Serialously with Annie Elise - 304: DISTURBING: 1000+ Unsealed Pages Expose Terrifying New Details in Idaho Murders
Episode Date: August 4, 2025This week on Serialously with Annie Elise, we’re back with a jaw-dropping update on one of the most infamous cases she’s ever covered: Bryan Kohberger and the Idaho college murders. Now that the g...ag order has been lifted, explosive new details are pouring out. Tune in to break down chilling evidence that never made it to trial, shocking claims from those closest to the investigation, and emotional, gut-wrenching victim impact statements. There’s talk of new DNA revelations, disturbing digital footprints, and even new information about Kohberger’s experience in prison. The pieces are finally coming together, and it’s darker than we imagined. Buckle up... you’re not ready for this. Want to Watch Annie’s Deep Dive?: “One Night in Idaho: Friends Who Found Victims Speak Out & Bryan Kohberger’s True Motive” Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serialously-with-annie-elise/id1519456164?i=1000716233415 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7sHbPnaCrgX6Wu2OixmeQB?si=p7fQFP06Qf-jxehuR3nOLQ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUi-AjhpfYU 🔎Join Our True Crime Club & Get Exclusive Content & Perks 🔎 Join The Club: https://www.patreon.com/annieelise 🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to EXTRA deep dive episodes every week on Apple! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serialously-with-annie-elise/id1519456164 🚩Announcements🚩 Want to Catch Annie LIVE on Tour? 🎤 🎟Grab your tickets now for a city near you: https://annieelise.com/pages/tour 🌸 SPRING MERCH IS OFFICIALLY HERE! 🌸 Shop now at https://annieelise.com/collections/shop-all Don't miss out before your faves sell out! 🛒🌷 Follow Annie on Socials 📸 🩷Instagram: @ _annieelise, https://www.instagram.com/_annieelise/?hl=en 💜TikTok: @_annieelise, https://www.tiktok.com/@_annieelise?lang=en 🗞️ Substack: @annieelise, https://substack.com/@annieelise 💙Facebook: @10tolife, https://www.facebook.com/10toLIFE ⭐️Sponsors ⭐️ Coyuchi: Get 15% off when you visit http://Coyuchi.com/ae. Function Health: Visit http://functionhealth.com/AE or use the gift code AE100 at sign-up to own your health. BetterHelp: Visit http://BetterHelp.com/ae today to get 10% off your first month. Everyday Dose: Visit http://everydaydose.com/SERIALOUSLY for all the details Shop Annie’s Closet & Must-Haves! 👗 Poshmark: https://posh.mk/Tdbki6Ae0Rb ShopMY: https://shopmy.us/annieelise Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/shop/10tolife?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_aipsfshop_BKN1ZMCMEZHACVFQ2R75&language=en_US Disclaimer ‣ Some links may be affiliate links, they do not cost you anything, but I make a small percentage from the sale. Thank you so much for watching and supporting me. 🎙️ Follow the podcast for FREE on all podcast platforms! Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serialously-with-annie-elise/id1519456164 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/6HdheEH8WeMTHoe5da34qU All Other Platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5100770-serialously-with-annie-elise Get Involved or Recommend the Case 💬 About Annie: https://annieelise.com/ For Business Inquiries: 10toLife@WMEAgency.com Episode Sources 🔗 @CriminallyObsessed 4 News Now ABC News CBS 13 News CBS Mornings Good Morning America Law & Crime NewsNation *Sources used to collect this information include various public news sites, interviews, court documents, FB groups dedicated to the case, and various news channel segments. When quoting statements made by others, they are strictly alleged until confirmed otherwise. Please remember my videos are my independent opinion and to always do your own research. •••••••••••••••••• Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this video are personal and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company. Assumptions made in the analysis are not reflective of the position of any entity other than the creator(s). These views are subject to change, revision, and rethinking at any time and are not to be held in perpetuity. We make no representations as to the accuracy, completeness, correctness, suitability, or validity of any information on this video and will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use. All information is provided on an as-is basis. It is the reader’s responsibility to verify their own facts.
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We're taking a closer look at the case
of four University of Idaho students who were killed in their sleep.
We're learning new details about the
investigation from hundreds of pages of Moscow police reports.
Just hours after Coburgers' multiple life sentences were made official,
investigators released a mountain of information.
New insight into how the atrocity played out
and what they learned about Coburger's movements.
There are hundreds of pages of records.
Coburger is now just a number at Idaho's maximum security institution.
We are here to prove to the world that you picked the wrong families.
Due to the killer's incompetence, now stands before the world and this court unmasked.
Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly.
Hey everybody, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly with me, Annie Elise. And today we are going to go through all of the updates together of what's coming out
with the Idaho case.
As you know, we are fresh off of the sentencing that just happened recently.
There has been a huge document dump where a lot of more details and information has
been released regarding this case.
We are finding out new details about the crime scene, new details in the days and weeks leading
up to the murders.
There's just a lot of information to go over and it's been kind of trickling in, as I said,
since the sentencing, but I wanted to wait to do this update video because I wanted to
just get all the information that we possibly could
and it's been coming in daily. So now we're at a point where so much has come in through that I
feel like, okay, let's give like the full rundown of everything. We're going to go item by item,
line by line and just talk through it and see what we can make sense of even though that sounds so
stupid because it's like how do you even make sense of something like this, right?
Now, just to give a little bit of backstory
for the sentencing, I'm sure most of you are up to speed,
so I won't spend too much time on that.
But Brian Coburger, he was the accused quadruple murderer
of the Idaho Four case.
He was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences.
He also was given an additional 10 years
for the burglary charges,
and he'll be spending the rest of his life in prison.
However, it was obviously a very hot topic, right?
Because Brian ended up taking a plea deal,
which he would plead guilty in exchange
for the death penalty being removed.
And while some families involved in this case
felt like that was okay, and that at least they didn't need to go through a trial and they could just put this behind them and try to move forward,
a lot of other families have been very outspoken that they do not agree with this plea deal,
that they wanted their day in court, they wanted to go to trial, they wanted him to be put on blast for everything he did and receive some sort of,
I don't even want to say closure, but some sort of peace that way.
So it's been a very hot topic for the last several weeks. And because of this at the sentencing,
when a lot of these victims' families had the opportunity to read their victim impact statements,
I think they were kind of indicative of their frustration with the lack of a trial. Not for
everyone, but for some of them. And for the For the I'm not gonna again repeat myself a ton
But for those who didn't follow the sentencing or maybe want more of like an insight into that
We did have our correspondent in the courtroom where she was breaking down
the behavior the mannerisms the
What Brian was doing how even below the waist he was like turning in his chair
How he was so angry when Steve Consolves was speaking,
who's Kaylee's dad, but then he was very uncomfortable
when any female was speaking.
And so she breaks it all down,
which I also will just say, I think to me,
we've all been long suspecting,
or at least I've been long suspecting,
that Brian Coburger is an incel,
which stands for involuntarily celibate.
And I think that type of behavior
and his response during the sentencing to the different genders kind of ties directly
back to that. Somebody who hates women, is uncomfortable around women, doesn't know
how to act, but then hates men because the man is everything they will never be. Everything
they're not. They get everything that Brian will never get. And so I just thought that
that was really interesting. And that whole breakdown from Madison is on headline highlights
from, gosh, from two weeks ago now. So you can go back and listen to that and hear her first hand
account. But just as a high level with the sentencing, it was of course very powerful.
Nobody was really expecting Haley's father, Steve, to even speak and give a victim
impact statement because he had been so outspoken about not agreeing with this outcome. But
he did speak and it was a very powerful move because right when he approached the podium,
he turned it directly to Brian Cobreger so that Brian had to look at him. And Brian's
face, it was unnerving. He was staring very intently at Steve. His brows had, you
know, dropped down and he wasn't breaking eye contact and it seemed as though he was
the one angry at Steve, which can't like, can you even believe that?
A lot of serial killers go down and all we remember is they're the serial killer's name
and not the victim's. And maybe we can set a new tone where we focus on the victims and maybe we can set a new tone where we focus on the victims and we we don't even name
the person that does this because I think the nor norality and the fame that they get is not
helping us at all. I'll give you a glimpse a little bit behind the scenes. That podium literally said
do not move. It had it right on there. But some of the other victims' families
were so scared that they were going to be arrested,
or they were going to get in trouble
if their statements weren't perfect.
And I said, I'll go first, even though I wanted to go last.
I said, I will go first.
And if I don't get arrested, none of you
guys have anything to worry about.
So I went in there, turned that podium.
I wanted to face him.
I wanted to set him. I wanted
to set a tone of what I think a courtroom should look like. A courtroom should be about
protecting the victims and not emboldening the person who did this. I mean, how many
times did we hear that he was respectful and he didn't even need to stand for saying that
the victims that he killed. I wanted to change that tone a bit. We kind of all worked on our
statements together. We even worked with some of the other families on their statements.
We're a family of doers. We're a family that were prepared for this. Yeah, we were ready. We
were ready. And we've been victimized by the court system itself. So it was finally our
chance to be like, this is how we course correct. This is how we get in here. And we let people
know, this is what it can solve us is this is what a G is. And it's not sitting here begging this guy
and keep emboldening him,
and keep putting him in positions of power.
He was able to dictate the whole process,
but that day was our chance to say,
you know what, you're not in control anymore, we are.
