
Mega Edition: Bryan Kohberger And His Demeanor In The Days After The Murders (9/9/26)
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In the hours and days after the November 13, 2022 murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, people who encountered Bryan Kohberger at Washington State University later described behavior that, in hindsight, struck them as noticeably different. Students said Kohberger, normally an active participant in criminology discussions, became conspicuously quiet when the Moscow murders were discussed. One classmate told investigators that he stopped bringing his cellphone to class and instead used his laptop, while others remembered him appearing increasingly preoccupied, unkempt and disheveled, with facial hair growing in where he had previously been clean-shaven. Some witnesses also reported seeing scratches, cuts or bandaging on his hands around the period of the killings, although accounts differed about precisely when those injuries were observed and none of those observations, by themselves, established how the injuries occurred.
His behavior as a teaching assistant also appeared to shift dramatically after the murders. Students who had previously complained that Kohberger graded harshly and aggressively defended his decisions said he suddenly began handing out extremely high grades, often giving students near-perfect scores without the detailed comments he had previously provided. One student described him as increasingly distracted and said his apparent mental preoccupation reached an “all-time high” after the killings. Other accounts were not entirely consistent: while some classmates remembered him becoming quieter and more withdrawn, another person told investigators that Kohberger began talking considerably more than usual and seemed as though he wanted to vent. None of those behavioral changes proved involvement in the murders, but after Kohberger emerged as the suspect, investigators interviewed the people around him extensively, and seemingly ordinary observations from the days and weeks after the killings became part of the broader effort to reconstruct his movements, appearance and state of mind immediately following the crime.
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What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. Brian Colberger and the murders in Moscow were the subject of a new documentary on ABC News called The King Road Killings. And in that documentary, some of Brian Colberger's classmates and others had some pretty interesting things to say about the accused killer. And this follows a pattern that we have seen previously in this case with people who have known Colberger at certain points during his life. And we have heard now from several people that span several different decades of his life that he had a problem with anger, that he flew into rages, and now we're hearing that he didn't show up to school the day after the murders. So let's dive into this article from inside edition and let's see what author Chris Spargo has for us. Headline in an interview with ABC News, The King Road Killings of Fellow Grad Student at Washington
State University describes Brian Colberger as sometimes rude and condescending and capable of becoming angry, overseamingly minor issues. And nothing we have learned about Brian Colberger in the wake of these murders is reassuring. If you're talking about from a defensive perspective, everything we've learned about him is damning and the prosecution continues to build this profile of who Brian Colberger is. Now it might not seem like much yet, but wait until opening statements start and they drop all of this on his head like 10,000 pounds of bricks, just like they did Lori Vallow, like I said this article was authored by Chris Spargo. Brian Colberger treated female professors with disrespect and made a female classmate uncomfortable by repeatedly asking her out claims a grad student who attended Washington State University with the suspected murderer. Like what are you doing, bro? Shoot your shot and if it misses, keep it moving. Why do you have to harass
people? I just don't understand. There are so many girls out there or guys or whatever. Why would you fixate on one and harass them and never leave them alone unless you're a degenerate psychopath? In an interview with ABC News, the King Road Killings of Fellow Grad Student at Washington State University claims Colberger was sometimes rude and condescending and capable of becoming angry over seemingly minor issues like being docked a point or two in class. And on its own, that's not really a big deal, right? People get upset, especially in college. I know that when I didn't score what I wanted to score on a paper, I was upset, not at the teacher though, at myself, but I don't get the whole rude and condescending. You're in college. Why are you sitting there being rude and condescending to your classmates? Don't you think they might have something to offer as far as something you might be able to learn from them? Isn't that why you're in college? Oh, that's right. We're talking about a narcissistic lunatic who is so deep in his own hubris that he couldn't see
the forest through the trees. If Einstein showed up, he'd think he's smarter than Einstein when it comes to physics. And unfortunately, we all know this type of person. We've all dealt with them. And I know some of us have even had bosses just like this guy. Well, without the murder spree, of course, but the condescending attitude, the om better than you attitude. When in reality, you know that they're not better than you, but that's just how some people are built. And fortunately, for the rest of the world, most people like that aren't killers. But according to the government, Brian Coburger is, when angry, the grad student alleges that Coburger's face would turn bright red and he clenched his fists until his knuckles were white. Now imagine getting that mad in school, like maybe if you're like in first grade or something like that, but college, this is the way you're going to act as a PhD candidate. What it tells me is that Brian Coburger was spiraling. His inner demons, the ones that he had worked to keep pressed down deep in the dark recesses of his stomach.
