Idaho Murders Latest, and 1⧸6 Intel Failures, with Matt Taibbi, Candice DeLong, Brian Entin, and Jonna Spilbor | Ep. 466
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Summary
Brian Koberger has been charged with murder in the murder of four innocent college students in Idaho in the early morning hours of February 15th, 2011. He has pleaded not guilty to the crimes, but the FBI has enough evidence to charge him with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Megyn and Alex break down all the details of the case, including the newly unsealed 19-page affidavit, and speak with a former FBI criminal profiler who helped track down the Unabomber. Plus, Alex talks to a reporter who s been all over it.
Transcript
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We like to walk that fine line between techno-thriller
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Your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Friday.
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Yay, it's so easy to wake up the kids on Friday, isn't it?
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You know, it just gives you an extra pep in your step.
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You know, you're going to have some good time with your family,
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You can do TV, marathon, whatever it is that floats your boat.
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We're going to have an in-depth look in a moment
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at the developments in the Idaho College murders.
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They have now finally revealed the supporting evidence
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We're going to break down the major revelations.
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It's from the newly unsealed 19-page affidavit.
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And we'll speak with a former FBI criminal profiler
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about how a suspect like this, this Brian Koberger,
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and killing four young, beautiful college students,
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then turn around to his parents at his first hearing
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The warrant, the supporting affidavit is so detailed.
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My gosh, we know exactly how they found this guy.
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was this motive there was no sexual assault but there
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possibly revenge there are many murders and it's
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happening more lately by men murdering women in this
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way anger multiple stab wounds it's not it's rarely a gunshot
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um it's a stabbing someone of course is in their face
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personal I hate you I hate you that kind of thing
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and that's what we see here so I am wondering if um he well
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there's actually a term for it uh Megan and it's uh in cell which
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stands for involuntarily celibate and there is a dark web uh on the dark
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web there are message wars where these these guys talk about how much they hate
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or women in general for them not having for them not having
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a girlfriend somebody that wants to be intimate with them
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and we're seeing more and more of this the reason my mind is going there
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oh my gosh I dated this guy for for a couple of months I can't believe he did
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are talking about him friends nobody none of them has said yeah he you know
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he's got a girlfriend he's always got a girlfriend
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women love him and there are uh I have read reports of classmates
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recently uh in his doctoral program that said various things about him that he
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seemed to uh with his female colleagues or female uh students that he was
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possibility that the motivation if he is the guy the motivation for this
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was some kind of anger retaliatory um thing we know it was planned this murder
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uh thing or maybe um one of the girls flipped him off and he got angry and
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decided to go make her pay for doing that that isn't what happened here this um and we
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know that his car was there before uh weeks before i think that he's
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interesting thing about the forensic uh his knowledge of forensics he sure
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didn't if he's a guy he sure didn't display them
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uh in in carrying out this murder leaving behind something with his dna
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um the pinging uh of of cell phones certainly why didn't he leave his cell
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phone at home um things like that so i don't think and
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some people have asked me do i think he was trying to see if he could
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commit the perfect murder i do not think that i and the reason i don't think that
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is there is a display of anger in at least the first person that was killed
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the the young woman that received more stab wounds than anyone so why i know this
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is all speculation of course but why if you were profiling these this guy for
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the fbi would you think he'd go on to kill three more people in the house
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including one of the young women's boyfriends good question the two young
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women the blondes i've read that they were sleeping in the same bed
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yeah they were best friends they were best friends so if he's after one the one
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that he stabbed the most and there's another her friends right there of course
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in his mind you have to kill her now the couple uh the boyfriend girlfriend
