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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Jennifer Gould. The chilling truth of the twenty twenty
two Idaho student murders grotesquely unfolds in newly unsealed court records,
detailing Brian Coberger's scratched face and the monstrous brutality he
inflicted on the victims. A teaching assistant noted fingernail like
(00:24):
scratches on Coberger's face after the slaughter, suggesting a desperate struggle.
The King's Road crime scene was a blood soaked nightmare,
according to documents, Walls smeared with blood, cast off, floors
pulled with gore, and bodies found so disfigured some were unrecognizable.
(00:45):
Kaylee Gunsalvas's father, Steve Gonsalvis, spoke to the media after
the sentencing.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It was horrific with what Kaylee went through.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah, she stabbed over thirty packlus times. She was strackers
and nail and others associated quite a bit of damn
share face, unicate freely.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
So this guy is just absolutely it is a little
bit like.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Vember thirteen, four Am Goldberger now thirty will find the
low ground in this case is to write about the
sharp guard about this case force lifting. The nonmmation order
does not require target he found and kayle council.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Or others who were previously bound by to speech, and
the state is indicated that they don't intend.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
To until after the sentence.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We've beaten suffering blood at this point, I just don't
think that that I can justify the continuation of themation
order last writes the public information leads and severe case
in vain is artery injuries Paramount Madison suffering determined that's
the gag gas and line to liver lacerations, meaning the
(01:58):
pace proceed directood the broad Caburger's DNA three sto multi
descending to the second Coberger the pounds twenty just after
her down July, she was guilty murders. We finded a
clear deal with defensive hills her hands, including seconds she
(02:22):
was from her coffering damions and multiple times family bedroom
enabled calling and death anty over the highly cris her
long and prosecutors a criminal justice student at the time,
Er twenty found that meticulously covered meditated that resulting in
the des jugular and.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Severed the AOD and Chapman.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Surviving roommates, Dylan dead and her.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Masked figure with your ride with the package after tearing
a spring to and investigators pointed to DNA evidence, I'm
going to cell phone data and surveilling intensified Coberger phone,
which house plast twenty three times most of the time
Walmart employee recalled him asking a scheme asked.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Colberger reportedly had knuckle wounds and claiming facial injuries from
a car accident. The case took an eleventh hour turn.
On July second, Coburger accepted a plea deal avoiding death
by firing squad after defense setbacks like deny DNA and
cell phone records, suppression, pleading guilty for life without parole,
(03:30):
and waiving all appeals. While some families accepted the plea, others,
like Kayley's father Steve, called it a quote deal with
the devil end quote. At his July twenty third sentencing,
Coburger stoneface declined to speak, uttering three menacing words quote,
I respectfully decline end quote. Further in raging families, Judge
(03:51):
Stephen Hitler called him a quote unquote coward, adding quote,
we won't ask why anymore. It gives him power end quote.
The murder and remains missing, no sexual motive found. With
the gag order lifted, more documents may emerge, hopefully revealing
the horrifying truth why that house was chosen and the
four lives inside so brutally slaughtered and extinguished. In the meantime,
(04:16):
as Coburger begins his life sentence, he is quote just
a number behind bars end quote, as Steve Gonsalves declared,
ensuring the victims Kaylee, Maddie, Sannah, and Ethan are the
only ones remembered. More Crime and Justice News after this.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I'm Sidney Sumner.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
The DOJ maybe releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, that really happen.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That's been a directive by President Trump.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I'm reviewing.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
After months of promises to release more of the files
associated with the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, government of Justice
and the FBI release a joint statement claiming there isn't
anything else to publish and a rumored client list does
not exist. The FBI says searches of their records revealed
more than three hundred gigabytes of data, but most of
(05:14):
that accounts for photos of Epstein, images and videos of
minor victims in over ten thousand videos and images of
child sex abuse material and other pornography. The DOJ insists
that any further releases would only harm Jeffrey Epstein's victims,
who number more than one thousand. This as reports surface
(05:34):
that President Trump was informed there were no more files
to release back in May, along with being briefed that
his name among several other high profile individuals were mentioned
in the documents. Attorney General Pam Bondi says the mentions
do not constitute any evidence of wrongdoing. However, Epstein's answers
regarding his relationship with Trump in a twenty ten deposition
(05:57):
are leading many to believe otherwise.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?
What do you mean by personal relationships? Have you socialized
with him? Yes, sir, Yes, yes, sir. Have you ever
socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under
the age of eighteen?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Though?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
I'd like to answer that question at least today, tell
me all you'd have to be served by fifth, sixth
and fourteen, then.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
The redser I'm Drew Nelson. A three year old boy
dies in Birmingham, Alabama after being left in a hot
car for five hours by a child welfare transport worker.
