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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton and Idaho judge has instructed both the

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Speaker 2: defense and prosecution to prepare for Brian Colberger's highly anticipated

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Speaker 2: quadruple murder trial, which is set to start in August,

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Speaker 2: despite the defendant's request for a delay. Coburger, thirties sands,

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Speaker 2: accused of murdering four University of Idaho students. He appeared

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Speaker 2: in an Ada County court room on Wednesday for a

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Speaker 2: pre trial hearing, during which Judge Stephen Hipler considered whether

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Speaker 2: to postpone the trial, just six weeks before jury selection

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Speaker 2: is scheduled to begin. The defense argued that Coberger's right

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Speaker 2: to a fair trial might be compromised due to a

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Speaker 2: recent episode of NBC's Dateline, which disclosed previously unreleased details

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Speaker 2: of the case that they believe could unduly sway a jury.

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Speaker 2: Coberger's attorney and Taylor emphasized that their request for a

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Speaker 2: trial postponement was ness to protect her client's constitutional rights.

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Speaker 2: She stated that the defense is not ready to proceed

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Speaker 2: to trial and they have not had sufficient time to

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Speaker 2: review the extensive discovery materials.

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Speaker 3: But there are people that have refused to speak with us.

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Speaker 3: That presents a challenge in the case. A lot of

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Speaker 3: the witnesses that refuse to speak with us have to

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Speaker 3: do with records, medical records Brian Coberger, past treatment records

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Speaker 3: of Brian Coberger. Those are important things that the gravity

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Speaker 3: of what they have to say can't be known to

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Speaker 3: our experts until we have the opportunity to fully understand

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Speaker 3: those things, and we continue to work on access to

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Speaker 3: witnesses and access to additional information.

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Speaker 2: Prosecutor Josh Hurwitz countered this argument, asserting that a delay

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Speaker 2: would leave the state at the mercy of the media

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Speaker 2: and warned against allowing for indefinite continuances. A thorough investigation

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Speaker 2: is not what's required, Hurwitz argued, urging the court to

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Speaker 2: exercise its discretion and deny the motion for a delay.

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Speaker 2: While no immediate ruling was made, Judge Hipler indicated he

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Speaker 2: would issue a written order regarding the decision soon. He

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Speaker 2: advised that it's likely the trial will proceed as planned

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Speaker 2: later this summer, and he said, quote, I strongly encourage

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Speaker 2: everyone to prepare as if the trial will occur on schedule. However,

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Speaker 2: I reserve the right to finalize my decision, he said,

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Speaker 2: but for now, I would suggest that it's probable you

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Speaker 2: will be going to trial on the indicated date.

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Speaker 4: Right, I'll take the matter under advisement and get an

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Speaker 4: opinioned out in short order. In the meantime, I fully

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Speaker 4: encourage everyone to continue as if the trial is going

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Speaker 4: to take place when it is scheduled for. Again, I'm

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Speaker 4: observe the right to write the decision that I come to,

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Speaker 4: but as of now, I would tell you that it's

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Speaker 4: likely you're going to try on the date indicated.

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Speaker 2: Coburger faces charges for the murders of Ethan Chapin's Ain't

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Speaker 2: a Cernudle, Madison Mogan, and Kaylee Gonglaves, who were found

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Speaker 2: stabbed to death in an off campus residence. He was

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Speaker 2: arrested weeks later in Pennsylvania after police allegedly connected him

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Speaker 2: to the crime scene through DNA evidence found on a

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Speaker 2: knife sheath. As detailed in a Probable Cause affidavid, investigators

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Speaker 2: also tracked his movements be via cell phone data and

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Speaker 2: obtained surveillance footage of a vehicle matching his driving away

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Speaker 2: from the murder scene. According to Coberger's defense team, he

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Speaker 2: was alone while driving on that night of the killings

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Speaker 2: and maintains his innocence. He is facing four counts of

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Speaker 2: murder one count of felony burglary, with the possibility of

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Speaker 2: the death penalty if found guilty. More crime and just

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Speaker 2: this news After this, a seventy three year old retired

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Speaker 2: police detective was found dead in her cluttered Connecticut home,

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Speaker 2: over seven months after she was reported missing. Reports indicate

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Speaker 2: that Mary no Tarangellos Her remains were found in her

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Speaker 2: Glastonbury home in February, following numerous efforts to locate her

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Speaker 2: since July twenty twenty four. This information was revealed in

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Speaker 2: a police report that has just been released. The overwhelming

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Speaker 2: hoarding conditions had previously obstructed search efforts for the woman,

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Speaker 2: who had served with the Bridgeport Police Department until her retirement.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't until an excavator and a work crew were

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Speaker 2: enlisted that her remains were located beneath a heap of

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Speaker 2: debris near the entrance of her home, which was reported

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Speaker 2: to have six feet of trash blocking the door. The

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Speaker 2: interior of the house was also filled with clutter in

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Speaker 2: voting cages containing dead birds and live mice. The State

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Speaker 2: Medical Examiner's office was unable to determine the cause of

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Speaker 2: death due to the advanced state of decomposition, with most

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Speaker 2: of her remains being skeletal. Neither the Glastonbury Police Department,

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Speaker 2: the Bridgeport Police Department, nor the Connecticut Office of the

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Speaker 2: Chief Medical Examiner promptly responded to a request. It's a

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Speaker 2: tragic and peculiar situation, said Chief Marshall Porter of the

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Speaker 2: Glastonbury Police Department. The retired detective's friends had requested a

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Speaker 2: welfare check on her in July twenty four, after she

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Speaker 2: had messaged him on June twelve, expressing that she was

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Speaker 2: suffering from abdominal pain vomiting. According to Porter, officers attempted

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Speaker 2: to search the residents multiple times, but were thwarted by

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Speaker 2: the overwhelming amount of clutter. I have never encountered such

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Speaker 2: deplorable living conditions, he remarked. In their search efforts, a

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Speaker 2: cadaver dog, biohazard cleanup crew, drown and personnel from Connecticut's

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Speaker 2: environmental agency were all deployed. Eventually, a cleanup crew was

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Speaker 2: able to recover not Tarangello's remains. As reported by the

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Speaker 2: Connecticut Insider.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times? Including in the back allegedly die of suicide. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was a medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting, he first named it a homicide. Why what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen Greenberg a huge American miscarriage of justice.

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