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Ashley Banfield
What if you could have a conversation with a serial killer, actually sit in a room across the table from them and hear them tell the story of who they are, what they did and why they did it? What if you could separate their truths from their lies and actually maybe hear something that they've really never told anybody before? From the team that brought you down the hill, the Delphi Murders comes down Deviant. It's a show that explores the people who blow through society's boundaries, the people who live beyond the margins. The episodes are released each and every Tuesday and Friday, with Friday stories featuring interviews with people who have spent their lives and their careers close to crime. These include former FBI agents, undercover agents, and crime journalists who have covered the most shocking and high profile cases. Deviant is available now. You can follow and listen on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any major streaming platform. Hey, welcome to Drop Dead Serious. I'm Ashley Banfield. Last week, the 911 call from the University of Idaho murders, that, that was released officially and it gave us our first real glimpse into the chaos and the horror of that morning. But now some recently filed court documents are revealing something just as critical. What prosecutors actually plan to prove at a trial of Bryan Coburger. In something called a motion in limine for self authentication of the records, the prosecution is outlining some key evidence that they intend to present at trial, including surveillance footage purchasing records of both Bryan Kohberger and the victims, as well as digital data. But what did these records really tell us? How crucial are they to the prosecution's case? And how will Brian Kohberger's attorneys fight back? Those are all really good questions and Brian Enten is the guy to answer them. He is the national correspondent for News Nation. He's my colleague and he joins me now to, to break all of this down. Brian, this is such a treat having when we do TV together all the time, but this is, we're not limited to five minutes now.
Brian Enten
I'm always excited anytime I get to talk to you more than three minutes on tv.
Ashley Banfield
I know, me too. Because there's a big difference between, you know, putting shows together and, you know, making sure everything's produced and there's video and there's graphics and there's lower thirds and there's, you know, commercial breaks, et cetera, and then getting to talk to you about the work that you've done in the field because those are 24 hour days, you know, that you're out there. They're not three minute hits. And to that end this story, the Idaho story. You lived it. I mean, if there's one reporter who was there from the moment it began, you know, all the way through all the details, it was really you. And I feel like I have forgotten more than I've been learning in the last year, just because it's been two and a half years.
Brian Enten
Yeah. And there was this silence for so long, you know, with the gag order, and we weren't getting a lot of information for a while, and now information sort of trickling out with the trial coming up. But yeah, I lived it. I mean, I was on your show every night pretty much. And we just, you know, we stayed there for a couple months straight and then went back, felt like every other week for a while, just trying to dig and find information and get to know the victims families and, you know, like you, it's a case that's really close. Close to my heart.
Ashley Banfield
I remember when you. Well, a couple really poignant moments. You were there when they were taking a lot of the items out of the house. And the way you described it to me off air, and then we had the conversation on air was so moving. You said, I'm out on the street, you know, and they're in the parking lot, they've parked these big trucks and they're bringing out all the kids belongings. And everybody was like dead silent, and it was eerie. Remind me of that moment that you. You sort of lived through right there, watching it all happen in front of you.
Brian Enten
Yeah. And I mean, I think you know this from covering these cases when you. You're day in, day out on the scene. You're so, you know, I'm competitive by nature. I'm trying to get as much information as I can. I'm trying to talk to the authorities every day, and you really get in the zone. And I hate to say it, but there are some days where you're so focused on figuring it out that for a second you don't think about the realness of it and like, really what happened, because, I mean, you just have to go into work mode. And then there are these times where you're reminded about what happened and who was affected and just the humanness of it. And that was one of those times. I remember standing outside the house and this U Haul pulled up right there at 1122 King Road where the victims were killed. And it was the police chief, the Moscow police chief, driving the U Haul, which just shows, like, what a small town it is. And he backed it in, and there were some other officers there with him, and they Went in and they. I've learned now, they had told the parents that they wanted to do it themselves. They felt a responsibility to be respectful with all the kids items. So they backed the U haul in and just one by one, started bringing these items out that belonged to the victims, you know, to Kaylee, Zanna, Ethan, Matty. And it was just items, like, from college that you remembered from when you were in college. You know, like, funny things you had on the wall or, you know, there were a lot of, like, those plastic drawers. You know, I had those in college, like, in the dorm room or my first car, you know, those little plaster drawers.
Ashley Banfield
You get them at, like, Container Store, you know, And I think there was a lot of makeup and shoes and.
Brian Enten
Golf clubs and Ethan's golf clubs. And, like, just each item that they brought out, it was just so sad. And I had been in the zone of shouting questions at police and chasing after people. And it was just like you said, it was just one of those moments. Like, I just stood there. We didn't talk. We didn't ask any questions. And you could just tell, like, everybody, the media and then also the police, everybody was just, like, impacted by it.
Ashley Banfield
These murders have been really kind of overwhelming just in terms of the gripping fascination. You know, you and I cover this all the time. We do true crime, right. There are times when there's far more people killed in a particular night, and the circumstances are, you know, vexing and. But this one just, I suppose the randomness of it, the brutality of it, the fact that this is the kind of crime that could hit you and me, right? This isn't. Oh, well, those two had a beef, and I'll never have that beef, so I'm safe. This is the kind of crime, in Cold Blood, Truman Capote, where you feel like, yeah, I could be a victim of this, of this kind of random, maniacal murderer. And with that, I'm sort of thinking of you standing on the street in front of that parking lot while that, you know, that operation is happening, and all the kids. Things are coming out of the. Out of the house. But I'm also thinking that's the same parking lot where the kids were standing when they made that 911 call. And that broke last week, and we heard that 911 call. I'm not going to dig into it because we've done a lot of that, but I do want to just get your perspective, your thoughts, your. You know, what. How it hit you and what you learned from it or what perspective you gained from listening to that 911 call.
Brian Enten
Yeah. I think it was another moment where the emotion of it all hits you.
Ashley Banfield
You.
Brian Enten
You remember that these are just college kids. And it takes you right back to that moment. And you and I spoke about it. You know, you put yourself in their headspace at that time instead of trying to look back at it and kind of Monday morning quarterback with all that we know, you think about what they were thinking in that moment when, you know, the, the young man on the phone when Ethan's best friend saw his best friend dead. I mean, I just. Awful. You know, and I think one thing that I learned from it is that, you know, I don't. There was all these people online and all these people are just so hard on these victims and the roommates. But, oh, it's appalling what happened.
Ashley Banfield
It's appalling. I'm so angry. I am so angry at the haters.
