July 7, 2025

"THE IDAHO MURDERS: Inside Kohberger's Calculated Killing Spree"

"THE IDAHO MURDERS: Inside Kohberger's Calculated Killing Spree"

Part 2 of the Kohberger series reveals the chilling timeline of the Idaho murders: how a criminology student stalked four students for months, photographed his victims, and executed a 15-minute killing spree that terrorized a college town. Reid Carter exposes the methodical planning, the surveillance trips, and the crucial evidence left behind.

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Callarogu Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter, and welcome

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back to Celebrity Trials, your daily dose of courtroom drama.

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It's Monday, July seventh, and we're back after our Independence

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Day weekend deep dive into the Rosenberg case. If you

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miss those episodes, go back and listen. They're essential listening

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for understanding how fear can corrupt justice in America. But

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today we're returning to modern trials with the next chapter

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in our Brian Coburger series. Over the next hour, we're

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going to take you inside that November night in Moscow, Idaho,

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when four University of Idaho students had no idea they

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were about to become victims of one of the most

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calculated murders in recent memory. This is the Crime, the

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second part of our Coburger series that will help you

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understand how we got from that brutal attack to last

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week's shocking guilty. But first we need to talk about

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what we learned this weekend about Coburger's mindset and planning,

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because the details that emerged in court are absolutely chilling. Remember,

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Brian Coburger didn't just wake up one morning and decide

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to kill four college students. This was methodical, calculated, and

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planned for months. The evidence shows he was essentially stalking

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these students and studying their routines. Between August and November

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twenty twenty two, Coburger's phone data placed him near the

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King Road house twenty three different times. Twenty three times.

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These weren't random drives through the neighborhood. These were surveillance trips,

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happening mostly during late night and early morning hours when

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he could observe the house without being noticed. But here's

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the most disturbing detail that came out in court. Coburger

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had multiple photos of one of the female victims on

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his phone. A source told People magazine that he had

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more than one picture of her and that it was

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clear that he was paying attention to her. Think about

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what that means. This wasn't a random crime. Coburger was

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fixated on at least one of these women, possibly stalking

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her social media, maybe even taking photos himself. He was

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studying them, learning their patterns, planning their murders, and in

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March twenty twenty two, eight months before the killings, he

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bought the murder weapon on Amazon, a k bar knife

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with a sheath. The exact type that would later be

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found on Madison Mogan's bed with his DNA on it. Now,

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let me take you through what happened on that fateful weekend,

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because the timeline shows just how normal everything seemed until

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it wasn't. Saturday, November twelfth was senior Day for the

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University of Idaho football team. The students were celebrating going

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to the game, enjoying what should have been a perfect

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college weekend. Around nine pm, Kaylee Guncalves posted a keros

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cell of photos on Instagram showing her with her housemates.

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The caption read, one lucky girl to be surrounded by

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these people every day. It was the last social media

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post any of them would ever make. That night, the

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four victims went out separately. Kayley Guncalves and Madison Mogan

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went to the Corner Club, a local bar, and then

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grabbed food from a food truck downtown normal college Saturday

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night behavior. Meanwhile, Zana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin

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went to the Sigma Chai fraternity house, just two hundred

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yards from their home. By two am on November thirteenth,

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all four were back at the house. At eleven twenty

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two King Road. Also in the house were two other roommates,

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Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funk, who would survive the attack.

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At three thirty am, a neighbour's security camera captured what

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investigators believe was Coburger's white Hyundai Elantra driving through the area.

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This is when he began his final approach. Just after

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four a m. Brian Cooeberger entered the house through the

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sliding door in the kitchen. What happened next was a

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fifteen minute blitz of violence that ended four young lives.

