convicted quadruple
- 21:33Speaker 14: murder is now contesting his financial restitution to the victims.
- 21:37Speaker 14: He argues he should not have to pay the victims'
- 21:39Speaker 14: families because they benefited from several GoFundMe pages and did
- 21:43Speaker 14: not suffer economic loss. Coburger also points out, even if
- 21:48Speaker 14: he wanted to pay, he has no way to raise
- 21:50Speaker 14: the funds, seeing as he will spend the rest of
- 21:52Speaker 14: his natural life behind bars.
- 21:55Speaker 2: Okay, what after all the pain and suffering he had caused.
- 22:01Speaker 2: Susan Hendrick's investigative reporter, he's now saying I owe the
- 22:04Speaker 2: victims nothing.
- 22:07Speaker 5: It's despicable. Recently, Stacy Chapin, Ethan Chapin's mom, says soon
- 22:11Speaker 5: after the murder, she stood outside of that house knowing
- 22:14Speaker 5: her son was inside. And in the court documents he
- 22:17Speaker 5: see that Ethan was stabbed more there were some wounds
- 22:19Speaker 5: on his hands. It's not clear for it happened that night,
- 22:22Speaker 5: but think about the excruciating pain they all are going
- 22:25Speaker 5: through to this day. It'll never go away, and he's
- 22:27Speaker 5: mentioning gofundmes. Yeah, he doesn't have a job in prison,
- 22:31Speaker 5: but why mention the gofundmes and still trying to bring
- 22:35Speaker 5: down the families of what he did? I don't think
- 22:38Speaker 5: obviously clearly he's not sorry at all, and it's disgusting.
- 22:41Speaker 2: What what is that joining me? Eric Fattus, veterans trial lawyer,
- 22:46Speaker 2: defense attorney. How do his lawyers even let him make
- 22:51Speaker 2: this statement? I owe the victims nothing? And now contesting
- 22:55Speaker 2: He's got his lawyers on board. They're contesting that he
- 22:58Speaker 2: owes restitution.
- 23:00Speaker 8: Yeah, and I'm clearly a touchy issue in an egregious
- 23:02Speaker 8: case here, but you know, in terms of our system,
- 23:05Speaker 8: we've got to make sure we're being fair to both sides,
- 23:07Speaker 8: even somebody who's unpopular, even somebody who might be seen
- 23:10Speaker 8: as despicable. You know, his lawyers are arguing that there
- 23:12Speaker 8: is a plea agreement which is essentially a contract which
- 23:15Speaker 8: which dictates the restitution he has to pay, and these
- 23:19Speaker 8: travel expenses are not included in that. Further, he's saying that, hey,
- 23:22Speaker 8: these folks did not have an actual economic loss because
- 23:26Speaker 8: they were reimbursed from the GoFundMe. Pages and so that
- 23:30Speaker 8: would essentially be like a double dipping situation. So, you know,
- 23:33Speaker 8: a touchy argument to me, I couldn't got to go
- 23:36Speaker 8: to bed for their.
- 23:36Speaker 2: Cler actually accusing the four victims' families of double dipping.
- 23:41Speaker 1: I'm not personally accused of them of anything.
- 23:43Speaker 8: But what I'm saying is is defense is looking at
- 23:45Speaker 8: this as Hey, if they already got paid, then they
- 23:49Speaker 8: didn't suffer an actual economic loss. If they already got
- 23:53Speaker 8: the travel expenses reimbursed from the GoFundMe, then any additional
- 23:57Speaker 8: funds going to them would not be owed and would
- 24:00Speaker 8: not be appropriate to sort of gouge.
- 24:02Speaker 1: What about the funeral what about the funeral experiences? Fattest?
- 24:06Speaker 1: Have you thought about that?
- 24:08Speaker 8: That part is different? That is expressly referenced within the
- 24:11Speaker 8: Plea agreement as an item of restitution that Coburger is
- 24:15Speaker 8: going to have to pay. And so he talks in
- 24:17Speaker 8: the motion about agreeing to pay for funeral expenses that
- 24:20Speaker 8: he's not gonna be able to pay anyway. And believe me,
- 24:22Speaker 8: I'm no Coburger sympathizer, but I think I don't know that.