Well, they could no longer be oppressed. And they were making their way to the surface. And this is the way that it was showing itself. And then finally, it culminated with what happened on King Road in the early morning hours on November 13th, a second colleague in the same program, similarly described Coburger's behavior to ABC News. The grad student claims Coburger, lack respect for people's boundaries, telling ABC News, he allegedly developed a crush on a female in the criminology program and began repeatedly asking her out and staring at her. The woman allegedly felt so uncomfortable that other students made a point of never leaving them alone together, says the grad student. I mean, really? How was that even allowed? Like, you don't go to the professor and say to the professor, look, this guy's a weirdo, he's leering at me, he keeps hitting on me, and I don't want to be in a class with him. And from the perspective of the school, what are you guys doing? You have this guy not only here as a student, but employed as the
TA and he has this kind of behavior. The first time he malved off to the professor, he should have lost his job. Being part of that criminology program is a privilege. It's not a right. So, Brian Coburger's behavior should have led directly to his ass getting thrown out. ABC News said that the grad student spoke on the condition of anonymity. In his role as a teacher's assistant, Coburger allegedly made his undergraduate students feel uncomfortable, according to the grad student. He would allegedly have his office hours run late into the evening and violated protocol by keeping his door closed according to the grad student. The grad student claims they began to stay in their office after some students voiced their discomfort. So, for me as a manager, in my position at the sports book and when I worked in the joint at the hard rock, I never had a meeting with an employee by myself. I always had another supervisor there or another manager. That way, everything was on the up and up, right? You don't close the door. What's wrong
with you? Especially if we're talking about a teacher's assistant, talking to a student, what do you need to close the door for? Especially if it's in violation of policy. That grad student claims that Coburger's fellow PhD students began tracking his behaviors that bothered them. Especially what they saw as disrespect towards female professors. And this has been a common theme that we've heard about Brian Coburger. Disrespect towards women, not respecting his female professors and being an all-around jerk off. That decision to track Coburger's behavior could pay off for prosecutors in the upcoming murder trial since it allegedly noted that the man suspected of killing four people in the early morning hours of Sunday, November 13th, did not attend class on Monday, November 14th. So, why not? Why wasn't he in school? For all of you out there, all of you contrairions, who think that Brian Coburger is innocent? Why wasn't he in school the next day? Oh, that's right. I'll tell you why, because he was at the house on King Road,
taking a look at his Andy work. That's why. You know, I've tried to give Coburger the benefit of the doubt here, but the more we learn, the more we see the more evidence that's presented, the harder that becomes. Coburger's defense team did not respond to a request for comment. A gag order prohibits his attorneys from speaking publicly about their client or his case. Coburger is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in the middle of the night at an off-campus house. Three of the victims, Madison Mogad, Kelley Gon-Solves, and Zana Kernotal lived in the home. The fourth victim, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, was in a relationship with Kernotal, and just a quick correction here. Kelley wasn't living at the home at the time. She had already returned home to live with her parents, and she was just visiting to show Madison her new car. Coburger told a previous public defender that he expects to be exonerated at trial.
