In this episode of True Crime News The Sidebar Podcast: Eric Faddis joins host Joshua Ritter to break down the biggest cases making headlines across the nation. They discuss evidence in Bryan Kohberger’s case that could suggest a second suspect in the University of Idaho slayings, key differences in Karen Read’s retrial after jury selection, and Judge Jeffrey Ferguson facing a second trial for his wife’s fatal shooting.
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Karen Read is innocent! John's body and Karen's car show lack of evidence of an auto pedestrian accident!! And John took his last steps several minutes after Karen was gone, and per. the medical examiner John would have. been incapacitated by his head injury. #FKR
"Matching the murder weapon they don't have." 😭
Bk is innocent. Insane amount of bias by the Judge.
This will end up in a mistrial/hung jury. Too much doubt all over the place.
The defense suggests their imaginary suspect. The defense is really desperate.
I’m not saying the girls did anything, but they know what happened, and it is not Kohberger. Bethany was willing to speak to the defense, but it was her lawyer who stopped that. Guys, put this story together as a whole. Nothing makes sense, from a random man “clad in black clothing” entering a random home which he has zero connection to the victims..ZERO..with a bunch of cars parked outside, not knowing who was in the house. Violently take out 4 ppl, clean up, which would not take fast bc u have to have blood dripping from the knife or leaving some sort of trail going room to room and up and down steps. Vacuum,mop, (DM stated she thought the man was carrying one), i guess he carried them in as well..see another person 3 feet away and just look at her and keep walking out the front door..with a bloody crime scene, not have any of the victims DNA found anywhere with him, and his “dna” just happens to be left only on the snap of a sheath?? How convenient. Then DM not calling 911, saying her phone was gonna die.. couldn’t she have plugged it in if she was in her room? Then being in a “frozen shock phase”, but still have the wherewithal to text, go on IG, call parents, Snapchat, and the list goes on. She had to run toward the front door to go to BF’s room, but chose to go down to her room instead and stay in the house all night after seeing a man in your home? Then decide to call at noon the next day? I can understand one roommate being in shock and not calling, but was the other roomate in shock too where she couldn’t call either? AND…. The biggest question is how did they get to Kohberger?? Wouldn’t u want to compare the dna on the sheath to the blood that was found on the stairwell??They didn’t even do a check on the blood🤦🏻♀️. Instead they go through some rando IGG and pull trash? Guys..don’t u get it ?? How did they get to Kohberger?? They couldn’t identify the dna on the sheath bc it wasn’t in CODIS..snd there wasn’t enough dna to make a profile..so how did they go about connecting him to a trash pull across the country in PA. If they couldn’t make a profile, how did they get to the IGG?? Guys..1+1=2 Imagine being on a jury and hearing this circumstantial case and sending a guy to death with this kind of “evidence”?? U will never get 12 ppl to agree to guilty.
Why would any defence attorneys say this without more facts? Terrible
DNA is not coming in.
The biggest problem the defense is facing is that knife purchased from Amazon that is consistent with the weapon with Bryan's DNA found on the sheath. Period. Personally I don't think the US judicial system is ideal because there are many cases where the prosecution or the jury let the suspect who did indeed commit the crime that he was accused of was let go because of lack of understanding of what the prosecution sought to lay out to the jury and jury's failure to understand as a result of prosecution's failure to really lay out the evidences, but that's just my take on the US judicial system. For the most part, in this day and age with digital evidences everywhere, it's really up to the defense to lay down the alternate suspect for the judge to consider. If that doesn't happen, I think I can say even before the jury selection what the result will turn out to be.
Witness description is like a lie detector to me. They could be accurate or they may not be even if witnesses to the suspect are to take the stand in trial. Having said that, if the defense to Bryan has an alternate suspect, obviously it goes without saying that the judge wants the evidences to that argument before jury is allowed to see them. There's been a real case in the US where a suspect was convicted and sentenced but years down the line he was exonerated due to technological advances that had identified two additional DNA on the victim's shoe, and scientists who have identified multiple DNAs from different ppl cannot tell when the DNAs were deposited.
Guilty af.
Love these updates and love when Joshua Ritter is hosting Sidebar!!
Bring back Andy!!!
11:03 Or maybe he took the picture having no concern in the world because he didn't kill anyone. Everyone is treating him like he's guilty, when there could be a simple innocent reason the knife sheath was found with a victim. All the "evidence", at least the things publicly known, aren't proof that he's 100% guilty. They're not really evidence, IMO. Yes they could be, but they also could be simple coincidences or have innocent reasons behind them.
You guys sound like really dumb people!
