I want to play this from Good Morning America because a book by James Patterson and a woman

named Vicki Ward is coming out, I think a couple of days before the sentencing.

How appropriate, right?

And they interviewed over 200, 300 people.

So let me play this here.

On the Idaho College murders case, it details what those closer to the victim believe

may have been the motive.

Cana Whitworth joined us with the story.

Good morning, Kana.

Yeah, Michael, good morning.

So ahead of next week's sentencing, James Patterson and Vicki Ward discussed their new book

about the murders.

It's based on hundreds of interviews surrounding this case.

And in this book, they reveal new details and attempt to lift the veil of secrecy that has shrouded this case for more than two years.

This morning, new revelations from those closest to Madison Mogan, Kaylee Gonzalez, Zana Kernodal, and Ethan Chapin about what they believe was the motive behind Brian Coburger's brutal murders of the four University of Idaho students.

For people who have followed this story, we wanted to give them closure.

Best-selling author James Patterson, an investigative reporter, Vicki Ward, teaming up for the new book, The Idaho Four, an American tragedy, conducting over 300 interviews with people with ties to the case, including family and friends who believe Maddie was the target.

There was consensus that it was Maddie that the Koeberga was going for and the victims' families, I think, would all agree with that.

You know, everything points to that.

Moscow police alleged the culprit's cell phone records show his phone appears to have been close to the King Road House on at least 12 occasions between August and the night of the murders in November, almost always late at night.

The book also describing what it calls a recurring nightmare of a close friend, Emily, a lot, after the murders saying she imagined that the now convicted murderer went to the restaurant where Maddie worked,

expressed in a romantic interest in her, and was rejected. He then retaliated. You wrote about

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