In May, he declined to enter a plea after being formally charged with four counts of murder. The judge in the case entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. In a filing last month, his defense team questioned the strength of the case against their client, claiming that the DNA of three other men had been discovered at the murder scene. And while that sounds damning, when you examine what they're talking about, all they're saying is that other DNA was found at the scene of the crime. We know that a lot of people were in and out of this house. We know it was a party house, so that doesn't surprise me at all. When you go back and look at what we talked about previously about how the whole crime scene is going to be a bunch of DNA soup, it's certainly not surprising. However, what they forget to talk about is the DNA on the sheath of the knife. And until that's explained, none of these other excuses or reasons why Brian Coburger is innocent are going to fly. You're going to have to explain that DNA on the knife sheath
and how it got there. And until you do that, all of the rest of this stuff you're doing as far as the defense, it's performative. The filing also claims that there is a total lack of DNA evidence from the victims and Mr. Coburger's apartment office home or vehicle that we know of. And as far as the vehicle goes, if he went there, knowing that he was going to commit these murders, wouldn't it make sense if he had his vehicle prepared with plastic and the rest of it? So that on his ride home, remember, he took the long way home, he could get rid of that evidence. That would make sense to me. Now, I know I'm not some hot shot PhD student like Brian Coburger, but getting rid of evidence is a good idea. And if you go someplace and you know you're going to murder people, being prepared to do it is also a good idea, wearing the right clothes, disposable, etc., etc. Another piece of evidence that the defense says is lacking is the identification of the suspect's car. The problem will cause affidavit references of white sedan, but makes no mention of make or
model. Jay Weston, Logston, the attorney for Coburger says that there is only one sighting of a vehicle that is certainly a Hyundai Alontera. Remember those technicalities I'm always talking about? Well, you're seeing it here. Jay Logston and Anteiler and Alyssa Massoth, they understand that they're really up against it and the evidence against their client is as high as Mount Everest. Coburger owned and drove a 2016 Alontera. These claims were included in the defense's objection the prosecutors request seeking a protective order for the genetic genealogy testing done in the case. The defense is seeking a detailed breakdown of how FBI agents utilized genetic genealogy to initially identify Coburger as a person of interest in the case. Now, I think that should be turned over to the defense. I don't think that any of the test results should be held back. Just give them all of them. Why even worry about it? Give them everything you have, let them trace the genealogy
at themselves, and they're going to get to the same destination. Because guess what? The truth is, what the truth is. The state is arguing that since DNA from a buccal swab provided by the suspect after his arrest matched the DNA found on a knife sheath at the scene, the genetic genealogy results will play no role in the upcoming trial and are inconsequentialed approving the suspect's guilt or innocence. If I'm being honest, I don't like that. If I was Brian Coburger, I'd want all of these test results as well. I want to see how you arrived at that destination. Remember in math class, let me see the work. The judge has not yet ruled on the matter. If convicted Coburger could face the death penalty and the state of Idaho has already said they're going to pursue the death penalty in this case. So he's definitely going to face the death penalty if he's found guilty. The question is, will the state be able to get the ball over the goal line and get the conviction that they're seeking? All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one. All of the information that goes
with the episode can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone? And welcome back to the program. Today, we're going to hop right back into some of the headlines that we might have missed from overnight and see where things stand as of this morning. And to do that, once again, we'll be using the independent headline Idaho murders Brian Coburger, teen notes about having no emotion revealed. This article was authored by Rachel Sharp and Andrea Blanco. The chilling online comments made by suspected killer Brian Coburger when he was a teenager, have resurfaced revealing how he felt blank, had no emotion and felt a little remorse. Years before, he allegedly murdered four University of Idaho students in a brutal knife attack. Now, as far as Coburger goes, are we sure this dude hasn't committed any crimes before? I mean, it seems like quite a leap for me anyway that this dude just decides one day that he's
going to murder four people. Now, it's not out of the realm of possibility that somebody can go from zero to 60 that quickly, but usually there's progression. And that progression includes other murders, right? You don't just walk in and kill four people. But again, nothing about this case is normal. Nothing about this case is regular. Everything about this is just so bizarre and so crazy that nothing shocks me at this point. Back in 2011, when he was 16 years old, Mr. Coburger spoke about his mental health struggles in an online forum and described seeing nothing when he looked at his own family. As I hug my family, I look into their faces. I see nothing. It's like I am looking at a video game, but less he wrote more than a decade later, he is facing the death penalty for the murders of Kayleegon Salvis, Madison Mogen, Zana Kernotl, and Ethan Chapin back on November 13th. The 28-year-old criminology PhD student appeared in court on Thursday with several
small cuts on his face where he agreed to waive his right to a speedy, preliminary hearing. Now his next court date is scheduled for June 26th. And those cuts that they're talking about, well, according to the Sheriff's Office, Brian Coburger received those cuts while shaving in prison. Idaho murder victims had no connection the Brian Coburger says attorney. The four University of Idaho students murdered in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho had no known connection to their suspected killer Brian Coburger, according to an attorney for one of the victims' families. No one knew of this guy at all. Shannon Gray, who represents the family of victim Kayleegon Salvis, told Business Insider. His comments come as prosecutors in Idaho are yet to reveal a motive for the brutal quadruple murders. Or what connection, if any, they believe Mr. Coburger had to any of the victims. The affidavit release last week revealed how cell phone data suggests that the suspect
stuck the home of the victims at least 12 times between June and the night of the murders. And if it wasn't for that, sheath folks, they would have no idea who this dude is yet. So you want to talk about making some crucial errors? Leaving that sheath was the top of the food chain dumbass moves. And without that DNA being found on that sheath, they would have never tracked him down. So all of this other stuff, all these other issues, the phone pinging, him, you know, stalking them, all of that stuff would have never even been known. So it all went back to that DNA and that DNA being traced to his father through the rummaging around in the garbage. Brian Coburger appears in court with face cuts as he waves his right to a speedy trial. Suspected quadruple killer Brian Coburger appeared in court with cuts on his face as he waved his right to a speedy trial on charges of murdering four Idaho students.