I love the contrast in different families
and the way that they can grieve differently.
And I think it gives a full breadth of what it looks like
to be a victim and to go through this process.
For me, I've always said
it would be a lot more difficult if he came forward and just said,
I did this and I need to be forgiven.
I believe in in Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Savior.
So if he said that, that would put me in a paradox
to where I would have to like, I'd have to forgive him.
So that would be a lot more difficult,
but he's never really taken accountability.
He's never shown any remorse.
So I'm not there yet.
Then Kaylee's sister, Olivia,
gave a very, very impactful statement.
And I know that's probably gone viral,
but I'm gonna play it for you a little bit here.
And it was just incredibly moving.
My name is Olivia,
and I'm the big sister of Kaylee Gonzalves.
And I was blessed to love Madison Mogan as a sister too.
I'm not here today to speak in grief.
I'm here to speak in truth.
Because the truth is,
my sister Kaylee and her best
friend Maddie were not yours to take. They were not yours to study, to stalk,
or to silence. They were two pieces of a whole, the perfect yin and yang. They are
everything that you could never be. Loved, accepted, vibrant, accomplished, brave, and be loved accepted vibrant accomplished brave and powerful because the truth
about Kaylee and Maddie is they would have been kind to you if you would
approach them in their everyday lives they would have given you directions
thanked you for the compliment or awkwardly giggled to make your own words
less uncomfortable for you.
In a world that rejected you, they would have shown mercy.
I won't stand here and give you what you want.
I won't offer you tears.
I won't offer you trembling.
Disappointments like you thrive on pain, on fear, and on the illusion of power.
And I won't feed your beast.
Instead, I will call you what you are sociopath, psychopath, murderer. I will ask the questions that reverberate
violently in my own head so loudly that I can't think straight most any day. Some of these might be familiar, so set up straight
when I talk to you.
How was your life right before you murdered my sisters?
Did you prepare for the crime before leaving your apartment?
Please detail what you were thinking and feeling
at this time.
Why did you choose my sisters? Before making your move, did
you approach my sisters? Detail what you were thinking and feeling. Before leaving
their home, is there anything else you did? How does it feel to know the only
thing you failed more miserably at than being a murderer is trying to be a rapper.
Did you recently start shaving or manually pulling out your eyebrows?
Why November 13th?
Did you truly think your Amazon purchase was untraceable because you used a gift card? How do you find it enjoyable to stargaze
with such a severe case of visual snow?
Where is the murder weapon, the clothes you wore that night?
What did you bring into the house with you?
What was the second weapon you used on Kaylee?
What were Kaylee's last words?
Please describe in detail the level of anxiety
you must have felt when you heard the bear cat
pull up to your family home on December 30th, 2022.
Which do you regret more,
returning to the crime scene five hours later or never ever
going back to Moscow, not even once, after stalking them there for months?
If you were really smart, do you think you'd be here right now?
What's it like needing this much attention just to feel real?
You're terrified of being ordinary, aren't you?
Do you feel anything at all?
Or are you exactly what you always feared?
Nothing.
If you're so powerful, then why are you still hiding, defendant?
You see, I'm here today as me.
But who are you?
Let's try to take off your mask and see.
You didn't win.
You just exposed yourself as the coward you are.
You're a delusional, pathetic, hypochondriac loser who thought you were so much smarter
than everybody else.
Constantly scolding, turning your nose up to grammar mistakes, nitpicking and
criticizing others. You wanted so badly to be different, to be special, to be
better, to be deep, to be mysterious. You found yourself thinking you were better
than everyone else and you thought you could figure out the human psyche and see through it
all while tweaked out on heroin. Lurking in the shadows made you feel powerful
because no one ever paid you any attention in the light. You thought you
were exceptional all because of a grade on a paper. You thought you were elite
because your online IQ test from 2010
told you so. All of that effort just to seem important. It's desperate. There is a
name for your condition though. Your inflated ego just didn't allow you to
see it. Wannabe. You act like no one could ever understand your mind but the
truth is you're basic.
You're a textbook case of insecurity disguised as control.
Your patterns are predictable. Your motives are shallow.
You are not profound. You're pathetic.
You aren't special or deep, not mysterious or exceptional.
Don't ever get it twisted again. No one
is scared of you today. No one is intimidated by you. No one is
impressed by you. No one thinks that you are important. You orchestrated this like
you thought you were God. Now look at you, begging a courtroom for scraps. You spent
months preparing and still all it took
was my sister and a she.
You work so hard to seem dangerous,
but real control doesn't have to prove itself.
The truth is, the scariest part about you
is how painfully average you turned out to be.
The truth is, you're as dumb as they come.
Stupid, clumsy, slow, sloppy, weak, dirty. Let me be very clear. Don't ever try to convince yourself
you mattered just because someone finally said your name out loud. I see through you. You want the
truth? Here's the one you'll hate the most. If you hadn't attacked them in their sleep in the middle
of the night like a pedophile, Kaylee would have kicked your fucking ass. Thank you. Thank you.
And I'll just say all of the statements were fantastic. They were emotional,
they were honest, they were raw, they were moving. But there were some statements where you could tell
that they were crafted in a way to get under Brian Coburger's skin, whether it was Olivia's
statement and telling him how he's weak, how he's a loser, how he's sloppy and dirty because we know
he's like obsessed with wanting to be clean.
Or Kaylee's younger sister who said you know you're used to getting A's in high school and college now you're going to be getting the big D's in prison. Because there was so much intention
behind hurting Brian in some of these statements it almost kind of felt like the roast of Brian
Coburger a little bit. I was fueled by seeing the rage on his face. I was prepared to be arrested that day.
Really?
Really, no, I'm not joking.
I think that every single one of us were.
Man, was he mad.
That was obviously a big point of why I did what I did
to make him feel small, because he is.
It actually makes me really emotional.
to make him feel small because he is. It actually makes me really emotional.
I got up there knowing that my speech
wasn't to Kaylee and Maddie, it was for them.
I mean, I stalked the stalker.
I found everything that I could from him online
from the beginning of time to now.
It fueled me to know that...
I got too pegged.
I had one shot at it and I was going to make the most of it.
So I wanted to maintain that eye contact as much as I possibly could and when I tell you
there's not a human there, right? I'm not scared of this individual. I'm not intimidated by him. Truly I'm not. But when I tell you, there's a primal sense of alarms. Like my body was telling me, run. Get out. This is
a threat. The best description I can give you is like if I had come face to face
with an alien. Because back behind there, alien because Back behind there. There's no
Human being there's no humanity. But for me it was just one-on-one like and
I was ready to stand on business right like I was there
There was nothing that was gonna make me back down from that moment and all I felt was rage
Almost from the very very beginning all I felt was rage.
Almost from the very, very beginning, all I felt was rage.
At one point in my speech, when I'm speaking more to how I'm trying to say this was an
impact statement, I'm more so directed towards the judge and I turn my body in that direction
and I could feel that specific stare the entire time. It was unrelenting and all
I remember feeling really was like this guy's pissed. My whole purpose of that
speech was taking back this power and giving it back to Kaylee and Maddie.
Zanna and Ethan as well but for me and my it back to Kaylee and Maddie. Zanna and Ethan as well.
But for me and my personal connection to Kaylee and Maddie as my sisters,
I wanted to give them the hero moment that I truly feel like they deserve.
Throughout this whole process, he has controlled so much of the narrative.
And it's been focused around him, his name, his actions.
And I understand it.
But in my shoes, it pisses me off at times.
Because you see Idaho students, University of Idaho students,
his name victims, or just the headline of his name.
And it's so frustrating because it's like, they have names.
Kayleigh Gonzales, Madison Mogan, Zana Kurnodle,
Ethan Chapin. Say it. You know, you take the time to say his name. Say theirs. I
understand it's four. I understand it takes a second, but you owe them that. So
for me it was about taking back that control from him, best that I could,
getting under his skin as best as I psychologically could with my limited understanding of what he is and giving
it back to the victims the best that I could. So sentencing happened and after
that as we know the gag order was lifted and with this what that means is not
only that people who were involved in the case can now speak but certain
documents and certain photographs and information will start to be released is not only that people who were involved in the case can now speak, but certain documents
and certain photographs and information will start to be released. And although we have seen a big
document dump, and that's what we're going to talk a lot about today too, plus some other stuff that
just recently came out, there still will be more to come over the next few weeks and months. So
don't be surprised if we end up putting out another update video because it's just slowly now coming to the surface. It's been three years, right? Three years of waiting,
of wanting information. And now that the order has been lifted, some of that information is going to
start surfacing again. So let me start with the police reports. And I'm going to, I just want to
go item by item with you and kind of read off what the big takeaways were in them so that you hear the same information and receive the same information that I did.
So when officers entered the King Road house, they found Gaylee Consolves and Maddie Mogan in the same bed. severely injured, so much so that she was unrecognizable. Her face had been stabbed
repeatedly and her quote, basic facial structure was unrecognizable. One officer even said quote,
I was unable to comprehend exactly what I was looking at while trying to also discern the nature
of the injuries. And I have to say this is very important here because there was discussion of a second weapon, right?
And while it hasn't been confirmed what that weapon was,
we will talk about it here in a bit,
but Brian Koberger did reportedly have tactical gloves.
And for those who are unfamiliar with tactical gloves,
it's kind of like, there's like high quality,
very durable gloves where it would be difficult
to penetrate a blade through them.