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that's kind of a head scratcher if it is true if the information is accurate that they
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were asleep when they were attacked then that would be the first question i'd ask
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whoever the killer is well if they were asleep they were no threat to you why did
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you do that and then um we have this uh information that the young woman that
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actually saw him he walked by her um why didn't he kill her don't know we don't know
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i do believe however your previous guests were talking what in the world was the deal
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with the uh eight hours before she called i think she was in traumatic shock as a nurse i've seen it
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and sometimes somebody can be in traumatic shock and not be able to speak or not be able to act or speak
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for days and i think that's what happened here that's terrifying the what are and i know this is
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right up your alley but do you believe if he did this that this was the first time he killed somebody
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is i mean yes for people like it just seems forgive the word but more sophisticated than a first-time
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killer would go for more more advanced more i don't know what the word is aggressive but what do you
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think i do think it was probably the first time um he made a lot of mistakes i would be i mean people
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get in their car after a murder pardon me and they are covered with blood and the blood transfers to
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uh the seats leather fabric seats and they try to clean it up but it doesn't work you can't clean up
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blood well enough that it can't be detected if there is a sophisticated forensic team looking for it
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now you're right it's unusual for killers to start out with a mass this was a massacre it was a mass
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murder um i don't know what that was his intention but i believe that he knew exactly who was in that
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house when he went in and usually what we see with serial killers is they start acting out their
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fantasies earlier than 28 and when they're teenagers they act out their fantasies on animals or uh other
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other kids but it wouldn't necessarily be a murder for example uh and i this guy does not fall in the
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category of serial killer okay but here's an example of what i'm talking about jeffrey dahmer um uh
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started his his um killing in his 20s robert wrestler retired fbi profiler he's passed away now
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one of the founders of the profiling program um advised the detectives once dahmer was in custody
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go back and where he wherever he lived and look uh talk with the police see if they have any unsolved
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murders of boys men or um animals where he's lived and they did and they found someone that was uh when
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jeffrey was an adolescent i think 13 14 years old he was riding his bicycle in a residential area
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and he was going one way and he sees a kid a younger kid on a bike coming toward him and you know when
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you're a kid and you're riding a bike you're you know just you want to get home or wherever you're
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going and jeffrey had a knife with him and as the boy passed him he reached over and
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and then drove on and went on he was never caught for that and when wrestler interviewed him i believe
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he admitted that but i'm not sure that but what i'm saying is killers that become serial killers
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killers start acting their stuff out much sooner than this so you believe there will be something
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in his background a prelude to this kind of violence there'll be something but i don't think
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we're going to find a dead woman or a dead teenage girl i it's possible but i don't think so
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i mean again he's from the poconos it's a very uh you know there's a lot of trees it's wooded
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like there who knows and he was recently in this area so that probably wouldn't be the place to look
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especially if he was casing this house almost as soon as he got there so he seems to have been
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focused on one of these girls or more right from the get-go upon getting there as you point out there
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could be misogyny there there could be you know given a terrible history with women the friends are
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reporting he he did very poorly with women he used to be very overweight he lost the weight and then
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became very aggressive became a bully um several friends started distancing themselves from him
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um but he was high functioning candace he was getting his phd you know it's not like this guy
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was unemployed as a homeless like he was high functioning so what what does that tell us
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well um i don't think he he woke up one morning and said i think i'm gonna go kill some people
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women i think i'm gonna do that i don't think that happened um as you mentioned he's uh according
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to reports of people that knew him grow up grew up with him people that are in class with him uh
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recently this past fall they all say the same thing and as i mentioned before no romantic partner
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has come forward i don't think there is a romantic partner in his past um he probably what we do know
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uh we meaning fbi uh profilers that interview people that do these kind of things they start
