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Here's your host, Emmy Award-winning journalist Joel Waldman.

Massive breaking news in the world of true crime tonight.

Brian Colberger, the accused killer in the murder of the four University of Idaho students back in 2020, November 13th, to be precise, has taken a plea deal and says that he will now serve a life in prison without the possibility of parole in exchange for not potentially having his life taken from him.

It was a death penalty case.

Judge Hippler just gave a very slight continuance, a matter of days.

Jury selection was set to start August 4th with testimony beginning August 18th. Today, it is

June 30th. The last day of June, we've been going through these windy roads since November of

2022. We had an entire show set for you tonight on Brian Koberger about his friends of the victims speaking out about some

hearing today where acquaintances of Brian Koberger said, why do I have to go to Idaho to testify?

And now all of that seems no and void.

Welcome to Survive and Survivor. It is the show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime. And we're on it when breaking news happens. We're covering from 4 a.m. bed night after shooting of firefighters in Idaho. Let's get right into this right now.

Aaron is an attorney in Pocatello, Idaho, joining us. We got Sky Lazaro out of Utah, Tara Malick,

an Idaho-based attorney as well, Josh Ritter, former prosecutor of the year and host of

courtroom confidential.

Josh Ritter, let me start with you.

I'll work our way backwards.

When did you learn of this news?

It happened in just the last few minutes.

And I've got to say, in the news world, we give credit where credit is due.

The story broken by News Nation, Brian Enton, one of the premier true crime reporters in the country. He tweeted it out as well. So kudos to News Nation on this massive, massive scoop. But just about every

media entity, not just here in America, but worldwide was preparing to go out to Boise,

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