But also the more important part is that on the top side of the gloves, on the top of
your hand and your knuckles, there's this, I don't know if it's like plastic or if it's
like super dense hardened rubber, but basically like a shell that goes over your knuckles
and the top of your hand, kind of like brass knuckles in a way.
So it's been reported that he was possibly wearing those
at the time of this and that that's what caused
Kayleigh's facial injuries
because he was repeatedly hitting her.
Now, is that because he dropped the knife
because there was so much blood that it slipped out
and that's also when he dropped the sheath?
So at that point he's just wailing on her
because she's fighting back
or were any of those tacked on post-mortem or pre-mortem,
but like just out of anger in addition to the stabbings.
Part of me thinks,
and this is just my opinion for a second here, guys,
part of me thinks that we know he left the sheath
behind by accident.
So I think he lost control in that moment.
We know he probably wasn't expecting Kayleigh either, right?
So I believe he lost control,
may have even dropped the knife,
and that that's why then she received such a beating,
because that was his second line of a weapon,
you know, to something to use.
Then when he's trying to get the hell out of there,
he picks up the knife or because wherever it is,
forgets the sheath because of the chaos in the moment.
And then he's of course stunned to see Zana still awake,
caught by surprise from her. And then we know she had the majority of the stab wounds, which I know
I'm getting ahead of myself, but just once again, an unforeseen variable that caught him off guard
and basically foiled his entire plan.
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and she had a gash that was running
from the corner of her eye down to her nose.
The bed was also soaked in blood
and the officers noted visible levidity, which if you don't know what that means, levity refers to liver mortis, which is one of the stages of death, and it basically means that the blood is settling in your body and it's starting to give your skin a purplish red color.
Both girls were also partially covered by a pink blanket, which itself was saturated in blood. And as we know, the knife sheath was
found on Maddie's right side on the bed. The defendant entered the residence, went to the
third floor, and with a knife killed Madison Mogan and Kaywin Gonzalez.
The defendant, as he left that room, for whatever reason, ended up leaving or the sheath for
a K-bar knife was left on the bed next to Madison Moten's body.
And I can jump ahead.
That sheath was tested by the Idaho State Police Forensic Lab and single source male
DNA was found on the snap of that sheath, as well as blood from both Kaylee
and Madison and other trace evidence. But it's important to note single source
male DNA was on the snap of that sheath. Now Kaylee's room, which was just next
door to Maddie's, was surprisingly neat. The only disruption appeared to be that
the sheets had been pulled back, almost as if someone had been lying there and then quickly got out of bed.
I've seen some speculation that maybe she heard what was happening to Maddie and she
went in there to intervene, but because her bed was also so neat, I think that maybe she
was going to sleep in her own room, but like girls do, sometimes like you're eating, you're
debriefing from the night, you're hanging out in the same bed and then you just like
pass out and fall asleep.
So I don't know why it was the sheet was undone or what happened and maybe that's a detail we'll
never know. As for Kaylee's golden doodle Murphy. Murphy was found on her bed scared but physically
unharmed. He had been locked in her room during the initial investigation and then eventually he
was found hiding underneath her desk. Police coaxed him out and noted that he didn't appear
to be in the room during the attack and thised him out and noted that he didn't appear
to be in the room during the attack.
And this was based on the fact that he had no visible blood
on his fur or his paws.
So going through this police report, moving downstairs,
Zana was found in her room wearing only underwear
and a long sleeved gray shirt,
both of which were covered in blood.
She had clear defensive wounds too,
including a deep gash between her thumb and her pointer finger.
Signs that she certainly fought back.
And as I said, she had the most stab wounds, over 50 of them.
And according to the autopsy, again, we'll get into all this, I'm not trying to get ahead of myself,
but I want to just give some context.
The majority of those 50 wounds were
defensive wounds. She fought like hell. Ethan was found in Xana's bed and he had a blanket over his
midsection and his feet were hanging off the edge. Now blood spray was found above his head and he
also had two large gashes on the back of his legs that went deep inside the tissue. And we had heard how Brian Coburger allegedly cut the back of his hamstrings, which I don't
think was necessary.
Ethan was asleep.
I think he probably was killed relatively quickly.
We know that the cause of death was the stab wound under his left clavicle.
So to me, again, kind of going back to the incel theory,
these injuries of his hamstrings being sliced
is very indicative of hatred toward men.
That's my personal thought.
And I will say this too, early on back in,
I think it was January, 2023,
right after Brian was arrested,
before any details came out, there was a text message circulating about an FBI agent
who overshared some of the information.
And I had a friend of mine also reach out who said,
and I actually said this in my video,
I was like, a friend of mine said that she's close with an FBI
agent, that here are some of the details that have come out,
including Ethan's hamstrings being cut, including one of the victims, who we now know is Kaylee,
her face being disfigured, one victim being stabbed over 50 times, which we now know was
Zanna. And not like, I get it, that was a lot of information to share early on, but
there was a lot of hate that came with that because people
were like, it's rumors, it's not confirmed, it's not, and now looking back it was true.
It was true and it's horrible and it's also horrible that an FBI agent would
release that kind of sensitive information to where it would go
mainstream, right? So anyway, the nightstand in Zana's room had also been oddly moved
in all of this. It was pushed up against the bed
at this like very unnatural angle,
which might indicate a struggle
or somebody bumping into it during the attack.
Investigators also found footsteps
leading from the crime scene out the back door
and then kind of curving around a stump
toward the front of the house.
They also found smudged fingerprints on the door.
Small handprints were discovered on a window just east of the back door,
and the screen for that window was found on the ground and also visibly damaged.
In the backyard, the police discovered a discarded black backpack.
A black vest was also found nearby on Taylor Avenue.
Then a few days later, a black glove with visible blood on it
was found about 25 feet
from the front door. The police later determined that that glove wasn't there on the morning of
the murders, so we don't know. Maybe somebody came back and dropped it off later with somebody
trying to play some sort of sick joke, but they did find it. Then on a desk in one of the second
floor bedrooms, officers found a rolled up two2 bill and a mysterious blue powder. We know it was a party house. We
know people in college sometimes will partake in drugs, so what that really
means and if it's something more sinister, I don't really know. Now let's
go into the coroner's report and the autopsy results. The coroner determined
that all four of the victims died from sharp force injuries.
But each case did have its own specifics, and the details paint a picture of honestly
extreme violence.
As I mentioned, Ethan's fatal wound was a stab wound right under his left clavicle,
and it severed both his subclavian vein and his artery. His jugular vein was also cut,
and he had those deep cuts onto his hamstrings,
which I think again may indicate that the murderer,
Brian Coburger, had a particular rage toward Ethan,
or even toward men in general.
Now Ethan only had sharp force injuries.
There were no other physical injuries such as being punched
or strangled or anything like that.
Zanna's autopsy revealed that she suffered
more than 50 stab wounds, many of them defensive.
And this led the coroner to conclude that,
an intense struggle had occurred.
Her fatal injuries included a laceration to the right lung
and two to the heart.
Like Ethan, she only had sharp force injuries.
Maddie's fatal injuries were a laceration to her left lung and another to her liver.
The coroner did not mention any defensive wounds and her injuries were also limited to sharp force
trauma. It seems as though Maddie got the least of it, which again, it makes you kind of ask the question, right?
Is it because he was so angry at everybody else for foiling his plan if Maddie was in fact the target?
Which I believe she was and if you haven't heard my latest episode on that, I will link it in the show notes.
But we talk all about the movements that day,
walking through the house, what that looked like, what the motivation may have been. And it's a lot of conversation and speculation and just my
thoughts, but we do talk about it. Now, Kaylee, her injuries really stand out because she had the
most complex and varied injuries of all four of the victims. She suffered a left lung laceration,
a liver laceration, a cut behind her clavicle that
severed both her subclavian vein and her artery, just like Ethan, two subdural brain bleeds,
and she also had 20 stab wounds in total, which it's later been reported, according to her own
father, that she had 34 stab wounds. And Kaylee was the only victim to have multiple types of trauma.
She had sharp force injuries, asphyxial injuries, and she even had blunt force
injuries. So again, that begs the question. Did Brian violently attack her
because she ruined his plans with Maddie? Did she fight back and he lost control
of the weapon and that's why he fought her physically so hard? What's the real
story there? So as for the weapon, the coroner concluded
that it was not serrated.
It was a single edged and extremely sharp weapon
and that a lot of force was used in every single attack.
Some of the stab wounds were also so deep
that the guard of the knife,
that little flat metal piece right before the handle,
between the blade and the handle,
it actually left an imprint on the victim's skin. That is how rageful he was stabbing
them with so much force. And some wounds had telltale shapes. The shallower ones
had two pointed ends while the deeper ones showed one pointed end and one
squared off shape at the other, likely caused when that little like hilt
kind of pressed against the body.
So those details helped identify
the kind of knife that was used.
Eventually the coroner stated that quote,
the shape and size of the K-Bar knife
that Brian had bought off Amazon
was in fact consistent with the wounds on all four victims.
Not definitive proof, but definitely damning.
Now let's talk about some key evidence
and what goes into this
and what came out in this document dump.
On December 27th, 2022, investigators in Pennsylvania
retrieved trash from the Coburger family residents
in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania.
