The Interview
The Idaho Massacre
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3.6 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Washington State University Police Chief Gary Jenkins recalls his unsettling first encounter with Kohberger during a police internship interview, offering rare insight into his demeanor before the crimes. Newly released documents reveal suspicious injuries, disturbing lies, and Kohberger’s bizarre interactions with investigators following his arrest.
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| 0:00.0 | On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. |
| 0:10.7 | Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. How does someone prove that they deserve to live? |
| 0:17.4 | We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name. |
| 0:23.0 | Krista Pike. Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:43.1 | Through that conversation, he asked her, what do you think the worst way to die is? |
| 0:51.2 | The autopsy revealed that she bought like a Hellcat to try to get this guy off of her. |
| 0:56.8 | He thinks he's smarter than these cops, and he's going to figure out what they know prior to this interrogation happening. |
| 0:59.9 | So they sent me down and they tell me that they have identified a lead suspect in the case |
| 1:05.2 | and that he is a graduate student at Washington State University. |
| 1:09.5 | When I made the connection, the hair on the back of my neck kind of stood up. |
| 1:19.2 | This is The Idaho Massacre, a production of KT Studios and IHeart Radio. |
| 1:26.2 | Season 3, episode 4, The Interview. |
| 1:32.1 | I'm Courtney Armstrong, a producer at KT Studios with Stephanie Leidegger and Gabriel Castillo. |
| 1:39.8 | After Brian Coburger was sentenced to four consecutive life terms for the brutal November |
| 1:45.0 | 2022 murders of Madison Mogan, Kaley Gonzalez, Xana Kronodal, and Ethan Chapin, |
| 1:52.0 | new information has continued to emerge about his strange and unsettling past. |
| 2:00.0 | From massive document dumps to witnesses stepping forward with stories to former acquaintances |
| 2:05.2 | describing their encounters with him, each new detail is helping to fill in the gaps and paint |
| 2:10.6 | a more clear, haunting picture of who this man really is. |
| 2:15.6 | Washington State University Police Chief Gary Jenkins crossed paths with |
| 2:19.7 | Brian Coburger before his name-made headlines. His first encounter with Brian Coburger, long |
| 2:27.6 | before the arrest, is as unexpected as it is chilling. Here's Gary Jenkins, filling us in on his career and his bizarre meeting |
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