Brian Enten
Yeah. And I don't see how they. I think, Ashley, like they just want to. No matter what, they just want to stir up debate. It doesn't matter what it is. That's what I tell people. Don't read the comments no matter what you say. They just, they just want to like poke at you. But anyway, everybody's been questioning. Well, why didn't they, you know, when they were texting at 4am why didn't they call the police? Then there was a man in their house. What took so long? Because the 911 call didn't come till right before noon. And I really think from that call we realized. I don't think they really thought it was like some murderer serious thing.
Ashley Banfield
Of course not.
Brian Enten
I think it's a party house. Think they were drunk. I think that they saw weird things in that house before and people coming and going and friends were coming in in the middle of the night. And I don't think that it hit them until during that call that something really happened.
Ashley Banfield
And you know what? I'll be honest with you. When I was in college, I lived in a house with nine, nine of us, nine friends. We all had our own bedrooms. It was a huge triple story house. I was in the attic and I remember there were randos in the house all the time. And I think you're not freaked out by randos in your house. But at 4 in the morning, a rando who's dressed all in black with a mask would scare you. Your mind would not go to homicidal maniac. Just walk through my house.
Brian Enten
Right.
Ashley Banfield
Your mind would go to who the hell was that? I'm going to really give, you know, my roommate hell tomorrow for letting some doordash driver or friend or drug dealer come through the house. You know, that's where your mind would go, but. And it would scare you because you're in your, you know, tiny jammies. And it's, you know, it's a girl house. So that's where I have always had my head with Dylan's shock. Frozen in shock. It wasn't frozen in shock. There's a murderer. It was frozen in shock. There's some dude in here, and I'm in my, you know, my baby doll jammies. And even the texting between Bethany and Dylan is more like, just run down here, run down here. If it's a murderer in the house, it's not run down here. It's lock your door. Let's call 911 right away. They had no idea. They had no idea. At 11 the next morning, you could hear in Bethany's voice. She thought. It sounded to me that she thought maybe Zanna had OD'd.
Brian Enten
Yeah, that's what I think, too. And like you, I lived in a party house one year in college, and I drank a lot and so did my friends. And I can think of. I mean, you know, you go to bed really drunk and sending crazy texts and stuff. I mean, you know, I don't think that that's that unusual.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah. They don't know the ways of the world, by the way, at that age. They don't know that Truman Capote's In Cold Blood can happen. That's stuff for movies. You. This was. Those haters online have absolutely no clue how to put the real moment in time head on their shoulders and think in that perspective than looking in retrospect to this horror show and trying to assume.
Brian Enten
And people read the victims, read the comments. I mean, you know that you talk to them, their families. You know, when you've lost a loved one and you're up all night and you can't sleep because you live in this state of grief. Like, they go on and they read comments. It's just they're trying to look for information. You can't help yourself, and it really hurts them. So I just hope people. It's not. It's not a video game.
Ashley Banfield
I wonder how apologetic they'll be after trial once they hear the story that these poor girls are going to tell on the stand of what they knew and what happened and what was putting all the pieces together and filling in all the blanks. You know, when we get the full narrative. I sure hope there'll be as many apologies as there were attacks. Let me, let me move on to the motion in limine because there's been so much attention paid to the 911 call that this motion in limine, I feel like it sort of slipped under the radar and holy Dinah, there's some stuff in there. Suddenly I started to see what the prosecution is doing because basically, you know, to be simple about it, it's just one of those things that you're trying to basically enter records and documents and make sure that they're authenticated. And that's what this is all about is say, here are the records and documents and things that we want to bring into the trial and they're, they're good to go. They're not AI, they're not fakes, you know, that sort of thing. And, you know, in, in that group is a lot of surveillance video, a lot of purchasing records, a lot of financial records, parking records. And what I thought was so interesting was that it's not just from Brian Coburger, it's from the girls, too, the housemates. So I started looking for patterns to see, well, are they trying to put Bryan Coburger in the same places that the girls are maybe shopping by lining up his financial records and surveillance records with their day at Marshalls or, you know, at Ross Dress for Less or, you know, in these stores? And that's sort of, I think, where I'm going with a lot of this. But let me start with the Washington State University campus official records. They, they've pulled the cameras from Washington State University campus. And I think that's really significant because Brian Coburger lived on campus. Even though he was in an apartment, he lived on campus. So walk me through what you think some of those surveillance videos might show and why they might be significant for the 13th before or after November 13th?
Brian Enten
Yeah, well, I've been to his apartment several times and it is an apartment, but it's an on campus apartment. There's a lot of international students that live there. It was a two bedroom apartment, I believe, but he had it all to himself. And there are surveillance cameras in that area. So it would make perfect sense that they want to see, you know, when the white Hyundai Elantra was coming and going, especially, you know, connected to the early morning hours of November 13th when, when the murders happened.
Ashley Banfield
So you would see him coming and going to his apartment to see him pull out. And, and to that end, they're pulling parking records, too. And I'm thinking Okay. If you're a. If you're a university student who lives on campus in one of these campus housing apartments, you probably have to pay for parking too, and you probably haven't assigned stall. So maybe the parking records also show that this car pulled out and pulled back in four hours later or at his office.
Brian Enten
You know, he had an on campus office also. It's probably maybe a mile and a half from his apartment. Parking there is tough, though. You know how parking is on college campuses. So that may have also been an area where they're looking into the, the parking records to see when he came and went from there. His office, I went there too. It was down in the basement of one of the buildings there on campus.
Ashley Banfield
So the other parking record issue, I think might also be at trial that they wanted to establish that white Elantra, everything about it, because it's hanky, right? It had Pennsylvania plates that were switched out to Washington plates just after the murders. And so in looking for all the white Elantras after the murder, they got to figure out, you know, all the white Elantras in that area. They got to find out where they are. And I'll bet you that the Washington State University parking records showed white Elantra over there at the apartment of Brian Coburger. So just again, to get you to the search and to get you to his car, I'm thinking that might be why they wanted the university parking records.
Brian Enten
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. I hadn't thought about that because there was that, you know, that crazy time where all the only piece of information that they were releasing to us was that it was a white Elantra that they were, or thought that had a connection to the case. Remember, every night we would be going on with the picture of the Elantra. So you're right. They were probably searching these records in Pullman, where he was living at Washington State, probably in Moscow, too, trying to track down all of the Elantras.