The lab compared a DNA profile that was pulled
from the trash to the DNA that was found on
that button snap of the K-bar knife sheath, the one that had been left at the scene next
to Maddie.
The analysis showed that the male DNA recovered from the trash belonged to somebody who could
not be excluded as the biological father of the suspect who left DNA on the knife sheath.
And statistically, the match was incredibly strong, so strong that at least 99.9998%
of the male population could be ruled out as being the suspect's biological father. In other words,
Brian's dad was almost certainly the source of the DNA in the trash, and the person who left the
DNA on the knife sheath was almost certainly his son.
A pretty devastating match to Coburger. Mr. Coburger proceeded to finish his semester of
studies at Washington State University and returned to Pennsylvania for the holidays.
Law enforcement at this point were aware of Mr. Coburger had been accessing information about
him. Were trying to find him. They located him in Pennsylvania and they conducted what's called a trash pull
during the nighttime hours. Agents of the FBI, who assisted immensely with this case,
working with the sanitation department back in this neighborhood in Pennsylvania, took trash that had been set out on the street for collection, sent the contents of that
from the Pennsylvania residents of the defendant's parents to the Idaho State Friends Laboratory,
where the lab experts there were able to identify DNA on a Q-tip as coming from the father of the
person whose DNA was found on the knife sheath that was next to Madison
Logan's body in the bed. Subsequently an arrest warrant was issued here in
Idaho and a search warrant was issued in the state of Pennsylvania with the
assistance not only of the FBI, but the Pennsylvania State Police.
Mr. Koberger was arrested at his parents' home to return to Idaho. Upon his return to Idaho, a DNA sample was taken from him,
and it matched the DNA found on the knife sheath next to Maddie's body at the crime scene. Also discovered from the night of the murders was that on November 13th, 2022,
at 1226 AM, Brian searched for police scanners.
He landed on something called broadcastify.com and
he specifically started looking up Pullman Police and Fire Dispatch Live.
Now that is just hours before the murders are believed to
have occurred. Police also found a screenshot that was saved on Brian's phone and it was a
screenshot of the Whitman County jail roster. And the image showed booking info for a suspect with
the initials CEF who had been arrested around the same time as this all went down for a hit and run and a DUI involving a knife.
So I don't know if this could have been some bizarre sort of inspiration for Brian or maybe
just a disturbing rabbit hole that he fell into, but it was weird that he saved the screenshot
and was looking into it or maybe he was going to try to blame that person for it.
I don't really know.
Brian had also previously applied for an internship
with the Pullman Police Department back in the fall of 2022, and in his application he said that he
was interested in helping rural law enforcement improve how they collect and analyze technological
data in public safety operations. So basically, I know that was a mouthful, but basically he wanted
to help police be better at catching people while also plotting his own
quadruple murder himself. Well, single murder turned into quadruple murder, in my opinion.
And his online footprint didn't stop there. Brian posted a now infamous Reddit survey to multiple
subreddits. I'm talking prison felons, prison talk, ex-cons, moderators of felon, all sorts of different subreddits.
And some of them even banned him for a day with a message saying,
we do not approve of these posts. Please stop posting this.
Now, the survey post that he was posting in all these threads read,
Hello, my name is Brian, and I am inviting you to participate in a research project that seeks to understand how emotions
and psychological traits influence decision-making when committing a crime.
In particular, this study seeks to understand the story behind your most recent criminal
offense, with an emphasis on your thoughts and feelings throughout your experience.
In the event that your most recent offense was not the one that led to a conviction, you may still participate.
Additional surveys are included after the open-ended section as to best understand your unique traits.
The study should take about 15 to 20 minutes to fully complete. Your identity and all answers provided are completely
confidential and the link to the survey is also an anonymous link. The research has been approved by the DeSales University IRP. Participants must be 18 years
of age and older. If you opt to participate, you may terminate participation at any time
for any reason. If you have any questions about this research, you may contact the research team
via email. Student Investigator Brian Koberger at bk5781
at DeSales EDU.
Anonymous link to the study linked here.
And we all know that that survey was like beyond weird,
right?
It had questions like,
what was your thought process leading up to the murders?
How did you pick your victim?
What did you, what were your thoughts when you left?
Did you leave anything behind?
Like almost trying to find a blueprint to commit the
perfect murder. A file for the documentary called Kids for Cash, which is about a judicial scandal
where judges sent kids to jail for minor offenses, was also found as being added to Brian's Dropbox
between March 5th and March 9th, 2022. It's not clear whether this was part of a class assignment or just
something that maybe he watched on his own, but it definitely fits this dark psychology
theme, right? Police also discovered several emails and Brian's files that outlined the
issues that he was having in his PhD program. These internal documents showed that he was
eventually let go from his teaching assistant position and also lost his program funding, a major academic and professional setback that
was likely weighing on him pretty heavily. As investigators then dug deeper
into his Amazon purchase history, they learned that Brian bought K-Bar Knife
and Sheath online, and in that same online order he had also purchased vegan vitamins, D3K2 supplements, a 1.5 ton
scissor jack, like a jack to, you know, jack up your car when you're changing a
tire, DOT approved warning triangles, and a 14 inch universal lug wrench. The K-Bar
sharpener was also included too, and on paper when you really look at it, it is a
strange mix of like self-care and
survivalist tools all mixed together. So it makes you wonder what exactly he was planning
and why was the jack and the triangles to like stage that being pulled over and like have somebody
stop to help him and then attack someone that way. I don't know, it just raises a lot of questions. The state's evidence as an overview would show that back in March of 2022, when the defendant
was residing at his parents' residence or was residing back in Pennsylvania in his home state,
he purchased online a K-Bar knife and sheath with an Amazon gift card that he had purchased
shortly prior to the purchase of the knife, sheath, and sharpener. The state's evidence will show that following Sunday, November 13, 2022,
business records show that the defendant began searching for a K-bar knife and a K-bar knife
sheath, as the state believes, to replace the one that was left at the scene of the murders.
The evidence also will suggest that there were at least attempts by the defendant to
delete or alter his purchase history on Amazon where all these transactions had occurred.
Then finally, the police scoured every digital trail that they could find for Kaylee, Maddie, Zana, and Ethan, including iCloud, Gmail,
Yahoo, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, you name it. And not a single one of them had ever searched for
Brian with a Y, for Coburger, for Papa Rogers, for not for any of that. So this all strongly suggests that the victims did not know Brian at all.
Meaning that this may have been a totally one-sided obsession where he just became fixated on that house and on
one or more of the targets inside. Now
let's talk about the movements of Brian's car and his cell phone because surveillance footage from a neighbor identified in the documents as just TL
showed a vehicle entering King Road at 345 a.m. on November 13th, 2022, then speeding away at around 420 or 430 a.m.
The car didn't have a front license plate or lower fog lights.
And as we know, that vehicle would later match Brian's car. At approximately 420 that morning,
so this would have been 15 minutes or so later,
Ben's car is seen on a surveillance camera
for 1112 King Road, which is immediately next door
to the west of 1122, leaving the area at a high rate of speed.
And if the court were to see that,
or anybody in this courtroom would see that,
you can see the car almost loses control
as it makes the coroner heads north and then turns
to go south on Wilenta, which is one of the only ways to get
out of that part of town.
The evidence would show that following that,
the defendant in his Elantra drove south of Moscow.
We know that he drove on the back roads
because there are surveillance cameras on the main highways,
Highway 95, that would have picked up the defendant's car
if he'd gone that route.
And they did not show the defendant's car on that route
during the time. So we know that he went through a variety of back roads and very rural,
isolated part of Laetaw County. Then earlier that morning, starting at around 3 26 a.m,
Brian's white Hyundai Elantra was picked up on various surveillance cameras. First, it was seen
traveling westbound on Indian Hills Drive, then on Steiner Avenue,
then crossing South Main Street toward Lauder Avenue by around 3.28am.
Then at 3.29am, the vehicle began circling 1122 King Road, the house of those roommates.
It made three passes by the house before returning again at 4.04am for a fourth time.
Now this time, the car was seen driving east on King Road and then stopping,
then turning around in front of Queen Road.
And it looked like it tried to park or maybe turn around in front of the house,
but that they couldn't quite manage it.
It was kind of like this three-point weird like turnaround situation.
The vehicle then continued down King Road, turned again in a
three-point turn at Queen Road, and drove back east. Which this entire loop, the slow passes,
the hesitation, the weird turning, to me it looks a lot like someone who was like scoping out a
target or maybe even building up the nerve to do what they were planning to do. Then at 4.20 a.m., the car sped away
from the King Road area, driving southbound on Wallenta Drive.
It didn't reappear until about an hour later.
And by 5.25 a.m., surveillance cameras in Pullman, Washington,
where Brian lived, picked the Elantra up again.
So investigators put together a map
of all the registered white Hyundai Elantras at Washington
State University, and they zeroed in on Brian's as early as November 29, 2022.
Once they had a name, they then pulled his license photo, and he was listed as 6 feet
tall with bushy eyebrows, eerily consistent with what the surviving roommate Dylan had
described this masked men who entered
the house looking like.
The Elantra later pinged on license plate readers as Brian drove across the country.
It was captured in Loma, Colorado on December 13th and then again during a traffic stop
in Hancock County, Indiana on December 15th.
By December 16th, Brian and the Elantra had made its way back all the way back to Albright Spill, Pennsylvania.
And then we of course know what happened shortly after that.