- 24:26Speaker 1: I don't know that hold on Sidney.
- 24:27Speaker 2: Summer joining me Crime stories investigative reporter Sydney. We've seen
- 24:32Speaker 2: over and over and over where convicted killers.
- 24:35Speaker 1: Make money behind bars. They may zoom.
- 24:40Speaker 2: In from behind prison walls to a conference and get
- 24:45Speaker 2: paid for it.
- 24:45Speaker 1: They might write a book. They might.
- 24:48Speaker 2: I mean, for Pete's sake, Sean Kind has been talking
- 24:50Speaker 2: on a cell phone, an illegal contraband cell phone behind bars,
- 24:54Speaker 2: says the day one they get cell phones, they get
- 24:58Speaker 2: devices behind bars for saying. Didn't you see Alex and
- 25:01Speaker 2: Murdock shirtless selfie?
- 25:03Speaker 15: Oh?
- 25:03Speaker 2: I could have lived without that, that said Sidney, I
- 25:06Speaker 2: could see that happening and he would be paid. Isn't
- 25:09Speaker 2: it true, Sidney Sumner, that in Idaho there is no
- 25:12Speaker 2: son of Sam law.
- 25:14Speaker 1: They the killer can profit off their crime.
- 25:18Speaker 15: This man owes a lot of money. Two hundred and
- 25:21Speaker 15: fifty thousand dollars in state signs twenty thousand dollars to
- 25:25Speaker 15: each of the victims' families. The funeral expenses themselves were
- 25:30Speaker 15: listed as twenty eighty nine hundred and fifty six dollars,
- 25:34Speaker 15: and just recently the state also sought an extra twenty
- 25:39Speaker 15: thousand dollars for the consolves family and just under seven
- 25:43Speaker 15: thousand dollars for Mounty Morgan's mother. Now we know that
- 25:47Speaker 15: the families insisted on returning all of the money they
- 25:51Speaker 15: received from the gofundmes, have they prepared to travel the
- 25:55Speaker 15: Boise for this trial, So we're not sure exactly where
- 25:58Speaker 15: that process stands. But the Gonzalvas family immediately commented after
- 26:03Speaker 15: learning the trial was not happening that they wanted to
- 26:05Speaker 15: return all of the crowd funded money they received from
- 26:09Speaker 15: the go funding.
- 26:11Speaker 1: The way around making money Number one.
- 26:14Speaker 2: The answer to that question is, Idaho does not have
- 26:17Speaker 2: a son of Sam Law. In the court proceedings, if
- 26:23Speaker 2: anything was mentioned that he could not quote write a
- 26:26Speaker 2: book or being a documentary, it's so easy to get
- 26:30Speaker 2: around that. And this is how it's done, Chris McDonough.
- 26:34Speaker 2: A straw man is set up like a shell corporation,
- 26:38Speaker 2: and that corporation or that author, that co author is
- 26:42Speaker 2: paid and then money is funneled bit by bit back
- 26:45Speaker 2: to the defendant.
- 26:46Speaker 1: That's how that works.
- 26:48Speaker 2: But someone's right to free speech, in other words, writing
- 26:51Speaker 2: a blood soat documentary book that cannot be suppressed.
- 26:59Speaker 1: It's the making money. The judge can order it. But
- 27:02Speaker 1: there's a way around that for the straw man to
- 27:04Speaker 1: be paid. I mean, it happens all the time.
- 27:08Speaker 9: Yeah, and Nancy, you've been talking about this from day one,
- 27:12Speaker 9: that he's not done. He's going to try to figure
- 27:14Speaker 9: out ways around that. I mean, you know, remember, just
- 27:19Speaker 9: because the wolf is inside of the cage, it doesn't
- 27:22Speaker 9: mean he hasn't lost the ability to slaughter. And that's
- 27:25Speaker 9: his motivation constantly is to keep slaughtering this family.
- 27:30Speaker 2: So I'm very curious about how he makes the transformation
- 27:37Speaker 2: from quadruple killer performing experimental torture cuts on these four
- 27:42Speaker 2: victims to bright eyed and bushy, tailed in costco and
- 27:47Speaker 2: headed toward a coffee Kiosk now saying he refuses to
- 27:53Speaker 2: pay the victims, that he owes them nothing. One of
- 27:58Speaker 2: the concerns by the and Solve his family and others
- 28:02Speaker 2: is leaks. Leaks such as leaks off all topsy photos listen.