The 28 year old criminology PhD student made a brief appearance in LaTah County Courthouse in Moscow on Thursday morning for a status hearing in the murder case. Dressed in an orange t-shirt with unexplained marks on his face, Mr. Coburger spoke only to answer yes, when asked if he understood his rights to a speedy preliminary hearing within the next 14 days. And if he agreed to wave those rights and he did wave those rights, he wants to have time to build his defense and again, the cuts and scratches on his face. Well, he got those due to shaving according to the authorities. So let's just be clear before people run with that one and start talking about how he's going to get Epstein. BTK killer Dennis Raider sees similarities between himself and Brian Coburger. Well, that's great company to keep on fellow travelers and all. BTK killer Dennis Raider has said that he sees similarities between himself and Brian Coburger, the man accused of murdering four Idaho students. Raider, who was convicted of murdering 10 in Wichita,
Kansas, told TMZ in a jailhouse email that he can relate to Mr. Coburger's dark mind and believes he may have been motivated by a fantasy homicide to kill much like himself. I mean, what is wrong with people? The scariest part is this. There are a lot of people out there like these two idiots and we have no idea that they're living in communities amongst us, working with us, shopping at the same stores we shop at. Believe it, there are sick people living in your community right now. People just like BTK and obviously people like Brian Coburger. While Raider confessed to killing his victims, in order to fulfill his sexual fantasies, a motive has not yet been revealed for the 13th of November murders of Kaleegon solvus, Madison Mogen, Zannecernodal and Ethan Chapin. Mr. Coburger has not yet been asked to enter a plea in Idaho court, but is said to plan to fight the allegations. Now we know from the affidavit and from reports that there was no sexual assaults that took place.
However, that doesn't mean the crime wasn't of a sexual nature. Some of these guys, the killing is what gets them off. And I know it sounds bizarre to those of us out here who are at least partially normal. That sounds very, very bizarre, but there's a whole last bunch of people who really have these fantasies and the only way they can satiate these, these wants and these needs is to actually go out and live up to these fantasies. And according to Dennis Raider, the BTK killer, he says that's what he sees in Brian Coburger. According to his affidavit, the suspect may have stalked the victims, home at least 12 times prior to the murders. BTK wrote in his email that he thinks Mr. Coburger would lie and wait for the victims and stalk them and their student home in Moscow, writing that this was much like I did. And remember his professor, meaning Brian Coburger's, wrote a book with the BTK. And just because Brian wasn't in contact with BTK, doesn't mean he
wasn't mimicking some of his patterns. Now I'm not saying that's for sure. That's up to the investigators to figure out, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. He went on to point out the similarities between one of his own attacks and the quadruple murder that Mr. Coburger is now charged with in 1974, Raider murdered four members of the Otero family, strangling them to death in their Wichita home. Murder four, much like the Oteros, up close and personal stabbed. He wrote in the email comparing the two crimes. BTK and Mr. Coburger have an eerie connection. I mean, you want to talk about absolute degenerates. BTK is certainly that. Another one of these punk-ass bitches, another coward who skulked around in people's homes and then did what cowards do and performed the sneak attack to murder them. Mr. Coburger had gained a master's degree in criminology in 2022 from Pennsylvania's to Salis University, where he was taught by Dr. Catherine Ramsland. Dr.