Ashley Banfield
It looks like on November 18th, that'd be just a couple days after the murder. He registered the car in Washington, and he got the license plates on December 5th. And then a couple days later, a cop actually was searching that database for a white Elantra registered at the school and discovered there it was, there was his car with Pennsylvania plates. But then later, just that same day, another Washington State University cop finds Coburger's car in a Pullman, Washington parking lot, you know, 10 miles from the crime scene. Um, and they said they ran the car and it returned to Coburg with Washington tag. So it may have said in one parking record that it was a Pennsylvania plate, but when they ran it again a few days later or even that same day, they found that it was indeed. You can run, but you can't hide. You can change the registration on the car, but it's going to show up both ways if you have all the parking records. Right.
Brian Enten
And this was before, I'm assuming, they traced everything back with the IgG, with the genetic genealogy. This is just when they. They just had the car at that point.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah, yeah. They hadn't even gotten to the point where they, you know, knew. Well, I think they took that little tiny, really tiny speck of. Of genetic material off the snap of the KA Bar knife, and they had to send it to Texas to get it extrapolated. I could get it built out into, you know, a robust sample so that they could do genetic genealogy. So, yeah, this is all when they're trying to just find the car. Let's go to the cell phone data and the digital records. I always get really bored during this part in trials when they get the ATT guy up there to go over digital records because it usually takes a day and it's super dry and they just have to authenticate everything. But I think with this guy, with Brian Kohberger, I feel like they're going to map his movements not just on the 12th and 13th. Right. Saturday night into Sunday morning of the murder. I think they're going to map his movements for like a year, or at least through, like, beginning of summer, through summer, all of fall, up until the murders and afterwards.
Brian Enten
Let me tell you this. So what's interesting about the cell phone records, and I've realized this with a few trials that I've covered, and then also just knowing defense attorneys who I've spoken to, including my dad, cell phone records are not a perfect science. They can really be an area for the defense where they can poke holes. Experts will explain that these. It's not like gps. It's not like GPS on your phone where it's telling them exactly where you are within 10ft.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah. So you can't push someone to a spot within 10ft with. With cell phone.
Brian Enten
They're trying to triangulate it through the towers, which is not a perfect science. So I'm kind of interested to see how much they try to poke holes in this during the trial because I. I could see it being a big. A big area for the defense.
Ashley Banfield
I do think, though, that they're going to be really, like, strategic about laying it all out. And I hope the jury's, like, not eaten too much at lunch when they get this, when they get to this point, because after lunch, juries get sleepy a lot of times, and then they start zoning out and looking. And when you have technical information, it's really bad to do it then. But, you know, I'm going to skip ahead here to this, like, traffic stop that that they did with Coburger in August of 2020.
Brian Enten
Yeah, that's an interesting one. A lot of people forget about that. August 21st. Yeah. Right.
Ashley Banfield
In Moscow, it's 11:40 at night. It's late at night. Right. A lot of people don't maybe remember this one or forgotten this one. But he. At August 21, he stopped at 11:40 at night by Lato County. The sheriff's there, and he's at the intersection of West Pullman Road and Farm Road in Moscow. And they said, you're not wearing a seatbelt or at least it's a seatbelt violation. Right. And that's all fine and dandy, but he's driving the 2015 white Elantra. It's got the Pennsylvania plates on it. It's got the license plate LFZ8649. And during this stop, what's critical about it is that he gives his phone number to the cop and the phone number ends in the digits 8, 4, 5, 8. And why that's important is because at this moment, he's only two miles from the King Road house. It's 11:40 at night, August 21st. He is not far from King Road house when he's pulled over, and he gives that phone. So then from the Probable cause affidavit, August 21, the 8458 phone used cellular resources, providing coverage to the King Road residents. Makes sense. He's close by. And that was from 10:34 to 11:35 at night. So he is pinging off of towers that service the King Road house for an hour. 10:30 to 11:30 at night. Right. But, like just a few minutes later, literally two minutes later, when he stopped by those Lato county sheriffs for the seatbelt violation, the 8458 phone is now using the tower that's consistent with Farm Road and Pullman. So I think they're going to say, don't tell us that on that night, the cell phones were all over the map. We got them on another night doing this. We got them on another night pinging in exactly the same pattern. So maybe it isn't Such a bad science after all. That's just maybe my read of it. Am I off?
Brian Enten
No, I think that's a really good point. I could see them bringing that up. I think it's interesting that the. The stop was so late at night. It's not far from the King Road address, but there's. I mean, it's a small town. I mean, everything is not really far if you're in Moscow. But it's also where he was pulled over is also very close to the shopping center where they're requesting a lot of the sales transactions. Also in these documents, you're talking about related to the victim. So makes you wonder why he was right in that area near the shopping center. Again, though, I'll tell you from being there. So you have Moscow with University of Idaho, where the girls. Where the victims went. The girls and Ethan. And then you've got Washington State in Pullman, which is just 15 minutes away. But like, a lot of the people in Pullman will drive to Moscow for certain stores. Like, there might not be. I'm not sure, but there might not be, like a petsmart in Pullman, but there is in Moscow because they're so close together. The mall is better in one of the places. So I don't think it would be unusual for him to be near that shopping center. I can't imagine those stores would be open that late. I mean, 1140.
Ashley Banfield
Well, not only that, but I think another strategy that I'm seeing in this list. And again, this is just theory, but, yeah, you know, they've got. I'll show you. Like, they've got this little map to show you all the local businesses in this area that have been. That are in this motion. Eliminate all the surveillance cameras from all these businesses, and we'll pop it up on the screen. If you go around the horn of all the little green dots up in the upper left hand corner, there's a Petco, there's a Marshalls, there's a Target, there's a Ross, there's a Rite Aid, there's a Joanne's Fabrics, there's an Ulta. I think that's Beauty Supply. There's a Winco. And those. All of those are listed. We want your surveillance video. But what's interesting is not just we.
Brian Enten
Want your surveillance financial records, too.
Ashley Banfield
We want financial records, too. And that was super interesting to me. So up on the top left is that little green dots, right? The Winco. On the far right of those green dots, the Winco, they wanted financial records and surveillance of Brian Coburger for Winco, for the girls. They wanted the financial records of the girls and then also the surveillance. And I'm thinking maybe they want to prove that he was stalking them. If those line up, like if the surveillance shows him there or his phone data shows him in this area at the same time, say, one of the girls is buying something from Joanne's Fabrics or Ulta Beauty Supply. Well, now you. Now you're talking, Right. How much. How many coincidences can Brian Coburger explain away at trial if he's also seen by records and surveillance as to basically being in the same place as these girls multiple times or even a few times, or even one time.
