Speaker 1: Do you remember where you were when you found out
Speaker 1: about the arrest.
Speaker 2: I remember hearing from somebody who's pretty reliable that something
Speaker 2: was coming soon, and I said, well, what's soon? And
Speaker 2: the person said, I think something's coming in about three weeks.
Speaker 2: And then two days later they announced they're having a
Speaker 2: press conference.
Speaker 1: Is that standard, by the way to do that.
Speaker 2: This was a case that garnered international attention, so I
Speaker 2: think that they knew that they had to let the
Speaker 2: public know as quickly as they could. Get arrested in me,
Speaker 2: so we get news that there's going to be a
Speaker 2: press conference, and we thought, they're not having a press
Speaker 2: conference unless they've got something major to talk about. So
Speaker 2: we just started scouring around and I started texting people
Speaker 2: who I thought would know, and I got a picture
Speaker 2: back of a guy named Brian Coburger at Washington State University,
Speaker 2: and I thought to myself, who's this. This is a
Speaker 2: PhD student in criminology. This is the guy, So it
Speaker 2: was pretty stunning.
Speaker 3: This is the Idaho Massacre a production of KT Studios
Speaker 3: and iHeartRadio, Episode two, The Face of Fear. I'm Courtney Armstrong,
Speaker 3: a television producer at KAT Studios with Stephanie Lydecker, Jeff Shane,
Speaker 3: and Connor Powell.
Speaker 1: This morning authorities putting a face to the fear.
Speaker 3: On Thursday, January fifth, twenty twenty three, University of Idaho
Speaker 3: murder suspect Brian Coberger made his first appearance in Idaho
Speaker 3: since his arrest the day before. The twenty eight year
Speaker 3: old criminology PhD student was extradited from his hometown in Albertsville, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4: How Too, alleged that you committed the felony offs of
Speaker 4: murder in the first degree calprie a murder in the
Speaker 4: first degree, cow four a murder in the first degree,
Speaker 4: Colpi a murderer in the first degree.
Speaker 3: After the four charges of first degree murder were read, Coburger,
Speaker 3: wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and a vacant stare, spoke
Speaker 3: only to confirm he understood the charges.
Speaker 4: The maximum penalty for this offense, if you plead guilty
Speaker 4: or found guilty, is up to death and imprisonment for life.
Speaker 5: Do you understand?
Speaker 3: Coberger's defense attorney, Anne Taylor, requested bail for her client.
Speaker 3: Leida County Magistrate Megan Marshall rejected the request. Coburger was
Speaker 3: led away to his prison cell. But who is Brian Coberger?
Speaker 3: How did a little known, mild mannered graduate student become
Speaker 3: the only criminal suspect in a quadruple homicide? And if
Speaker 3: he is the murderer, why would someone who profess to
Speaker 3: want a career catching criminals become one. When police storm
Speaker 3: Brian Coberger's family home in the early hours of December thirtieth,
Speaker 3: the sleepy community of Indian Mountain Lake Estates in Albertsville, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 3: became the epicenter of the investigation into the murders of
Speaker 3: Kaihlei Gonsalvus, Madison Mogan, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan chapin An.
Speaker 6: Indian Mountain Lake is billed as a Pocoo resort community,
Speaker 6: and that's also a private gated community. And not all
Speaker 6: private communities in the Poconos are gated, but all gated
Speaker 6: communities are private, if that makes sense.
Speaker 3: That's Rod Divine speaking to producer Jeff Shane. Rod Divine
Speaker 3: is a nationally known licensed private detective. His firm is
Speaker 3: Divine Intervention Detective Services and has offices in Allentown, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 3: which is about forty minutes from Brian Coberger's parents'.
Speaker 7: Home build themselves as a Polkado resort.
Speaker 6: But it's not you know, we're not talking about a
Speaker 6: strongly wooded area there. If you probably would go into
Speaker 6: in the Amount Lake, you would find medium to upper
Speaker 6: middle class people in neighborhoods that have homes not unlike
Speaker 6: any other neighborhood.
Speaker 8: It sounds like what you're saying is it's just pretty normal,
Speaker 8: like it's a standard neighborhood.
Speaker 6: It's a standard neighborhood, absolutely, And if you go another
Speaker 6: forty minutes to an hour, you're going to get to
Speaker 6: those places where you probably have envisioned in your mind
Speaker 6: that are cabins that are in the woods and your
Speaker 6: next neighbor over or between you and a bunch.