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thinking about it much sooner than they did it revenge fantasies are um usually just fantasies
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but sometimes uh in people that are disturbed they become more than a fantasy and they act it out
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now wait let me jump in let me pause you right there because we're up against the end of our serious
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show and um i want to continue this this is too good so to all my serious listeners uh just download
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the podcast later and you can fast forward to this point and listen to the rest of this conversation
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there's so much to go over with candace including whether this guy called in to a podcast we're
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going to play you the clip and discuss whether it's him so stand by candace uh more with her on the pod
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okay candace thank you first of all for sticking around so we were talking about sure how could you
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be so high functioning and commit this crime like how it's in our minds of course we know there are
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examples like ted bundy right good looking guy who seemed to be high functioning but i think most of us
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think more of like a lunatic like charles manson when we think of somebody capable of committing this
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kind of a murder right i worked a case unabomber case and ted kaczynski very uh a genius iq at one
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point uh before he became a hermit in montana he was a professor at uc berkeley and one of when i was
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working the case and uh running all over montana uh building the uh trying to get evidence building me
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the affidavit for the search warrant one of the things i learned was that kaczynski checked out
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um various books at libraries around montana where he lived and many of them were how does the mind
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work what is mental illness he was very concerned about his own personality his brain his behavior
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um not so much that he was stopped killing sending bombs through the mail but he was so here's this
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person uh that one he certainly wasn't as high functioning as the guy we're talking about
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kober brian koberger yeah koberger might have been having these fantasies and this these rageful feelings
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toward females having fantasies of killing them and perhaps he was drawn to the field of forensics
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forensic psychology his particular thesis what is a criminal thinking at the moment they're committing
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a crime i find that very telling why he wants to know because he was having thoughts because he was
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possibly probably obsessing like i said he didn't wake up one day and say i think i'll go do this
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horrible thing i've been thinking about it for a long time um and i can imagine if he was thinking about
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killing he might say to himself i wonder what it would i know what my fantasies are i wonder what it
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would really be like to do it and for me that thesis is i don't even know how you would find out
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that because i've interviewed a lot of people that committed murder and very few of them have ever
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been able to explain what they were feeling and why they did what they did in fact most of them
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say i don't remember a few people i've interviewed had said yes i was in a jealous rage i remember
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every second of it and some one person even said to me and i do it again he was serving life in prison
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but that's how emotional the thing was for him and kohlberger wanted to know what that was like
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in and so it's his doctoral thesis and then he goes out and does it over and over and over that's what's so
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chilling about it it's like me not not that you would excuse any murders but just that to have
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killed four innocents one after the other in the course of a short 25 minute span according to
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what we read in the affidavit it's like it's just hard to get your arms around and one of the things
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that i was wondering it just seems incongruous forgive me for being a simpleton but how does that
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same man if he did what the what the fbi and the cops say stand up in court seeing his crying family
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he's got two older sisters a mom and a dad who seem to be lovely people by all accounts and mouth
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i love you in the extradition hearing how does he love them is it capable is is it possible for a man
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to both love his family love any human being and commit this kind of crime yes uh in fact um
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you mentioned ted bundy um ted bundy lived with a woman that he very much loved um well while he was
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killing and he actually turned him into the police based on a composite sketch and the police said
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no this is what the police said there were two women taken um abducted from lake samamish
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on a on a warm summer day in the seattle area and uh in the process of investigating these missing
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women they hadn't found their bodies yet in investigating what happened to these women they
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talked to a lot of people and some of them said yeah this guy came up to me and said can you help me
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get my boat off my car and well what did he look like uh and so they were able to develop a composite
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sketch of the person they were looking for it was in the newspapers the woman ted bundy was living with
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saw it and oh my oh oh and people said ted uh he they heard him tell women he was trying to get to his
