Speaker 1: What happened that night changed everything because of him.
Speaker 2: This was Brian Kolberger's legal funeral.
Speaker 3: No one is scared of you today. No one is
Speaker 3: intimidated by you, no one is impressed by you. No
Speaker 3: one thinks that you are important.
Speaker 4: And anytime you want to talk and tell me what happened,
Speaker 4: I'm here. I'll be that one that'll listen to you. Okay.
Speaker 5: This is the Idaho Massacre a production of KAT Studios
Speaker 5: and iHeartRadio, Season three, Episode two, sentencing I'm Courtney Armstrong,
Speaker 5: a producer at KAT Studios, with Stephanie Leideger and Gabriel Castillo.
Speaker 5: On July twenty third, twenty twenty five, for the first
Speaker 5: time in nearly three years, the family's and friends of Madison, Mogen,
Speaker 5: Kaylee Gonsalvez, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were finally given
Speaker 5: the opportunity to confront the man who had been accused
Speaker 5: and who now admitted to murdering their loved ones in
Speaker 5: cold blood.
Speaker 1: He chose destruction, he chose evil. He feels nothing.
Speaker 5: It was an emotional day in court. The gallery was
Speaker 5: packed and the atmosphere was tense. One by one, family
Speaker 5: members stood and spoke directly to Brian Coberger. Some shared beautiful,
Speaker 5: heartbreaking memories, others unleashed years of grief and anger, and
Speaker 5: through it all, the room was filled with tears, silence,
Speaker 5: and sometimes stunning moments of strength.
Speaker 6: You tried to divide us. You failed. Instead, your actions
Speaker 6: have united everyone in their disgust for you.
Speaker 5: Coburger sat just feed away, his face, expressionless, his posture still.
Speaker 3: I won't stand here and give you what you want.
Speaker 3: I won't offer you tears, I won't offer you trembling
Speaker 3: disappointments like you thrive on pain, on fear, and on
Speaker 3: the illusion of power, and I won't feed your beast.
Speaker 5: And throughout the entire proceeding there was one question on
Speaker 5: everyone's mind. Would he speak, would he explain why he
Speaker 5: did it? Would he apologize? It was a final, resounding judgment,
Speaker 5: but still there was one thing everyone was waiting for.
Speaker 5: Here's long crime journalist Anjeanette Levy speaking with one of
Speaker 5: our producers, Alison Bankston, talk.
Speaker 7: To me about sentencing next. I know you were there
Speaker 7: as well. That was a very emotional day, that was
Speaker 7: very powerful to watch.
Speaker 8: Is incredibly heavy. When we walked in, Brian Coburger was
Speaker 8: wearing an orange jail jumpsuit. We fully expected that his
Speaker 8: presumption of innocence no longer exists. And he's sitting there
Speaker 8: in all orange and in handcuffs. He looked a little
Speaker 8: more pale, a little more gaunt.
Speaker 7: Did he seemed nervous up there at all, you know,
Speaker 7: fitman with his hands like what was his vibe like?
Speaker 8: Brian Coburger looked like he was kind of stealing himself
Speaker 8: for what was coming. And he was clenching his jaw
Speaker 8: at times, and at times he would kind of poke
Speaker 8: his tongue to the side.
Speaker 9: Of his cheek.
Speaker 8: You could tell he was in some respects bracing himself
Speaker 8: for what was coming. He knew the victim impact statements
Speaker 8: were coming.
Speaker 5: Here's Judge Stephen Hipler in the courtroom at sentencing.
Speaker 10: All right, so with that, let's start with an impact statements.
Speaker 11: Go ahead to jinks, your honor.
Speaker 1: We will have Bethany Funko's statement, and she has asked
Speaker 1: that her friend Emilia Lot read that up statement very well.
Speaker 5: Bethany funk was one of the surviving roommates. Her room
Speaker 5: was on the bottom floor and she did not come
Speaker 5: into contact with Brian Coberger.
