The Idaho Four Murders - ATC International
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What happened in the Idaho Four Murders case?
This is Australian True Crime International with Michelle Laurie. One of the biggest crime stories in recent memory is the 2022 murder of four college students in the small town of Moscow, Idaho. Ethan Chapin was 20. Zana Kernodel was also 20. Kaylee Gonsalves, 21. And Madison Mogan, also 21. They became known as the Idaho Four. For their friends and families, their violent deaths were literally unbelievable.
Who are the Idaho Four and what were their backgrounds?
They didn't seem to have an enemy between them. In December of 2022, six weeks after the murders, criminology student Brian Coburger was arrested and charged. Last year, he pled guilty to all four murders. But to this day, no one knows how he chose the victims. whether or not he'd ever met any of them, which one was his actual target, or how he seemed to know the layout of the house. Caylee Goncalves' family have always been very vocal. Recently, they've channeled their anguish into setting up a foundation in Caylee's honour called Murder Has a Name, and it has a very practical mission. Kayleigh's mother, Christy Goncalves, and Foundation board member, Tracey Brocco, joined me recently on what would have been Kayleigh's 25th birthday to talk about the case and the Foundation.
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Well, today, um, you know, we all kind of went about our normal day, you know, people had to work and, um, so in the past we've kind of taken it off and stayed together, but this year it just didn't work out that way. So I was, I was here by myself for the most of the day. And, you know, I was just able to really just reflect on Kaylee's birthday and, um, you know, think about her and not that I don't always think about her, but really think about what we're really missing. You know, it's hard not to notice it every day, but then, you know, you sit here and think, you know, what would she be doing here? You know, four years, well, it's her fourth birthday that she has not been here. So, What would she be doing now?
Where would she be? Would she be married? You know, and I thought, you know, I don't think that she would have kids. I'm not sure she'd be married. I think that she would be like knee deep into her job, really just trying to climb that ladder, that corporate ladder, just to get as high as she could before, you know, she had goals, you know, so she was very goal orientated. So I think that that's what she would be doing, you know, right now. So.
And we'll get to what you are doing right now, which is huge.
How did Bryan Kohberger become a suspect in the case?
And joining us also is Tracy Brocco. Tracy, you are part of this Murder Has a Name project. Can you tell us how you met the family? Are you an old friend or how has this worked out?
I am not an old friend, although it does seem like I am at this point. I just got interested in the case like everyone else did. And I just wanted to start reaching out to Christy just with notes, just to let her know that somebody was thinking about her. And over time, I would say it was probably a year that I was sending cards and just gifts, just thinking about Kaylee and the family. And she just texted me back one day and said, you know, can we talk? And I thought, yeah, absolutely. And I basically just said to her, would you think about starting a foundation for her? I mean, I just... I didn't want her remembered for that awful day in Idaho. She was worth more than that. Her family's worth more than that, and she deserved more than that.
That is the challenge, isn't it? That is the challenge in a situation like yours, is that you have certainly spent a lot of time and energy bringing attention to the case, and in your own way, Christy, the family has. But at the same time, you don't want that to be the only memory we have of Kaylee or the other kids.
No. And it's, you know, it's hard to avoid. It's hard to change that narrative to something else.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What happened in the Idaho Four Murders case?
0:03–0:32
2
Who are the Idaho Four and what were their backgrounds?
0:32–3:10
3
How did Bryan Kohberger become a suspect in the case?
3:10–5:14
4
What is the purpose of the Murder Has a Name Foundation?
5:14–5:57
5
How has Kaylee's family coped with her loss?
5:57–8:54
6
What challenges do families face in the aftermath of violent crime?
8:54–33:13
7
How do conspiracy theories impact the families of victims?
33:13–47:15