Ramsland is the leading academic authority on the BTK killings and wrote the 2016 book Confession of the Serial Killer, the untold story of Dennis Raider, the BTK killer, drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews and phone conversations with the serial killer to delve deep into his psyche. And again, that sounds bizarre to the rest of us, but Ms. Ramsland, she is a professor and somebody has to try and dive deep into the minds of these sickos, right? So better her than me. But I don't think you can discount the fact that Ramsland, who was Coburger's professor, was in close contact and actually worked with BTK. And then you see Coburger commit these similar crimes. I mean, I don't think that you can just cast it to the side and say there's no copycatting here. And I'm sure the investigators are taking a look at that as well. Brian Coburger called Idaho murders a crime of passion in a conversation with his neighbor. Oh, that's nice. Huh? Crime of passion is that Brian Coburger.
So this dude's out here pumping his gums to his neighbor, talking about what he thinks went down. Meanwhile, he's the man suspected of these killings. And he's out here talking to his neighbor, talking about how it's a crime of passion. I wonder if the authorities are going to take that into account as well. Could Coburger have been spilling the beans a little bit? We just don't know. And until we have some information about a motive, it's going to be pure speculation as far as what drove Brian Coburger allegedly to commit these crimes. Washington State University PhD student, Brian Coburger, stands accused of brutally stabbing Kaylegan Salvas, Zanakar nodal, Madison Mogen, and Ethan Chapin at an off-campus home in the college town of Moscow on November 13th. It took seven weeks for Mr. Coburger to be linked to the killings resulting in his arrest last month. One of Mr. Coburger's neighbors in Pullman, Washington, a few miles across the Idaho border from Moscow has now come forward to claim the suspect mentioned the killings to him soon after
they occurred when very few details about the investigations were available to the public. And if you're the neighbor, you don't find that odd when it's happening, right? This dudes a criminology PhD. This is what he does. This is his gig. He's following along because he wants to be a cop someday or a forensic specialist or whatever the hell. So as the neighbor, you don't see this being weird. You're like, oh, shit. All right. Got myself an educated opinion from somebody who does this for a living. Meanwhile, looking back on it now in hindsight, how chilling must have that conversation really been. So there you have it, folks. Some of the headlines from overnight that we might have missed. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that at Bobby Kapuchi at proton mail dot com. That's B O B B Y C A P U C C I at proton mail dot com. You can also find me on Twitter at B O B B Y underscore C A P U C C I the link that I discuss can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone? And welcome back to the
program. Date line recently ran a special on Brian co burger and the murders in Moscow. And they revealed some pretty interesting information, including that Brian co burger called his pops roughly two hours after these murders went down. And according to date line, it wasn't just one phone call. Oh, according to these reports, Brian co burger made several calls to his dad with some of them lasting up to 54 minutes in duration. So today, we have an article from delimel dot com. And we're going to dive right back in and get an update on what's going on with Brian co burger and the murders in Moscow. This article was published by delimel dot com and the headline explosive detail buried in Idaho murder suspects phone records reveals who he called after the killings. This article was authored by Rachel Sharp. Explosive new details have emerged in the case against
Brian co burger with records revealing he placed a series of phone calls to a family member just two hours after allegedly murdering four students in a stabbing spree. The 30 year old criminology PhD student called his dad Michael co burger three times in the morning on November 13th, 2022, according to bombshell cell phone records obtained by NBC's date line. And look, don't get me wrong. I'm happy that we have access to this. But where did date line get it? Considering the gag order, that could be troublesome moving forward. No, the calls began at 617 AM, just two hours after co burger is accused of murdering for university of Idaho students and each lasted up to 54 minutes. So what was he talking to his dad about? That's obviously the question. Now I know our minds want to run wild and come up with all kinds of crazy scenarios, but the truth is we just don't know. We have no idea what those conversations were about. Or why Brian co burger
thought it would be a good idea to call his dad just a couple hours after these murders went down. Now of course you could look at it that Brian co burger is innocent and he called his dad because that's what sons do. They call their dad. That's what his team's going to say. There's nothing that fair is here. Brian co burger just like anybody else has a relationship with his father and wanted to give him a call. But unfortunately for Brian co burger, all the evidence that we've seen that's been lined up against them certainly points us in the direction of something the fariest taking place. What exactly the father and son spoke about remains a mystery, but the shocking revelation comes after prosecutors revealed they planned to call some of co burgers on family members to testify against them at his capital murder trial this summer. And that's a blow. Imagine you're up there fighting for your life and they call your mom or your dad or your sister up against you to come and give testimony. Doesn't sound like a fun time to me.