- 28:09Speaker 16: Investigators have identified the IDoc employee responsible for leaking footage
- 28:13Speaker 16: from inside Coburgers sell at IMSI. The mail employee quit
- 28:17Speaker 16: before the investigation concluded, but he will not be facing
- 28:20Speaker 16: charges for his actions. While filming the security video feed
- 28:24Speaker 16: is strictly prohibited by IDoc and the prison. According to
- 28:27Speaker 16: the Idaho State police. It didn't break any state or
- 28:30Speaker 16: federal law.
- 28:31Speaker 1: And back to you, Susan Hendricks, that was the jail video.
- 28:35Speaker 2: Let's see the jail video that we were hearing about.
- 28:40Speaker 2: This has surreptitiously taken video of Brian Coburger behind bars.
- 28:46Speaker 2: You see him looking around, his hands or bright red
- 28:50Speaker 2: I guess from washing them obsessively. Then he cleans his
- 28:54Speaker 2: already clean shoes. The point we're making today is nothing
- 28:59Speaker 2: is going to be come of that video being leaked
- 29:01Speaker 2: because it wasn't a crime. But Susan Hendricks, remember the
- 29:07Speaker 2: big leak of information that ended up in a dateline special.
- 29:12Speaker 5: Absolutely, and as you were talking, Nancy, something clicked for me.
- 29:15Speaker 5: At first I thought, why bother mentioned the GoFundMe if
- 29:17Speaker 5: he doesn't have any money. I absolutely believe. I was
- 29:20Speaker 5: in court during the victim impact statement and the judge
- 29:23Speaker 5: addressing the court, dressing the media, saying, I don't believe
- 29:26Speaker 5: anyone should meet with this monster, meaning don't write a book,
- 29:30Speaker 5: don't do it. You think everyone's going to listen. I
- 29:32Speaker 5: don't think so. I think the plan is for him
- 29:34Speaker 5: to talk and make money, and I believe it will happen.
- 29:38Speaker 2: Coburger can write a book, but he cannot personally profit
- 29:44Speaker 2: from it, according to the judge. So is this his
- 29:49Speaker 2: way out of paying compensation to the families by arguing
- 29:55Speaker 2: he doesn't owe them anything, and then when he does
- 29:58Speaker 2: I write the book and funnels them to a straw man,
- 30:01Speaker 2: there won't be a problem. Now, joining us a very
- 30:05Speaker 2: special guest. He is a member of the Idaho House
- 30:11Speaker 2: of Representatives. He's an elected official, is Representative Bruce Scogg.
- 30:17Speaker 1: Also he is a.
- 30:19Speaker 2: Former felony prosecutor, former deputy prosecutor in Ada County, and
- 30:24Speaker 2: former member of the Nampa City Council. Interesting, he is
- 30:31Speaker 2: co sponsor of House Bill one eighty six to add
- 30:33Speaker 2: the firing squad as a method of execution if and
- 30:38Speaker 2: win lethal injection is unavailable.
- 30:42Speaker 1: Why to make sure the state of Idaho can.
- 30:45Speaker 2: Carry out timely, legally ordered executions now and in the future.
- 30:52Speaker 1: Representative scotg thank you so much for being with us.
- 30:56Speaker 17: Privileged to be here, and a little bit of an
- 30:57Speaker 17: update on our firing squad bills. Now, firing squad is
- 31:01Speaker 17: the number one choice that must be taken above all
- 31:04Speaker 17: other methods in Idaho for definitely, casey.
- 31:09Speaker 2: Does that mean that the firing squad will be implemented,
- 31:15Speaker 2: or can the convicted killer ask for needle?
- 31:21Speaker 17: The convicted killer may not ask for the needle. It
- 31:24Speaker 17: will be firing squad from here on out out. We
- 31:27Speaker 17: have nine people on death row, and I'll expect those
- 31:29Speaker 17: executions to start taking place approxicately year from now.