Speaker 11: My name is Bethany Funk, and I was roommates with Mattie, Kaylee, Xanna,
Speaker 11: and Ethan. I not only lost some of my best friends,
Speaker 11: but I also lost a sister. Our house was not
Speaker 11: just a house, It was a home. It was where
Speaker 11: we left till we couldn't breathe make meals, did crafts, binge,
Speaker 11: watch reality shows, played games, and spent lazy days on
Speaker 11: the couch. It was movie nights, wine nights, morning to brieves, pranks,
Speaker 11: hot chocolate, cookies, and warmth. Which here is those memories forever,
Speaker 11: and I will not let what happened erase how special
Speaker 11: our home was or how much of those memories meant
Speaker 11: to me. Xanna was one in a million. She was
Speaker 11: the life of a party, but she was also the
Speaker 11: kindest and funniest person I knew. Kayleie had the most beautiful,
Speaker 11: radiant smile.
Speaker 12: She was so kind but also one of the funniest
Speaker 12: people I've ever known. I really believed that she could
Speaker 12: have ruled the world if she wanted to, and she
Speaker 12: would have been America's sweetheart. Ethan was the sweetest, most
Speaker 12: genuine guy. Ethan was the kind of person you wanted
Speaker 12: around and the way he cared for Zanna.
Speaker 11: It was truly something to admire and really was proof
Speaker 11: that storybook love and true romances really do exist. Mattie
Speaker 11: was not only one of my best friends, but she
Speaker 11: was the older sister I would have always wanted. There
Speaker 11: was no one I looked up to or admired more
Speaker 11: than Mattie. She was truly a ray of sunshine and
Speaker 11: everyone was drawn to her. I hope that they are
Speaker 11: remembered for who they are and not what happened to them,
Speaker 11: because who they are were so beautiful and they deserve
Speaker 11: to be remembered in the highest way.
Speaker 5: Here's Stephanie with Crime Analyst Body Movie.
Speaker 2: Then we didn't even know these girls and Ethan right,
Speaker 2: we didn't know them. We didn't of course, we're not
Speaker 2: connected to them in any way. But you know, over
Speaker 2: the course of the last two and a half years,
Speaker 2: we've ever really learned about how special these people were
Speaker 2: that were murdered, and we all feel just tremendously sad.
Speaker 2: And you know who else I was really proud of Dylan. Dylan,
Speaker 2: if you don't know, she's the surviving roommate. She almost
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get emotional and good, We're like a this
Speaker 2: is like this is really she saw Brian Coberger. She
Speaker 2: described him to police. Luckily was spared, thank god. And
Speaker 2: she walked into court and she asked to sit. And
Speaker 2: I was so appreciative that Bill Thompson kind of like
Speaker 2: scooted it over a little bit. He's the prosecutor, kind
Speaker 2: of scooted over a little bit so to block Brian
Speaker 2: Coberger from viewing her or her from viewing him. And
Speaker 2: she spoke, and she told her truth.
Speaker 1: What happened that night changed everything because of him. For beautiful, genuine,
Speaker 1: compassionate people were taken from this world for no reason.
Speaker 1: He didn't just take them from the world. He took
Speaker 1: them from me, My friends, my people who felt like
Speaker 1: my home, the people I looked up to and adorn
Speaker 1: more than anyone. He took away my ability to trust
Speaker 1: the world around me. What he had shattered me in
Speaker 1: places I didn't know could break. I'm gonna be alone.
Speaker 1: I had to sleep in my mom's bed because I
Speaker 1: was too terrified to close my eyes, terrified that if
Speaker 1: I blinked someone might be there. I made escape plans
Speaker 1: everywhere I went. If something happens, how do I get out?
Speaker 1: What can I use to defend myself. Who can help?
