"TRAFFICKING TO NOBODY: Epstein Bombshell, Idaho Hunt, and Prep School Blood"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Read Carter, and welcome to Celebrity Trials, your daily dose of courtroom drama. It's Tuesday, July eighth, and we've got three explosive stories for you today that prove this show's evolution is exactly what you need. Although the Ditty trial may be over, this new version of Celebrity Trials will continue to bring you the latest on all the courtroom dramas that matter. Because here's the thing. We call this Celebrity Trials not because they're all celebrities going in, but because they damn sure our celebrities by the time the verdict comes down. Today, we're diving into a bombshell government memo that's raising serious questions about why Glaine Maxwell is rotting in prison while the Feds claim there's no Jeffrey Epstein client list. Then we'll continue our Brian Cooberger series with the Hunt six weeks of terror in Idaho as investigators for a killer who thought he'd committed the perfect crime. And after the break, we'll take you inside the Preppy Party murder trial in Connecticut, where teenage violence turned a high school gathering into a bloodbath.

1:13 Let's start with the Epstein revelation that has social media absolutely losing its mind. Yesterday, the Department of Justice and FBI released a memo that sending shockwaves through everyone who's been following the Jeffrey Epstein case. After conducting what they call an exhaustive review, federal investigators are now claiming there is no client list, no evidence of blackmail, and no basis for further charges. Let me read you the key line from this memo. This systematic review revealed no incriminating client list. There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. Folks, this is either the most shocking investigative conclusion or the most brazen cover up I've ever seen, Because if there's no client list and no conspiracy, then why the hell is Gallaine Maxwell serving twenty years in federal prison. The Hodge Twins summed it up perfectly on x Ghlaine Maxwell is in prison for twenty years for sex trafficking kids with Epstein, and the DOJ and FBI just said that there is no client list, he didn't blackmail nobody, and nobody else is getting charged, so they sex trafficked kids to nobody. That post was viewed two point four million times because it captures the absurdity of this situation. You can't traffic children to nobody. You can't run a criminal enterprise with an army of one. But here's what really gets me fired up. This memo comes from the same

2:43 Trump administration that promised transparency and accountability. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in February that the client list was sitting on my desk right now to review. FBI Director Cash Ptel promised there would be no cover ups, no missing documents. So what happened? Did the list magically disappear? Did the evidence evaporate? The memo claims they reviewed video evidence that could not be released because it depicted acts of child abuse. But if they have videos, don't those videos show who was involved? As author Nigel Cawthorne told Newsweek, if they don't have the client list that Epstein compiled himself, then they could compile a list from the video. Surely this whole thing stinks and it raises massive questions about Maxwell's conviction.

3:33 Her legal team is probably already working on appeals based on this memo. If she was truly trafficking children to nobody? Then what exactly was her crime? Remember? Maxwell was convicted of grooming girls for Epstein to abuse. The government successfully argued she was part of a conspiracy. But a conspiracy requires multiple people, and now they're saying there's no evidence of other participants. Legal expert Tim Young captured the contradiction perfectly. Well, then I guess Galaine Maxwell was trafficking children to no one. Why would she be in jail? Then this case is far from over. Maxwell's attorneys are going to use this memo as ammunition, and rightfully so. You can't have it both ways. Either there was a conspiracy involving multiple people, or there wasn't. Either Epstein had clients and co conspirators, or he was just a lone predator with a very expensive hobby. The truth is probably somewhere in between, but this memo feels like the government trying to close the book on a case that was too embarrassing, too complicated, and too politically dangerous to pursue fully. Now let's return to Idaho, where we left Brian Coberger thinking he'd committed the perfect crime while an entire community lived in terror.

4:50 It's November thirteenth, twenty twenty two, just hours after four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered in their sleep. The survivor roommates have finally called nine one one. First responders have arrived at the scene, and Moscow, Idaho, a quiet college town that hadn't seen a murder since twenty fifteen, is about to become the center of one of the biggest man hunts in state history. The Moscow Police Department was completely overwhelmed. This was a small town force suddenly dealing with a quadruple homicide that would attract national attention. They had to process a crime scene with four victims, interview dozens of potential witnesses, and somehow catch a killer who left almost no trace. But Coburger had made mistakes.

5:37 He just didn't know it yet. The first break came from that k bar knife sheath left on Madison Mogan's bed. The sheath contained male DNA that didn't match anyone in the house. But in November twenty twenty two, that DNA was just evidence without a suspect. It would take weeks before investigators could use it to identify their killer. Meanwhile, the community was an absolute panic. Students fled campus in droves. Parents drove from across the country to bring their children home. The University of Idaho moved to hybrid learning because so many students refused to return. Local businesses lost customers, Restaurants sat empty. The normally vibrant college town felt like a ghost town as residents locked their doors and looked over their shoulders and all the while, Brian Cooberger was just eight miles away in Pullman, Washington, attending his criminology classes and pretending to be a normal graduate student. He was literally studying criminal investigations while being the subject of one.

6:38 The investigation generated over one thousand, four hundred tips from the public. Investigators interviewed hundreds of people. They cleared the surviving roommates, They cleared other friends and boyfriends. They examined every piece of digital evidence they could find. But for six weeks, they had no suspect, no arrests, no answers for the families or the community. The breakthrough came in an unexpected way, a public appeal for information about a white Hundaii lantra seen in the area around the time of the murders. Investigators didn't know who owned the car, but they knew it was connected to the crime. Somehow, that appeal led them to Coburger, who owned a white twenty fifteen Hyundai Elantra. But it wasn't just the car, it was everything else that came together once they started looking at him. His phone data showed he'd been near the King roadhouse twenty three times between August and November.