Speaker 7: Of trees and things like that.
Speaker 6: That's very real, you know, And that's not too far
Speaker 6: from where this in the Amount Lake is, and you
Speaker 6: use your terminology, and it's very normal. It's a single dwelling,
Speaker 6: it's you know, it's a regular neighborhood.
Speaker 7: And it's not deep in a rural wooded area.
Speaker 8: Is there anything about it that stands out or that
Speaker 8: would make it that you would walk past it and
Speaker 8: be like, you know what I mean, Like it just
Speaker 8: in the Based on the picture, it just looks like
Speaker 8: every other house in the neighborhood.
Speaker 7: It is it is.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't look twice about it if you're walking in
Speaker 6: that community, because it's one of many the same.
Speaker 7: There's nothing that stands out about it.
Speaker 3: According to public documents, the Coburgers moved to Pennsylvania from
Speaker 3: New York.
Speaker 6: I grew up in New Jersey myself, and I was
Speaker 6: born in Brooklyn, So it's not unusual to see people
Speaker 6: from New York and New Jersey gravitate you to the
Speaker 6: Pocono area. I've got a home currently in the Poconos,
Speaker 6: and a lot of my neighbors are New York City cops,
Speaker 6: ex New York City cops.
Speaker 7: You know, there's a lot of firemen.
Speaker 6: And things like that. So that's a that's very normal,
Speaker 6: And I guess if we're looking for normal normalcy, these
Speaker 6: guys meet that.
Speaker 7: If you look at.
Speaker 6: Pay on paper, I mean, they've got mom and dad,
Speaker 6: got three kids. Mom and dad are from New York,
Speaker 6: got a house up in the Poconos. You know, it
Speaker 6: seems like they've lived up there for close to thirty years.
Speaker 6: If you know, on paper, these guys are very quote
Speaker 6: unquote normal from what I've seen of this guy, and
Speaker 6: he doesn't seem a little off, and so you start
Speaker 6: hearing about the backstory, you know, and that is where
Speaker 6: sometimes you have to stand back and look at things
Speaker 6: a little bit closer, because it's a lot easier to
Speaker 6: look at someone after you've got a story and say, yeah,
Speaker 6: he seems a little bit off.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: There's no one that wears that hat that says, you know,
Speaker 6: I'm I'm gonna mug you, or I'm gonna rape you,
Speaker 6: or I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 7: You just don't know.
Speaker 3: If Brian Coberger is the killer behind the gruesome Idaho murders.
Speaker 3: He is anything but normal, but what in his background
Speaker 3: could explain his actions? Here's Jeff and Stephanie.
Speaker 8: Twenty eight year old Brian Coburger is a criminology student
Speaker 8: getting his PhD at Washington State University, which is about
Speaker 8: fifteen to twenty minutes from Moscow in Idaho. We also
Speaker 8: know that Brian Coberger drives a white Hyundai Elantra, which
Speaker 8: is potentially a key piece.
Speaker 9: Of evidence if in fact, what Brian Coburger is accused
Speaker 9: of turns out to be true. He is the scariest
Speaker 9: person alive, but it's almost as though he would be
Speaker 9: the real life Dexter. Dexter is this fictitious character from
Speaker 9: a scripted series where this very smart and fairly functional
Speaker 9: guy turns out to actually be the serial killer. It's
Speaker 9: also like that scripted series on Netflix called You, where
Speaker 9: the killer is just this ordinary guy, some unexpected murderer
Speaker 9: who works at a bookshop. But I guess does not
Speaker 9: pretend and he is not a character. He's not wearing
Speaker 9: a Halloween mask and some black cloak over himself like
Speaker 9: you would see in a scary movie. This is just
Speaker 9: an unassuming PhD student who lives allegedly a few miles
Speaker 9: away from the victims.
Speaker 8: For years, the Coburger has lived in Effort, Pennsylvania, a
Speaker 8: small town near where Brian was arrested. Both his parents,
Speaker 8: Michael and Marianne, worked for the Pleasant Valley School District,
Speaker 8: the same one where Brian would attend high school. This
Speaker 8: is the same school district where Coburger and his two
Speaker 8: sisters attended school.
