Kena Whitworth

I tell you, I ask myself that question all the time.

I have a lot of questions for him, that's for sure.

I feel like from all the analysis that's been done on him, that at some point he is going to want to tell his story.

I go back to some of his homework, his writing in schools, and the fact that he changed his plea.

And when you look at some of his studies in crime, he would say things like false guilty pleas manifest due to a lack of judicial oversight and plea deals that seem to compel defendants to enter them.

That's something that he wrote.

And he also said if defendants fail to accept a plea bargain,

prosecutors will pursue the strictest charges and we know that prosecutors were pursuing the death penalty there in Idaho they weren't backing down from that and that's what got taken off the table yeah for him to change his place well you know this story has been so captivating and you reported it um you know so so well I mean I hate to say beautifully but you did tell such a beautiful

I'll start with Ethan.

Ethan was the eldest of triplets.

And he was just that bright light in every room.

And he's tall and strong and big and athletic, but he had a really bright future ahead of him.

And he was also sort of the leader for his siblings, for his siblings Hunter and Maisie.

They looked up to him tremendously.

When we sat with his family, you know, you see Hunter Chapin becoming his own man, and you see Maisie becoming her own woman, but they will live the rest of their lives without their big brother, and a piece of them will always, always be missing.

Missing.

Yeah.

Ethan's story.

is really a heartbreaking loss.

And the way that his parents have carried on his legacy has been beautiful.