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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Bryan Kohberger's PARENTS TESTIFY IN DEATH OF PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Kohberger's parents have been subpoenaed by a Pennsylvania grand jury to testify in connection with the May 2022 disappearance of a woman missing nearly a year.

Dana Smithers was last seen leaving a friend's house in Monroe County late in the evening.  Almost a year later, her remains were recovered in Stroudsburg, about a 30-minute drive from the Kohberger family home in Albrightsville. 

Michael Kohberger is expected to testify in court today. Maryann Kohberger has already testified. 

Joining Nancy Grace today:

  • Tara Malek - Bosie, ID Attorney and Co-owner of Smith + Malek; Former State and Federal Prosecutor.; Twitter: @smith_malek
  •  Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA.; Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women; Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University, and Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital; Voted My Buckhead’s Best Psychiatric Practice of 2023
  • Sheryl McCollum - Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder and Host: Zone 7; Twitter: @ColdCaseTips
  • Chris McDonough - Director At the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective (worked over 300 homicides in a 25-year career) & Host of YouTube channel: The Interview Room                    
  • Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet;" Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;" Twitter: @JoScottForensic  
  • Dave Mack – CrimeOnline Investigative Reporter

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.

0:04.1

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

0:09.1

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

0:13.6

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

0:18.0

We are going to solve these cases own air together.

0:22.4

Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your

0:28.4

favorite podcast.

0:35.6

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:42.8

Breaking news in the prosecution of Brian Coburger charged in the four murders of four beautiful

0:51.7

university Idaho students. In the last hours we learned Coburger's mother has already

0:59.1

testified in front of a Pennsylvania grand jury and his father is set to testify over their

1:08.7

strenuous objections. What does it have to do with? Well, the murder of a woman with three

1:18.0

children, the youngest being age seven, Dana Smithers, who goes missing from the same county

1:27.5

where Coburger lived with his family. They're in the Polkinoes. Just before he leaves for Washington

1:37.5

State University. Why are Coburger's parents being forced to testify in a green jury murder

1:47.5

investigation in Pennsylvania? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us

1:54.5

here at Fox Nation and Series XM 111. First of all, I want to go out to the founder and director

2:02.0

of the Col case research institute, the star of a new podcast Zone 7 Cheryl McCullum. Cheryl,

2:10.0

of course, a green jury has two arms, investigative and charging. The charging arm is when they end

2:17.3

to die you and hand down a true bill or a no bill. They don't charge you. The investigative part

2:23.9

is when they take a matter under consideration, they subpoena documents, objects, people,

2:31.2

all sorts of evidence. And then they decide if there should be a charge. We don't know whether this

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