With that said, I highly doubt that they're going to go for the throat when they have Brian co burger's people on the stand. They're going to use it to solidify what they've been saying previously about behavior and stuff like that. And probably they'll be talking about that Amazon account that they all allegedly shared. That'll probably come up with them on the stand. But besides that, I don't really see what the prosecution is going to get from having co burger's people get up on the stand and give testimony. But maybe they have a strategy that we're not aware of yet. Co burger is facing the death penalty if convicted of the brutal murders of Kayley Gonsalves, Madison Mogen, Zana Kernodal, and Ethan Chapin. The four University of Idaho students were slaughtered in a knife attack in the early hours of November 13th, 2022, inside the off-campus student home at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, that the three women shared with two other roommates.
The two roommates, Bethany Funk and Dylan Mortensen, survived with Mortensen coming face-to-face with the mass killer inside the home that haunting night. And look, if she said anything to him that night, my guess is that Brian co burger or whoever this person is who did the killing would have killed her too. So by the grace of God, she didn't say anything to him, whether it was panic or she was, you know, still intoxicated, whatever. She didn't say anything to him, anyone on his way. But if she would have said something to him, I think we would have had a different story that we're talking about here, based on survivors' accounts as well as surveillance footage which captured a white Hyundai Alantra circling the home, investigators say the murders unfolded just after 4am. Prosecutors alleged that the suspect turned his cell phone off or placed it in airplane mode to avoid detection around that time. At 6am, just two hours from the murders,
co burger cell phone was back on and a call was made from it to his father cell phone, according to the records obtained by Dateline. The call lasted 36 minutes, with cell tower data placing co burger's phone near as apartment and poolman at the time. This was the first to three calls the suspected killer made to his dad over the next couple of hours, with the longest lasting 54 minutes. Look, I'm not going to sit here and try and tell you I know what they talked about. But it's certainly pretty odd. And maybe that has something to do with having his dad come up on the stand talking about that phone call. But remember, his dad could bleed the fifth. I don't remember what we said. It was nothing consequential. We were talking about our drive from Washington back to Pennsylvania. So, you know, it could be a whole host of things that they talked about, obviously, but it certainly is a bit interesting that this phone call happened a couple hours. After these murders occurred, but we have to remember, interesting doesn't always amount to
consequential. The exact timing of the calls and what co burger spoke about remains unclear. It's also unclear if this was typical behavior for a co burger to call his father at that time. Co burgers parents live in Albright'sville, Pennsylvania, which is three hours ahead of Pullman, making the first call around 9 a.m. for Michael. Well, look, that's not too early in the morning, right? People are up at 9 a.m. especially older folks. So I don't find that too odd, especially if it's something that co burger did all the time. However, it's the circumstances surrounding the phone call and the timing of it that brings it into focus, right? Following those calls to his father, co burger allegedly returned to the scene of the murders with his phone pinging off a cell tower close to 1122 King Road at 912 a.m. Just one hour after that, at around 1031 a.m., the quadruple homicide suspect was back at his Pullman apartment where he snapped a creepy selfie. And I don't really take too much from the selfies. They don't really mean much to me. People take
selfies all the time. And you can't tell if someone's a murderer by how they look. But there's no doubt that if you're somebody who's a PhD student and a couple hours after some murders that you're suspected of, you take pictures mimicking Ted Bondy. Well, people are going to have some questions, my friend. In the photo, the suspected killer posed for the camera with his thumbs up and an eerie smile plastered across his face as he stood in front of the shower. Over another hour past, before the bloodbath was discovered at 1122 King Road and the now haunting 911 call was placed just before midday. On December 30, 2022, around six weeks on from the murders, Washington State University student co burger was arrested at his parents' home in Pennsylvania, where he had returned for the holidays. Yeah, guess who didn't enjoy their holidays? The murdered kids and their families. Coberger's father, Michael, had traveled to Pullman to make the cross-country road trip with his son