Speaker 9: According to the people we spoke to, the Coburgers lived
Speaker 9: a very air quotes normal middle class life and from
Speaker 9: a young age. Friends say that Brian was a bit shy,
Speaker 9: that he was very awkward, but that he desperately wanted
Speaker 9: to be an army ranger or a police officer.
Speaker 2: He was pretty normal.
Speaker 10: He was definitely heavier set, and that caused issues in school.
Speaker 3: As a young kid, Coburger was overweight and was often bullied.
Speaker 3: Then he lost one hundred pounds his senior year in
Speaker 3: high school. But it wasn't only his appearance that changed.
Speaker 3: His demeanor did as well. The dramatic change, according to
Speaker 3: people who knew Brian Coburger, stems from his time in
Speaker 3: the law enforcement vocational program in high school.
Speaker 11: It's interesting because when he was being enrolled in our program,
Speaker 11: we were told that this was all he wanted, protective services.
Speaker 11: You know, that this was something that he had been
Speaker 11: dreaming of for a long time, that he had been
Speaker 11: working toward for a long time. And so to find
Speaker 11: out that kind of want to awry to the degree
Speaker 11: that it did was very surprising, to be honest. So however,
Speaker 11: with that said, after he had been enrolled, you know,
Speaker 11: there were some circumstances that led us to believe that
Speaker 11: maybe there were going to be some difficulties in Brian's
Speaker 11: life that weren't going to be weren't going to contribute
Speaker 11: to him having an easy time of it, you know,
Speaker 11: like just it wasn't going to be just ending up
Speaker 11: in the UH police academy kind of thing for him.
Speaker 11: It was it was going to be a little bit
Speaker 11: more of a challenge for him to get.
Speaker 3: There is a former school administrator who oversaw student discipline
Speaker 3: and mental health at Brian Coberger's high school. She remembers
Speaker 3: him well because of the passion Coburger had for becoming
Speaker 3: a police But the.
Speaker 11: Reason that I remember his application was because of the
Speaker 11: way the guidance counselor just really played it up how
Speaker 11: it was, you know, all he wanted.
Speaker 3: However, she says, Coburger struggled in the law enforcement program.
Speaker 11: He was a leader in his class, he absolutely was.
Speaker 11: He took the class extremely seriously, and so in that regard,
Speaker 11: it was evident that that was really something he was
Speaker 11: very he was very interested in doing as a career. However,
Speaker 11: you know, he was a leader in the class. Now
Speaker 11: that sometimes leaders don't always get the respect that they should.
Speaker 3: At some point in Colberger's junior year there was an
Speaker 3: incident with other students, so she can't elaborate about the
Speaker 3: specific incident because of legal reasons. Here's speaking with Jeff Shane.
Speaker 11: Protective Services and health Occupations were the only two programs
Speaker 11: in our school where clearances were required to be as
Speaker 11: a student to be in those programs, so you were
Speaker 11: judged a little bit more carefully in those programs. Therefore,
Speaker 11: if you have an infraction that could potentially, as an
Speaker 11: adult in the field, be a big employment issue for you,
Speaker 11: then we would very seriously look at removing you from
Speaker 11: the program. So a situation occurred where a complaint was
Speaker 11: made and the teacher reported it to me and said,
Speaker 11: this is something we can have. An investigation needed to
Speaker 11: be conducted. Other students were interviewed, Brian was interviewed, and
Speaker 11: you know, there comes a time when decisions have to
Speaker 11: be made, whether it's the decision the student wants or not, it.
Speaker 8: Must be such a tough position. It's horrible because it's
Speaker 8: you know, it's someone's dream.
Speaker 11: It's horrible. Yeah, yeah, it is. And especially because by
Speaker 11: virtue of what I do with special education and guidance,
Speaker 11: Like I said, I'm all about second chances, and I
Speaker 11: recognize that these are still kids. But because of these
Speaker 11: two programs. We don't have a whole lot of latitude
Speaker 11: there and ability for forgiveness. However, with this said, and
Speaker 11: as you may know, it doesn't mean that you can't
Speaker 11: transition into another program that doesn't have the requirement of clearances.
Speaker 11: He was removed from protective Services and transitioned into HVAC
Speaker 11: and then at the end of that eleventh grade years
Speaker 11: when he decided not to return as a senior, do.
Speaker 8: You remember what he was feeling like when that transition happened.
