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Speaker 1: Crime alert.

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Speaker 2: I mean see grace breaking crime These now our Jennifer

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Speaker 2: Gould standing by Jennifer Nancy.

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Speaker 1: The silence from Brian Coberger was deafening, a chilling void

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Speaker 1: against the thunderous anguish of grieving families, as the cold

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Speaker 1: blooded killer was condemned to rotten prison for life. On Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: the former criminology PhD student who butchered four University of

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Speaker 1: Idaho students in a horrific twenty twenty two home invasion

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Speaker 1: sat stone faced in an orange jumpsuit and a packed

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Speaker 1: Ata County courtroom. Raw emotion erupted as loved ones confronted

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Speaker 1: the sociopath who shattered their lives, demanding answers he chillingly

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Speaker 1: refused to give. Coburger received four consecutive life sentences without

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Speaker 1: parole for the murders of Kaylee Gonsalvez, Madison Mogan, Xana Kernodle,

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Speaker 1: and Ethan Chapin, plus ten years for burglary. The three

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Speaker 1: hour sentencing became a crucible of pain. Olivia Gonsalez, Kaylee's sister,

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Speaker 1: tore into him. Take a listen.

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Speaker 3: The truth is the scariest part about you. It's how

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Speaker 3: painfully average you turned out.

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Speaker 1: To be.

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Speaker 3: The truth is as dumb as they come. Stupid, clumsy, slow, sloppy, weak, dirty.

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Speaker 3: Let me be very clear, don't ever try to convince

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Speaker 3: yourself you mattered just because someone finally said your name

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Speaker 3: out loud.

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Speaker 4: I see through you. You want the truth, Here's the one

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Speaker 4: you'll hate the most. If you hadn't attacked them in

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Speaker 4: their sleep in the middle of the night like a pedophile,

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Speaker 4: Kaylee would have kicked.

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Speaker 1: Your Kaylee's mother, Christy gonsoalve Is, wept, declaring, quote, you

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Speaker 1: stole my best friend, my daughter, my everything. End quote.

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Speaker 1: She also said she's disappointed Coburger won't face a firing squad,

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Speaker 1: but Christie stated she finds comfort and knowing that the

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Speaker 1: men in prison will have their way with him. End quote.

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Speaker 1: You got a's in criminal justice, but you'll get d's

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Speaker 1: in prison. End quote. Dylan Mortenson, one of two surviving

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Speaker 1: roommates and the one who id'd the killer by his

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Speaker 1: bushy eyebrows, sobbed about experiencing survivor's guilt. Judge Stephen Hipler

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Speaker 1: delivered a blistering rebuke, condemning Coburger's quote unfathomable act of evil.

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Speaker 1: End quote. Undeclared.

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Speaker 4: Quote.

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Speaker 1: Your fifteen minutes of fame are over end quote. The

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Speaker 1: judge urged the public to stop seeking the why because

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Speaker 1: quote it gives him power and attention that he craves

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Speaker 1: end quote, effectively stripping that power away. Prosecutors also requested

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Speaker 1: a ninety nine year no contact order with the victim's families,

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Speaker 1: a motion currently under review. This final reckoning comes nearly

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Speaker 1: three years after the nightmare began on noeenth, twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: That early morning, Coburger slipped into an off campus house

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Speaker 1: in Moscow, Idaho, and savagely killed Gonsalves, Mogen Kernodle, and

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Speaker 1: Chapin with a k bar knife dion Anna knife sheath

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Speaker 1: left at the scene. Cell Phone data placing his phone nearby,

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Speaker 1: and surveillance footage of his white Hyundai Elantra led to

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Speaker 1: his arrest in Pennsylvania weeks later. The sentencing was made

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Speaker 1: possible by a stunning plea deal. On July tewond just

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Speaker 1: before his high profile trial was to begin, Coburger pleaded

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Speaker 1: guilty to all charges, removing the death penalty but requiring

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Speaker 1: him to waive appeals, a move that infuriated some families,

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Speaker 1: including Kailey's father, Steve Gonsalves, who called it a quote

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Speaker 1: deal with the devil end quote. Others, like Madison's father

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Speaker 1: Ben Mogen, supported the plea, valuing this certainty and closure

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Speaker 1: it provided. However, the murder weapon remains missing and no

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Speaker 1: sexual motive was found, leaving families and the nation grappling

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Speaker 1: for why these vibrant, young lives were so brutally extinguished.