Brian Enten
It's a good point. Like, I'm looking at the list here. I mean, they're looking for Kaylee's financial records from. From Petco, from. From Ross, right there. So I guess they could be saying, okay, if we've got evidence that Coburger was there, and then we look back at Kaylee's records and she's buying something around the same time, would that show that. They just have. Why were they in the same park. Right. Parking lot at the same time before. You know, before the, the murders. The only thing I'm thinking back to right now is remember when the defense did that telephone survey of potential jurors in Moscow? Remember? And remember they had the question that said something about Coburger stalking the victims, knowing the victims before, and it came out when they were fighting about this survey in court. And this is when they were such a gag order and we couldn't get any info, like little nuggets would sneak out. It came out that. No, but that question wasn't even good because that's not even true that he was stalking. Remember that?
Ashley Banfield
Yeah, I do.
Brian Enten
It was. What.
Ashley Banfield
Say that again.
Brian Enten
No, there was something about stalking, too, though, I think.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah, there was something about stalking. I remember.
Brian Enten
Yeah, there was. I'm almost positive.
Ashley Banfield
Let me throw a line in there just to cover us, just in case.
Brian Enten
Yeah.
Ashley Banfield
And a lot of it.
Brian Enten
But it makes you.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah, go ahead.
Brian Enten
Yeah, sorry, go ahead, Ashley.
Ashley Banfield
And a lot of it might have referred to social media. So I'm still not 100% clear if it was physical stalking or social media stalking. But I know that we're going to get those blanks filled in.
Brian Enten
Yeah. It just makes you wonder, did they never find a connection? Because they were so clear about that in court that day. I remember because I had always wondered if, If. If he was stalking them based on things that. Remember, I went I had interviewed the. The vape shop manager who talked about how scared Caylee was all the time. And she mentioned having a stalker and, like, living in fear, basically. So it'll be interesting to see.
Ashley Banfield
And again, I.
Brian Enten
What comes out.
Ashley Banfield
I see a lot of records in criminal murder trials, and you don't often see the victim's financial records being pulled. You know, and I just kept thinking, well, there's so much that looks like it lines up in terms of Brian's financial records, the victim's financial records, the surveillance videos in these same places. So I just kind of have a feeling that this might be. Again, when you're a jury and you hear a defense attorney explain away a bunch of things as like, that's a possible coincidence, like it could be a coincidence, you can usually be okay with one of those, sometimes even two. But if you start hearing three, four, five, six different coincidences, well, now your level of reasonable has kicked in, saying, no, sorry, if he's been chased. And again, this is a theory. If he has been following these girls around to these stores and to these areas, you know, and we can see the data showing that and the surveillance video showing that, and then suddenly they are murdered, and then suddenly his DNA is there, and then suddenly he's arrested. Your. Your coincidence. Your coincidence level, you know, disappears. You're not. You have no tolerance for coincidence anymore.
Brian Enten
And why else would they be pulling like Petco, right? I mean, I'm just trying to think of another reason. I can't. I can't think of another reason. The only thing I'm wondering too is, are these all things they may have been doing early on and then ruled out? You know what I mean? I guess we don't know if they actually made any conclusions.
Ashley Banfield
If I'm the defense attorney, I'm going to say Petco. Okay, you might have to swallow the whole stalking part, right? But let's just say Kaylee walks in with her dog to Petco, and Brian decides to walk in after her. Cause he's keeping an eye on her closely. She doesn't know that this man is watching her. And that might be. Again, if you're the defense attorney, that might be a way that that puppy dog's hair got on Brian's clothes and he brought it back to the apartment. If I'm the defense attorney, that's what I would say. I'd say that about Petco. He's thinking of, you know, adopting a dog. Baloney. Again, too many coincidences. And that's how the dog hair. If if, in fact, the animal hair that's talked about in the probable cause affidavit is being found at Brian Coburger's apartment. If that matches Kaylee's dog, that could be an explanation for it. It's pretty sad, though, because you got to give up the fact that you're stalking the murder victim in order to have that dog hair, you know, trace. Trace, you know, traced back to your. To your apartment.
Brian Enten
Wouldn't that be incredible if that ended up tracing back to Kaylee's dog?
Ashley Banfield
Yeah.
Brian Enten
Murphy. I wonder.
Ashley Banfield
The dog named Murphy. So cute.
Brian Enten
Murphy.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah.
Brian Enten
Such a cute, like, little. Little doodle. Yeah. I wonder if they would have put that in the probable cause, if they would have done that testing early on. You know, there's so much we don't know. They don't.
Ashley Banfield
Because they just said brown spots. They didn't say blood. You would test it later to find if it's. They call it presumptive, but they would call it blood later. But they don't put it in the probable cause. They say you inventoried one sheet, one mattress cover with brownish stains. You know, that's typically the language of the early investigation. So that they can keep their. They can hedge everything. And they have. They can't say it. They haven't tested it yet. They got to do that at the labs.
Brian Enten
Yeah.
Ashley Banfield
They have to be accurate about it. Okay, so let me. Let me move on to Linda Lane, because I'm interested in the two surveillance videos. And again, they probably ring doorbell cams that are on Linda Lane. One of them is 1330 Linda Lane. The other one is 1320 Linda Lane. So they're very close together.
Brian Enten
I'm just looking on my phone again to remember.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah. Linda Lane is like. So if you're staring at the front of the house from the.
Brian Enten
Yeah.
Ashley Banfield
If you're staring at the front of the house from the parking lot, I think Linda Lane is over to the left. Am I wrong?
Brian Enten
Hold on one second. I'm just looking. I remember. Yeah, that's right. Yep.
Ashley Banfield
So. And this is such a. It's a very weird little neighborhood with weird little roads that don't feel like real roads. They feel like lanes.
Brian Enten
It really is.
Ashley Banfield
They curve around and they're not grid, like. So it's a little hard to. Even if you look at a map right now, since the house has been torn down, it's sort of hard to figure out where's this compared to that. But generally speaking, is it fair to say that the surveillance video, the ring cam from Linda Lane it's presumed it caught the white Elantra not only going by multiple times that night, but doing the three point turn. Even if you're seeing bright headlights and you're not necessarily seeing the white, you know, car, you're seeing that activity at that point.