earlier in the month. The father and son duo were stopped by police officers twice as they made the day's long journey in the accused killer's White Hyundai Alonstra, the same vehicle, prosecutors alleged the killer was driving that faithful night. In the two plus years since his arrest, the co burger family has kept a low profile and is not spoken out about the allegations against the accused killer. Will you blame them? What should they do, do the circuit? Go on all the podcasts? Hey, we're Brian co burger's family. We want to talk about the case. Not a good idea, especially considering that Brian co burger's ass is facing the death penalty and has a mountain of evidence lined up against him. If you're looking for your loved one to beat the case, probably a good idea to shut up. And that's exactly the strategy that co burger's family is used throughout this whole entire ordeal. They have nothing to say. The only public comments ever made
by the family was a statement released immediately after his arrest, where they said they carried deeply for the four families who have lost their precious children, that they were cooperating fully with the investigation. And that as a family, we love and support our son and brother. Again, what else are you going to say? If you don't say anything, well you're accused of defending co burger. If you do say something, you might screw your family member. So just shut up and let the media and people say whatever they're going to say and let justice do what justice is going to do. Prosecutors previously revealed they planned to call some of co burger's family members, father, Michael, mother, Marianne, and two older sisters, Amanda and Melissa as witnesses for the state, which family members will testify for the prosecution and why remain a closely guarded secret. During a recent court hearing in April, where the defense and prosecution battled it out,
over the evidence in the case, co burger's lawyers revealed the family continues to support him and has no interest in helping the prosecution in its case. In a surprisingly sympathetic ruling, Judge Stephen Hippler has ruled that co burgers immediate family members can support them inside the courtroom for every day of his high profile trial, even before they are called to the stand to testify. That's fair. And like I always say, Brian co burger's still innocent. He hasn't been found guilty of anything, so why should his family be barred from going to this trial or from supporting him? That's crazy. New details have also been revealed for the first time about co burgers online activity and behaviors around the time of the murders, including creepy selfies and disturbing porn and serial killer searches. According to date line co burger made several searches around serial killer Ted Bundy, who has put the death for a string of murders, including the killing of female students in a sorority house in Florida.
Not nothing to see here, no similarities at all folks, come on. Don't be sensationalists. Brian co burger is just a nice guy, there's no similarities to Ted Bundy, meanwhile, back here in reality. On August 16, 2022, three months before the murders, co burger allegedly Googled Ted Bundy and one of his professors, including a paper she had written about Bundy. In the days after the murders, co burger on multiple occasions then also allegedly watch shows about the serial killer. On December 28, 2022, just three days before his arrest, co burger then also allegedly watch the YouTube show named Ted Bundy, essence of a psychopath. After watching that co burger snap the series of other selfies, these haunting images show the man soon to be charged with brutal quadruple homicide dressed in a black hoodie and staring into the camera. The photo, date line reveals, appears to impersonate the hooded image of Bundy on the show he had watched
that day. He also searched and listened to the Britney Spears song Criminal. Other online searches after the murders show the suspect was searching the killings as well as his own name, the show reported and I'll tell you what. The more information we get about what went down here or allegedly went down, the harder and harder it becomes for anyone who's defending Brian co burger to be taken seriously. He also had a trove of images of female students from WSU and UI, many of them in bikinis. The images date line reported, appeared to have been taken from social media accounts of students who followed or a friends with either Colonel Goncalves or Mogen. Sources close to the investigation told Dateline that the intended target of the attack is believed to be Mogen. I've said that now for months and months and months and the thing that really set me off was how brutally Kaylee was attacked. Whoever the killer is wanted time alone with Mogen and when
they didn't get that time, the person that caused them to lose that time, Kaylee Goncalves was the one who suffered greatly and in my opinion, Brian co burger or whoever is responsible for these murders was so enraged that he went absolutely bananas and ended up brutalizing Kaylee and that's because he felt like he was interrupted. He was supposed to have his quote on quote special time and that never occurred. So somebody had to pay the price, right? This belief is based on part on the path that the killer allegedly took after entering the three-story home that night. According to sources, the killer went straight up to Mogen's room on the third floor, but he unexpectedly found Goncalves sharing Mogen's bed. When a noisy struggle broke out, Colonel who was downstairs in the kitchen on TikTok went to investigate in the killer chaser to a room Dateline reported. The killer stabbed Colonel to death and then turned to
