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Speaker 1: correspondent Peter van zandt takes us back to the night
Speaker 1: of November thirteenth, two thousand and twenty two, to the
Speaker 1: University of Idaho, the scene of the now infamous and
Speaker 1: chilling murders of four young students. Listen in as van
Speaker 1: zant speaks with a few family members of the victims.
Speaker 2: Moscow will forever be known as the scene of one
Speaker 2: of the most tragic crimes in American history. There's still
Speaker 2: sort of a darkness whenever you talk to people. It
Speaker 2: would be ever part of the university's history and the
Speaker 2: town's history.
Speaker 3: There are four very very important names in this case
Speaker 3: Kallay Gonsolvez, Madison Mogen, Xana Cernodle, and Ethan Chapin. And
Speaker 3: if you're going to remember any names from this case,
Speaker 3: I ask that it be all four. My name is
Speaker 3: Olivia Gonzalvez and Kaylie was my little sister.
Speaker 4: Everybody's going to work and you look out the window
Speaker 4: and there's kids running down the street laughing, and you're
Speaker 4: just like, how can you be out there playing?
Speaker 3: My daughter's dead?
Speaker 2: You know, Kiala Gonsolvez is gone.
Speaker 3: Stop everything, everybody in the whole world stop, and everything
Speaker 3: just keeps going.
Speaker 4: My sister, Xanna Kernole is one of the happiest, funniest
Speaker 4: people I've ever met, and I had the awesome privilege
Speaker 4: of growing up with her, and I still have a
Speaker 4: hard time coming to terms with the fact that did
Speaker 4: it happen.
Speaker 3: Brian Coberg is accused of stabbing these four University of
Speaker 3: Idaho students in the pre dawn hours on November thirteenth,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. The murder weapon, which was a knife,
Speaker 3: has never been found. This is the type of survival knife.
Speaker 3: Brian Coberger did not make his own plea. The judge
Speaker 3: entered a plea for him of not guilty.
Speaker 4: Excellent penalty is life in prison for.
Speaker 3: The death pack you due to the nature of the
Speaker 3: crimes the state of I was seeking the death penalty.
Speaker 3: He was there to kill.
Speaker 1: He came in with the kid.
Speaker 5: I believe he had to kill Kit and you believe
Speaker 5: that everything right down to the implement of destruction, this
Speaker 5: large marine knife, that was all planned, all planned.
Speaker 1: It was inhumane.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't do these type of things to any living creature,
Speaker 6: let alone an innocent human being.
Speaker 5: In August of twenty twenty three, just six weeks before
Speaker 5: the murdered trial of Brian Koberger was set to begin,
Speaker 5: he waived his right to a speedy trial. Absolutely, they
Speaker 5: would have to wait indefinitely for their day in court.
Speaker 3: I was really hoping that we could get this show
Speaker 3: on the road because the not knowing it just it
Speaker 3: is agony.
Speaker 4: It is agony.
Speaker 5: Steve and Christie, the parents of Kayley, haven't left anything
Speaker 5: to chance. After the judge issued a gag order to
Speaker 5: attorney's and law enforcement quote to preserve the right to
Speaker 5: a fair trial, they drilled down on their own investigation
Speaker 5: and are now sharing what they believe that investigation found.
Speaker 5: Steve says he believes transparency is the best path to justice.
Speaker 6: We're not going to just sit back and cross our
Speaker 6: fingers and pray that we're going to get justice.
Speaker 5: It has been a long and painful journey for the
Speaker 5: families of Kaylee Gonsalvez, Matti Mogan, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.
Speaker 5: Do you ever dream of your sister?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've had some dreams of her. There's terms where
Speaker 4: I prayed and ask God to see her ad other
Speaker 4: time and I did, and excise me some peace knowing
Speaker 4: that I.
Speaker 3: Know she okay.
Speaker 5: Jasmine Kernodle, who was speaking for the first time, was
Speaker 5: a senior at Washington State University and lived only fifteen
Speaker 5: minutes away from her younger sister Xanna. Often mistaken as
Speaker 5: twins growing up, she says they were best friends.
Speaker 4: She was always fun, she was uplifting and took any
Speaker 4: god situation turned it into a good one.
Speaker 5: Jeff, what did you love most about your daughter?
Speaker 2: Everything? She cared about people. She was a people persons
Speaker 2: cared about her friends just as nice as like your family.
Speaker 5: For the first time in her life, Xana had fallen
Speaker 5: in love with fellow student Ethan Chapin, a triplet who
Speaker 5: loved his siblings, boats and working on a tulip farm.
Speaker 4: The sweetest kid ever. They were just two happy people
Speaker 4: and they're just seeing the videos and photos of them,
Speaker 4: you can just like tell how happy they are. They're
Speaker 4: just amazing together.
Speaker 5: Sadly, they will now forever be linked in death. On
Speaker 5: Sunday morning, November thirteenth, Xana's friends started calling Jasmine, saying
Speaker 5: something bad had happened on King Road. Jasmine rushed over
Speaker 5: to Xana's house. And while you're driving that eight nine
Speaker 5: miles over to the house, are you trying to reach
Speaker 5: your sister?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 5: How many times you call her?
Speaker 3: A lot?
Speaker 4: I called her a lot a lot.
Speaker 5: Her next call was to her father. Jeffrey had been
Speaker 5: visiting Jasmine for dad's weekend and was on his way home.
Speaker 5: So you answer the phone, what do you hear?
Speaker 2: You're kind of crying and just telling me to get
Speaker 2: back to Moscow and meet me Sanna's house, And you know,
Speaker 2: my heart drops.
Speaker 4: Instantly race back down there.
Speaker 5: The house was cordoned off and swarming with investigators. As
Speaker 5: soon as Jeffrey said he was Zana's father, he and
Speaker 5: Jasmine were escorted to the Moscow Police Department and Jasmine,
Speaker 5: what does the officer say to you and your father?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'll remember exactly just that four people passed away
Speaker 4: and no one was saying.
Speaker 2: That, Yeah, we'll stay your life.
Speaker 4: Your worst name there.
Speaker 2: You know, what do you do? Can't you damn thing?
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