Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program. In
this episode, we're picking up where we left off with
the declaration of Brian Edelman. During a December thirtieth, twenty
twenty two press conference, which was live streamed on YouTube,
Chief of Police James Frye and Lethah County Prosecutor Bill
Thompson announced that Brian Colberger had been arrested, although a
few details were released. Mister Thompson pointed the media to
the probable cause ave of David, which would be released
after Colberger's extradition from Pennsylvania, with the court issuing a
gag order in an attempt to protect the defendant's due
process rights. The media drew heavily from this document and
widely reporting on purported evidence connecting Brian Colberger to the
murders e g. DNA cell tower data. These details were
widely disseminated and discussed by the media for sixteen months
without any debate over their veracity. Only during an April
twenty fourth hearing regarding the defense change of venue survey
did mister Thompson state and open court that many of
these representations which were tested in the survey were false
or may not be offered at trial. Despite the court's
best efforts to stem the flow of prejudicial information to
the public, Leyta County residents have been saturated with a
deluge of details pulled from the Affid David, warrants and
other documents that were not filed under seal. Much of
this coverage has the potential to undermine the presumption of
innocence and shift the burden of proof onto the defendant.
The media detailed evidence allegedly linking Colburger to the murders,
including cell tower data tracking his movements, video footage of
the purported killer's car near the victim's home, an alleged
DNA match with more than ninety nine percent likelihood of
connecting Colburger to the crime scene, evidence confiscated from Coburger's
home and car, and eyewitness accounts from one of the
victim's roommates. Examples of this type of prejudicial coverage include
police alleged and probable cause affid David that he made
at least fourteen visits to the cell tower coverage area
for the King Road House, including twice on the day
of the student's death. Cell Phone data was a key
part of the evidence that led to Colburger's arrest in
December of twenty twenty two. Malre created visuals displaying cell
phone data. During the grand jury, investigators were able to
trace the movement of the phone, heading through Genese, Idaho, Uniontown, Idaho,
and back to Pullman. The estimated locations were consistent with
that of the white Alantra. According to those cell tower
records between Pullman and Moscow, a phone registered to Colburger
stopped reporting to the network or was disabled on the
night of the killings between two forty seven and four
forty eight AM, consistent with Colberger attempting to conceal his
location during the quadruple homicide, the Affidavid said. The cell
phone data shows that Colberger's phone was recorded at two
forty seven AM in an area that provides coverage southeast
of Coburger's Pullman residence, the Affidavid said, suggesting that he
had been on the move. The phone does not begin
to show up in the network again until four forty
eight when it's reported in an area along US Highway
ninety five south of Moscow. Between four fifty and five
twenty six am, the phone is recorded traveling on US
ninety five to Genie, Idaho, then traveling west into Washington
towards unknown, and then ultimately back to Pullman at five
thirty am. The phone is recorded in an area consistent
with Coburger's residence. In the weeks and months before the killing,
cell tower data recorded that Coburger made at least a
dozen trips near the King Road residents since his cell
phone account was opened in June. According to court records,
all of the trips were late in the evening or
early morning, except for one the affid David said. According
to the probable Cause Affidavid, local police used surveillance footage
of the Elantra and cell phone data to track his
alleged movements before and after the November thirteenth murders. Detailed
tracking of Coburger's cell phone and extensive security video of
a car investigators believe is his. The data did a
leg leg show him taking a route to and from
Moscow consistent with the white Lantra police saw on video footage.
Cell phone data shows him and Moscow near the King
Road residence on at least twelve occasions between June and
November thirteenth. Almost all of those occasions occurred in the
late evening and the early morning hours. Investigators were able
to identify that the eight to four or five to
eight phone was receiving signal from nearby cell towers near
King Road at least twelve times before November thirteenth, usually
late night or early morning hours. Investigators calmed through hours
of security video from multiple cameras and concluded that the
killer likely had been driving a white Hondai Lantra manufactured
between twenty eleven and twenty sixteen. Based on an FBI
expert's viewing of the camera footage. He found the twenty
fifteen a Laantra registered to Coburger. He owned and drove
a white twenty fifteen Hondi Alantra sedan. Found the Elantra
that day park near Coburger's apartment. He ran the plates
and provided the inn information to detectives investigating the u
of I killings. The Elantra was recorded numerous times on
security cameras in the neighborhood where the killings occurred, from
three twenty nine am to four twenty am on the
morning of the attacks. According to court documents, The last
time the Alantra was recorded in the neighborhood police said
the camera captured it traveling at a high rate of speed.
A review of security footage found in Pullman showed a
car that appears to be a white Alauntra leaving Pullman
and heading towards Moscow at two fifty three that morning.
Cameras also picked up a car appearing to be a
white Aluntra at five different locations in Pullman, including on
WSU's campus around five twenty five am. Court records say.