I will say this about Kohberger’s defense and his defense team: He can’t complain. These ladies are doing anything and everything possible to ensure he doesn’t face the death penalty. They’re doing their job. He’s entitled to a defense. So good for them. I just hope the appellate court realizes that this guy got the best defense and they did everything possible.
The defense says a bunch of stuff. They just don’t bring receipts with them. Their strategy is to discredit the prosecution team. That’s why they constantly make false accusations. Look at what Anne and Cy Ray said about prosecution hiding the cell phone timing evidence. If it were true then attorneys would be disbarred. They had nothing to back that up. So they’re trying to convince potential jury pool that prosecutors are liars and cannot be trusted. It’s not going to work though.
Is the extra suspect one of the basement dwellers?
There is no second suspect they are cooked! Reason we have seen them trying all evidence thrown out lol 😂… that’s why Judge has been telling them not so fast! Now they making it 100 percent for people to believe he did it!
JOK was and family and friends are good folks. No words to describe what this has done to a community. Thanks for the balanced insight from you and Eric.
The sister was the one who said he wore gloves to his car
I heard he was looking at replacing the knife does that mean if he wasn’t caught he would’ve done it again.
So you didn’t really read the documents or listen to the defense argument about the bushy eyebrows?
The eyewitness herself reported that she was very drunk, (consuming mimosas, 9-10 white claws and what’s called a Black Out Rage Gallon in the day prior) so saying “maybe she was intoxicated” is you yourself refusing to acknowledge her own testimony about it while arguing she’s reliable about other components of her testimony. She herself said she wasn’t sure if she was dreaming, everything was blurry, and she wasn’t sure what she saw. She told police she didn’t see a face, and didn’t mention eyebrows until after the police asked her about eyebrows. That happened in the second interview, so the eyebrows weren’t described in the interview closest in time to seeing him. Only after being asked about his eyebrows did she mention eyebrows with a description that matched the multiple drawings on her walls.
When the police asked what the mask looked like, she said she didn’t know. Then the police asked if she knew what a balaclava was and showed her a picture of one. THEN they asked her to draw the mask, and, what a surprise, she drew a picture of a mask that looked like the one the police showed her. She only was able to remember what the mask looked like after the police showed a picture of one.
The police did not ask her to identify him in a line up once they had BKs name. She saw a picture after BK was arrested and told police she didn’t know if that was him.
Also, she had told police she entered a “frozen shock phase” after seeing the person in her house and that is why she didn’t call 911 till she woke up 8 hours later. But her phone records indicate she was awake the whole time texting, using snapchat and instagram , taking and modifying and deleting photos, etc. So she’s been caught lying about what she did after seeing the person, and only remembered the most condemning components of what the intruder looked like after the police asked about those components, with both the eyebrows and the mask matching pictures she saw after seeing the intruder, one of those pictures having been supplied by the police.
Yet the postulation offered in this video is that maybe she was influenced by the media after the fact? I cannot for the life of me figure out if that type of vague, misinformed summary of what has actually been revealed in the documents and hearings is just an accidental lack of information based on not doing due diligence to understand the information available, or intentional obfuscation to artificially bolster the prosecution’s arguments in the eyes of the public. Either way, it is incredibly irresponsible.
That’s total bullcrap in Kohberger murders! He was there alone in only his car circling the house at 4am and nobody else was awake or on camera! Defense is desperate to trick jurors and the public but everyone knows BK was the monster 👺 and he is going away for death penalty!
If it's one weapon then the blood from the first victim should be in the wound of the second victim, then those first two victim's blood would be mixed with the third and fourth victims wounds. Two weapons are unlikely to be used on all four victims so there should be less or none at all of one victim's blood found in the wounds of other victims.
Did LE even ask DM if she had taken any psychedelic substances that day? Why would they not ask that? Someone hallucinating is not a valid eyewitness. She said she wasn't sure if she was dreaming. Idaho has lots of climate favorable for psychedelic mushrooms growing in the wild and they are popular in the college age group. What type of eyebrows does DMs past boyfriends have? The framing effect of the balaclava would make brows more prominent and blurry vision would create image spread which makes brows look bushy on anyone, even thin eyebrows.
There is a photo of BK's dad giving a thumbs up with a big smile. Defense should put that photo up as well as any photos with the thumbs up by his mom and sisters showing it is a family sign of love and care for each other.
Liars. SGs shills?