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According to the prosecution's timeline revealed in court last week,

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Coburger went straight to the third floor. First, he killed

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Madison Mogan and Kaylee Goncalves in their beds. These two

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best friends, who had been roommates and were planning their

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futures together, died side by side. Then he went to

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the second floor, where he killed Zana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Ethan, remember,

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was just visiting his girlfriend for the weekend. He wasn't

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even supposed to be there. He was simply in the

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wrong place at the worst possible time. The killer left

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the k bar knife sheath on Madison's bed. His first

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and most crucial mistake that Sheath contained his DNA and

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would ultimately lead investigators directly to him six weeks later.

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one of the surviving roommates, actually saw the killer. She

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told police she witnessed a masked man with bushy eyebrows,

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wearing all black leaving the house. She heard crying. She

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heard Zana say there's someone here, but she was frozen

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with fear and didn't immediately call police. The attack was

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so quick and so quiet that the other surviving roommate,

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Bethany Funk, apparently never woke up. The killer was in

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and out in fifteen minutes. Four people were dead, and

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two other people in the same house had no idea

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what had just happened. It wasn't until later that afternoon,

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November thirteenth, around noon, that the surviving roommates called nine

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one one. They had slept through the entire aftermath, waking

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up to what must have been an unimaginable horror. The

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first responders who arrived at eleven twenty two King Road

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found a scene that veteran investigators described as one of

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the worst they'd ever encountered four college students brutally stabbed

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in their beds in what should have been the safest

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place in the world for them. The Moscow police department,

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which hadn't seen a murder since twenty fifteen, was completely overwhelmed.

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This small college town of twenty five thousand people suddenly

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had to deal with a quadruple homicide that would attract

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national attention and FBI involvement. The impact on the University

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of Idaho and the Moscow community was immediate and devastating.

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Students fled campus in droves. Parents drove from across the

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country to bring their children home. The university moved to

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hybrid learning for the rest of the semester because so

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many students refused to return. The house at eleven twenty

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two King Road became a crime scene that would be

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analyzed for months. Every surface was tested for DNA, every

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piece of evidence cataloged, every digital footprint traced, but for

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six weeks, investigators had no suspect. They received over one

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four hundred tips from the public. They interviewed hundreds of people.

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They cleared the surviving roommates, They cleared other friends and boyfriends,

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but they couldn't find their killer. The community lived in terror.

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Parents wouldn't let their children out at night, students traveled

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in groups, everyone looked over their shoulders, wondering if a

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serial killer was stalking their college town, and all the while,

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Brian Coburger was eight miles away in Pullman, Washington, attending

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his criminology classes and pretending to be just another graduate

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student studying criminal behavior. He was literally learning about criminal

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investigations while being the subject of one of the biggest

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man hunts in Idaho history. After the break, I want

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to tell you about the other trials that are capturing

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headlines right now, because while we've been focused on Diddy

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and Coburger, courtrooms across America have been hosting some absolutely

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sensational cases that deserve your attention. We'll preview the trials

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we'll be covering in the coming weeks. Cases involving poisoned husbands,

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missing mothers, and family conspiracies that sound like something out

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of a movie. These are the stories that prove truth

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really is stranger than fiction. Welcome back to celebrity trials.

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I'm read Carter, and while we've been deep in the

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Coburger case, I want to tell you about some of

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the other explosive trials happening right now that we'll be

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diving into in the coming days and weeks. I spent

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the weekend reviewing court TV's current lineup, and Folks, we

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are living in a golden age of courtroom drama. The

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cases currently playing out across America are absolutely sensational, and

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several of them are perfect for our daily coverage. Let

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me give you a preview of what's coming to celebrity trials.

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First up, we have the Barry Morphew case in Colorado,

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and this one is absolutely wild. Barry Morphew was just

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re arrested and charged for the second time. I'm in

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the murder of his wife, Suzanne, who disappeared on Mother's

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Day twenty twenty. Here's what makes this case incredible. Suzanne's

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body was found in September twenty twenty three with tranquilizer

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chemicals in her bones, the exact same chemicals Barry used

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to sedate deer on his farm. We're talking about bam bututrphenol, azaperone,

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and metatomidine, a cocktail that's only available by veterinary prescription.