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car hi i'm ted can you help me with blah blah blah she is living with ted she looks at this composite
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sketch oh and he wasn't there he wasn't with her on that sunday and when he came home from wherever he
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told her he was he was exhausted she'd never seen him like that and he just lay down on the floor and
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so i'm so tired of him he killed two women um and she went to the police and said what i basically just
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told you my boyfriend my boyfriend blah blah the reason they didn't believe her megan is
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nobody who's living with a woman and this woman had a child a daughter
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in a warm loving sharing caring romantic relationship would kidnap and kill other women
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and that circles back to your point how can he stand up in court and mal i love you to his family is he
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capable of love yes um some psychologists call it compartmentalization they can put their uh evil or
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or dastardly or gruesome um fantasies in a in a particular place and then everything else is normal
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so you can be a psychopath someone who enjoys murder and still be capable of actual love for
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other human beings it does sound strange but yes it is possible um gosh it's chilling the mark of a
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psychopath is not that they can't love it is uh the two most important things about them is that
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they feel no remorse for hurting someone someone that they and they uh feel no guilt they feel no guilt
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no remorse um lack of empathy and but they can have relationships that are um warm happy you know
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they're not brutal uh uh dennis raider also known as btk fine torture kill married two kids um they were
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absolutely uh stunned when they found out that he their dad her husband was going into women's homes and
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raping and killing them for years i've interviewed his daughter i've interviewed his daughter and his
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daughter's actually speaking out the btk killer's daughter now and she's labeling this as obviously
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speculative but she's wondering whether there was any connection actual connection or just inspiration
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between brian kohlberger and her dad btk killer dennis raider um because the woman who's apparently
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studied the btk killer more than anybody and wrote a whole book about him was the professor i think
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undergrad of brian kohlberger and getting his criminology i think masters and the daughter
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of the btk killer who again is like oh my god my my father's a serial killer like she did not know but
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she's admitted it and she's given interviews about it sees similarities between the two and definitely
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thinks her father who's still alive and in jail would 100 be happy to mentor another killer into you know
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how he did it and so i mean like it's speculative but it's kind of chilling when you see there actually
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is a little bit of a connection there yes um you're talking about dr katherine ramsland
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um uh famed forensic psychologist uh that was his professor regarding um there there is a difference
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between dennis raider and uh how what he did to his victims and what kohlberger did there is no evidence
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important of sexual assault that does not mean he was not sexually aroused in some way um while he was
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committing these crimes committing these crimes may not but people i know so well well there was no
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rape there was no sexual assault doesn't mean the killer wasn't sexually aroused and enjoying uh the
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killing dennis raider raped brutalized women uh and before he killed them um we don't
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have information the information regarding this is saying no that did not happen to any of these victims
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yeah that's right so and i should say again there uh there was a bartender who said he had to
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speak with brian kohlberger about his inappropriate comments to waitresses a bartender female and customers
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at the bar he was just inappropriate he was saying negative things like calling them names if they didn't
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respond to him he doesn't seem to have ever had much of a love life his downstairs neighbor who said
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or neighbor who said he was up at all hours said she saw him one time drive a woman home but the woman
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got right out and left and she she wasn't like coming in with him but didn't seem to you know recall a
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bunch of love interests in his life um there is this interesting thing i that i again please understand
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speculative but it's getting some traction because a woman who went to school with brian kohlberger is
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saying she believes this is his voice and here's what happened someone on uh was it let me see 12
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20 is it 12 it got posted on i can't my on 12 20 on the 30th okay i wrote over my own um text here
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on 12 30 so right after the arrest a podcast host called t rev tweeted out a conversation he was having
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um saying i am the guy who originally had this caller on the phone on my podcast which is called
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allegedly with t rev t dash rev now everyone is saying this is the killer but i do not know this
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to be a fact yet so please let everyone know um there is an exchange between the caller who labeled