Speaker 11: I believe he was going through other stuff that was
Speaker 11: not a part of what was happening at our school.
Speaker 11: So my feeling was that he was defeated, you know,
Speaker 11: because it's the only thing you ever wanted in life,
Speaker 11: and you had it, and now that's falling through. But
Speaker 11: then something else that's going on in your life that's
Speaker 11: not even relevant to that is also causing angst, and
Speaker 11: so it's just I think it was just a lot
Speaker 11: of defeat.
Speaker 8: You wouldn't describe it as angry or upset. It was
Speaker 8: more just like he was sad.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yep, I don't think that maybe he necessarily grasped
Speaker 11: the depth and breadth of the issue at hand, So
Speaker 11: I think there was frustration as to not really understanding.
Speaker 11: I don't understand what the problem is. This is not
Speaker 11: a big deal or you know, this didn't happen. It
Speaker 11: wasn't like a like an anger, like an explosive anger
Speaker 11: or anything at all like that. It was just like
Speaker 11: seriously kind of thing, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 8: Did this happen a lot where students had to be
Speaker 8: pulled or sweached or any and.
Speaker 11: Last it happened, But it didn't happen a lot, particularly
Speaker 11: in programs like protective services and health occupations because those
Speaker 11: kids really had to fight to get into those programs
Speaker 11: so to speak, because there's such a long waiting list,
Speaker 11: and if you're chosen, you know, not to screw it up,
Speaker 11: because if you screw it up, you don't get a
Speaker 11: second chance kind of thing. You know, if you if
Speaker 11: you're removed in your in your sophomore year or whatever,
Speaker 11: you don't get to come back again in your junior
Speaker 11: year or.
Speaker 7: Your senior year. That's it.
Speaker 3: You're done.
Speaker 1: I see. So is that is that the type of
Speaker 1: infraction that kids would get pulled for, like behavior or
Speaker 1: cheating or drugs or like drinking or is that like
Speaker 1: what are the types of infractions that would cause.
Speaker 11: To be removed from a program. Yeah, to be removed
Speaker 11: from a program, it has to be pretty severe. Again,
Speaker 11: the bar is pretty high when it comes to predicted
Speaker 11: services in health. You know that the level of expectation
Speaker 11: for behavior is held to a much higher standard there.
Speaker 11: But in the other programs, if it's if it's a
Speaker 11: drug offense, then you're just you know, you're just out
Speaker 11: if it's something that's really egregious. Otherwise we let law
Speaker 11: enforcement handle it. You get suspended, you do your time
Speaker 11: when you come back. But that kind of I think
Speaker 11: it's not an option in a program like productive services
Speaker 11: because again, in the field, you wouldn't be able to
Speaker 11: do that and still get your job back.
Speaker 8: Knowing what allegedly we know now about what he did
Speaker 8: versus like what he wanted to become.
Speaker 1: How do you wrap your head around that.
Speaker 11: It's interesting because ultimately, and I have to be careful
Speaker 11: what I say, but like, ultimately, what had him removed
Speaker 11: from the program when I look back on it now
Speaker 11: makes sense And I don't know, and that probably isn't
Speaker 11: clear for you at all, But the fact that he
Speaker 11: wanted law enforcement more than anything else in the world.
Speaker 11: If you look at it from just that perspective alone,
Speaker 11: not knowing what I know, then yeah, you'd be like,
Speaker 11: I can't. I'm so shocked, and in that respect, I am.
Speaker 11: But then I know another little piece, which is the
Speaker 11: piece that occurred at the school, and so then I'm like, oh,
Speaker 11: and see that makes sense. When I heard about the murders,
Speaker 11: it was actually the school guidance counselor that said did
Speaker 11: you hear? And I'm like what? But she said to me,
Speaker 11: did you hear about Brian? And I'm like, I don't
Speaker 11: know what you're talking about. She said, turn on the news.
Speaker 7: And then I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 11: But with that said, I was shocked, but it made sense.
Speaker 3: Let's stop here for a break. We'll be back in
Speaker 3: a moment. Friends say it was around the time of
Speaker 3: his dismissal from the law enforcement vocation program that Coberger
Speaker 3: lost weight and his personality changed. I am just an
Speaker 3: absolute shocker.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 3: Casey Arntce was two years ahead of Coburger in high school.
Speaker 3: She and her brother Thomas were friends with him, but in.
