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

0:03 Callarogu Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter, and welcome back to Celebrity Trials, your daily dose of courtroom drama. It's Monday, July seventh, and we're back after our Independence Day weekend deep dive into the Rosenberg case. If you miss those episodes, go back and listen. They're essential listening for understanding how fear can corrupt justice in America. But today we're returning to modern trials with the next chapter in our Brian Coburger series. Over the next hour, we're going to take you inside that November night in Moscow, Idaho, when four University of Idaho students had no idea they were about to become victims of one of the most calculated murders in recent memory. This is the Crime, the second part of our Coburger series that will help you understand how we got from that brutal attack to last week's shocking guilty. But first we need to talk about what we learned this weekend about Coburger's mindset and planning, because the details that emerged in court are absolutely chilling. Remember, Brian Coburger didn't just wake up one morning and decide to kill four college students. This was methodical, calculated, and planned for months. The evidence shows he was essentially stalking these students and studying their routines. Between August and November twenty twenty two, Coburger's phone data placed him near the

1:33 King Road house twenty three different times. Twenty three times. These weren't random drives through the neighborhood. These were surveillance trips, happening mostly during late night and early morning hours when he could observe the house without being noticed. But here's the most disturbing detail that came out in court. Coburger had multiple photos of one of the female victims on his phone. A source told People magazine that he had more than one picture of her and that it was clear that he was paying attention to her. Think about what that means. This wasn't a random crime. Coburger was fixated on at least one of these women, possibly stalking her social media, maybe even taking photos himself. He was studying them, learning their patterns, planning their murders, and in March twenty twenty two, eight months before the killings, he bought the murder weapon on Amazon, a k bar knife with a sheath. The exact type that would later be found on Madison Mogan's bed with his DNA on it. Now, let me take you through what happened on that fateful weekend, because the timeline shows just how normal everything seemed until it wasn't. Saturday, November twelfth was senior Day for the University of Idaho football team. The students were celebrating going to the game, enjoying what should have been a perfect college weekend. Around nine pm, Kaylee Guncalves posted a keros cell of photos on Instagram showing her with her housemates.

3:04 The caption read, one lucky girl to be surrounded by these people every day. It was the last social media post any of them would ever make. That night, the four victims went out separately. Kayley Guncalves and Madison Mogan went to the Corner Club, a local bar, and then grabbed food from a food truck downtown normal college Saturday night behavior. Meanwhile, Zana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin went to the Sigma Chai fraternity house, just two hundred yards from their home. By two am on November thirteenth, all four were back at the house. At eleven twenty two King Road. Also in the house were two other roommates, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funk, who would survive the attack.

3:49 At three thirty am, a neighbour's security camera captured what investigators believe was Coburger's white Hyundai Elantra driving through the area. This is when he began his final approach. Just after four a m. Brian Cooeberger entered the house through the sliding door in the kitchen. What happened next was a fifteen minute blitz of violence that ended four young lives. According to the prosecution's timeline revealed in court last week, Coburger went straight to the third floor. First, he killed Madison Mogan and Kaylee Goncalves in their beds. These two best friends, who had been roommates and were planning their futures together, died side by side. Then he went to the second floor, where he killed Zana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Ethan, remember, was just visiting his girlfriend for the weekend. He wasn't even supposed to be there. He was simply in the wrong place at the worst possible time. The killer left the k bar knife sheath on Madison's bed. His first and most crucial mistake that Sheath contained his DNA and would ultimately lead investigators directly to him six weeks later.

4:57 But here's what makes this case even more horrifying. Dylan Mortensen, one of the surviving roommates, actually saw the killer. She told police she witnessed a masked man with bushy eyebrows, wearing all black leaving the house. She heard crying. She heard Zana say there's someone here, but she was frozen with fear and didn't immediately call police. The attack was so quick and so quiet that the other surviving roommate, Bethany Funk, apparently never woke up. The killer was in and out in fifteen minutes. Four people were dead, and two other people in the same house had no idea what had just happened. It wasn't until later that afternoon, November thirteenth, around noon, that the surviving roommates called nine one one. They had slept through the entire aftermath, waking up to what must have been an unimaginable horror. The first responders who arrived at eleven twenty two King Road found a scene that veteran investigators described as one of the worst they'd ever encountered four college students brutally stabbed in their beds in what should have been the safest place in the world for them. The Moscow police department, which hadn't seen a murder since twenty fifteen, was completely overwhelmed.

6:13 This small college town of twenty five thousand people suddenly had to deal with a quadruple homicide that would attract national attention and FBI involvement. The impact on the University of Idaho and the Moscow community was immediate and devastating. Students fled campus in droves. Parents drove from across the country to bring their children home. The university moved to hybrid learning for the rest of the semester because so many students refused to return. The house at eleven twenty two King Road became a crime scene that would be analyzed for months. Every surface was tested for DNA, every piece of evidence cataloged, every digital footprint traced, but for six weeks, investigators had no suspect. They received over one four hundred tips from the public. They interviewed hundreds of people.