Brian Enten
Yes. And I'm just looking at my map again because there was. So there was, there was an apartment building and I remember talking to the landlord where they got that. That. Remember that grainy surveillance video of the Hyundai?
Ashley Banfield
Yeah.
Brian Enten
That was from an apartment building. But then there was also the ring camera footage which we were never able to get our hands on. I don't think that's ever been seen. I think you're right, but it would make sense. Yeah. And I remember I talked to the owner of that house too, trying to get the ring camera footage and she just wasn't going to give it. You know, the police had said don't share it. But it would make sense why they would want both because both have a visual. Both look out towards the road, kind.
Ashley Banfield
Of a line of sight. And it's not the best. I mean, the one that's leaked online, if it's accurate, sure looks accurate. But if it's accurate, it shows headlights and it's hard to make out. Maybe an expert could have zoomed in and seen a white ish car. But the other one may be a heck of the one that we haven't seen, maybe a heck of a lot better. And it would line up with that exact time and show. Yeah, those headlights doing the three point turn. That is definitely this car going through plain as day. The white, the white Elantra. But I am fascinated by these poor neighbors. Right. They've been a part of this too. This is in their lives. They know that they're part of this trial. They can't just move away and go back home after university. They're stuck in this horror and they have to be a part of it too. And I feel bad for them. I feel bad for anybody who's, you know, cast into something like this and they never intended to be.
Brian Enten
Yeah, that, that Linda Lane picture you just had up there, that, that is the complex right there. Yeah. I mean, I got to know a lot of the neighbors. There was one neighbor that we paid to use his WI fi because the cell service was so spotty out there. So we would, you know, get to know them and. Yeah, I mean, you can only imagine, like. And this took over their, their, you know, whole year of their college experience. They're all college kids and Then they had to go through the house being torn down and it was, it was tough on them for sure.
Ashley Banfield
I still disagree with that. I have to say. Look, I'm happy that the house coming down helps people heal, but I don't think the healing is paramount to the justice resolution of this case. You know, I feel like at any point it would be confusing for jurors. It's a very confusing house. You know, to start with, inside it was a confusing location. Outside, I really do think that they should have been able to do a walk and a go see a rat around and in and out of that house.
Brian Enten
Yeah. Look, since the beginning, and I've told you this, there's been something very strange, I don't know about stranger with the University of Idaho. They have wanted to tear down that house since almost immediately after this happened. And we've, we figured that out through emails and different people we talk to. It is a college town. You know, it's all about the college. It's all about getting the students in there. It's all about the money and the small businesses that connect back to the school. They did not want that house to remain because they didn't like the reminder of what happened. They didn't think it was good for the town. And it's very upsetting to some of the victims families. So they've just felt like that's been a priority of the university. I mean, how quickly did suddenly the owner of the house gave the house to the University of Idaho? Like, you know, remember that?
Ashley Banfield
Like why didn't the police prevent that? You know, they prevented the Linda Lane person from giving video away, but they wouldn't prevent the homeowner from giving the house away.
Brian Enten
Suddenly the university owned the house where the murders happened. I was like, wait, what is going on? How does the university now think about that?
Ashley Banfield
Right. The police prevent the homeowners at Linda Lane from giving video out on loan, but they won't prevent the homeowner of the murder scene from transferring title and giving it away to a public entity. I mean, it is a bit weird.
Brian Enten
And why not just wait? You know, you and I have talked about this a lot. Like why not just wait? I mean, put up a big wall, put up a beautiful hedge, whatever you have to do. You know, we've seen it in other cases, the Parkland tragedy. Those kids had to look at that school building for years and years and years and walk by it every day. It's, it stinks, it's sad.
Ashley Banfield
But justice is served. And they do, they do these go sees? They just do. They did it in the Murdoch case. They went and they got. They got inspiration. Jurors said they got inspiration when they were at Moselle, at that ranch. So important. These are important things for jurors to get to the truth. Right. Because they are supposed to determine the truth. It's very hard to do that with a 3D model. It's just not the same. I have gone through every 3D model of that house. I still am a little confused about distance and the sound around the corner and that sort of thing, you know, I think it's unfortunate.
Brian Enten
Yeah, it's a weird house within three stories.
Ashley Banfield
Yep. All right, so let's talk weather, because I hadn't thought about this, that crazy alibi, you know, whenever that came out months ago about Brian Coburger saying, I guess I can't fight the fact that I left my house. You know, my phone is seen leaving my house at 4am and suddenly it's turned off and then it's coming back a few hours later and it's turned back on. Can't fight that. How am I going to explain it? And so through his attorney, he suggested the alibi was that he was out stargazing that night, that. That he does that at night, he drives around at night, and he was stargazing. So I pulled the weather. Why did they do that? Why, why didn't they pull the weather before they chose that alibi? Okay, so, Brian, presumably, if you're gonna go stargazing at 4 in the morning, you're going to have thought the night before, hey, it's a nice night. Or maybe a few hours before, oh, it's a nice night. But no, from 1:30 in the morning on, it is cloudy. And then from the time of the murders, 3:53am Cloudy, 4:17am Cloudy. 4:53am Cloudly. 5:53am CloudY. 6:53am Clouding. 7:53am Cloudful. 8:25am Cloudy. And that goes on all the way to 10:53am where we're about an hour away from the 911 call at this point. And then it's haze and there's three entries of haze until it returns to being cloudy again. And it is cloudy all the way through until the next night at 1 in the morning. So it was socked in in Pullman and Washington and Moscow, Idaho, all the way through this alibi. It's a bit stunning, isn't it?
Brian Enten
Yeah. I mean, look, I think when that alibi came out, everyone was just sort of like, Wait, what? Stargazing, you know. And now to hear about the weather. I'm not really surprised. I'm wondering, do you think that's really going to come up at trial? Do you think they're really going to try?
Ashley Banfield
You betcha. I'll tell you why. Because again, total nerd going through this motion and limine. I noticed another entry that I'm like, National Weather service records for November 12th and 13th, 2022. So, yeah, they have pulled the National Weather Service records for the day before. That's Saturday, November 22nd, and all of Sunday the 13th. Excuse me. November 12th, 2022, and November 13th, 2022. So they are going to basically say at trial, National Weather Service experts, it's cloudy all day Saturday, right? Yep. Cloudy. It's cloudy all Saturday night too, right? Yep. Cloudy right until around 4 in the morning on Sunday. Yep. And how about 4am 5am, 6am, 7am, 8am Yup. Cloudy all the way through. So would this be the ultimate stargazing weather? Would you be able to see the stars socked in, sir? Nope. That's gonna be very powerful. I don't know how Ann Taylor's gonna fight that.