7:36 His Amazon purchase history showed he'd bought a k bar knife in March. His behavior after the murders was suspicious. He'd driven cross country to Pennsylvania just days after the killings, but the smoking gun was DNA. When investigators collected trash from outside Coburger's family home in Pennsylvania, they found genetic material that matched the DNA from the knife sheath. It wasn't just a match, it was what forensics experts call a statistical match, meaning the odds of it being someone else were astronomically small. On December thirtieth, twenty twenty two, six weeks after the murders, FBI agents arrested Brian Koberger at his parents' home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, the criminology student who thought he could commit the perfect murder was taken into custody while the families he devastated were still planning funerals.

8:26 When we come back after the break, we're taking you to Connecticut for the Preppy Party Murder trial, a case that shows how quickly teenage drama can turn deadly. Raoul Vaal is on trial for stabbing and killing seventeen year old lacrosse star James McGrath at a house party, and the testimony has been absolutely heartbreaking. This is Celebrity Trials, your daily source for the courtroom drama that shapes our culture. Don't go anywhere. Welcome back to Celebrity Trials. I'm Red Carter and we're heading to Connecticut now for a trial that's tearing apart two communities and showing how teenage violence can destroy lives in an instant. The case is Connecticut versus Raoul Valley, and it's everything you'd expect from what the media has dubbed the Preppy Party Murder. We've got private school rivalries, house parties, teenage bravado, and a seventeen year old lacrosse star who died for absolutely no reason.

9:35 Raoul Valet was sixteen years old on the night of May fourteenth, twenty twenty two, when he and his friends drove to a house party in Shelton, Connecticut. By the end of the night, James McGrath, a seventeen year old Fairfield Prep student and beloved lacrosse player, would be dead and three other teenagers would be fighting for their lives. This case has everything that makes a trial absolutely riveting, teenage drama, school rivalries, social media evidence, and a defendant who took the stand to tell his side of the story. Here's what happened. According to prosecutors, Vale and his friends from Saint Joseph's High School got kicked out of their own party earlier that night. Instead of going home, they decided to drive to a second party about a mile away, where Shelton High School students were gathered. What started as teenage posturing, you know, the usual you don't belong here nonsense, quickly escalated into violence. Vale got into a fight, went back to the car, got a knife from his friend Jack Snyder, and then returned to stab four people, killing James McGrath. But Valet's version is completely different. He testified that he was terrified that the crowd surrounded their car, that people were kicking and rocking the vehicle while spraying him with WD forty. He said he was getting beaten by a mob and began swinging the knife to try to get people off him. I was just stabbing in every direct action, vale testified. He claimed he wasn't aiming for anyone specifically, He was just trying to survive. The

11:07 prosecution isn't buying it. Senior Assistant States Attorney Mark Durso painted Valet as the aggressor who brought a knife to a fistfight. During cross examination, Drso asked Valet whether McGrath had a weapon, and Valet admitted he didn't see one, and it would be unfair for somebody who doesn't have a weapon to be stabbed by somebody who does, right, Derso asked, that's the prosecution's case. In a nutshell, This wasn't self defense, it was murder. The testimony has been absolutely heartbreaking. Taylor Capella, McGrath's close friend, broke down on the stand as she described watching her friend die. She testified that McGrath wasn't fighting anyone, He was just standing and observing. When Valet went right towards Jimmy and stabbed him, I witnessed the stabbing, describing the defendants raised arm motion and seeing blood cover Jimmy's white shorts. Capella testified. She said she now suffers from nightmares and anxiety and has needed therapy to cope with what she witnessed. Jack Snyder, the friend who allegedly gave Volley the knife, testified under an immunity agreement. He told the jury that after the stabbing, Vale got back in the car and said, I just stabbed somebody. Snyder's testimony brought Valey to tears in court.

12:25 But here's what makes this case so complicated. Everybody agrees there was a fight. Everybody agrees the situation was chaotic. The question is whether Vale was defending himself or whether he escalated a fistfight into attempted murder. Vale's defense attorney is arguing that this was a scared sixteen year old who found himself in a terrifying situation and made a split second decision to protect himself. The prosecution is arguing that he brought a weapon to a situation that didn't require one and used it against unarmed teenagers. The jury began deliberating yesterday, and their trying to decide between murder and first degree manslaughter. It's the difference between Valet spending decades in prison or potentially getting out while he's still young enough to have a life. This case represents everything tragic about teenage violence. These are kids from good families, good schools, with bright futures ahead of them, and in one night, all of that was destroyed. James McGrath will never graduate, never play college lacrosse, never have the life he was supposed to have. Raoul Valley, regardless of the verdict, will be forever marked by what happened that night. That's Celebrity Trials for today, but we're just getting started. Tomorrow will conclude our Coburger series with the Confession, How a criminology student's perfect crime unraveled and why his guilty plea raises more questions than it answers. We'll also be following

13:55 the Raoul Valet deliberations and bringing you any breaking news from the other trials we're covering. This is what Celebrity Trials is about now, not just the mega celebrity cases, but every trial that creates a cultural moment that makes us question our assumptions about justice, that shows us who we really are as a society, I'm read Carter. Sometimes the most important trials are the ones that start with ordinary people making extraordinary bad decisions. But once that gavel falls, they all become celebrities, some for fifteen minutes, some forever. See you tomorrow,