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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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But here's what makes this case even more horrifying. Dylan Mortensen,
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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,