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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and welcome to the first little leader of 20-23.

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I have a very difficult time. I like my house to be a little on the cooler side, but it also gets too cold and then I want the heater on and then I'm hot. We're uncomfortable. Okay. That was the weather. Actually, there's crazy floods everywhere right now. I was watching over Christmas break as I keep calling it. I was watching the videos of the Seattle ice storms right now.

There's a lot of airy air going nuts. There's like flooding everywhere I guess. But also I will say California is very dramatic when it comes to any sort of severe weather whatsoever, which granted we're not really built for it. And there are things. I mean, I think I saw like a tree killed someone like a kid in Sonoma the other day, which is horrible.

I saw a video actually on the news of downtown Sacramento where a bunch of trees had fallen all over cars. So it is kind of wild out there. Everyone be vigilant right before I started recording today. I was watching they read Brian Cobrager, who's the suspect in the Idaho murders.

I wanted to hear what they had on him why he was linked to it why he was a suspect. And I guess his DNA was found on a knife sheath that was recovered at the property. And I guess they made the match. They went to his parents house. They got the DNA from something in the trash from his dad. And it was enough of a match for them to tie Brian to the murders, which is crazy.

And it was also all over the news that they were looking for a white Hyundai Alantra and that happens to be Brian's car. There's footage of the car driving past the house three different times before stopping at 404 AM. And then leaving around the 420 speeding off. And Brian's phone had also been turned off around that time.

So I mean, it's pretty evident that this guy did it. It's just horrible. I don't even like talking about it because in situations like this, which is partially I do think like true crime with a genre is to blame and the popularity because there's always going to be people that glorify these killers. And I think somebody like him, I think he wants to be looked at as the next Ted Bundy while we're on that topic in that same vein.

There's this lawsuit that's going down right now between a professor at the school and this woman named Ashley Gillard, who has a TikTok account called Ashley solves mysteries, who started posting about her theories and whatnot. And it just proves how dangerous it can be, especially when people have these platforms and are just making absolutely wild assumptions.

And in any case, especially unsolved ones, there's always going to be plausible theories. But I feel like sometimes people will just find the smallest piece of information and be like, well, I think it was this person. And like now this woman, this poor professor was getting doxed. And so she's suing the Tik Toker trying to see if I could pull up an article on it.

And from NBC, it says police rule out Idaho professor who sued Tik Toker over allegations in students slaying police investigating the fatal stabbing of four University of Idaho students are denying a professor's involvement in the unsolved case after a self-described internet sleuth and tarot card reader posted accusations on Tik Tok claiming a connection.

At this time in the connection, detectives do not believe the female associate professor and chair of the history department at the University of Idaho suing a Tik Tok user for defamation is involved in the crime.

The police statement in defense of the professor Rebecca Skoffield is only the latest attempt by investigators to tamp down baseless allegations and distractions that have sprung up in the absence of an arrest following the discovery of the slaying November 13.

In an attempt to clear her name, Skoffield filed a federal lawsuit last week against Ashley Gillard, the Texas woman who posted the accusations on Tik Tok that the professor planned the killings with another University of Idaho student.

Gillard's Tik Tok account headlined Ashley's lost mysteries has more than 110,000 followers and has dozens of videos of her thoughts on the case.

In response to the police comments that Skoffield has no links to the homicides, Gillard says she remains committed to speaking about what she believes happened.

The police statement makes it clear to me that I am needed to help solve this case, Gillard said in an email.

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