3.21.25 CRU with Nancy Grace: Kohberger's Selfie? What One Photo Could Prove in Court

Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum

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4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Today, Nancy and Sheryl discuss the Kohberger case.

Nancy, never short on passion, dives into the Idaho case against Bryan Kohberger, unpacking the disturbing implications of his now-infamous bathroom selfie.

The duo break down the legal strategies around key evidence such as the shower curtain, text messages, and the 911 call, and explains how something as minor as courtroom attire could affect a trial’s outcome.

Show Notes:

(0:00) Welcome! Nancy and Sheryl introduce this week’s crime roundup
(0:35) Crime camp experience
(3:00) Gatorland
(6:30) Kohberger's selfie - red flags and legal implications
(11:00) Eyewitness details
(13:00) Frantic texts and the timeline of fear
(15:00) Nancy explains legal nuances - hearsay, sequestration, and the jury
(22:00) “ I wrote nearly every one of my own appeals, because I didn't trust anybody else to care as much as I cared about holding that conviction.”
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Nancy Grace is an outspoken, tireless advocate for victims’ rights and one of television's most respected legal analysts. Nancy Grace had a perfect conviction record during her decade as a prosecutor. She is the founder and publisher of CrimeOnline.com, a crime- fighting digital platform that investigates breaking crime news, spreads awareness of missing people and shines a light on cold cases.

In addition, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a daily show hosted by Grace, airs on SIRIUS XM’s Triumph Channel 111 and is downloadable as a podcast on all audio platforms - https://www.crimeonline.com/

Connect with Nancy:

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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Crime Roundup.
0:11.2	I'm Cheryl McCollum, and I am joined with the just incomparable Nancy Grace.
0:17.4	How are you, darling?
0:18.5	Well, it will get you everywhere, Cheryl McCollum, as you well know. Well, I'll get you everywhere if you're McCormack, as you well know.
0:22.6	Well, I'm angry and I want justice. What else is need?
0:25.6	Well, let me tell you something. Let me just start by saying, I'm a bulldog through and through,
0:31.6	so it's hard for me to brag on the University of Florida for any reason, but I must.
0:38.0	Oh, Lord, here it comes.
0:39.5	Over the weekend, I was at the crime camp that CrimeCon through.
0:44.7	You just have all the fun.
0:46.6	I'm in a studio without slogging through crime scenes and you're at Hunt Camp.
0:51.3	They have got this place out there.
0:53.0	It's called the Austin Carey Forest Campus.
0:56.9	Can you imagine an outdoor classroom with a pond and all these acres and acres of the most
1:05.0	gorgeous forest you've ever seen?
1:07.4	And that's where I got to teach clandestine grave location.
1:12.5	Oh, that's a goody.
1:14.8	Man, I would love to make part of that, a clandestine grave location.
1:18.9	David, did you hear that?
1:20.2	A clandestine grave location class.
1:23.5	Oh, no, does that mean you're going to be able to find David when I bury him?
1:26.5	I mean, excuse me, when he falls in the woods and it's on top of him.
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