- 31:33Speaker 2: Because, if you think about it, Representative Scog, Kellie Golslves
- 31:38Speaker 2: didn't get to pick her mode of death. She didn't
- 31:42Speaker 2: get to pick whether she lived or died. Neither did Maddie,
- 31:47Speaker 2: neither did Ethan, neither did Xana.
- 31:51Speaker 1: They had no choice in what was done to them.
- 31:55Speaker 2: What led you, Representative Skog to push what was then
- 32:00Speaker 2: House Bill won eighty six.
- 32:03Speaker 17: I started that bill having no focus on the consolates
- 32:08Speaker 17: and other victims, simply because we were having so much
- 32:12Speaker 17: difficulty getting executions to take place. We had one failed
- 32:16Speaker 17: execution through Leathland injection because they couldn't find a vein supposedly,
- 32:21Speaker 17: So fire and squad is certain, it's humane and it's
- 32:26Speaker 17: the best way to get the job done.
- 32:34Speaker 1: Crime Stores with Nancy Grace.
- 32:40Speaker 2: Bruce, Are you telling me a convicted killer did not
- 32:46Speaker 2: get the needle because they couldn't find a vein.
- 32:51Speaker 17: It happened to a mass murder that's been on death
- 32:54Speaker 17: row for about forty years. We finally get him on
- 32:56Speaker 17: the table. It was not done, and we will get
- 33:01Speaker 17: this done through fire and squad. It takes away a
- 33:03Speaker 17: lot of the appeals. Some of the ridiculous appeals we
- 33:05Speaker 17: see in the courts are the condemned saying, well, my
- 33:09Speaker 17: medication will cause a pain with.
- 33:12Speaker 1: The allergic reaction.
- 33:14Speaker 2: Oh my stars, wait a minute, but I've got to
- 33:16Speaker 2: write this down. My medication will call an allergic reaction
- 33:21Speaker 2: to the.
- 33:22Speaker 17: Needle the pended barbertol that we would inject, and it
- 33:25Speaker 17: would cause unnecessary pain. That's been a lot of the appeals.
- 33:29Speaker 17: So we just wiped out a lot of the appeals
- 33:31Speaker 17: in process implementing the firing.
- 33:34Speaker 2: Well, the families were told this is the deal.
- 33:40Speaker 1: Like it or lump it.
- 33:42Speaker 2: It was force fed, shoved down their throats, and as
- 33:47Speaker 2: a crime victim myself, I don't like that they didn't
- 33:51Speaker 2: go along with this. In retrospect, so say, okay, it's fine,
- 33:56Speaker 2: but why would you hoodwink the victims' families like it?
- 34:01Speaker 1: Why is he still there?
- 34:03Speaker 17: If that's what happened. NaN's Grace. I'm not privy to
- 34:05Speaker 17: those inside conversations, but I would repeat the words of
- 34:10Speaker 17: the father of this Gonzalez, about a deal was done
- 34:14Speaker 17: with the death.
- 34:15Speaker 1: What led you to push this legislation?
- 34:20Speaker 17: Justice and the frustration with the appeals process on pinna
- 34:23Speaker 17: barbital or lethal injection, the ridiculous appeals, and we did
- 34:28Speaker 17: eliminate a lot of those appeal arguments by the breen
- 34:32Speaker 17: the death no by firing squad. And firing squad, even
- 34:35Speaker 17: according to Justice, so to my r, is the most
- 34:38Speaker 17: uane deathintality process. It's quick, it's certain. We've have experts
- 34:44Speaker 17: from different universities. You say so, I think it's the
- 34:47Speaker 17: humane way to go for all involved.
- 34:50Speaker 1: Why do you think firing squad is more humane than the.
- 34:52Speaker 17: Needle Sometimes I think it's about seven percent of the
- 34:56Speaker 17: needle injections do go awry and cause a lot of pain,
- 35:00Speaker 17: and they don't go well. Iron squad there's according to experts,
- 35:05Speaker 17: up to ten seconds of real pain, but that it's over.
- 35:08Speaker 17: The heart stops instantly and it's done. The victims don't
- 35:13Speaker 17: have to go through what the victims of the case
- 35:16Speaker 17: I told you about an Idaho of a failed procedure.
- 35:20Speaker 2: You believe that the death by firing squad can and
- 35:25Speaker 2: will be implemented remotely.
