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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Two time Pulitzer prize nominated author sees Kohberger's life as a tragedy

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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0:00.0

It has to be some common sense.

0:23.6

Yes, sir. They have the car stopped intended to crash, Michael By the fire.

0:27.6

We still don't know who pulled the trigger. Hello everyone and welcome to Police Off the Cuff Real Crime Stories.

0:55.4

I'm your host, Bill Cannon, retired NYPD sergeant, 27-year veteran.

1:00.3

We have a really interesting show for you tonight.

1:03.2

Now, the Idaho four case, of course, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogan, Kaylee Gonzalez,

1:14.8

and I'm missing the last, Zana Connoodle.

1:19.4

I always like to mention their names because we won't ever want to forget about them. But there's been so much different news coverage for this.

1:23.0

And recently, we came upon an interview with Megan Kelly with a gentleman named Howard Bloom,

1:31.9

who is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominated writer.

1:36.6

He is formally wrote for the New York Times.

1:39.2

And we watched the interview today and comparing it with a lot of journalistic coverage on this case.

1:45.9

And I was a bit disturbed by Mr. Bloom's coverage and his elitist attitude toward this case.

1:55.1

It was almost like he was speaking about this case with Brian Koberger being sort of the hero in this case, and it bothered

2:05.4

me. And as a police officer, as a retired police officer, as someone formerly in law enforcement

2:12.7

and on the side of law enforcement, I was amazed that this two-time nominated Pulitzer Prize writing

2:19.3

author is so ignorant about police procedure and many other things that he made ignorant statements about.

2:26.3

He may be a good writer, but he injects a lot of his own opinions, which aren't welcome in a town that just lost four students to a horrific

2:36.2

murder. And for some reason, when he takes the side of the murderer, and maybe that's his

2:43.2

writing technique, and acts as if this murderer is so smart and so wise, and the police were flailing around trying to find him,

2:54.4

took them, it took them all of six weeks or less than that, actually. It took them about,

3:01.8

yeah, about six weeks to capture him. That was too long for him. That was way too long. It should have been done in the first

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