Chapin who was in her bed, killing him too, and then carving his legs. I don't even know what that means and I'm not going to speculate because we just don't know. But boy, that's some fucked-up stuff right there carving his legs. That's the kind of shit that Nightmare Fuel is made of. After slaughtering the four victims, the killer chillingly sat down in a chair in Colonel's room Dateline reported. A bloody impression was found on a chair in the 20-year-olds bedroom. What was he sitting down to admire his work or was he just gassed? Again, we just don't know. The killer then headed toward the backsliding door of the home, passing Mortensen's bedroom. It was then that she told police she saw the intruder dressed in a mask and all black, with only butchy eyebrows visible. Mortensen shut herself in her bedroom before running down the fulc's room on the first floor, Quarer-Ecker-Chill. The two survivors called and texted their friends, but got no response. Hours later, they called friends to the home and they made the shocking discovery that the
four victims were dead. It is now emerged that a six-young woman was also supposed to be in the home that night, but a last-minute decision saved her life. Ashlyn Couch-Mom Angela Navias told DailyMal.com that Couch was best friend with Mohin and was the six roommates still on the lease at 1122 King Road at the time of the murders. Talk about catching a break, huh? Not being there that night. All the nonsense that followed. All of the survivors guilt that I'm sure these girls are suffering from. Just a bad scene all the way around. And completely unnecessary and unneeded, right? What the fuck is wrong with whoever did this, whether it's Brian Colbergor or somebody else? There is no good reason, no motivation, no justification, forever doing anything like this. So the person who's responsible, they deserve the death penalty in my opinion. And I hope the death penalty includes the firing squad, or if they want to save some money,
helicopter ride, volcano. And like usual, I'm more than willing to do the pushing for free. Maddie and Ashlyn both got into a pie-bate of pie, and after that they ended up getting into the sorority house together, and they shared a very small room together, and they just bonded. Navias says, it was like an instant friendship, and after that they were inseparable. They did yoga together, they studied together, they would walk to class together. That was Ashlyn's person, her best friend. Couch had moved out of the home in the summer of 2022 after graduating early. But she would often return the Moscow to spend weekends with her friends, and would stay with Mogan when she did. She had planned to visit that weekend, but her mom was on vacation in Florida, and Hurricane Nicole had hit the sunshine state derailing her journey home. Navias asked her daughter to stay at home, and look after her their dogs, and so the senior canceled her plans to join her friends. The last minute cancellation may have saved her life.
Now more than two years, on from the murders, co-burgers trial is finally set to begin this August in Ada County. As well as Mortensen's I witness account, the suspect has been tied to the murders through DNA on a K-Bar knife sheath left behind by the killer next to Mogan's lifeless body. And I've said before, and I'll say it again, I think that he left that sheath on accident, and that's because he was frazzled by finding Kaylee in the room with Maddie. His plan didn't call for that, so when he was trying to make his escape, he was in such a state that he ended up leaving that sheath, and that's been my theory for quite some time. So it's going to be interesting to see how it all plays out obviously at trial, and what the prosecution says when they're doing their recreation of these murders. DNA found on the sheath came back to match co-burger, the murder weapon itself, has never been found. Prosecutors say that co-burgers Amazon Shopping History reveals he bought a K-Bar knife,
sheath and sharpener from Amazon back in March 2022. Following the murders, he then allegedly searched for a replacement, as well as the DNA, evidence and witness testimony, prosecutors say co-burgers white Alantra also matches the car scene, leaving the crime scene at the time of the murders. His cell phone records indicate he may have stalked the King Road home at least a dozen times in the lead up to the murders prosecutors say. Co-burgers stood silent at his arraignment in January of 2023, and odd Guilty Plea was entered on his behalf. So look, there's a lot going on still obviously up here in Moscow, and anytime we have something of note, we'll make sure to get it added to the catalog, and obviously we've been focusing on Diddy quite a bit the last week or so, and obviously we'll continue to do that, but we're also going to have these updates, as far as what's going on in Moscow, whenever they become available, because before you know it,
this trial is going to be upon us as well, and we're going to be rocking and rolling up in Moscow. So until that point comes, we'll continue to lay this track, as the train of justice continues racing towards the station. All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.
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