Now as for the cell phone data, here's where things get really interesting.
On the night of the murders, Brian's phone went dark from 2.42am to 4.48am.
Just total radio silence. No calls, no text messages, no pings, which was obviously a clear
attempt to hide his location. We then moved to the early morning hours of November 13, 2022.
The state's evidence would show that early morning hours on that day, Mr. Cobert's phone left his Pullman residence,
which is an apartment in kind of the north, central northwest part of Pullman.
That phone was then subsequently turned off at approximately 2.54 a.m. and remained off until approximately 4.48 a.m. on Sunday the 13th of November.
Then when the phone came back online,
it pinged near Blaine, Idaho.
Then it began moving south toward Janiece,
west to Uniontown, and then finally north
back up to Pullman.
By 530 a.m., the phone was back at Brian's apartment,
which that timeline, as we know,
lines up disturbingly well with the path that the car
was seen taking. Later that morning at around 9 a.m., the phone left Brian's apartment and it
headed back toward Moscow. It pinged there from 9 12 a.m. to 9 21 a.m. A very short, very brief,
unexplained return to the scene of the crime, which it's been speculated that possibly he was going to, you know, revel in the
scene and the chaos that was unfolding, but was surprised that it hadn't started erupting yet.
But it's also been said that possibly he was returning back to retrieve the sheath that he had realized he left behind.
Although if he did drive all the way back there, I'm not sure why he wouldn't have gone in. Who really knows?
But then he ends up heading back to Pullman and he's there by 9.32 a.m. So again, was he checking on
something? Was he trying to see if the house had been discovered? Did he think that Dylan,
after seeing him, had called 911 so he wanted to just, in a sicko pervert creep way, watch
as the chaos was unfolding? We don't know. Later that morning, still this Sunday, the 13th of November
of 2022, Mr. Coburger's phone returned
to the area of King Road.
We don't know exactly what he did,
but it returned to that area.
It's about 9 o'clock in the morning.
He was there for about 10 minutes
and then returned to his Pullman residence.
About 930, the state's evidence will show, evidence taken from the defendant's phone,
that he took a selfie of himself on his phone in what appears to be the bathroom of his
Pullman apartment with a thumbs up.
Then even more chilling.
Cellphone towers show that Brian's phone had been near 1122 King Road at least 12 different
times between June and November of that year.
And all but one of those times occurred in the very late evening hours or early morning
hours.
One notable example of that is on August 21, 2022, the phone pinged near the King Road
residence between 1034 p.m. and 11.35 p.m.
Then just two minutes later at 11.37 p.m.,
Brian ended up getting pulled over by the local police,
which what the heck was he doing in that area, right?
Unless stalking, lurking, watching.
The state's evidence would indicate
that beginning July 9 of 2022,
Mr. Coburger's phone began connecting to a cell tower
that serves the area of the 1122 King Road residents
in Moscow, Idaho.
Now I will acknowledge for the court and all present
that there are many residences in that area.
It's a dense population of mostly college-related occupants.
dense population of mostly college-related occupants. Between July 9 of 2022 and November 7,
the defendant's phone connected to that particular tower
during late night, early morning hours, 10 PM to 4 AM,
on approximately 23 times.
Now, I will acknowledge also, we do not
have evidence that the defendant had direct contact with 1122
or with residents of 1122.
But we can't put his phone in that area on those times.
In the interim, on August 22 of 2022,
Laetaw County Sheriff's Deputy Darren Duke
conducted a traffic stop in the early morning hour
or late evening hours about
11 p.m. on the west side of Moscow on the Moscow Pullman Road.
This was the traffic stop of Mr. Coburger's car which turned out to be a 2015 white Hyundai
Elantra with Pennsylvania plates.
During the course of the traffic stop, Deputy Duke was able to obtain
Mr. Coburger's name, Ryan Coburger, his phone number and his address, which at that point was
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Now let's talk about some additional evidence.
Outside the police report, the cell phone pings, all of that.
I want to talk about some other information that was found and released.
Investigators found a shovel in Brian's car and they have the soil on this shovel analyzed
to see if it could place him near the crime scene in Moscow.
And one geologist determined that the soil was consistent
with samples from the Moscow area
and that it could not have come from anywhere else
but there, including Pennsylvania, where he was.
So that ruled out the idea that the shovel had just been,
you know, riding around in his trunk
from when he was back home or anything like that.
The shovel had been used in the Moscow area.
But in true Coburger case fashion, nothing is simple
because a different geologist said that the soil
probably didn't match the control samples
from Moscow at all.
That sample contained high levels of pine pollen.
And interestingly, also pollen grains
from basswood and red maple,
which are not native to the Moscow
area, but are commonly used as like ornamental landscaping. So the question
is with all that, was Brian in somebody else's yard? Was he in some sort of
landscaped park? Was he doing something much sketchier with that shovel? Perhaps
burying evidence? Burying a murder weapon, something like that.
Meanwhile, something kind of odd happened in March of 2024.
A company called Research Strategies Inc.
started cold calling people all over the county,
including some of the actual police officers,
asking them a bunch of very specific questions
about Brian, the victims, and the case in general.
And these survey questions were clearly designed
to assess media exposure and public bias.
For example, some of them read,
have you read, listened to, or seen any news coverage
about Brian Coburger or the families of the victims?
Have you heard or participated in any rumors
surrounding Brian, the victims, or their families?
What sources have you used to get your information?
Newspapers, Netflix, documentaries?
Do you know any of the students at the University of Idaho?
Do you feel the community has felt excess stress
since the murders?
Do you think Brian could receive a fair trial?
Would you be able to serve on a jury fairly
and weigh in only on the evidence?
Now let's talk about what happened
the night of the murders
or the early morning hours of the murders I should say,
because we now have more statements from the witnesses.
We have more information about the movements.
And so I wanna just go through all of that with you.
Between 2 and 2.30 AM on the night of the murders,
Maddie and Bethany let Kaylee's dog Murphy outside to use the bathroom.
Shortly after that, Bethany watched the show Baby Daddy on her iPad,
but she couldn't remember what episode it was or for how long.
Then, sometime after 2.30, Maddie asked Bethany if she knew where Murphy was.
Then she left. Bethany locked her bedroom door, and she went to sleep.
Around 4 a.m., Dylan, the
other roommate, heard Kaylee scream saying, somebody's inside the house.
Dylan was on the second floor and she said she heard that scream come all the
way from the third floor. So Dylan locked herself in her bedroom after
hearing the scream. A little while later she said she heard somebody either Kaylee
or Xana crying in the bathroom. Then after the sounds of a struggle stopped Dylan heard a male voice very calmly say you're gonna be fine
I'm going to help you which is chilling right because if Xana did
Spook Brian and come you know approach him or bump into him on accident
she would probably panic seeing this guy in all black, but with blood on him,
and him trying to kind of shuffle her backwards,
being like, it's okay, it's okay, I'm gonna help you,
I'm gonna help you, as though he's not the one
who just caused whatever happened upstairs, right?
Then a few minutes after that,
Dylan saw a man in a black ski mask
walking near the second floor patio.
She said that he was about six feet tall, and that he did see her, but he just kept walking and left through the
patio door. That same patio door was still open when the officers arrived
later that day. There were two other roommates in the house and they were
already asleep. During the course of this, one of those roommates awoke,
looked out her door not knowing what was going on,
and saw the defendant who was dressed in black with black velvet coat on, holding some sort of container in his hand.
And she saw him leave the house through the direction of the kitchen where that sliding door is that I mentioned before.
Now there's been a lot of scrutiny as to why 911 wasn't called right away, why Dylan didn't call 911 the moment she saw the masked man, and when
asked why she didn't call 911 after seeing him in the house, Dylan told the
police that she had been intoxicated, that she quote didn't want to believe
what was going on. So after that encounter, Dylan went to Bethany's room
and there they ended up sleeping in the same bed that night and told the police
later how they both get scared very easily.
Dylan told Bethany what she saw,
but Bethany reportedly didn't think too much of it
at the time.
She assumed that it might've just been someone
from Ethan's fraternity house playing a prank on them.
And sure enough, at around 4.20 a.m.
Bethany had woken up in her first floor room,
which was kind of more of like the basement level.
And it was after hearing what sounded like a firecracker
and seeing a flash.
At the time, she thought it might've been, again,
one of Ethan's frat brothers just playing a joke.
But she also said that she heard Murphy, the dog,
barking during that time.
Bethany tried calling all of the victims
between 421 and 431 a.m., but she didn't get any responses.
She and Dylan were both still groggy, still a.m. but she didn't get any responses. She and Dylan were both still
groggy, still a little drunk. They had been drinking all night, you know, so they
just went back to sleep, unsure if anything serious had actually happened
or if they were just being paranoid or still so intoxicated that they didn't
understand what was really happening. Bethany then woke up again in the
morning, I believe it was around 7, and she had a toothache. She called her dad, who's a dentist.
He told her to take some Advil and go back to sleep, which she did.
And then she woke up again around 11 56 a.m.
At that point, she asked her friend Emily to come over and Emily brought her boyfriend
Hunter and that's when Hunter entered the house.
That's when he saw Zana and Ethan.
He shuffled the girls outside and he directed them to call 911. What is the rest of the address?
Oh, King Street Road.
Okay. And is that a house or an apartment?
It's a house.
Can you repeat the address to make sure that I have it right?