Speaker 1: And then there are the panic attacks, the guy that
Speaker 1: slam into me like a tsunami out of nowhere. I
Speaker 1: can't breathe, I can't think, I can't stop shaking. All
Speaker 1: I can do is scream because the emotional pain and
Speaker 1: the grief is too much to handle. They say I'm
Speaker 1: a survivor, but I don't know how heavy it is
Speaker 1: to carry so much pain and still be expected to
Speaker 1: keep going. And that's because of him. He is a
Speaker 1: hollow vessel, something less than human, a body without empathy,
Speaker 1: without remorse. He chose destruction, He chows evil, he feels nothing.
Speaker 1: He tried to take everything from me, my friends, my safety,
Speaker 1: my identity, my future. Living is how I honor them.
Speaker 1: Speaking today is to help me find some sort of
Speaker 1: justice for them, and I will never let him take
Speaker 1: that from me.
Speaker 2: To confront Brian Coberger after she came so close to
Speaker 2: being his victim and he walked right by her, that's
Speaker 2: like massively traumatic. Her life is completely changed from this.
Speaker 2: She's only twenty one now. This woman is going to
Speaker 2: need counseling for many, many, many years. And the only
Speaker 2: person responsible for this is Brian Coberger, And that's what
Speaker 2: victim impact statements are supposed to be. They're supposed to
Speaker 2: tell the judge, this is how my life has been
Speaker 2: affected by this happening, and this person deserves an enormous sentence.
Speaker 2: Ben Mogan's impact statement was particularly hard to listen to,
Speaker 2: specifically because of his troubled past and how Maddie helped him.
Speaker 2: It's just tragic.
Speaker 13: Maddie was my only child that I never had. Most
Speaker 13: She's the only great thing I ever really did and
Speaker 13: I only think I are you ever proud of? And
Speaker 13: I went through a lot of issues with addiction and
Speaker 13: with with substance abuse, and when I wasn't wanting to
Speaker 13: live anymore, she was what would keep me here from
Speaker 13: just not caring anymore, and knowing that she was out
Speaker 13: there and that she was just such a beautiful person
Speaker 13: kept me alive a lot of rough moments, and I'll
Speaker 13: never be able to They placed her.
Speaker 5: Now, let's stop here for a break. We'll be back
Speaker 5: in a moment here again. Long crime journalist Anjeanette Levy
Speaker 5: with producer Alice in Bankston.
Speaker 7: I'm curious seem like this any of this was registering
Speaker 7: for Brian, you know, you had a good view of him.
Speaker 7: How was he reacting to these emotional victim impact statements.
Speaker 8: As some of the other family members spoke. You know,
Speaker 8: it's like he is this even affecting him? Is it
Speaker 8: upsetting him? Is he somebody who actually feels anything? He
Speaker 8: was called evil? I mean, he was called all kinds
Speaker 8: of things. And what struck me was when Scott Laramie
Speaker 8: Matti Mogan's stepfathers talked about the need to have evil
Speaker 8: locked away, he almost nodded in agreement, Brian Coberger did.
Speaker 14: Matty was taken senselessly and brutally in a sudden act
Speaker 14: of evil. We know the law allows us to comment
Speaker 14: on the defendant and his sentence. We support the plea agreement.
Speaker 14: Society needs to be protected against this evil.
Speaker 8: So it makes you wonder does Brian Coburger, you know,
Speaker 8: does he have the ability to reflect and realize I
Speaker 8: am a really damaged human being? Like is he that
Speaker 8: introspective and does he have the ability to see that
Speaker 8: you know what, I am evil and I do need
Speaker 8: to be locked away forever. I mean, because it was
Speaker 8: almost like a It's an ever so slight nod in agreement.
Speaker 5: Here's Stephanie and crime analyst Body Moven. They're joined by
Speaker 5: former homicide prosecutor Jarrett Farentino. Farantino is a season trial
Speaker 5: attorney who's prosecuted some of the most complex and high
Speaker 5: stakes cases in the country, including multiple death penalty trials.
Speaker 15: As victim statements go, I mean, listen, we've all been
Speaker 15: in courtrooms. I mean, obviously you've been in more than
Speaker 15: any of us combined. But you know, victim statements, to
Speaker 15: your point is very powerful. But what's your response to
Speaker 15: how he behaved?