7:02 They cleared the surviving roommates, They cleared other friends and boyfriends, but they couldn't find their killer. The community lived in terror. Parents wouldn't let their children out at night, students traveled in groups, everyone looked over their shoulders, wondering if a serial killer was stalking their college town, and all the while, Brian Coburger was eight miles away in Pullman, Washington, attending his criminology classes and pretending to be just another graduate student studying criminal behavior. He was literally learning about criminal investigations while being the subject of one of the biggest man hunts in Idaho history. After the break, I want to tell you about the other trials that are capturing headlines right now, because while we've been focused on Diddy and Coburger, courtrooms across America have been hosting some absolutely sensational cases that deserve your attention. We'll preview the trials we'll be covering in the coming weeks. Cases involving poisoned husbands, missing mothers, and family conspiracies that sound like something out of a movie. These are the stories that prove truth really is stranger than fiction. Welcome back to celebrity trials.

8:20 I'm read Carter, and while we've been deep in the Coburger case, I want to tell you about some of the other explosive trials happening right now that we'll be diving into in the coming days and weeks. I spent the weekend reviewing court TV's current lineup, and Folks, we are living in a golden age of courtroom drama. The cases currently playing out across America are absolutely sensational, and several of them are perfect for our daily coverage. Let me give you a preview of what's coming to celebrity trials. First up, we have the Barry Morphew case in Colorado, and this one is absolutely wild. Barry Morphew was just re arrested and charged for the second time. I'm in the murder of his wife, Suzanne, who disappeared on Mother's Day twenty twenty. Here's what makes this case incredible. Suzanne's body was found in September twenty twenty three with tranquilizer chemicals in her bones, the exact same chemicals Barry used to sedate deer on his farm. We're talking about bam bututrphenol, azaperone, and metatomidine, a cocktail that's only available by veterinary prescription.

9:28 The prosecution has evidence that Barry was the only private citizen in the entire area who had access to these chemicals. His phone data contradicts his alibi, and Suzanne had texted him just days before her death. I'm done. I could care less what you're up to and have been for years. We just need to figure this out. Civilly, this case has everything. A missing person mystery, a body found three years later, tranquilizer drugs, and a husband with a very suspicious story. Will be covering this trial extensively. But if you want pure soap opera drama, wait until you hear about Corey Richins in Utah. This is the mom who allegedly poisoned her husband with fentanyl and then wrote a children's book about coping with grief. Eric Richins died after drinking a Moscow mule cocktail that contained five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. But here's the kicker. Prosecutors say she tried to kill him once before, on Valentine's Day twenty twenty two, by putting fentanyl in his favorite sandwich.

10:29 After his death, Corey published a children's book called Are You with Me about a father who watches over his son as an angel. She went on TV to promote it, talking about how her husband died unexpectedly and how it completely took us all by shock. Meanwhile, she was allegedly facing financial distress with over one point eight million dollars in debt and she was the beneficiary of multiple life insurance policies worth one point three five million dollars. Her trial is set for later this year and will be there for every Twists to detail. And then we have the Crystal Rogers case in Kentucky, which is happening right now. Brooks Houck and Joseph Lawson are currently on trial for the murder of Crystal Rogers, who disappeared ten years ago.

11:14 Crystal vanished on July third, twenty fifteen, and her car was found abandoned on the side of the highway with her purse and belongings still inside. Her body has never been found, but prosecutors believe she was killed at the Hauke family farm and that Brooks enlisted the Lawson family to help dispose of her body. This case has consumed the small town of Bardstown, Kentucky for a decade. It's got family conspiracies, police corruption allegations, and Cristel's father was later murdered while hunting and the family believes it's connected to her case. The trial is happening right now in Bowling Green, and will be following every development as this decade long mystery finally gets its day in court. But that's not all were packed with sensational cases. Isaac Appadaca in New Mexico charged with murdering a woman with a sword, a preppy party murder trial in Connecticut where a high school lacrosse player was stabbed to death. Sheriff Mickey Steins in Kentucky who allegedly shot and killed a judge in his own courthouse, the ongoing fallout from the Lucy let Be infant murder case in the UK where hospital executives are now being arrested. Every one of these cases could be its own multi part series and will be covering the most sensational developments as they happen. This is what Celebrity Trials is about now. Yes, we'll continue following the major cases like Ditty's appeals and civil suits, and the Menendez brothers' parole process, but we're also your daily source

12:46 for every shocking verdict, every surprise confession, and every case that makes you question what you thought you knew about justice. In America. Tomorrow, we'll continue the Coburger series with the hunt. How investigators spent six weeks searching for a killer who thought he had committed the perfect crime. We'll explore the white Hyundai Elantra tip that broke the case wide open, and how genetic genealogy led them to a criminology student who never thought he'd get caught. But we'll also be monitoring all these other trials for breaking news when the Crystal Rogers verdict comes in, when Barry Morphew takes the stand, when Corey Richins faces her accusers, you'll hear it here first.

13:28 This is Celebrity Trials, seven days a week, bringing you the courtroom drama that proves justice isn't just blind, it's absolutely riveting. I'm read Carter. Truth really is stranger than fiction, and in America's courtrooms, both are on full display every single day. See you tomorrow,