I'll talk to you guys. We live at the white, so we're next to them.
I need someone to repeat the address for verification.
The address? 1122 King Road.
And what's the phone number that you're calling from?
What's your phone number?
And tell me exactly what's going on.
One of our, one of the roommates has passed out and she was drunk last night and she's
not waking up.
Oh and they saw some man in their house last night.
Yeah.
And are you with the patient?
Okay I need someone to keep the phone, stop passing it around.
Can I just tell you what happened, pretty much?
What is going on currently? Is someone passed out right now?
I don't really know, but pretty much at 4 a.m.
Okay, I need to know what's going on right now if someone has passed out.
Can you find that out?
Yeah, I'll come. Come on, let me go check. But we have to.
Is the cat still?
Yeah, it's true.
Oh my god.
Oh no, what's wrong? She's not waking up.
Yeah.
Okay, one moment. I'm getting help started that way.
I'll get her into you.
What's up?
Sorry. Okay, and how old is she?
She's 20.
How long is she in her house?
20, you said?
Yes, 20.
Okay.
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
Hello? Hello? Hello answer them? Hello?
Hello?
Okay I need someone to stop passing the phone around because I've talked to four different people.
Okay, sorry they just gave me the phone.
Is she breathing?
Hello?
Is she breathing?
No.
Okay. I'm also talking to one training in the room.
Talk to them, say. I can't talk to them. I need you to talk to them.
Hello.
Okay. My R.D. sent the ambulance and law enforcement stay on the line.
If there's a defibrillator available, send someone to get it now and tell me when you have it.
Okay, is that again? There's a police here right now.
Okay, if there's a defibrillator available, send someone to get it now and tell me when you have it.
Do you have a defibrillator? Yes, you have one.
Are you talking to the officer? Yes. Do you have a defibrillator? Yes. Yes, you have one. Are you talking to the officer?
Yes.
Okay, I'm gonna let you go
since she's there with you and can help you.
Okay, thank you, bye.
Okay.
Bethany also shared some very creepy context
from earlier in the month.
She recalled an incident where Kaylee
had taken Murphy outside and she noticed a man
standing right above the house to the south
just staring down at her.
Now, Kaylee was so freaked out by this
that she called the roommates immediately,
texted them asking when they were gonna be home,
and she told quite a few people about this.
Then on November 4th, just nine days before the murders,
the roommates came home at around 11 a.m.
and they found their door just open,
kind of hanging loose on its hinges.
Now, Kaylee wasn't home at the time, but Zanna's dad ended up coming over and fixing it.
In her statements, Bethany also said that both Ethan and Zanna regularly snorted Adderall,
and that they had done so the night of the murders. She wasn't sure, but she suspected that Kaylee
might have occasionally used Adderall as well, which that would explain the two dollar bill that
was rolled up and possibly the blue substance. I don't know what color Adderall is. I'm just
guessing. Bethany also shared that Kaylee was very into crime shows and that she would regularly
check the registry list to see if anybody was local and popping up around them. She liked to
be hyper aware of all of the dangers in her surrounding areas, which kind of, I mean, when you think about it, it makes what happened to her even more devastating. She was trying to be hyper aware of all of the dangers in her surrounding areas, which kind of I mean when you think about it
It makes what happened to her even more devastating. She was trying to be hyper aware
She thought someone might have been watching her stalking her. So she told them she
Checked the area to see if there were any, you know offenders around and
Seemingly fought like hell to against Brian. Now Now here's another detail that I think is interesting
and it doesn't necessarily mean anything concrete,
but on November 10th, 2022,
just three days before the murders,
Bethany and Brian were at the same target in Moscow,
target the store, you know, the big superstore.
It's unclear if they were there at the same exact time, but they were both at the same store the same day,
which is super eerie because also,
why was he in Moscow that day?
I get it, it's close to Pullman,
but still, it just, again, makes you wonder.
So speaking of the discovery and the morning of the murders,
just before noon on the day that the bodies were discovered,
the surviving roommates, as I mentioned,
had called Emily and Hunter, saying that they couldn't wake up Xana, that Emily and Hunter
needed to come over, like they didn't know what to do, they were scared. So they arrived to the
house at around 11 55 a.m. Hunter said he initially didn't even notice Ethan, he only saw Xana,
and he didn't even immediately process what he was looking at, and seeing that what was all over her
face in the room was dried blood.
He thought it was just a mess, that they had just been messy.
So he kind of just stood there for a second trying to make sense of all of it.
Then, once it all started to click in his mind, not knowing if there was still
somebody dangerous in the house, Hunter ran to the kitchen and he grabbed
a steak knife so that he could protect himself.
He then went back to Zana's room and checked the closet to see if anybody was hiding inside,
which that just tells you how chaotic and confusing this whole scene was for the people
who first arrived on scene.
They were really just trying to make sense of what they were seeing.
Emily later told investigators that Dylan had called her around 11 51 a.m. and had said
something to her along the lines of last night at around 4 a.m. she heard and saw a man and that she
and Bethany were locked in their rooms sleeping. Emily also said that Dylan told her that she heard
Kaylee scream and run upstairs and that she had seen that man quote staring her. But Emily said
Hunter tried to shield her from seeing how bad that scene really was.
Hunter and Emily say the fall weekend started
like any other with a big football game.
The friends snapping this photo that Saturday.
It was a normal weekend for us,
we're just hanging out with our friends.
The next morning, Emily says Dylan,
one of the surviving roommates, called her concerned,
asking her and Hunter to come over.
In the documentary, you tell the story of really not feeling alarmed when Dylan called
you.
I joked around with her on the phone, you know, it's something you would never expect.
It's November, so I had shorts on, slides on, like I wasn't prepared to obviously stay
there.
I was just going over to check to see what's going on.
I would say as soon as you get there,
you know something's wrong.
Hunter was the first person to arrive to King Road
to discover what happened, their friend Josie Lauderin,
who was also there,
describing the moments in the docu-series.
As soon as I stepped in the house, I was like,
oh, something is so not right.
Like you could feel it almost.
Hunter was ahead of me and Emily and immediately was pushed out.
And Hunter was like,
get out, somebody call 911.
You hear Hunter on the 911 call,
telling the girls there was an unconscious person
protecting them from the graphic details.
Is she breathing?
No.
How did you remain so calm in that moment?
Truly in my heart, I believe God was with me that day
and he gave me the strength to get through that day.
As authorities entered the home,
the friends say they were told to sit outside,
waiting for hours with little information.
We watched the ambulance come
and we watched them immediately leave.
So I think that that was the,
that was a hard to part for sure.
That second you realize there's no one to be saved.
Right.
Their best friends inexplicably murdered, not knowing who was
responsible or why they feared for their own safety.
We just left to get away. Be safe. our mindset. You didn't feel safe? No.
In the nearly seven weeks it took police to arrest a suspect,
Emily, Hunter, and surviving roommates,
Dylan and Bethany became the targets of online sleuths
and social media attacks.
Lots of threats, people saying I should confess
to murdering them.
I felt like I was less than a person
in that point in my life.
Multiple neighbors also recalled hearing
the dog Murphy barking that night.
One said that the barking started at around 4 a.m.
and that it went on until about 4.45 a.m.
Another one pegged it closer to 4.20 to 5 a.m.
And they emphasized that the barking
was very out of the ordinary,
not like Murphy's usual
behavior. Now in regards to being stalked or being targeted, Maddie's parents told the police that
she had never mentioned being followed or stalked by anyone. However, several of Kaylee's friends
said that she had brought up a stalker back in September of 2022. For example, one friend,
identified as J.L., said that Kaylee once told her that a man had followed her around the Wynko grocery store, then followed her out to her car and even tried to get inside it.
Another friend described three separate occasions when Murphy, the dog, ran toward the woods behind their house and then wouldn't come back when he was called for, which again was totally unlike him. The roommates even had heard weird noises out there at one point too and began to worry
that somebody was watching them.
That same friend also recalled an incident where she and Kaylee had returned home and
found the sliding door open and Murphy was missing.
So was this a possible dry run maybe?
Was Brian going to the house trying to get familiar with Murphy so that
Murphy wouldn't bark at him on the day of the murders? Who knows? A sorority president going by
R.H. told police that Zana and Ethan occasionally also did cocaine, but they emphasized that it
wasn't anything big and that nobody in that house was selling drugs. A different friend going by the
initials K.N KN said that Zanna was
quote pretty into cocaine and they also believed that Kaylee used it occasionally. Now the reason
I bring that up not that it you know matters what somebody's drug use is especially in college people
are gonna try different things maybe not hard drugs but you know what I mean there's no you know
it's not to shame them but it's because a big theory and a rumor that was put out there at the very beginning
Of this was that King Road was a drug house that this was all a drug deal gone bad that it was
Somebody retaliating against them that Brian's being framed for this and that like it's really it all leads back to drugs
Which I know a lot of people still believe that as well. I personally don't I think Brian's the guy
I think they got the right guy I think it was because he wanted to see if he could get away with
murder. But I just want to give you all of the details that are released so that you
can, of course, form your own conclusions and decipher it how you want. Now, what's
weird is in a possible pre-crime sighting, a woman living just 0.13 miles from the house told the police that either in August or September of 2022,
she and her daughter saw a man in their yard who was just pacing around and looking very nervous.