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himself dave and t rev that was about the idaho murders and by the way one of the victims the male
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victim was in sigma chi the fraternity and he and his girlfriend who was also killed had been at a
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sigma chi party that night so again this could just be completely random and have nothing to do with
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brian kohlberger but somebody who went to school with him is saying she believes this is his voice
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others have come forward to say they also believe this is his voice and it it did happen prior to 12 30
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so it happened prior to his arrest it was just posted um by t rev calling attention to it on t 30 here's
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they the exchange i live in a college town and i've worked with uh probably at least 10 sigma chi
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members and you know the one thing that every single one of them i i i feel like has asked me is
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if you were going to kill somebody how would you get away with it and i just wonder if maybe
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if maybe this is nothing more than some kid in a fraternity trying to prove himself and that was it
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so you said some you worked with five or six sigma chi kids and they asked you how if you can kill
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somebody they can get away with it yeah did i hear that right yeah it's always been these these dudes
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that were in in the fraternity hmm and and so it makes me wonder if it's a thing that that's in
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their in their like culture that they ask to see how smart you are and whatever and what kind of
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answer you come up with and someone took it too far again we do not know if that is the voice of brian
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kohlberger but if it is what do you make of that candace well uh the first thing that came to mind
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is perhaps look he's a doctoral student and his thesis is what's going on in the criminal's mind when
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they're committing the crime if i met someone i find them in a sorority fraternity party and i met
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someone oh this is so and so oh what are you doing i'm working on my doctorate in forensics
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psychology oh that's very interesting i mean everybody loves this right um people might have
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said i've been asked well i bet i have people have said to me i bet you know how to get away with murder
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um i can see where he might have been at a function and oh my you know oh you're you're you're
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you're this you're that i bet how do you get away with murder might have been not as serious as
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the person calling took it seriously it sounds like these these people uh five or six of them were
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asking me how to get away with murder um maybe one of them took it too far though somebody took it
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too far that's for sure um but i think he was if that's you is this offering insights if this is
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him is this offering insights on his own state of mind or is it really do you think a deflection of
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look into the sigma chi guys like trying to push push blame on somebody else or is he trying to say
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you know like i'm going over the transcript here um where he puts the motivation nothing more than
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some kid in a fraternity trying to prove himself trying to prove himself if you you know if you can
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kill somebody and get away with it like would this be secretly his motivation potentially or really just
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an attempt to point the finger at somebody else could be both i think he was uh when he when he's uh
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he was projecting if this is if the guy on the phone is the killer um then could be both
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deflecting you know planting a seed like hey maybe it's one of these frat guys um and it also could be
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that he was saying you know he's been wondering how to get away with murder right it's a bit on tell
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project yeah and i will say back to your theory on the insult incels um again these are people who
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are i guess voluntarily or involuntarily celibate we did some yes and blame others they divide humanity
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into categories betas that's an incel somebody he would like to have sex but he can't stacy's
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stacy is the generic name for attractive women who shun betas chads chad is the name for sexually
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successful men who attract women despite being seen by the incels as dumb by the betas as dumb
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and then there are normies normies are the masses in between with average looks and intelligence
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so like the stacy's and the chads of the world are the enemies and there it is possible that somebody
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like a brian coleberger if he was an incel saw the the couple that was killed that night as a stacy
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and a chad and the fraternity members as chads and himself as like the innocent beta being judged
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negatively by these socially successful beautiful people again speculative but this is the job of
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somebody like you who's got to try to put together a profile of the killer and what motivates him
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and to me that's that's i mean it's starting to sort of a picture starting to play out because
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you're right it's been very weird there's been no girlfriend to come forward not he's 28 years old
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candace right right certainly um uh you know you know megan i'm we've all met people that
