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The After Show: Idaho Justice

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

4.08.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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ABC's Kayna Whitworth discusses reporting on the Idaho College murders and Bryan Kohberger’s shocking guilty plea.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi there, everybody, and welcome to 2020 The After Show. I'm Deborah Roberts, and today we are talking

0:11.8

about a case that so many people have been talking about for a few years, actually. It is that

0:17.0

horrific story out in Idaho. Four college students murdered in their off-campus home during the early morning hours.

0:25.9

We've been following the headlines over the course of the summer and really since this

0:29.8

story began, Brian Koberger, as many of you know, was sentenced to life in prison.

0:36.3

And we're going to talk more about that later, pleading guilty

0:38.4

to all charges in this case. It was a story that was featured on 2020's episode called Idaho

0:44.5

Justice, which you definitely want to watch if you haven't seen it already, and it's streaming

0:50.3

on Disney Plus and Hulu. ABC News correspondent, Kana Whitworth, has been following this story from really the very

0:58.6

beginning, as well as the podcast, King Road Killings.

1:03.0

She has been reporting and meeting people all connected to this story.

1:07.7

And, Kana, this is the first time you've come on the podcast with me, I think. Welcome. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be with you. Yeah, good to have you. Well,

1:15.7

this is a story, you know, I mean, wow. It probably stretched you in all kinds of ways as a correspondent

1:22.8

doing this because, you know, the tragedy and also just the glare of the story for so long,

1:29.6

a well-known shocking case, four young lives cut short. All these young people stabbed to death.

1:36.2

And you were covering the story. We know there's a resolution in the case now. We're going to get to

1:40.5

that. But give me a sense of these young students. And what was it like for you covering

1:45.3

this story? Yeah. I mean, you really start to learn a lot about these families, about these kids,

1:53.1

and frankly about yourself in the process when you cover a story this closely for this many years.

1:59.1

These students have become a part of my life too. I planted

2:03.4

yellow and white tulips in my garden in honor of Ethan Chapin. Whenever I see pink, I think of Madison

2:12.6

Mogan. If there's a big, you know, boastful laugh in the room, I think of Kaylee Gonzalez.

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