Speaker 16: Ryan Kolberger is dead behind the eyes seeing him in
Speaker 16: those prison clothes again, seeing how pale he was, I mean,
Speaker 16: he looked like a psychopath.
Speaker 2: That's a really great observation, because you know what he is,
Speaker 2: detached and devoid of emotion.
Speaker 15: Is a psychopath at its core. They do not feel
Speaker 15: the same emotion that the rest.
Speaker 13: Of us do.
Speaker 2: Is I want to say, And I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: this is just what I want to think, but I
Speaker 2: want to say, Olivia, it was really the only reaction
Speaker 2: he had all day was to her words.
Speaker 3: My name is Olivia and I'm the big sister of
Speaker 3: Kaylee Gonzalvez, and I was blessed to love Madison Mogan
Speaker 3: as a sister too. I'm not here today to speak
Speaker 3: in grief. I'm here to speak in truth because the
Speaker 3: truth is, my sister, Kayley and her best friend Mattie
Speaker 3: were not yours to take. They were not yours to study,
Speaker 3: to stalk, or to silence. They were two pieces of
Speaker 3: a whole, the perfect yin and yang. They are everything
Speaker 3: that you could never be loved, accepted, vibrant, accomplished, brave
Speaker 3: and powerful. Because the truth about Kayley and Mattie is
Speaker 3: they would have been kind to you if you would
Speaker 3: approach them in their everyday lives. They would have given
Speaker 3: you directions, thanked you for the compliment, or awkwardly giggled
Speaker 3: to make your own words less uncomfortable for you in
Speaker 3: a world that rejected you. They would have shown mercy.
Speaker 3: I won't offer you tears, I won't offer you trembling
Speaker 3: disappointments like you thrive on pain, on fear, and on
Speaker 3: the illusion of power, and I won't feed your beast.
Speaker 11: Instead, I will.
Speaker 3: Call you what you are, sociopath, psychopath, murderer. I will
Speaker 3: ask the questions that reverberate violently in my own head,
Speaker 3: so loudly that I can't think straight most any day.
Speaker 3: Some of these might be familiar.
Speaker 11: So sit up straight.
Speaker 3: When I talked to you, how was your life right
Speaker 3: before you murdered my sisters? Did you prepare for the
Speaker 3: crime before leaving your apartment? Please detail what you were
Speaker 3: thinking and feeling at this time? Why did you choose
Speaker 3: my sisters before making your move? Did you approach my sisters?
Speaker 3: Do you tell what you were thinking and feeling before
Speaker 3: leaving their home? Is there anything else you did? What
Speaker 3: were Kaylee's last words?
Speaker 5: Her poise was unbelievable, her telling the murderer sit up
Speaker 5: straight when I talked.
Speaker 2: To you, Yes, did you tell what you were thinking
Speaker 2: and feeling before leaving the home? And she was doing
Speaker 2: these things because of the Reddit survey Brian Coberger did
Speaker 2: exactly she was. She was mimicking him, and I loved
Speaker 2: it because it's like it's an inside thing, right.
Speaker 5: And it doesn't know what that is.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 15: Something that we always thought was very interesting and troubling
Speaker 15: was that when Brian Coberger was getting his you know,
Speaker 15: PhD in Criminology, smarty pants that he is, he had
Speaker 15: done this really strange survey where he sent out questions
Speaker 15: to prisoners asking very specific questions that were kind of daunting,
Speaker 15: I mean in retrospects, like straight up scary, horrifying in
Speaker 15: a real tell. And those questions are what Kaylee Gonzalveez,
Speaker 15: his sister basically repeated back to him in jest. And
Speaker 15: it was really a total masterclass.
Speaker 16: She was mocking him. She started off by saying, you're
Speaker 16: a psychopath. You're a sociopath. Then she proceeds to mock him.