- 35:29Speaker 1: How does that work?
- 35:31Speaker 17: We leave it up to the director of the Department
- 35:33Speaker 17: of Corrections on how they want to proceed. So the
- 35:35Speaker 17: plan is to have a number of rifles. I don't
- 35:39Speaker 17: know if it's I think it's three. A remote button
- 35:42Speaker 17: someone pushes and the firearms go off and do the execution. However,
- 35:48Speaker 17: I have confirmed that we have a backup squad, old
- 35:51Speaker 17: school of re riflemen who will be prepared and ready
- 35:55Speaker 17: to go if there's somehow a failure of the mechanism.
- 36:01Speaker 2: Is it true Representative Skog that when you use the
- 36:04Speaker 2: actual firing squad, the human firing squad, that one member
- 36:10Speaker 2: of the squad has an empty chamber.
- 36:13Speaker 17: That is up to the Department of Corrections how they
- 36:15Speaker 17: want to handle that. I know that has been done
- 36:17Speaker 17: I think in Utah, and may well be done here
- 36:22Speaker 17: so that no one can say for certain it was
- 36:23Speaker 17: their bullet.
- 36:24Speaker 15: I suppose.
- 36:28Speaker 1: A mechanized go ahead.
- 36:32Speaker 17: We have no shortage of volunteers.
- 36:37Speaker 2: Okay, that's good to know, and I imagine they're lining up.
- 36:40Speaker 2: I started to say that with a new method of
- 36:46Speaker 2: operation of a mechanized and automated controlled remote firing squad.
- 36:53Speaker 2: Nobody has to feel guilty. But then I guess you're
- 36:57Speaker 2: going to ask who pushed the button. We're gonna have
- 37:00Speaker 2: to have three buttons and one doesn't work. I mean
- 37:03Speaker 2: you said that there's no lack of volunteers, correct.
- 37:09Speaker 17: I get phone calls and emails regularly. We had one
- 37:12Speaker 17: person send an email to the legislature in maths and
- 37:16Speaker 17: you should all be the ones to pull the trigger. Well,
- 37:18Speaker 17: there are several members of our House of Representatives who
- 37:21Speaker 17: are willing to pull the trigger if they needed to.
- 37:24Speaker 2: You stay that the purpose of your legislation, at least
- 37:27Speaker 2: one of the purposes, is to make sure the State
- 37:29Speaker 2: of Idaho can carry out the DP timely, in a
- 37:33Speaker 2: timely fashion, and humanly. You've explained the humanly portion of
- 37:38Speaker 2: that analysis. What about the timely consideration?
- 37:43Speaker 17: Justice late is justice denied. And that's the truth. And
- 37:46Speaker 17: we've been battling the Ninth Circuit forever, but now things
- 37:50Speaker 17: are starting to change to where we have the right
- 37:52Speaker 17: attorney general, the right governor, the right legislature, we have
- 37:55Speaker 17: the right courts in our Supreme Court, right prosecutors now
- 38:00Speaker 17: I think we're going to get this done. I think
- 38:01Speaker 17: it's time justice is going to come around.
- 38:04Speaker 2: I'm sure the families want to know the truth, regardless
- 38:07Speaker 2: of the verdict. Regardless, I want to know the truth.
- 38:12Speaker 2: That is a point of the jury system to seek
- 38:15Speaker 2: a verdict that speaks the truth, regardless if it's guilty
- 38:20Speaker 2: not guilty, split verdict, hungary, doesn't matter. The truth comes
- 38:24Speaker 2: out in the courtroom. Why were you disappointed this case
- 38:29Speaker 2: did not go to trial.
- 38:31Speaker 17: I was personally disappointed because I wanted to see this
- 38:34Speaker 17: man executed for the fermendous crimes that he committed and
- 38:38Speaker 17: that did not happen. It was not given the opportunity
- 38:41Speaker 17: for a jury to decide, and Idaho, the jury decides
- 38:44Speaker 17: whether or not to implement the definitely, and as you say,
- 38:47Speaker 17: truth and evidence would come out after a conviction about
- 38:50Speaker 17: his history, about his motives, about what really happened to
- 38:54Speaker 17: those victims, and that vermendous nube and I wanted to
- 38:57Speaker 17: see that all come out, and I think any jury
- 39:00Speaker 17: and Idaho would have given him the Definitely.