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The prosecution has evidence that Barry was the only private

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citizen in the entire area who had access to these chemicals.

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His phone data contradicts his alibi, and Suzanne had texted

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him just days before her death. I'm done. I could

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care less what you're up to and have been for years.

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We just need to figure this out. Civilly, this case

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has everything. A missing person mystery, a body found three

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years later, tranquilizer drugs, and a husband with a very

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suspicious story. Will be covering this trial extensively. But if

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you want pure soap opera drama, wait until you hear

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about Corey Richins in Utah. This is the mom who

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allegedly poisoned her husband with fentanyl and then wrote a

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children's book about coping with grief. Eric Richins died after

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drinking a Moscow mule cocktail that contained five times the

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lethal dose of fentanyl. But here's the kicker. Prosecutors say

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she tried to kill him once before, on Valentine's Day

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twenty twenty two, by putting fentanyl in his favorite sandwich.

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After his death, Corey published a children's book called Are

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You with Me about a father who watches over his

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son as an angel. She went on TV to promote it,

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talking about how her husband died unexpectedly and how it

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completely took us all by shock. Meanwhile, she was allegedly

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facing financial distress with over one point eight million dollars

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in debt and she was the beneficiary of multiple life

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insurance policies worth one point three five million dollars. Her

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trial is set for later this year and will be

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there for every Twists to detail. And then we have

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the Crystal Rogers case in Kentucky, which is happening right now.

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Brooks Houck and Joseph Lawson are currently on trial for

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the murder of Crystal Rogers, who disappeared ten years ago.

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Crystal vanished on July third, twenty fifteen, and her car

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was found abandoned on the side of the highway with

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her purse and belongings still inside. Her body has never

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been found, but prosecutors believe she was killed at the

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Hauke family farm and that Brooks enlisted the Lawson family

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to help dispose of her body. This case has consumed

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the small town of Bardstown, Kentucky for a decade. It's

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got family conspiracies, police corruption allegations, and Cristel's father was

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later murdered while hunting and the family believes it's connected

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to her case. The trial is happening right now in

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Bowling Green, and will be following every development as this

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decade long mystery finally gets its day in court. But

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that's not all were packed with sensational cases. Isaac Appadaca

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in New Mexico charged with murdering a woman with a sword,

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a preppy party murder trial in Connecticut where a high

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school lacrosse player was stabbed to death. Sheriff Mickey Steins

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in Kentucky who allegedly shot and killed a judge in

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his own courthouse, the ongoing fallout from the Lucy let

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Be infant murder case in the UK where hospital executives

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are now being arrested. Every one of these cases could

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be its own multi part series and will be covering

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the most sensational developments as they happen. This is what

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Celebrity Trials is about now. Yes, we'll continue following the

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major cases like Ditty's appeals and civil suits, and the

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Menendez brothers' parole process, but we're also your daily source

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for every shocking verdict, every surprise confession, and every case

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that makes you question what you thought you knew about justice.

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In America. Tomorrow, we'll continue the Coburger series with the hunt.

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How investigators spent six weeks searching for a killer who

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thought he had committed the perfect crime. We'll explore the

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white Hyundai Elantra tip that broke the case wide open,

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and how genetic genealogy led them to a criminology student

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who never thought he'd get caught. But we'll also be

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monitoring all these other trials for breaking news when the

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Crystal Rogers verdict comes in, when Barry Morphew takes the stand,

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when Corey Richins faces her accusers, you'll hear it here first.

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This is Celebrity Trials, seven days a week, bringing you

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the courtroom drama that proves justice isn't just blind, it's

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absolutely riveting. I'm read Carter. Truth really is stranger than fiction,

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and in America's courtrooms, both are on full display every

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single day. See you tomorrow,