Speaker 16: And narcissism is you know, he's a narcissist, and she's
Speaker 16: saying to him, you have no power over me. Here
Speaker 16: I am another young, beautiful woman looking in the face
Speaker 16: telling you how small you are.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 2: What else I really love was when Steve Gonsalvez, the
Speaker 2: father one of the victims, Yes, got up there, so
Speaker 2: the podium was sort of facing the judge. Okay, he
Speaker 2: physically turned the podium very abruptly, I might add, to
Speaker 2: face Brian Coberger and he was literally talking directly to him.
Speaker 6: Today, we are here to finish what you started today.
Speaker 6: You've lost control.
Speaker 4: Today.
Speaker 6: We are here to prove to the world that you
Speaker 6: pick the wrong families, wrong state, the wrong police officers,
Speaker 6: the wrong community. You tried to break our community apart.
Speaker 6: You tried to plant fear, You tried to divide us.
Speaker 10: You failed.
Speaker 6: Looking back, when the police officers knocked on my door,
Speaker 6: told me what happened to my child, told me what
Speaker 6: happened to Mattie May. I don't think he was even
Speaker 6: out of the driveway before my kids turned around, looked
Speaker 6: at me and said what do we do?
Speaker 17: Dad?
Speaker 6: I told him you get to work, You get your
Speaker 6: ass to work. And we started calling, We started texting,
Speaker 6: we started emailing, and you know what, within hours, within hours,
Speaker 6: we had your white car on a camera. We knew,
Speaker 6: we knew from the very beginning, we had you. Police
Speaker 6: officers tell us, within minutes, they had your DNA like
Speaker 6: a calling card. You were that careless, that foolish, that's stupid,
Speaker 6: Master degree, You're a joke, complete joke.
Speaker 2: And he just lays it out. You're a joke. And
Speaker 2: the only thing you've done is unite people in our
Speaker 2: vendetta against you. And he presented this really great united
Speaker 2: front from all of the victims' families. They're all united.
Speaker 2: They might disagree on certain things like the death penalty,
Speaker 2: for instance, but they are all united in their disdain
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 15: Can you imagine the actional level of grace for the
Speaker 15: actual family members. It's really just a testament to the
Speaker 15: human spirit, and you know, just as a reminder of
Speaker 15: the stuff that we all complain about, our stress about,
Speaker 15: or we get stirred up, and then you hear these
Speaker 15: incredible humans and they have this fortitude to push on
Speaker 15: and to see a better day ahead.
Speaker 5: Xanna Kernodle's aunt, Kim stood out to me in a
Speaker 5: particular way.
Speaker 4: My name is Kim Karnodle. I'm Xana's aunt. It's very
Speaker 4: blessed to have her in my life, in our family.
Speaker 4: And I thought I had everything in my head what
Speaker 4: I wanted to say, but it kind of went out
Speaker 4: and I try. I'm I'm always looking for the positive
Speaker 4: thing because evil hate can destroy people, and that's what
Speaker 4: it started doing with our family. Bran, I'm here today
Speaker 4: to tell you I have forgiven you because I no
Speaker 4: longer could live with that hate in my heart and
Speaker 4: for me to become a better person.
Speaker 18: I have forgiven you.
Speaker 4: And anytime you want to talk and tell me what
Speaker 4: happened yet my number. I'm here no judgment because I
Speaker 4: do have questions that I want you to answer and
Speaker 4: I'm here. I'll be that one that'll listen to you.
Speaker 5: Let's stop here for a break. We'll be back in
Speaker 5: a moment here again, Journalist angrenatte Levy from the Law
Speaker 5: on Crime Network.
Speaker 8: I was shocked when Xana's aunt said she had forgiven
Speaker 8: him and she wanted answers and that he could call
Speaker 8: her any time. There isn't no contact order, but still,
Speaker 8: I mean, wow, I thought that very powerful. And he
Speaker 8: just sat there, you know, he just sat there. He
Speaker 8: does not deserve the grace that she offered him.
