Hey True Crime Besties, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialist Lee. Oh, Hey everybody welcome

welcome back to an all new bonus episode of serialistly with me Annie your true crime bestie. This is an episode that I never

thought I would make to be quite honest but we have to talk about the latest

filings in the state of Idaho versus Brian Coburger. I want to start off with the most

recent development in this case. Brian Coburger is now facing the death penalty, which I do think

a lot of us saw coming, but now's official which is ironic because it seems like now a lot of people are actually thinking that he could be innocent and

it's apparent in the court filings that Brian thinks he was framed.

So now let's switch gears just a little bit before we get into all of that.

When the probable cause affidavit came out regarding Brian Coburger's involvement in the brutal murders

of Kaylee, Maddie, Ethan, and Zanna back in January of this year when that was released.

A lot of facts stated within that document were circumstantial, but when you look at all of those facts together, it painted a pretty damning picture, especially with the DNA on the knife sheath.

That piece of the information in the affidavit

was very concrete, black and white, at least for most people.

However, I don't think I'm alone in having expectations that many of the circumstantial facts presented

would later be corroborated by DNA evidence, digital evidence, forensics, I mean you name it.

Once law enforcement got deeper into their investigation I like many

assumed there would be a lot of evidence that would go back to those

circumstantial facts and tie Brian to this because of course everybody seemed so sure that this was their guy and I just want to make clear

many people still do but some don't and so far there still is so much more that we don't know and

honestly we won't know until this case goes to trial. That's just how it is.

When the search warrants came back for his apartment and his office I I'm not going to lie. Initially I kind of was surprised and thought to myself, you know, like that's it. There's no weapon. There's no knife. No trophies that we know of that he kept. No entire wall full of pictures of the

victims and news articles cut out and taped up about the murders like he's

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