Speaker 7: High school, dramatic changes washed over Coburger.
Speaker 1: According to several friends.
Speaker 3: She says Coburger went from being overweight to rail Finn
Speaker 3: and both Casey and Thomas say they remember Coburger as
Speaker 3: a bully.
Speaker 2: Brian Coberger's childhood friend, Thomas, speaking to ABC News describing
Speaker 2: the Idaho murder suspect as mean in high school, saying
Speaker 2: Brian was eager to be seen as dominant.
Speaker 3: He would just like put me in.
Speaker 12: He would like grapple me and like put me in
Speaker 12: headlocks and arm bars and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Coburger also took up boxing and increasingly styled himself as
Speaker 3: a dominant alpha male. Another friend, rich Pasquad, knew the
Speaker 3: Coburger family and worked with Hoburger at a pizza shop.
Speaker 13: I met him through some friends and they told me
Speaker 13: that he was a little weird and he was a
Speaker 13: little socially awkward, I guess you could say, but he
Speaker 13: wasn't a bad guy.
Speaker 3: However, Pascual also offered an explanation for the sudden weight
Speaker 3: loss and dramatic personality change.
Speaker 13: He did use drugs. That's how I really know him too.
Speaker 13: He was a big heroin addict, and so was I.
Speaker 13: I got six years clean. Now I work in treatment
Speaker 13: and everything, but back then I was using and so
Speaker 13: that's how I know for a fact he was using
Speaker 13: I've Got High with him a couple times.
Speaker 3: After being kicked out of the Law Enforcement Vocation program
Speaker 3: and opting not to return to the HVAC program after
Speaker 3: his junior year, Coburger would graduate high school in twenty thirteen,
Speaker 3: finishing remotely online. At some point he went to rehab
Speaker 3: and got clean. Coburger began taking college classes in psychology
Speaker 3: and criminal justice at to Sales University in Pennsylvania. He
Speaker 3: graduated from to Sales with both an undergraduate and a
Speaker 3: master's degree. Michelle Bulger, a professor at to Sales, described
Speaker 3: Coburger as a great writer and a brilliant student. She
Speaker 3: would later recommend him for a PhD program. Others say
Speaker 3: he was intelligent and nearly obsessive about criminology, but Coberger
Speaker 3: was also described as creepy by others in the community.
Speaker 2: Two years ago, a man he believes was Coburger used
Speaker 2: to act so creepy to female customers he had to
Speaker 2: tell him to stop that.
Speaker 3: Coburger was asking.
Speaker 6: People like where they lived and who they lived with
Speaker 6: if they were there alone, just like very very red
Speaker 6: flag questions.
Speaker 3: Here again, Stephanie and Jeff, I.
Speaker 9: Think That's one of the scarier parts about this case
Speaker 9: is the notion of someone being creepy. That's such a
Speaker 9: wide term. It's the person sitting next to you on
Speaker 9: an airplane or the person who moves into the apartment
Speaker 9: across the hall. We have to listen to our gut.
Speaker 8: Yeah, stuff, I think hindsight is twenty twenty in a
Speaker 8: case like this. You know, all the behavior that Brian
Speaker 8: exhibited at the time might have not meant anything, But
Speaker 8: now that we know what he's being accused of doing,
Speaker 8: we can kind of recontextualize it in our heads and
Speaker 8: it kind of fits together like a puzzle to potentially
Speaker 8: something much more nefarious. But does all of that a
Speaker 8: killer make We're not judging jury. It's not up for
Speaker 8: us to decide. What we're trying to do is just
Speaker 8: break down the facts and let you, the listeners, come
Speaker 8: to your own conclusions.
Speaker 9: What if he is innocent, I mean, he had this
Speaker 9: point says that he is he is innocent, and he
Speaker 9: claims that he had nothing to do with this. And
Speaker 9: if that's the case, then this person is really being
Speaker 9: tried in the press, and.
Speaker 3: Is that justice?
Speaker 9: Is that okay? But how does this ordinary guy from
Speaker 9: the Poconos in New York. Make a leap from being
Speaker 9: a student to a mass murderer. That is a huge jump.
Speaker 9: And again he wrapped up his school session, hopped in
Speaker 9: his white Lantra with his dad and road tripped across
Speaker 9: the country.