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Speaker 1: With the gag order now lifted, many cling to the

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Speaker 1: fragile hope that new details will emerge, finally shedding light

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Speaker 1: on the horrifying why behind the massacre and offering a

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Speaker 1: semblance of the closure they so desperately seek. For the

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Speaker 1: latest crime and justice news, watch Crime Stores with Nancy

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Speaker 1: Grace on Merit TV Monday through Friday at seven pm Eastern.

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Speaker 1: Stories with Nancy Grace on your favorite podcast app. Nancy.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Jennifer. More crime and justice news. After this, a

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Speaker 1: shoeless toddler wandering alone and covered in urine on a

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Speaker 1: quiet street led horrified police to a real life house

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Speaker 1: of horrors. Five innocent children, all under seven, found zip

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Speaker 1: tided into makeshift cages for up to twenty hours a

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Speaker 1: day in a Pennsylvania home, wreaking a feces and neglect

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Speaker 1: in a gut wrenching scene that has stunned a community.

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Speaker 1: Three adults, Zoe Elise Zenghali thirty one, Dominic Andrew Zungali

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Speaker 1: thirty one, and Jillian Bem eighteen, now face multiple counts

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Speaker 1: of child abuse and animal cruelty. Here's Blair County, DA

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Speaker 1: Pete Weeks.

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Speaker 5: According to the allegations and the information that I received

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Speaker 5: from police and CYF, yes, there is a safety concern

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Speaker 5: for the children to the point that the intervention of

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Speaker 5: law enforcement certainly could be considered life saving in this event.

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Speaker 1: The nightmare began when a witness walking their dog spotted

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Speaker 1: the lone shoeless child on Cream Hollow Road and East Freedom.

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Speaker 1: Police responded to the East Freedom address, leading them to

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Speaker 1: a nearby home where four other children aged two to

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Speaker 1: seven were found living in utterly deplorable conditions. Charging documents

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Speaker 1: paint a grim picture. Doorknobs had been removed and gates

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Speaker 1: were tied shut to prevent the children's escape from their enclosures.

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Speaker 1: There was no running water and animal feces were strewn

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Speaker 1: across living areas with neglected pets sharing the same squalor.

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Speaker 1: Authority stated that the children were systematically placed back into

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Speaker 1: their enclosures after each meal, a horrifying routine. The conditions

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Speaker 1: suggested severe physical and emotional abuse, with the children suffering

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Speaker 1: unimaginable hunger. One officer, moved by their plight, bought them

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Speaker 1: happy meals from McDonald's, noting they ate quote unquote aggressively

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Speaker 1: out of sheer starvation. It was also noted that the

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Speaker 1: child found wandering the street had allegedly tried to dig

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Speaker 1: out of their room through the walls before escaping through

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Speaker 1: a window. The three suspects, all residents of the home,

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Speaker 1: were swiftly arrested. Zoe and Dominic Sungali were jailed on

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars bail each, while Bem's

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Speaker 1: bail was set at seventy five thousand dollars. All three

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Speaker 1: are set for preliminary hearings on July thirty first. One

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Speaker 1: child has been transferred to upmc Children's Hospital for specialized treatment,

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Speaker 1: while the others are now in protective custody receiving medical evaluations.

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Speaker 1: The investigation continues and finally it's a verdict that'll keep

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Speaker 1: New Yorkers tossing and turning. Convicted killer Donald White, who

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Speaker 1: allegedly shot a queen's pot dealer, is getting a shocking

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Speaker 1: new trial because, get this, his friend was ejected from

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Speaker 1: court for napping. An appellate panel of judges, including Betsy

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Speaker 1: Barrows and Barry war Hits, stunningly ruled White's right to

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Speaker 1: a quote unquote public trial was violated, despite admitting the

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Speaker 1: weight of the evidence backed his guilty verdict. A murderer

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Speaker 1: accused of a brutal slang with a scream mask accomplice

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Speaker 1: gets a do over because his buddy was catching z's.

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Speaker 1: This ruling is not just a wake up call, it

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Speaker 1: is a slap in the face to justice, leaving many

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Speaker 1: wondering if in New York even cold blooded killers can

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Speaker 1: get a rest stop on their way to justice. For

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Speaker 1: many legal egos, this isn't just a bad dream, It's

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Speaker 1: a judicial nightmare. Nancy.

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Speaker 2: especially children, and help solve unsolved homicides. With this crime alert,

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