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are judged to be not attractive that have a fabulous social and sex life because of their personality
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they're they warm and charming and funny and all that stuff and coleberger if it's he's the guy he's
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not unattractive but um the reports from people are he he had a difficult uh childhood teased a lot
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overweight um did not have a close circle of friends and so he emerges into adulthood uh basically now he's
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28 and they're like i said nobody's come forward not like i could understand a woman had if a woman
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had been with him she might be embarrassed and afraid to come forward but her friends would know
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i mean if he if he had a girlfriend other people would know he had a girlfriend and one of the things
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that struck me when i very when this happened the very first day and we saw photographs of the four
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victims was the my opinion extreme beauty of the two blunts they were killed first and one of them
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uh suffered more than the other more stabbings i could just imagine maybe
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one of them dissed him or didn't diss him but we know he was socially awkward with women maybe he said
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something to one of them and what are you doing they i saw they worked at a restaurant they worked at a
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restaurant i think i there have been some reports that it was a vegan restaurant he was a vegan but then
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my team tells me it was actually a greek restaurant but in any event who knows whether you know that august
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when he apparently began stalking he met one or both of them in the rest like it could be that's
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a thing is it's it's not you can't think of it like a rational person you know but you would say i think
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based on your experience it could be a moment could be a second a very short interaction that turned his
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focus to one or both of these girls right and um for the vast majority of humans um if if somebody if
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we get slighted or don't get what we want from someone so what okay move on no big deal don't get
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upset about it but there are people that cannot get over being in their opinion disrespected or
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not appreciated or or i said hi to you with why didn't you say hi to me well maybe the person they
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said hi to was distracted and you know but they take it personally and the crime scene as described
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i have not seen it the crime scene the first people killed were those two beautiful blonde girls
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and it was brutal it was like um when i see something like this with every stab i hate you i hate you i hate
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you wow and i think that's probably what happened do i think he will ever uh the killer uh will admit
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uh what he did in court or no no what if they what if they take the death penalty off the table and i
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realize right now the victim's families at least one of them is saying we don't want that we want
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the death penalty um but yeah you know sometimes they'll cut a deal where they take that off the
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table it's available in idaho um in exchange for a life sentence without the possibility of parole if
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you'll just tell us everything we need to know um i can't well i can't see him doing it you know who
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he might talk to katherine ramsland dr katherine ramsland his professor she's she's written 69 books
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she's she she has a a blog on psychology today she is the go-to person for forensic psychology
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yes and she taught him i don't think you know what a lot of what happens a lot of times megan um
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uh people will go to their deathbed uh and never admit what they did but sometimes in prison they'll
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talk to other inmates because they're surrounded by like-minded people who might be uh interested and
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sympathetic and yeah talk to me tell me you know i'm in here for killing my wife i'm in here killing
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my girlfriend what are you doing i can see him maybe in that circumstance telling someone i would
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um it would be great if whoever is charged with this pleads guilty and and says what happened
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but i can't see him doing that not at this point i mean one thing we may we may see is a journal
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or some sort of you know notes i don't know a manifesto since they've raided his house now they
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they they raided can't remember what the word was when they arrested him at his parents house but they
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broke down the door they broke windows they went full bore in there with the element of surprise to
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get him so maybe he had something there maybe he had some he had left something back at in washington
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state you know they did get him when he wasn't expecting it so that's one plus in our desire to
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figure it out um what let me spend a minute on the family because the parents can like the dad
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just kind of it's kind of sweet that the dad flew out there to drive home with his son i mean you do
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wonder if your child were at a university that was 10 miles away from where there was this mass murder
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of four college-age students and you'd be paying attention you i mean a lot of people didn't pay
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attention to these murders you know you see it in the headlines you're like oh it's terrible but then