Speaker 5: Ethan Chapin's family did not attend Brian Coberger's sentencing hearing. Instead,
Speaker 5: they chose to spend the day together as a family.
Speaker 5: A few days later, they released a statement thanking law
Speaker 5: enforcement for their hard work and honoring their son and brother. Quote,
Speaker 5: from the time you were a baby to when we
Speaker 5: dropped you off at college, you were an absolute joy
Speaker 5: and the glue that held our family together. We love you,
Speaker 5: miss you, and promise to continue honoring your legacy. On
Speaker 5: July twenty third, twenty twenty five, after several powerful, heart
Speaker 5: wrenching victim impact statements, the air inside the courtroom was
Speaker 5: thick with anticipation, Friends, family members, and members of the
Speaker 5: public sat in absolute silence. They were waiting to see
Speaker 5: if admitted killer Brian Coburger would finally speak, Would he,
Speaker 5: at long last, reveal why, any kind of motive, any
Speaker 5: sort of reason for the brutal, unthinkable murders of Madison,
Speaker 5: Mogen Kayleie Gonsalvez, Xanakernodle, and Ethan Shapin. Just three weeks earlier,
Speaker 5: at his plea hearing, Coburger had said almost nothing, And
Speaker 5: for the grieving family members, for friends, for the public,
Speaker 5: it felt like a slap in the face. Still, there
Speaker 5: was hope. There was hope that just maybe sentencing would
Speaker 5: be different. Would he offer any reason that might help
Speaker 5: these families make sense of the senseless and begin to heal,
Speaker 5: or would the questions, mystery and pain continue to linger
Speaker 5: unanswered forever. Here's Judge Stephen Hipler in the courtroom.
Speaker 18: Him, mister Coburger, you have an opportunity to make a
Speaker 18: statement if you wish to.
Speaker 9: I take it you were declining.
Speaker 16: I respectfully declined.
Speaker 5: Here's Stephanie Leideker with crime analyst Body Movin and former
Speaker 5: homicide prosecutor Jarrett Farantino, he.
Speaker 15: Was asked this, and his quote was, I respectfully decline.
Speaker 15: I almost threw the television again.
Speaker 2: What were you expecting? Though I was expecting. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, No, that is not who BK is.
Speaker 2: I know it's so hard to demand him to be
Speaker 2: normal because he's not.
Speaker 15: Why was there no elocution? Why did he not have
Speaker 15: to speak?
Speaker 16: Well, he just doesn't have to. I hate to set
Speaker 16: the answer. He doesn't have to. The prosecutor could not
Speaker 16: have forced him to do that. He could have leveraged
Speaker 16: that and made that request and made it a condition
Speaker 16: of the plea. But you cannot compel a factual elocution
Speaker 16: of that nature.
Speaker 2: Could Bill Thompson has said something like this. Could he
Speaker 2: have said, we're going to take the death penalty off
Speaker 2: the table and give you life in prison, but you
Speaker 2: have to tell us where the knife is, tell us
Speaker 2: where the murder weapon is, and if we go dig
Speaker 2: it up and it ain't there, you're not getting the deal.
Speaker 2: Could they have done something like something like that?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 17: Right, I think so he could have.
Speaker 16: The thing is he did. Bill Thompson was saying in
Speaker 16: his press conference afterwards, we saw an opportunity to resolve
Speaker 16: the case and the litigation, not through the trial. And
Speaker 16: he specifically said we wouldn't have believed what he said anyway.
Speaker 15: Who is he to decide that though, But you don't
Speaker 15: have to believe him.
Speaker 2: If he tells you where the knife is and you
Speaker 2: go dig it up and stare, then you know he's
Speaker 2: telling the truth. What does it matter if he's lying
Speaker 2: or not?
Speaker 17: Like you know, he could have asked that, and he
Speaker 17: had leverage at that point because you didn't agree to
Speaker 17: the deal and Culberger's life still hung in the balance,
Speaker 17: and say, all right, Brian, you want us to take
Speaker 17: the extreme step.