Brian Enten
I don't know that jurors were really gonna buy that he just happened to be stargazing out near.
Ashley Banfield
I mean, because you're a reasonable man.
Brian Enten
Even if it was a clear night. I mean, that one to me was always like, you know, was kind of like, really, that. That's the best you got?
Ashley Banfield
That's. That's all you got.
Brian Enten
That's. Remember, we were like, that's the alibi.
Ashley Banfield
And you turn your phone off. You turn your phone off to go stargazing. Like, for whatever reason, you find it important as you're walking out to your car and driving, because his phone is on while he's driving out of Pullman, and then he shuts it off. You need to shut your phone off to go stargazing. And then you need to turn your phone again on when you're driving back into your parking lot hours later.
Brian Enten
It kind of goes back to this recent thing that came out that, you know, with their new possible defense that the knife sheath that has his DNA on it, but that someone else may have planted it in the house. Kind of the same kind of feeling that I get just like. Like, wait a minute, let me try to play this out of my mind. Like, how would you know what I mean? And I guess they're just trying to put doubt out there.
Ashley Banfield
But again, I don't know. It's the same thing as all the coinky dinks that I was mentioning before. One time, there could be something that's unusual that happened. Right? Yeah. I went out stargazing, and I do turn my phone off. I want dead silence. I just want me in nature, and I don't want my girlfriend or my boyfriend to find me. Right. So I turned off my. So one time. Yeah, okay, maybe that is reasonable. But if you need to line up all these. Are you kidding? These all next to each other. That's when you're, you know, your fu. Reasonable factor kicks in. Stop taking me for a dummy. How many of these things are you expecting me to eat? How many of these silly stories that, you know, you're sounding crazy that you want me to swallow? That's where the jurors gut. And their reasonable, you know, radar has to be in tune, because you'll only take one or two of those and you'll say, sure, benefit of the doubt. Okay, but you can't give more than three or four benefits of the doubter. You say, yeah, yeah.
Brian Enten
That's kind of why, I wonder. A lot of this stuff that they've thrown out, it'll just. It's going to be such a fascinating trial, actually. Like, how are they going to narrow it all that we don't really know what they're going to do. You know what I mean? How they're going to narrow even all of this information. Like, we know this is all evidence that they have and that they're interested in, but we don't know the little web that they're gonna, you know, paint like it's gonna. I think it's gonna be such an interesting trial.
Ashley Banfield
I have confidence. I didn't have confidence at the beginning because when you interviewed. And hats off to you, Brian Enten, you interviewed the prosecutor right, in the very beginning. Bill. What's his name again?
Brian Enten
Bill Taylor.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah, Bill Taylor. Taylor. Here he is. William. Oh, no. Bill Thompson. Thompson. William Thompson junior. He's. He's on the motion. Eliminate. I thought, what's he doing? What is that prosecutor doing? And he made some mistakes in the stuff that he said to you.
Brian Enten
It was bad, right?
Ashley Banfield
It was. I thought, whoa, keystone.
Brian Enten
Well, when I say bad, it wasn't so bad what he said. I'm thinking it was a bad situation because he did the interview. And remember at that time, the big. There was this whole time that we forget about before Kohlberger was arrested, when there was, like, panic in this town. I mean, yeah, I was even nervous in my hotel room, and I didn't want to sleep on the ground floor. Like, we didn't know who did this, you know, and not, you know, he's obviously still innocent until proven guilty. But anyway, when we interviewed Bill Taylor, the big question then was about Bill Thompson and Taylor.
Ashley Banfield
Bill Thompson. I get him mixed up. Yeah.
Brian Enten
That's why I keep saying it.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah.
Brian Enten
But when. When we interviewed Bill Thompson, the big question then was about whether or not the girls were targeted.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah.
Brian Enten
And the police chief was saying that they weren't. And then we interviewed Bill and he said that they were, or I think it was the opposite, but anyway.
Ashley Banfield
Oh, Brian, hold on. They also said, nothing to worry about in the community. There's no danger to the community.
Brian Enten
Correct. And I'm like, we're trying to keep everybody calm.
Ashley Banfield
Looking back on it now, like, are you kidding me? No danger to the community. That man wandered for two months among our daughters and our sons, and that was the most dangerous person in our flock on this earth. The man that can, if he's guilty, kill four completely innocent people in their beds.
Brian Enten
Correct. And so, anyway, so Thompson went against what was sort of the narrative that the police were trying to put out at the time to keep everybody calm. And so we, of course, put Thompson on TV with what he said. And then the police. I don't know if you remember this, the police were not happy and, like, wanted to put out this press release about me making a mistake, saying that I made a mistake. And I said, but we just played the interview that the prosecutor said it wasn't my fault. I was like, did you go back and watch the. I didn't. It didn't come out of my mouth, you know, and it was just one of those. Because, you know, you're trying to keep everybody sort of on your team because you're trying to get information from the police, and you're trying to get information to the prosecutor. And it was just one of those, like, oh, my gosh, I've gotten myself into, like, a situation here.
Ashley Banfield
Well, and it was crazy. I remember thinking, he's. He's there. This. I got it right. Moscow's a small, lovely university town. They don't get a lot of the. This kind of crime. They. They barely had a murder there. I mean, I don't even think they prosecuted many murders in that town.
Brian Enten
No.
Ashley Banfield
And so I saw he was a bit in over his head at the beginning. I think they've pulled it together, though. I mean, the things that I've been seeing thus far, I mean, under the gag, it's been hard to see anything seem to be pretty damn clever. And if they are in fact lining up purchasing, you know, purchasing records of the victims and if they can line them up with stalking activity of Brian Coburger before the murders, it is game, set, match. I mean, once again, don't ask me to swallow too many of these coincidences because once you're past, you know, one or two, forget it. So the other one I wanted to ask you about, I still can't get, I still can't understand this one. I don't know if you're going to be able to get it in the motion. They are asking for surveillance video from. And again, I'm not sure if they made a mistake or if it's just, you know, shorthand. Indian Mountain Lake. Indian Mountain Lake. I'm looking all over for Indian Mountain Lake. I find an Indian mountain.
