Hey, everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield. This is Drop Dead Serious. And if you thought that you knew

everything about Brian Koeberger and the Idaho student murders, think again. Because the

Dateline NBC episode that just aired, the one with Keith Morrison, it is not a

rehash, it is not a recap, it is a veritable avalanche of brand new jaw-dropping reporting.

And I am going to walk you through all of it. And just FYI, this is not a full recap of the Dateline special,

just the brand new details that stood out in the special,

starting with something from the summer of 2022.

NBC reports that right after Brian Coburger left Pennsylvania

and moved into his new apartment at Washington State University,

he was invited to a pool party by a neighbor. And that sounds normal enough. But according to a woman

named Holly, who was also at that party, things got pretty weird, pretty fast. According to Dateline, Holly says that Brian

Coburger seemed awkward at the party, that he didn't seem to know anybody, and she

could tell that he was trying to put himself out there, and Holly felt, you know, charitable,

obligated to talk to him.

And then Koberger put his cell phone number into her cell phone contact and texted himself from her phone.

She later texted back just her name, Holly.

At this same pool party, a witness says he saw Coburger fixated on two women in bikinis.

One of them was married and gave her husband one of those non-verbal signals like,

Rescue me. We all know them, right?

The same witness says that Coburger didn't seem to get the message or

ignored it outright, and that he brushed the husband off and sat down at the edge of the pool

even closer to the women. The day after the pool party, July 10th, NBC reports that Holly got a

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