She described him as having curly hair and a big nose,
and she also later said that she was 92% sure that it was Brian Koberger.
He walked past their house, disappeared, then returned 15 minutes later, She also later said that she was 92% sure that it was Brian Coburger.
He walked past their house, disappeared, then returned 15 minutes later, walking that same
route in reverse.
Again, trial runs, getting comfortable, casing the areas, who really knows?
Another reporter reported seeing a white sedan parked in the area for over an hour back in
June or July of 2022.
So could that have been Brian doing early surveillance?
One especially eerie tip came from a Walmart employee because while a detective was browsing
the knife aisle, the employee mentioned that two to three weeks earlier, a white, college-aged
guy had come in and was asking for a black ski mask that would cover his whole face. She said that he was taller than she was and that he had a tan
complexion, which doesn't quite match Brian Koberger, but because they only had
camo masks he left and didn't buy anything. Now let's talk about the
door dash of it all because this has been a recent development over the last
couple of months and some people suspect that it's why Brian wanted to accept a plea deal to begin with because he was so spooked that this door dash
driver saw him. So the door dash driver with the initials of MM made three deliveries to the King
Road Queen Road area that night. Her final stop was 21122 King Road and it was just before 4 a.m.
She said that the porch light made the house number difficult to see, so she ended up hanging
around for about 15 minutes.
She said that she initially parked out front and she saw a woman in the third story bathroom
a few times during this time.
Then, because the delivery app told her to, she circled to the back lot and started walking
down the road that runs just east of the house. That's when this light-colored sedan pulled up next to her.
She described the driver as white with red or blonde spiked hair
and a light-colored, colored shirt, saying he was, quote,
completely zoned in, just tunnel vision on whatever his task was.
She didn't recognize the car or the driver driver and then she walked back to her Subaru.
Surveillance shows that at 3 58 a.m. Brian's white Elantra pulled in right behind this door
dash driver's car, but she never reported seeing it. Police eventually determined that the light
sedan that MM had described was actually a light colored SUV that left shortly after. Again,
she reportedly never saw the Elantra at all, yet in a recording
that was dated September 4th, 2024, she is reportedly heard saying, I saw Brian there.
I parked right next to him.
And then now I have to testify.
In part of the case, yes, so yeah, because I'm a really nice driver, so yeah. You have to testify in which murder case? Another delivery driver also reported seeing someone who looked like Brian back in 2022,
saying that he was wearing all black with unusual, quote,
boxing or elf shoes and that he was standing on a footpath near Terrorview Drive, which had a direct
view of many female tenants. Then in late 2024, police started getting repeated calls from a woman
with the initials H.H. and she was claiming that she had evidence to exonerate Bryant.
But despite multiple conversations, she never actually shared any of that evidence and she
admitted that she had never seen him and had never spoken to him.
So it seemed like somebody maybe just looking for clout or someone trying to just like throw
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Now let's talk about the people who knew Brian
and could speak to his behavior before
the murders occurred.
And even after the murders, I guess you could say.
So after the murders, investigators spoke with several of Brian's fellow PhD students
and his coworkers at Washington State University.
And let's just say, not everybody had glowing things to say about him.
One fellow teaching assistant said that he had, quote, considered Brian a friend, even
described him as being very intelligent, but also very selfish.
He claimed that Brian would regularly mislead him about their shared assignments and that
he would dump his own workload onto him.
He added that Brian was, quote, frequently 20 minutes late to their classes, and that
he liked to discuss his area of study, which was criminal decision-making and burglary-type crimes.
That same TA said that Brian came to his dorm room around the time of the murders and was
acting very strange, saying he was quote, talking much more than usual, and acted like
quote someone who wanted to vent.
The same student also told police that he had noticed visible injuries on
Brian's face and hands on two separate occasions. This was in October and November of 2022.
One of the injuries was a large scratch on Brian's face that looked like fingernail marks.
Another time he noticed wounds on Brian's knuckles. And when he asked Brian what happened,
Brian had said that he had been in a car accident,
which we haven't been able to find any report of that.
We didn't see any damage to his car.
So it begs the question,
if he had scraped up knuckles
and fingernail markings on his face
in the days leading up to the murders,
or weeks leading up to the murders too,
did he go for a trial run?
Is there another victim out there?
What caused those? And why would he lie about a trial run? Is there another victim out there? What caused those and why would he lie
about a car accident? Another co-worker at WSU told police that Brian used his position as a
teaching assistant to quote, inappropriately interact with female students. The man said
that Brian really wanted a girlfriend and he added that the two of them had talked about how
Brian wanted a girlfriend on many occasions.
Brian also asked his coworkers for help defending himself against misconduct allegations from
a professor, but the coworker refused, saying that he thought Brian was a dishonest person.
Now again, not to harp on the whole incel theory of it all, but if him wanting a girlfriend
was always the topic of discussion, that if you are very, if you're familiar with any incels
or Elliot Roger, you know that that is like,
they get tunnel vision.
That's the only thing they can think about is,
I want a girlfriend.
Why are other men getting girlfriends and having sex
and I'm not, why me, why me?
All of these things.
And it ends up creating such a deep seated hatred
for women, for men, because they have everything in life that
he doesn't have and will never have.
Now, text messages between professors at WSU also show that Bryan was definitely not a
favorite among the faculty.
In August of 2022, one professor asked, do you want to take Coburger?
He listed you and Blank as people he was interested in working with.
The reply was, if I must.
Then on September 14th, another professor wrote that they were trying to stage a quote
intervention, because Brian had apparently offended multiple female students.
It's like nobody wanted anything to do with this creep.
Not the students, not the teachers.
Certainly not the majority of the female population, right?
He was a creep, he was a loser.
He was a little douchey twerp, I mean, through and through.
Now one woman that he did connect with on Tinder,
he had matched with her on Tinder,
said that they did bond over horror movies.
When she mentioned liking the Rob Zombie movie, Halloween,
or like the many versions of Halloween,
Brian apparently asked her what she thought
the worst way to die would be,
to which she replied, buy a knife.
Then he followed up that statement
by asking like a K-Bar knife,
which I gotta say is just incredibly on the nose
because we know that is the weapon
that he used on the four victims.
She of course ghosted him after that.
She was like, who is this creep?
But Tinder ended up saying that there were no records
tied to the user information that she gave to the police.
So it's unclear if this interaction actually happened.
Another report came from an adult dancer,
saying that she encountered a man
that she believed to be Brian
between 2008 and 2019 at a strip club, and this club was
about two hours away from his home in Pennsylvania.
She said that he was the only customer there during her stage set, and that he muttered
about quote, wanting to kill people.
She said that he muttered this under his breath at least twice.
Then when she jokingly asked like, well who?
He reportedly replied, whoever I want.
She offered him a private dance, and during which he allegedly insisted that she look
directly at him in the eyes.
And then he asked weirdly personal questions like where she lived, what kind of car she
drove, and she says that she found it incredibly creepy.
So she didn't like it, it put a bad taste in her mouth, and he apparently never came back to the club again.
Another tip came in from someone who claimed that Brian had taken PhD courses at Oklahoma
State University. They alleged that he became close with a professor whose initials are
JD, who gave him a K-Bar knife and also encouraged violent ideation. The same witness said that Brian had quote, a sloppy homicidal mindset, and possibly even
had a psychotic break.
They also claimed that the professor was a martial arts instructor and a predator who
quote initiated Brian into brutality.
But here's the catch with all of this.
This witness had submitted 36 tips to the FBI in
the recent years and the police couldn't verify that Brian ever even attended Oklahoma State. So
take this one with like, you know, a grain assault, a truckload assault because it doesn't really seem
like it's panning out. Brian's past landlords also had a couple of interesting stories too.
They said that they once found a broken, serrated cooking knife blade
in the gutter outside of his apartment.
The handle was missing,
and the blade was about eight inches long
and two inches wide.
Cops didn't think that it was used in the murder, obviously,
but it still is weird when you think about it.
Now let's talk about Brian's initial interview
with the police.
During his initial interview,
Brian talked a bit about his background and how he was
interested in criminal justice.
He also mentioned that he had once considered becoming a police officer, but ultimately
didn't pursue it because he didn't want to commit to that path unless he was quote
absolutely sure.
Then when one of the detectives brought up the quadruple murder, the deaths of all these
victims, Brian immediately acknowledged it.
And he responded, of course, of course I know about it.
He then said that it was the incident
that the police had been investigating for quote,
how long has it been?
Which is kind of a strange way to refer
to a quadruple homicide investigation
that he was potentially involved in.
Like how long have you been investigating that incident?
Of course I know about it.
Then when he was asked why he wanted to be a professor instead of a
cop, Brian said it was because he loved being in college. He said that to him
quote, knowledge was far more important than money. Which to me I wonder if the
reason he loves school so much is because that's where he's noticed, that's
where he excels, he gets straight A's or whatever so it's like maybe that's the only thing in his life that ever made him feel proud or accomplished, that's where he excels, he gets straight A's or whatever, so it's like maybe
that's the only thing in his life that ever made him feel proud or accomplished and that's
why he likes school so much.
Then at one point, Brian also shared a little bit about his personal beliefs.
He says that he was raised Christian, but that he had always been skeptical, except,
interestingly, when, quote, he was confronted with the beauty of the natural world, which almost felt like poetic in a way that kind of makes you wonder like,
was he trying to sound profound, philosophical even?