CNN also reported that Colberger drove to his parents home
in Pennsylvania from Pullman in a white Honda Alantra. For weeks,
investigators have been urging the public to send in any
tips on a twenty eleven twenty thirteen white Hondai A
Lantra they believe was at the crime scene. Around the
time of the November thirteenth murders, a vehicle later identified
as a white Hondai A Lantra was seen driving by
the apartment more than three times. Investigators were given access
to video footage from WSU that shows a white vehicle
leaving from Moscow and later returning a couple hours later.
On November twenty fifth, WSU police officer Daniel Tiango found
a white Alantra at the university that was registered to Coburger.
Later that same day, the vehicle was found at an
apartment that houses WSU students, where Coburger resided. The Lantra
was seized when Pennsylvania State Police arrested Coburger at his
parents' home in the early morning hours of Friday. Police
believe such a car was at the scene of the crime.
Around the time of the November thirteenth murders, Investigators at
a white Hondai Lantra made between twenty eleven and twenty
sixteen was seen on surveillance footage before and after the
homicides near where the students were killed at eleven twenty
two King Road. Coburger and his father were pulled over
along eastbound Interstate seventy on December thirteenth, as a road
tripped more than twenty five hundred miles from Pullman, Washington
to eastern Pennsylvania driving his white twenty fifteen Hondai A Lantra.
When Indiana Police officers working independently made the two highway
stops within ten minutes just east of Indianapolis. The heavily
scrutinized stops, the Brian Colberger. A month after the November
slangs were instead routine interstate drug trafficking prevention operations by
two different Indiana police departments. Law enforcement officials in the
state told the Idaho Statesman a leather sheath for a
combat style knife was located next to Mogan's body. The
Affidavid Red police found a tan leather knife sheath lying
on the bed next to Mogan's right side. The sheath
had K BAR, USMC and the United States Marine Corps
Eagle Globe and Anchor insignia stamped on its outside. The
DNA on the knife sheath was key evidence that led
to Coburger's arrest in December. According to judge's order, investigative
genetic genealogy was used to construct a family tree of
people whose DNA matched with the DNA found on the
knife sheath left at the King Road house. DNA was
found on a leather knife sheath found next to Madison
Mogan's body. The knife was stamped with K BAR and
the United States Marine Corp insignia. The knife sheath was
sent to the Idaho State Lab, where an isolated mail
DNA sample was retrieved. Officers in Pennsylvania recovered trash from
Coburger's family residence on December twenty seventh, through which the
ISL was able to make a DNA profile. The DNA
showed a ninety nine percent match, showing the DNA from
the family home was likely the father of the suspect.
The Idaho State Lab later found a single source of
mal DNA on the button snap of the knife sheath.
Police believe this is Coburger's DNA after comparing it to
DNA evidence police obtained from the trash at Coburger's parents'
house two days before he was arrested. Local police found
the knife sheep at the King Rode home. At the
Moscow house where the victims were found stabbed to death
on November thirteenth, a single source of mal DNA that
police believe belongs to Coburger was found on the sheath.
Investigators found DNA that they believe belongs to a man
accused of stabbing for University of Idaho students to death
at the home where the killings took place. DNA was
found on the snap button of a tan leather knife
sheath left on the bed where the bodies of Madison
Mogan and Kaylee Gonsalves were discovered. The DNA found in
the Coburger's trash matches more than a ninety nine point
nine to nine percent likelihood to the father of the
person whose DNA was found on the knife sheaths. DNA
was found on the snap button of a tan leather
knife sheath left on the bed where the bodies of
Mogan and Gonsolvas were discovered. According to court records, police
believed the genetic materials links Coburger, a former Washington State
University Criminal Justice graduate student, to the killings, based on
another DNA sample obtained from his family's trash in Pennsylvania
on December twenty seventh. The DNA was then matched to
him through a cheek swab taken when he was in custody.
Court records say police used a search warrant to collect
a bugle swab from Coburger, and the DNA comparison showed
a statistical match. The DNA evidence came from a kbar
knife sheath that was found on a bed next to
the bodies of Mogan and Gonsalves in their King Road
home near the UI campus. The sheath was faced down
and partially under both Mogan's body and the comforter on
the bed that did not match any DNA from the
convicted offenders, arrestees, or other crime scenes. It typically involves
sending the DNA sample to a genetic genealogy service like
ancestry dot Com or twenty three and meters. Police who
use these services can build a family tree to narrow
down a potential suspect based on age, gender, opportunity, and
known physical characteristics. This led police to recover trash from
the home of Brian Colberger's parents and compare DNA from
that with a kbar knife sheath. That comparison indicated that
the DNA found on the trash belonged to the biological
father of the individual who left the on the k
bar knife. The core document says, all right, we're gonna
wrap up this episode here and in the next episode,
we're gonna pick up where we left off, and that's
with a roommate detailed seeing an individual dressed in black
the night for University of Idaho's students were killed. All
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