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you kind of move on if your kid were 10 miles away from them you'd definitely be clicking on the
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articles and by the way a criminology phd student you know like right there you know probably you'd
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be saying we're going to discuss this over thanksgiving they did put out that that bolo
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the be on the lookout for the the white hyundai elantra in mid-november and it is remarkable you think
01:56:02.180
like i guess you're maybe your head doesn't go there but this dad is driving home with his kid
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in a white hyundai elantra from just a few miles away from this murder scene and you know he doesn't
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think of his son as a murderer but he knows his kid's weird there's zero question he knows his kid's off
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yep and i think uh it may be simply people explained by people see what they want to see
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and hear what they want to hear and so he sees a white elantra his son has a white elantra he lives 10
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but he couldn't have done this it's it's not within the realm of possibilities that this man
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who was a baby in my arms 28 years ago and i raised he didn't do it it's not it so it's it's um
01:57:03.720
you can't you can't get through it right it's it's by the way that's called dynamic entry they did
01:57:08.100
dynamic well let's spend a minute on the sisters okay because he's got two older sisters one of whom
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is a psychotherapist one of whom candace starred in a slasher movie she was yes she was an aspiring
01:57:24.200
actress at one point and she starred in a movie uh called two days back you know some b to be
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charitable b list b grade movie i'm gonna show you two clips here's the trailer so you can get a
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flavor for what this was about and then i'll she's not in the trailer but then i'll show you a clip
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of the sister here's the trailer when i was a little girl i got lost in the woods
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it took them two days to find me since then i've avoided the woods until now
01:57:57.720
oh my goodness okay here's the clip with his his sister one of his older sisters
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we were going to talk about recycling today but something's come up a chance to make a real
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difference we've learned that a group of forestry students are planning to go up the mountain and
01:58:39.260
cut trees and protected woodlands what do you want to do stage a protest
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yeah a protest would be great i can't stage a protest
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why not because if we do it before they go there's no real proof
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that was her in the red shirt so just a bit a bit of color on that
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um okay gory low budget slasher movie where the characters are brutally stabbed slashed and hacked
01:59:09.080
to death with knives and hatchets amanda kohlberger appeared in that red shirt there as laurie in the
01:59:14.240
2011 flick two days back about a group of young students who go hiking in the remote woods and meet
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their grisly end at the hands of a maniacal killer who had won their trust my goodness candace what do
01:59:27.280
we make of this if anything g do you think um brian watched that oh this is what the sister has to
01:59:36.720
wrestle with now yeah yeah it's what when was this movie a few months ago no no 2011 so it was 10 plus
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an influential time in a young man's life who knows wow speaking of his birthday his birthday
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was on november 21st eight days after these murders would you be looking at that if you were profiling
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this guy in this case no um not no that doesn't i can't i don't know okay because i i heard another
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profiler saying you know could have been a like a deadline could have been a present to himself could
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have been like btk by the way i guess started his killings when he was 28 i don't know he was about
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turned 28 it's just it's a little weird all of it is weird um there is one report i think it's bogus
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i think it's absolutely bogus i'll say that out front but there's somebody who claimed she had been
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in the prison with him and that he was doing really inappropriate things and he was making
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inappropriate sexual remarks and my first thought when i heard it was oh he's going for an insanity
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defense but you really you can't raise one of those in idaho um the odds of him i i now think
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having looked a little bit more at this woman how is the woman getting the man's like they normally
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don't house you in the same place male and female right but anyway i now think she's a she was a wannabe
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she wants attention and that this is bs but would it be consistent with a man like this to be like
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suddenly acting crazy acting out in jail would you expect that kind of behavior from a guy with this
02:01:32.460
profile well i'd kind of like to know exactly what he supposedly did um that's inappropriate crazy
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his when those handcuffs went on him essentially if he's the guy his life is over life as he knew it
02:02:01.460
is gone and that's a lot of stress that can induce all that kind of stress and and uh the trauma and
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uh traumatic all kinds of things can come from that so most people arrested for murder or a serious crime
02:02:22.420
like this are automatically put on suicide watch which means 24 7 there is someone watching them
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either on camera or by their cell at least in a perfect prison world that's what's supposed to
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happen so we know jeffrey epstein um hmm but so it doesn't surprise me that um if he was doing
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weird stuff there's no indication he's mentally ill none at all right to the contrary by the way okay
02:02:53.580