What does it matter if someone on the shared Amazon account purchased the knife. BK still had access to the knife. It appears to be a tactic to muddy the waters by the his lawyers
You guys are just wild. Bryan is presumed innocent. The burden is on the state, yet the state doesn’t show its work product. The FBI doesn’t hand over anything regarding the dna analysis & they also don’t hand over complete discovery on the Locdbor records. Anyone buying the 7day record retention is willfully blind or just lazy bc it’s all spelled out and an easy google search.
God forbid anyone take a critical eye the 8 hr delay and the phone records of the remaining housemates.
If this case is so cut and dry, why do they leak selfies & misleading affidavits about ka bar knives? Why don’t they state it in black and white? Why pretend you don’t have TA records and then say you have locdbor records – but Mowery or Payne don’t know where they are? Why did Immel point out 7 small white compacts of interest from the surveillance videos? Why did the state change the years of one particular make? Why does 7 minutes matter if their case is air tight?
All this to say – with a circumstantial case involving a defendant that has no personal connection to any of the victims – what happened in that 8 hrs. We know they, or at least 1 of them, wasn’t asleep the entire night. And why do ppl like myself get ridiculed for asking the question? I can read and make logical inferences & the burden is on the state.
Ask yourself if DM & BF were named Tyson or Cody? If the remaining roommates were Men, do you think there would’ve been a closer look? Just a thought.
U are insane when u make a deal out off who purchased the knife. Maybe I purchased the knife, as long as BK's DNA is on it that is it.
Of course the question remains: Could it have been planted?
Real poor reporting here.
Karen is innocent. I wonder why MSM is so afraid to tell the truth.
As soon as I heard that Joshua cozies up to Nancy Grace and News Nation…he immediately lost credibility in my eyes. And then he opened his mouth…and I knew he belonged on both of those channels. Those trashy channels never report facts, they sensationalize every case and they are more concerned with being the first to report a new tidbit, than waiting to determine if the tidbit is even true.
I 've thought all along that it would take more than one person to do this to 4 people without at least 1 of them getting away, since they were not all asleep as first reported.
One thing I am very curious about is the burglary charge
AT wants him dressed in a button up shirt suddenly, with the top button open. However you dress him, he still looks super creepy.Chair lowered ,so he looks smaller, at last court hearing.
The Amazon purchase r not that solid tho cuz there were ppl close to the Vic’s including the surviving roommates had kabar knives n other even bigger knives n ski masks on in pics prior to these crimes so I mean we dnt even know for sure that a kabar knife is even the weapon that did this so idk it’s possible but that’s not 💯 if ur talking a death penalty case ! N where he’s from in PA all these items r normal to that state n area n time of year ! N I heard but I’m not sure it’s true that there were other items bought with the knife like bear spray n other camping hiking items so idk it’s kinda shaky ! Now if they had the actual weapon that would be a different story then but they don’t just like the car they have no plates visible in any video or pics or a visual of BK in the car at the house so I want to see what Sy Ray says where he was with all these cell data ! It’s said that turning ur cell off dnt mean it’s not still tracking where ur going cuz it does . Ur SIM card needs to be removed to stop it fully ! So Sy knows this n can find this data if there is any n the fact he’s putting his 30 yr career on the line n has an impeccable record I think it’s saying a lot as to where BK was n what this data does in deed show. That’s what I wanna see n know . Then the rest will kinda fall in place but we cnt keep just assuming this n that . We need solid proof n then maybe other things will make better sense but rt now I mean u can do this to anyone really if they have a white vehicle n live alone n the behaviors n habits bk has n that dnt make u a killer ! Idk I just am not seeing it like they do I guess 🤷♀️
I’m sure there was a second perp.
Along with BK.
The only thing that ever made sense.
Im curious to know if he takes pics like that often. To be a fly on the wall in this investigation would be crazy.
Timestamp? Anyone?
Like to have more tying evidence. His place evidence, car evidence, prints at locations, blood residue in car or place. Tracks going in or out of house and any prints they obtained.
That kinda blows the theory that someone else helped him or it was a set up
This is a slam dunk case!!! He did it!!!
Blah blah blah all guilts
Uh-oh! Kohberger’s being framed—just like Karen! Wow. Someone supposedly bought that knife through Kohberger’s Amazon account, and someone planted glass in John O’Keefe’s shirt. Honestly, I don’t know which one is harder to believe—they’re equally absurd. We all know who killed the students in Idaho and who killed John O’Keefe. Karen and Kohberger—both guilty as sin.
Brian's defense has ALWAYS seemed like they are grasping for straw's when trying to defend him. SMDH they just make themselves look stupid ultimately 🤷
What Autism got to do with him entering into their Space Killing them for Whatever reason? It had to be intentional and out of Anger, Period.