This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. It's strange when a suspect's college homework becomes part of the evidence file. And in the case of Brian Coburger, accused of murdering four University of Idaho students, prosecutors,

have now submitted a 12-page essay that he wrote in 2020 as part of his criminal justice coursework.

It's called Crime Scene Scenario Final.

And it's interesting.

Some are saying it reads like a how-to guide for processing a crime scene and how to get away with it. Some might say

avoiding detection at a murder scene. It's detailed. It's clinical. It's somewhat aligned with what

actually happened in real life allegedly with him. And if you believe the state's version of

events. But where it gets even more layered, and wasn't just an academic assignment, maybe it's part of a broader pattern.

Maybe on the surface, yes, it looks like that, but maybe it was kind of a guide, kind of a study for him to see how to handle going into a situation like this, if in fact

it is him, joining us to kind of decipher some of this Chavon Scott, psychotherapist, and author.

When you see someone who's academically immersed in violent behavior, allegedly, writing about how not to leave a trace at a murder scene.

It's that fine line, especially this was done in 2020, to tell the difference between curious student and psychologically dangerous individual.

At 2020, when he wrote this, not today, now that we have all the other context, at 2020 when he wrote this,

is this the writings of a dangerous individual then?

You know, we can't read too much into that assignment because it's probably an assignment

that everyone in that class did and everyone that got a good grade pretty much wrote the same stuff.

You know, going over the paper, it was well done.

It was, as you say, clinical.

It was factual.

And that's exactly what the instructor would have expected,

because you want people who work in law enforcement to understand this stuff,

to understand how to preserve a crime scene.

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