Brian Enten
Yeah, I see it.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah, I find an Indian Mountain.
Brian Enten
And records too. Surveillance and records.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah. And so I find an Indian mountain that, that straddles the Washington and Idaho border where I'm like, eureka, that's it. That must be it. But look how long that line is. It's like a four and a half hour drive or like somewhere around a four hour drive to get up to Indian Mountain. He didn't do that. He didn't have time to get all the way up there and back. He didn't drive eight hours and get home. If this is Brian Coburger and Indian Mountain, where there are lakes, they're just not called Indian Mountain lakes. It's called Indian Mountain Lookout. If he drove up there and got rid of the murder weapon and bloody clothes, this was too far. He couldn't have gotten all the way up to Indian Mountain Lookout with its legs and thrown a bloody knife and bloody clothing up there. So then I'm like, okay, well there's a, there's an Indian Mountain, right? That's the three and a half hour drive. There's an Indian Lake. Indian Lake is in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. That's two and a half hours away. Still too far. That's five hours of driving. If you go all the way to Indian Lake. Two and a half hours, you're driving two and a half hours back. That's five hours. He's only gone for the short period of time. Right. How many hours was it by the time he'd left his apartment and driven back? I think it's like a couple of hours. Two or three.
Brian Enten
Yeah, yeah.
Ashley Banfield
It's not many. It's not many. It's not enough to do these drives. So it's not, it can't be Indian Mountain Lookout three and a half hours away. It can't be Indian Lake which is two and a half hours away. There are no places called Indian Mountain or Indian Lake within an hour or so drive of Moscow.
Brian Enten
Well it's interesting they don't give the date on that one. Some of these other ones they give the specific date that they're looking for the surveillance video. There's no date there. A big mystery has been where the knife is.
Ashley Banfield
But I saw some chatter, I saw some chatter that the parents live in a gated area in Pennsylvania that is called Indian Lakes or Indian Mountain Lakes. Maybe that. Do you remember any of the signage.
Brian Enten
Around been in their neighborhood? I'm trying to remember. I, I, I'd have to look it up. It is a gated neighborhood.
Ashley Banfield
It just feels, I mean that could.
Brian Enten
Make, that could make perfect sense. You know what, I was just googling it and Poconos came out which is where they, that is where the parents.
Ashley Banfield
Live, where they live.
Brian Enten
So maybe, so that could be a possibility. For sure.
Ashley Banfield
That could be it. Maybe they wanted surveillance. Maybe.
Brian Enten
And there is a guard. So that. And there's a guard gate at the parents development with a guard and a surveillance camera.
Ashley Banfield
Yes.
Brian Enten
So that, that's probably what it is.
Ashley Banfield
Well maybe what they want here and I'm again, this is theory only. I don't know anything to be true yet. Maybe they wanted to see Brian Coburger driving in the middle of the night to throw things away. But I can't imagine for a hot minute Brian Coburger if he's guilty keeping all that stuff for two months in his apartment or in his car. All the bloody clothes, bloody knife, all the murder detritus. I can't imagine him keeping it and driving all the way across the country with his dad with that in the car only to throw it out in Pennsylvania. Look, people have done crazy things, but that sounds way too dangerous.
Brian Enten
Yeah, he seems too smart for that with his criminology background. But again there's no, there's no date there. So we don't know when. If it is the parents neighborhood that they were looking for surveillance and records by the way, the records thing is interesting because there's that guard gate outside the parents, you know there might be some kind of records. They might have a license plate reader that keeps, you know what I mean? Like something like the guard might keep records of who's going in and out. So I bet it is the Parents, I think you're right there. Maybe it's, you know, I don't know, maybe it's from a different date that we're not thinking. For some reason they want to see if who is coming in and out.
Ashley Banfield
Maybe, and maybe it is something that maybe he did do a big long drive a few days later, five days after the killings, you know, and, and he spotted up there in Indian Mountain Lookout where there are lakes three and a half hours away. And maybe that's where they're going to say, we never found the knife, we never found the bloody clothes. But here we found this particular, you know, suspect defendant making a very unusual drive to a very remote place. Yeah, maybe that's what it is.
Brian Enten
But the fact that that's the parents development and it says records too, I don't know. I'm leaning towards it being the parents house for some reason.
Ashley Banfield
Okay, well, we'll have to lay odds when we get to trial time to get this mystery solved. So many more mysteries too. You'll have to do this again with me the next time we get a document dump because I tend to think that the puzzle pieces are going to all start, start falling one by one by one as we get closer to trial.
Brian Enten
Yeah, and you did such a good job. That's the thing with these document dumps that are coming now is you really have to look through them closely because there are little nuggets in these 30, 40 page documents coming out that end up being really important.
Ashley Banfield
And patterns. The patterns.
Brian Enten
And patterns.
Ashley Banfield
Yeah, that's what I was looking at. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You want Kaylee's Petco and Joanne's fabrics and all that. You want her financial records, but you want the surveillance records and you want Coburger's financial records from that same area. Okay, I'm starting to see. Maybe you want to show him as a stalker and you know, weeks and months before the killings. How do you explain that? How do you explain that maybe that's what they're doing? Again, this is all theory, not to be proven, but my goodness, there's nobody better to go over this stuff with than you because you keep me honest.
Brian Enten
Oh, you're so sweet. Thank you, Ashley.
Ashley Banfield
Thanks for doing it.
Brian Enten
You always have the best theories. You, you, you are the most detail or one of the most detail oriented people I know. Like, nothing escapes you.
Ashley Banfield
I read the footnotes.
Brian Enten
I mean, you really do. It's unbelievable. Like there is no one better to go through these kinds of documents than you.
Ashley Banfield
I swear to God, I have always said that to anybody I've ever met entering I read the footnotes. Never skip the footnotes. The best stuff is in the footnotes at all times.
Brian Enten
I believe it.
Ashley Banfield
Thank you for doing this, Brian. Really appreciate it.
Brian Enten
Thanks Ash.
Ashley Banfield
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Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
Episode: Idaho Murders: Hidden Clues That Could Take Kohberger Down
Release Date: March 19, 2025
In this gripping episode of "Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield," Ashleigh delves deep into the ongoing trial of Bryan Kohberger, the accused in the chilling Idaho student murders. Joined by her colleague and national correspondent, Brian Enten, Ashleigh dissects recently filed court documents known as the motion in limine. These documents unveil critical evidence the prosecution intends to present, potentially unraveling hidden clues that could significantly impact Kohberger's defense.