Or was this more of just like the intellectual persona that he clearly wanted to present,
but to be like, I've always been skeptical until I was finally confronted with the beauty of the natural world.
I mean, no, no, no, no.
Now let's talk about prisoners who have encountered
Coburger since all of this first went down.
A male inmate who encountered Brian in jail
did not hold back.
He called Brian, quote, a fucking weirdo.
And he said that he would have assaulted him
if he wasn't worried about getting into more legal trouble.
That same inmate said he had no doubt
that Brian committed the murders,
adding that, quote, his eyes tell a story.
Another inmate who was housed next to Brian
had a more nuanced take.
He described Brian as, quote,
highly intelligent and polite for the most part.
He even called him, quote,
the smartest person he had encountered while in confinement.
But even that inmate admitted
that Brian had some very strange habits. But even that inmate admitted that Brian had some
very strange habits. He said that Brian would, quote, wash his hands dozens of times every day,
and that he would spend 45 minutes to an hour in the shower. He would also be awake almost all night,
and he would only take a nap during the day. Brian apparently would, quote,
often question him about his past criminal offenses and why he was in the maximum security wing.
Almost like Brian was trying to study him.
The same inmates said that there was really only one time that Brian ever lost his temper.
He had been video chatting with his mom, which he apparently did for hours.
And during one of these calls, this inmate was like watching a sporting game in the background and casually said like, you suck, presumably to the players.
But Brian immediately jumped up, got in his face, well, face to bars, and aggressively
asked if the comment was about him or his mom, which I gotta just say, kind of a mama's
boy.
But also for someone who studied criminal behavior, Brian definitely was not great at
managing his emotions.
The inmate also mentioned that Brian seemed excited to be transferred to Ada County, which
kind of might say something about how isolated or uncomfortable he was at the initial facility.
Now something else that has popped up that just makes me so enraged, and this came up
just recently over the last few days, is that there still, as we know, is a big camp of people who call
themselves the pro-burgers who say Brian's innocent, that he only took the plea deal
because he's scared to get the death penalty, that he's being framed, blah blah blah, there's
something bigger, all these things.
But as if that's not bad enough, right?
And as if it's not bad enough that all these people on YouTube are like pushing that the roommates are involved and that Brian's innocent.
Some people have even gone as far as immediately following the sentencing to threaten the victims'
families. One person even text messaged Kaylee's mother saying, I was in the courtroom during the
sentencing. I sat right behind you and Brian Koberger is innocent. I know a lot of wannabe serial killers and don't worry, I've given them your address.
I mean just very scary and like unhinged behavior.
At this point, the families should be left alone.
All they should be worried about is grieving, getting closure, getting peace.
Yet these fuckwads are still screwing with them, threatening them, reaching out to them,
saying Brian's innocent that he was wronged, slandering the roommates names.
It's so horrible and it's like if you are one of those people and you are
hearing this or watching this, you deserve whatever karma is coming your
way. You are sick in the head. I first want to ask you though and I noticed
this I was sitting behind you guys and I
saw Christy, your wife, pull out her phone and look sort of disturbed and then you guys
called the deputy over and then he was looking at your phone and I kind of figured something
bad was going on and it turns out that it was a threatening text message that she had
received during the actual sentencing while the victim
impact statements were going on.
I don't want to read the whole thing because I just don't want to give glory to whoever
did this, but I do want to read a little bit so people can see what exactly happened.
It says, sitting near you in court and watching you is a joke.
You know that Brian is innocent.
Making threats to Brian about getting raped in prison was very silly.
I am in contact with a lot of serial killers,
including BTK, and I have been put in contact
with a wannabe serial killer who is in Moscow, Idaho,
and I have given him your address.
And I don't think people realize, Steve,
that this is the kind of stuff that you and your family,
and I'd imagine the other victims too,
I mean, you guys have been having to deal with this for some time, but during the actual sentencing,
what did you make of it?
Yeah, the sentencing, there's definitely an element of crazy people that are,
that gravitate towards these type of events. That's why I've always
That's why I've always hoped that the court would use force and be very careful with all the voices that they're talking to.
Make sure that we are holding these people accountable and be tough on them.
Are they going to do an investigation?
Again, I saw the deputy take Kristi's phone.
Is there any way to trace and figure out who that was?
I'd imagine it wasn't really someone in the courtroom.
I guess it could be, but it seems like that part was probably just made up.
Yeah, I think so as well.
They just wanted to piggyback right off something she had said because it was live TV or slight
delay close to live TV.
And it was accurate, you know.
So we did pass it on to our lawyer and he started
working with the investigators and they're definitely going to, or if they already have
it, track this person down and they'll be held accountable.
I spoke with Olivia yesterday, your daughter, and your victim impact statement was obviously
really just intense and hers was intense and both are getting a lot of attention,
I think have really sort of inspired the world in a way.
She told me that, you know,
she felt relieved after the hearing
that she actually did feel just a little better in general.
Did you feel the same way?
I mean, how are you doing now?
Yeah, to be honest, I felt great
because I felt like the first time the courtroom
was had a representation that was in harmony of our family.
We're not going to sit there and honor a mass murder and say that he can sit on his
butt because he was honorable to the sword.
He was honorable to the judge.
Of course, it's going to be honorable to the judge.
Judge can it's going to decide if he lives or die. But he wasn't honorable to the judge. Of course, he's going to be honorable to the judge. The judge can, it's going to be decided if he lives or die, but he wasn't honorable to us.
And that's, if you're not there for the victims, then what's the reason at the courtroom, you know?
So, for the first time we set the tone and we wanted to like have some power in that courtroom
and dictate some things to him. So then he was just sitting there getting railed on.
So like I said, this episode was more to go over the document dump and there is more information coming out daily
so I'm sure we'll be back with more soon. But if you want more of the deep dive into
what happened that night, the movements, the motive, my thoughts of the motive, the discovery
the next morning firsthand from Hunter who we hear from. I did do an episode a couple of weeks ago. I mentioned it a little bit earlier. I'm going
to link it. There was a docuseries that came out called One Night in Idaho. It came out earlier
in July. I was able to watch it a few months before it was released because Amazon gave it
to me to watch and a lot of new information was in that docuseries, but we do a deep dive into the night of the
murders and what happened, how it could have happened so quickly when Brian then
sits down in that chair in Ethan and Zana's room and leaves the bloody
impression and was that because he was so drained from the adrenaline rush of
killing the four people or was that because that's when he was disrobing his
hazmat suit or whatever he was wearing and then that's the reason he didn't attack
Dylan because he was already cleaned up at that point
He didn't want to risk getting blood on him or leaving DNA behind rather than like the initial thought of mine
Where is that? He just bypassed her because he was so physically exhausted. We talked about all of that
So I'll link that it was just a few weeks ago
You can find it in the feed too if you don't want to just click the direct link and it's called
Let me see. what's it called?
Let me just pull it up really quick.
It's on the podcast and on YouTube,
but as you know, podcast is unedited and uncensored.
YouTube likes to censor me.
So if you want the uncensored version,
you can listen on the podcast.
Okay, so it's a few back in the feed from July 8th,
and the title is, One Night in Idaho,
Friends Who Found Victims Speak Out,
and Brian Koberger's True Motive.
And it's a deep dive into all of this.
So other than that, I've also been going live randomly
on Patreon, where just kind of randomly each day
as new information is coming out,
and I'll do a live stream with you guys,
and then we'll talk in our group chat on Patreon too.
So if you feel like not only with this case, but with other cases that are happening right now,
that you want to just like be in the know and not wait for these formal episodes,
Patreon is definitely the place to be. We have exclusive episodes over there.
There's about a hundred that you can unlock right now.
All the other episodes that I put out are ad-free over there. And then yeah,
I just do live streams randomly when new stuff breaks and
when new information comes out and then we have our group chat too.
So you can get access to that. It's linked in the show notes. It's also easy.
Patreon.com slash Annie Elise.
But that's the place you're gonna wanna be if you wanna hear more about all these breaking cases.
Like right now for example, the case in Arkansas with the two murdered hikers
we have talked about Aaron Spencer the father who is being charged with second degree murder for
killing his daughter's rapist and abductor which feels so ass backwards right it's where we just
talk about everything so that's it for the document dump today again i'll probably back
with you soon
with another update because more information just keeps coming out daily, but this is at least like
a big bulk of it. So I appreciate you guys tuning in and as a reminder, going on the second leg of
this tour in a couple weeks here, we're going to hit Raleigh, North Carolina, Atlanta, and Nashville.
And if you want tickets, there's still a few left. I think we're sold out for meet and greets. Maybe not. There might be a couple left so you
can go to AnnieEllise.com, go to the tour tab, but we had this first run just
last week and a week and a half ago now where it was Toronto, Boston, New York,
Philly and DC and it was great. We talked about an all-new exclusive case. We deep
dive into it. Exclusive CCTV footage, interviews that we filmed on our own and flew
out there for.
And it was just really nice connecting with so many of you in person and meeting so many
of you one on one.
So I appreciate you guys all coming out.
All right, guys, that's it for today.
I know I've tried to sign off like three times, but that's it for Real Z's this time.
Thank you so much for being here.
I will talk with you again on Thursday
with headline highlights and until the next one,
be nice, don't kill people, don't join any cults,
and don't be an incel, just don't.
All right, thank you so much and bye. you