- 39:03Speaker 2: With me is Representative Bruce Scogg joining us from the
- 39:08Speaker 2: Idaho House of Representatives. I O want to thank you
- 39:11Speaker 2: for being with us tonight, and I will be over
- 39:14Speaker 2: shortly to seize that unauthorized weapon you've got hanging on
- 39:17Speaker 2: the wall behind you.
- 39:19Speaker 1: Thank you, V thank you so much.
- 39:21Speaker 17: Take care boy.
- 39:23Speaker 1: We are speaking one on one with Christy and Steve
- 39:28Speaker 1: go and solve us. Christy, isn't it true?
- 39:30Speaker 2: You basically got an email saying hey, we got a deal.
- 39:35Speaker 18: Yes on a Sunday Sunday afternoon. They sent it at
- 39:39Speaker 18: four fifty three pm. We happened to see what happened
- 39:42Speaker 18: to be checking his email a little later, around six
- 39:44Speaker 18: or so, and he said what and we lost our minds.
- 39:48Speaker 18: We immediately emailed them and said we need to talk
- 39:51Speaker 18: like now, like what has this been sent yet?
- 39:55Speaker 6: Have you offered it yet?
- 39:56Speaker 5: What is going on?
- 39:57Speaker 18: They sent us an email the next morning and said
- 39:59Speaker 18: we can meet three today and we said, you didn't answer.
- 40:03Speaker 18: Has this been sent already? And they said yes, it
- 40:05Speaker 18: was sent yesterday evening to the defense. And so we
- 40:11Speaker 18: met with him at three that day on Monday, and
- 40:14Speaker 18: the plea had already been accepted, and we lost our minds.
- 40:19Speaker 18: We were in that meeting, I mean we were screaming,
- 40:21Speaker 18: we were cussing, we were yelling.
- 40:22Speaker 6: We were saying, why did you do this?
- 40:24Speaker 1: How did you do this?
- 40:25Speaker 6: You know what happened.
- 40:28Speaker 18: You just talked to us on Friday and told us that,
- 40:31Speaker 18: you know, you had every anticipation of taking this all
- 40:36Speaker 18: the way.
- 40:37Speaker 1: We talked about port I mean, we talked about.
- 40:40Speaker 18: A plea deal for like a like a second and
- 40:42Speaker 18: he just said, oh, I think that they might be
- 40:45Speaker 18: wanting one, but we have no reason to give them one.
- 40:49Speaker 6: You know, why would we?
- 40:51Speaker 18: And we're like, yeah, right, why would we? And he said,
- 40:54Speaker 18: how do you guys feel about a plea deal? And
- 40:56Speaker 18: we're like no, no, no, no, no no no.
- 40:58Speaker 1: Boom moved on.
- 41:00Speaker 10: Yeah, he accepted the plea deal within the same hour
- 41:03Speaker 10: that he got it. This man never wanted to fight
- 41:05Speaker 10: for our children, literally, I mean it. They fought for
- 41:08Speaker 10: their lives for their very last breath, and this man
- 41:11Speaker 10: had no fighting it.
- 41:12Speaker 1: They fought hard all the.
- 41:14Speaker 10: Way to the end, and he gave up within an
- 41:16Speaker 10: hour of being given an opportunity to.
- 41:18Speaker 1: Quit on these kids.
- 41:19Speaker 10: And that's the kind of prosecutor that you got to get.
- 41:23Speaker 10: You got to get him out. You got to get
- 41:25Speaker 10: real prosecutors in Idaho. We've got some jobs to do.
- 41:29Speaker 10: We got some work to do there.
- 41:31Speaker 2: We remember an American hero, Deputy Sheriff Joshua Weld, Sarasota
- 41:35Speaker 2: County Sheriffs, killed in the line of duty after twenty
- 41:39Speaker 2: two years serving and protecting, leaving behind a devastated wife, Brandy,
- 41:45Speaker 2: and three children. American hero Deputy Sheriff Joshua Welch. Nancy
- 41:52Speaker 2: Gray signing off goodbye friend B.