Speaker 16: Of taking death off the table, you've got to give
Speaker 16: us something other than saying you did this. So you've
Speaker 16: got to tell us why, how, where? What are we missing? Exactly?
Speaker 16: Do that. He's trying to take some of the sensationalism
Speaker 16: out of this. I'm describing as a very by the
Speaker 16: book prosecutor. He only wants enough details out to secure
Speaker 16: the conviction and move on. He's really trying to downplay this,
Speaker 16: and that's not a rub against him. That's a style,
Speaker 16: that's an.
Speaker 17: Approach to this.
Speaker 16: I don't see that. It's just not effective in this
Speaker 16: type of a case, you have to kind of just
Speaker 16: ride a wave a little bit and say, look, the
Speaker 16: demand of the public. They really want to know some
Speaker 16: of these details. Stop holding back.
Speaker 5: Here's Judge Stephen Hipler in the courtroom defending the prosecution's decision.
Speaker 10: As we sit here today, this case is ending, and
Speaker 10: we are now certain who committed these unspeakable acts of evil,
Speaker 10: But we don't know, and what we may never know
Speaker 10: is why. I share the desire expressed by others to
Speaker 10: understand and the why.
Speaker 18: But upon reflection, it seems to me, and this is
Speaker 18: just my own opinion, that by continuing to focus on why,
Speaker 18: we continue to give mister Coburger relevance, we give him
Speaker 18: agency and we give him power. Yet, even if I
Speaker 18: could force him to speak, which legally I cannot, how
Speaker 18: could anyone ever be assured that what he speaks is
Speaker 18: the truth?
Speaker 9: Do we really believe after all of this he's capable
Speaker 9: of speaking the truth or of giving up something of
Speaker 9: himself to help the very people whose lives he destroyed. Rather,
Speaker 9: I suspect the so called reason would be dished out
Speaker 9: in enticing, self serving and aggrandizing, untruthful bits, leaving people
Speaker 9: wanting more information, more insight, and this enhancing even further
Speaker 9: the power he seeks to hold. Even if we could
Speaker 9: get truthful insight into his why, I suspected, would not
Speaker 9: in any way quench one's thirst for actually understanding why
Speaker 9: in the first instance, because there is no reason for
Speaker 9: these crimes that could approach anything resembling rationality, No conceivable
Speaker 9: reason could make any sense. And in the end, the
Speaker 9: more we struggle to seek explanation for the unexplainable, the
Speaker 9: more we try to extract a reason, the more power
Speaker 9: and control we give to him. In my view, the
Speaker 9: time has now calm to end mister Coberger's fifteen minutes
Speaker 9: of fame. It's time that he'd be consigned to the
Speaker 9: ignominy and isolation of perpetual incarceration.
Speaker 5: At the end of the hearing, Judge Hitler delivered the
Speaker 5: sentence for consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.
Speaker 5: Coburger also waived his right to appeal. Brian Coberger was
Speaker 5: led out of the courtroom, his hands and feet clinking
Speaker 5: with shackles and chains. Deputies escorted him down a secure
Speaker 5: hallway into a waiting transport van. His final destination the
Speaker 5: Idaho Maximum Security institution, a place he will never leave,
Speaker 5: and that very night something else happened.
Speaker 18: After Wednesday's hearing, the Moscow Police Department released more than
Speaker 18: three hundred documents related to the case.
Speaker 17: The documents reveal unsettling new details about the weeks leading
Speaker 17: up to the murders.
Speaker 5: For many, this was their first glimpse behind the scenes.
Speaker 5: For others, it was a chance to search for answers,
Speaker 5: to find even the smallest clue that might explain the
Speaker 5: questions still hanging over this entire case. Why Why did
Speaker 5: Brian Coberger take four innocent lives? In search of answers?
Speaker 5: We're going inside those documents. More on that next time.
Speaker 5: For more information on the case and relevant photos, follow
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Speaker 5: Courtney Armstrong. Editing and sound design by Jeff Toois, Music
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