Timestamp [03:18]
Brian Enten emphasizes the significance of delayed information disclosure due to gag orders:
"There was this silence for so long, you know, with the gag order, and we weren't getting a lot of information for a while, and now information sort of trickling out with the trial coming up."
The motion in limine outlines the prosecution's strategy to authenticate and introduce pivotal evidence, including surveillance footage, purchasing records of both Kohberger and the victims, and various digital data. Ashleigh questions the implications of these records and anticipates Kohberger's legal team's counterarguments.
Timestamp [14:01]
Ashleigh probes into the meticulous gathering of surveillance videos and parking records:
"I'm thinking Okay. If you're a university student who lives on campus in one of these campus housing apartments, you probably have to pay for parking too, and you probably haven't assigned a stall."
Brian explains the importance of tracking Kohberger's movements through his on-campus apartment and office, highlighting how surveillance can link his presence to critical locations:
"It would make perfect sense that they want to see, you know, when the white Hyundai Elantra was coming and going, especially, you know, connected to the early morning hours of November 13th when the murders happened." ([13:32])
The prosecution aims to correlate Kohberger's activities with the victims' routines, potentially establishing a pattern of stalking or proximity that could undermine his defense.
Timestamp [18:08]
Ashleigh expresses skepticism about the reliability of cell phone data in court proceedings:
"They're trying to triangulate it through the towers, which is not a perfect science."
Brian concurs, pointing out that defense attorneys will likely exploit the imperfections in cell phone tracking to create reasonable doubt:
"They can really be an area for the defense where they can poke holes. Experts will explain that these aren't like GPS." ([18:37])
Despite these challenges, the prosecution intends to use digital records to map Kohberger's movements extensively, not just around the time of the murders but over an extended period leading up to them.
Timestamp [19:21]
A crucial moment discussed is Kohberger's traffic stop in August 2020:
"He gives his phone number to the cop and the phone number ends in the digits 8, 4, 5, 8." ([19:25])
Ashleigh and Brian analyze how Kohberger's proximity to the crime scene during the traffic stop could tie him to the murders. They discuss the implications of his phone's connection to towers servicing the King Road house and how this evidence might interlink with his movements and the victims' schedules.
Timestamp [37:51]
Ashleigh scrutinizes Kohberger's alibi of stargazing during the murder window:
"From 1:30 in the morning on, it is cloudy. ... how am I going to explain it?" ([37:51])
Brian highlights the inconsistency between the alleged clear skies for stargazing and the actual cloudy weather records:
"It was cloudy all the way through until around 4 in the morning on Sunday." ([37:51])
This discrepancy suggests that Kohberger's alibi may be fabricated, providing the prosecution with a compelling argument against his defense.
Timestamp [44:25]
Ashleigh grapples with the ambiguity surrounding surveillance requests for "Indian Mountain Lake":
"It feels, I mean that could..." ([47:34])
Brian theorizes that the request likely pertains to a gated neighborhood where the victims' parents reside, rather than a remote location too far for feasible evidence disposal:
"Maybe it's from the parents' neighborhood for some reason." ([48:46])
This element adds another layer of complexity, as the prosecution seeks to explore all potential avenues linking Kohberger to the crime scene.
Timestamp [50:35]
Ashleigh and Brian discuss the emerging patterns from the prosecution's evidence requests:
"You want Kaylee's Petco and Joanne's fabrics and all that. You want her financial records, but you want the surveillance records and you want Coburger's financial records from that same area." ([50:35])
They theorize that the prosecution is building a case to demonstrate Kohberger's possible stalking behavior, correlating his financial transactions with the victims' activities and reinforcing his presence near them multiple times.
Timestamp [42:06]
Brian reflects on his interview with Prosecutor Bill Thompson, noting inconsistencies in the initial police narrative:
"Bill Thompson went against what was sort of the narrative that the police were trying to put out at the time to keep everybody calm." ([42:41])
This admission underscores potential early missteps in the investigation, which now could be leveraged by the prosecution to present a more coherent and damning case against Kohberger.
As the episode draws to a close, Ashleigh and Brian acknowledge the intricate web of evidence emerging from the prosecution's motion in limine. They anticipate a trial rich with strategic evidence presentation, aiming to dismantle Kohberger's defense through a combination of surveillance footage, financial records, and digital data.
Ashleigh underscores the importance of meticulous document analysis, stating:
"The best stuff is in the footnotes at all times." ([51:22])
Brian commends Ashleigh's attention to detail, reinforcing the collaborative effort to uncover the truth:
"You keep me honest." ([51:28])
The episode concludes with Ashleigh encouraging listeners to stay engaged as the case progresses, promising continued in-depth coverage and analysis.
Ashleigh Banfield [00:00]:
"What if you could have a conversation with a serial killer, actually sit in a room across the table from them and hear them tell the story of who they are, what they did and why they did it?"
Brian Enten [03:18]:
"I lived it. I mean, I was on your show every night pretty much."
Ashleigh Banfield [07:45]:
"What perspective you gained from listening to that 911 call."
Brian Enten [18:37]:
"They can really be an area for the defense where they can poke holes."
Ashleigh Banfield [37:51]:
"And how about 4am 5am, 6am, 7am, 8am Yup. Cloudy all the way through."
Brian Enten [42:41]:
"We put Thompson on TV with what he said."
Motion in Limine: The prosecution's recent filings aim to authenticate and introduce extensive surveillance, financial, and digital evidence against Kohberger.
Surveillance and Financial Data: Detailed tracking of Kohberger's movements and financial interactions with the victims' activities could establish a pattern of stalking or close proximity.
Alibi Scrutiny: The weather data undermines Kohberger's stargazing alibi, casting doubt on its validity.
Patterns of Evidence: Multiple coinciding pieces of evidence are being pieced together to build a robust case against Kohberger, potentially overwhelming his ability to explain away coincidences.
Prosecutorial Strategy: By challenging initial narratives and presenting a cohesive timeline of Kohberger's activities, the prosecution seeks to solidify its case, while defense efforts may focus on highlighting uncertainties in digital and surveillance data.
This episode of "Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield" offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving legal battle surrounding Bryan Kohberger. Through insightful discussions and expert commentary, Ashleigh and Brian uncover the intricate details and hidden clues that could shape the outcome of one of Idaho's most harrowing true crime cases. As the trial approaches, listeners are urged to stay informed and engaged with the latest developments.
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