so here here this is a report from the daily mail um and again keep in mind some i don't know whether
02:02:59.160
this happened here but some of these tabloids will pay you for a story so this woman oh absolutely
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huge asterisk i don't believe her i'm gonna say it outright but she um gave an interview to them and
02:03:09.480
said she had been in the jail for the for six hours during the time he had been in the jail she's 50
02:03:15.360
years old she said that she witnessed him allegedly tried to expose himself singing violent rap songs
02:03:21.320
and threatening guards she claimed she heard him say you come in here and i'll cut you i'm going to pee
02:03:27.420
on your face do what you want with me i don't give a shit um and that he yelled that at one guard
02:03:32.720
and that she heard a female guard tell the inmate to put his pants back on but was unable to see his
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bottom half i don't i'm calling bs on this one candace me too me too yeah it's gotta stick with what
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the law enforcement is telling us and even that you have to have a grain of salt on because we know
02:03:49.260
that they lie to us for good reasons but they do they do mislead right right uh i don't believe
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that story at all okay i have i have one parting question for you because we did a long show that
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has stayed with me on the unabomber and i did not know i've interviewed you many times many cases i did
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not know that you sat with ted kaczynski the unabomber in the montana cabin after he was arrested
02:04:20.240
and had an extraordinary few moments i don't know how long you were there with him that resulted in
02:04:28.460
something of your of your sons being on the unabomber in one of the most famous pieces of
02:04:35.020
video we have of him so could you just tell that story right excuse me um when i was told um to go
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to montana by the bosses um um i had just moved to san francisco hadn't unpacked a lot of stuff and
02:04:51.940
the taxis outside um to take me to the airport and i my gosh is 23 below or in in montana right now i
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ran in and to get my park i couldn't find it so i grabbed my son's park and six weeks after
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i arrived in montana was the day of the arrest april 3rd and he was lured out of his cabin by a few of
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my colleagues and then brought down to a different cabin called hunter's cabin um where i was waiting
02:05:30.680
um uh for what would hopefully be an interrogation with um my supervisor uh and so he was
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handcuffed behind his uh you know behind his back and sat at a this little pine table this cabin
02:05:51.120
um basically hunters use them to sleep and eat but there's no there's a stove there's no electricity
02:05:58.180
there's the only heat would come from a stove uh and he was at this little pine table and um
02:06:06.480
he wanted to see the affidavit for the search warrant was a hundred pages and i stood over him behind him
02:06:16.500
turning the pages one by one and um i remember thinking this guy's 54 and he doesn't need glasses
02:06:23.760
i was kind of jealous about that and so he looked at my boss and he said well they say if you're ever
02:06:30.200
in trouble you shouldn't talk you shouldn't say anything so i'm not going to say anything i want
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to lawyer so that was that couldn't talk to him once somebody invokes that um constitutional right
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as you know no more talking no more questioning about the case about any evidence anything related to
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that and so people were in and out of the cabin my boss uh some other agents that had worked on the
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case and there was time because they had to have somebody with them all the time there was a time
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when i was in there and i sat across the table from him i could have reached across and wait i did reach
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across and touch touch him uh i was wearing my son's parka and um kaczynski was shivering
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and so i took my parka off and put it over his shoulders that was the only thing i could do of
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course his hands are he's cuffed behind that and uh we had a chat he he gave me cooking lessons
02:07:36.640
how to cook turnips on an open stove and um i asked him what it was like to live off the land
02:07:45.800
it was a very awkward conversation um had it been a date a blind date i never would have seen him
02:07:53.280
again it was right not not a good conversationalist and then eventually um the uh agents in his cabin
02:08:02.380
were able to identify a chemical that they found in a jar as identical to a chemical found to detonate
02:08:11.480
a bomb that resulted in someone someone's murder and so at that point now we could arrest him
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and so my bosses came in and said you're you know you're under arrest uh now it was about five hours
02:08:26.340
after we got him out and they put him in shackles and and took him out and that picture that you're
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referring to uh was taken by a university of montana um art major majoring in photography
02:08:40.180
he was listening on a police radio or something i guess and he was at helena montana jail which is
02:08:47.320
probably has two cells you've seen it in every cowboy movie you've ever seen and that he took that
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picture and when i got when i got my jacket back a few days later uh megan it had a official
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unibomber unibomber dirt on the collar goodness stripes to me it's so extraordinary it's just an
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example of how close you've been and how important you've been to some of the biggest criminal investigations
02:09:15.060
of our time we had terry churchy on who you know you know and it was critical in that whole thing
02:09:20.080
uh it was episode 227 if people want to go back and listen to it i it was actually one of my
02:09:24.660
favorite episodes i just found that whole case fascinating as another guy brilliant he killed
02:09:31.080
people through mail bombs and hurt a lot of people through mail bombs um but we needed somebody like
02:09:36.840
candace to help create the profile of who would do this because that was a mystery for years for years
02:09:43.480
who could be doing this and ultimately you got your man candace thank you so much i hope we can talk
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again soon absolutely thank you megan you bet and listen everybody you can listen to killer psyche
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