Speaker 3: Is that possible? Here's reporter an jette Levy of the
Speaker 3: Law and Crime Network.
Speaker 2: I think given the circumstances of this case, you have
Speaker 2: to kind of look at it and look at whether
Speaker 2: or not he was studying these things. If he's indeed
Speaker 2: the guy, if he's indeed factually guilty, and he is
Speaker 2: the person who committed these crimes. I'm not talking about
Speaker 2: the legal standard. I think you have to kind of
Speaker 2: look at it and say, what was going on with them?
Speaker 2: Why was he studying this? Was this part of some
Speaker 2: type of motivation? What was his endgame here? I think
Speaker 2: that we also have to just look at it through
Speaker 2: another lens, too, like who is this guy? He is
Speaker 2: somebody who reportedly had addiction problems in high school. He
Speaker 2: had used heroin from everything we've learned through our reporting.
Speaker 2: He's also somebody who apparently had a hard time getting
Speaker 2: dates and you know, really having close relationships with people.
Speaker 2: It sounds like he clashed with some of the people
Speaker 2: he was friends with when he was in high school.
Speaker 2: So I think there are a number of ways we
Speaker 2: have to look at this. If he's ultimately convicted, it could,
Speaker 2: you know, a lot of his background could become more relevant.
Speaker 2: Let's say that this is something he was planning for
Speaker 2: a couple of years. If he's indeed the guy and
Speaker 2: he was planning this, maybe there's something there. Maybe this
Speaker 2: is why he was doing it, you know, maybe this
Speaker 2: is why he was studying criminology and looking at these behaviors.
Speaker 2: But everything we learned was too that he said he
Speaker 2: wanted to do something like, you know, help rural police
Speaker 2: departments and stuff like that. So I don't know how
Speaker 2: studying serial killers or you know, how that would factor
Speaker 2: into I want to be a mass killer. I don't
Speaker 2: know how that would factor into that. Maybe he truly
Speaker 2: did want to do work to help small rural police departments,
Speaker 2: but I think we'll have to wait and see if
Speaker 2: any of this becomes relevant.
Speaker 3: Let's stop here for another break. If Brian Colberger was
Speaker 3: once a shy and awkward kid by the time he
Speaker 3: arrived in Pullman, Washington for his PhD studies. He was
Speaker 3: a totally different man. Benjamin Roberts took several classes with
Speaker 3: Coburger at WSU.
Speaker 5: He seemed very comfortable around all. He was fairly quick
Speaker 5: to offer his opinion and thoughts, and he was always
Speaker 5: participating fairy eagerly in classroom discussions.
Speaker 3: But Roberts also said Coburger had an aura of academic
Speaker 3: arrogance about him. He would describe things in the most
Speaker 3: complicated way. Roberts also said Colberger liked to brag about
Speaker 3: his dating life.
Speaker 5: At one point, he just idly mentioned, you know, I
Speaker 5: can go down to a bowl or a club and
Speaker 5: just have pretty much any lady I want.
Speaker 3: Other classmates said Coburger made inappropriate comments about the LGBTQ
Speaker 3: community and was often condescending towards women. One female doctoral
Speaker 3: student accused Coburger of man's planning during a particularly heated argument.
Speaker 3: As part of his pH d program, Coburger was a
Speaker 3: teaching assistant in Washington State University's Department of Criminal Justice
Speaker 3: and Criminology.
Speaker 10: When he came into class, he was very super mentally present.
Speaker 10: He would stand up the front look at the ground.
Speaker 3: Hayden Stinchfield said Coberger was disliked by undergraduates because of
Speaker 3: his difficult grading, but that changed in November of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two.
Speaker 10: About a month before winter break, when the murders happened.
Speaker 10: He started grading everybody just one hundreds, like you pretty
Speaker 10: much have you turned something in? You were getting high marked,
Speaker 10: and he stopped leaving notes. It was just, you know,
Speaker 10: he seemed preoccupied, is what I would have said at
Speaker 10: the time, And now obviously he seems like he was
Speaker 10: probably pretty preoccupied.
Speaker 3: In early December, a few weeks before his arrest, Coburger
Speaker 3: was fired from his teaching assistant position after repeated conduct
Speaker 3: of unprofessional behavior. That behavior included fighting with the university
Speaker 3: professor and allegations he followed one female student to her car.
Speaker 3: More on that next time. For more information on the
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