Caterius kJ Sparks was found dead Tuesday inside a parked
car on Pine Tree Drive. He'd been left behind by
a worker from Covenant Services, a company under contract with
(06:46):
Alabama's Department of Human Resources. The car was turned off,
the windows were up, Please said. kJ was picked up
around nine am for a supervised visit with his biological father,
Coretorius Sparks Senior that happened at the DHR offs in Bessemer.
The visit ended around eleven thirty that morning. The worker
was supposed to return kJ to daycare. Instead, she stopped
(07:07):
for food, went to a tobacconist's shop, then return home
and left kJ in the car. He was left there
from about twelve thirty pm to five thirty pm. By
the time the Foster family came to pick him up,
he was missing. Six forty pm, emergency responders were called
to the worker's home. kJ was found still fastened in
the car seat. He was pronounced dead there. Attorney Courtney French,
who now represents the family, said, quote a heartbreaking and
(07:30):
preventable tragedy based upon a preliminary investigation with the current
extreme outside temperatures and the heat index of one hundred
eight degrees. The interior temperature of the car where kJ
was trapped likely exceeded one hundred and fifty degrees. Both
kj's biological and foster families are in mourning. Cotorius Sparks
Senior spoke to WBrC about the last time he would
hold his son.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Word Tama springs affil right now, soon till I leave
my son. First thing he said, dead, I want to
go to when we leave and like and they really
hurt me, like he said, every time I see him
on the visa dead, I want to go to as Ad.
Don't worries, You'll be with me soon.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
The family has hired an attorney to investigate further. The
DHR released a short statement saying quote, a child in
DHR custody was being transported by a contract provider when
the incident occurred. The provider has terminated their employee. Due
to confidentiality, DHR cannot comment further regarding the identity of
the child or the exact circumstances. Police say the worker
(08:26):
has been cooperative and was questioned by Birmingham Police. The
investigation continues Ernest Miller is a cousin in kj's foster family.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
We went to the bad Parts. He had a blast,
he was in the swimming pool. We just had a
great time as a family. We just got back Friday.
We were all looking forward to him growing up and
being a part of his family and Jesus.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Calm kj's parents said in a statement through their attorney, quote,
this is a parent's worst nightmare. Our baby should be alive.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I'm Nicole Parton, a deputy share berr from Miami Dade County, Florida,
was taken into federal custody on Wednesday after being charged
with two counts of child exploitation. Carly Miranda Bloom, fifty one,
who served with the Miami Dade Sheriff's Office for more
than twenty years, faces serious allegations of receiving and producing
(09:19):
visual related sexual images of a minor. This according to
a press release from the US Attorney's Office in the
Southern District of Florida. Bloom is accused of exchanging explicit
videos with the seventeen year old girl with whom she
was having a physical relationship. The allegation state that Bloom
recorded herself engaging in sexual acts with the underage girl
(09:42):
and traveled across state lines to meet her. When their
relationship began to fall apart, Bloom allegedly made threats against
the girl's life. A criminal complaint obtained by an independent
news station WPLG, indicated that authorities received a tip on
July fourteen regarding Bloom's involvement with the miner. Situation escalated
(10:04):
when the girl was detained under the Baker Act while
attempting to board a flight to Miami the day after
her eighteenth birthday. Bloom went to the airport to collect
the girl's luggage. Witnesses reported that the girl's mental health
had significantly worsened during the year she was allegedly involved
with the officer. After accessing the teenager's cell phone, investigators
(10:27):
reportedly found multiple graphic videos of Bloom with the girl,
including instances where Bloom was accused of violently choking the girl.
Further examination of their communication led authorities to conclude that
the messages exchanged were of a romantic or sexual nature
that the two were involved in a relationship. Bloom allegedly
(10:49):
expressed a countdown to the girl's eighteenth birthday and referred
to her as her wife, promising to marry her once
she was of age. The complaint included explicit messages dating
back to February, featuring graphic photos and videos sent by
the girl to Bloom. Some of Bloom's text messages were
reportedly violent, with one staying I really need to rape you.
(11:11):
When the girl attempted to end the relationship, Bloom's responses
allegedly included threats of leave me and see what happens.
I will drive my favorite knife through your throat and
watch you slowly die. I swear on my grandparents. WPLG
reported that investigators learned Bloom intended to fly to Atlanta, Georgia,
(11:33):
to see the girl once she was discharged from being
baker acted. Bloom was arrested in Atlanta on Wednesday. In
a statement to local CBS affiliate wfor Miami Dade Sheriff
Rosy Stutz expressed her shock, saying this is very disturbing
and a betrayal of the badge, the public trust, and
the oath to which she was sworn to uphold. She
(11:56):
emphasized that the alleged actions contradict the principles upheld by
law enforcement officers and by humanity as a whole, The
officer has been discharged from her position and is currently
being held without bond for the latest crime. Injustice news,
follow crime alert hourly update on your favorite podcasting app
(12:17):
with this crime Alert. I'm Nicole Parton.
Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Jennifer Gould. The chilling truth of the twenty twenty
two Idaho student murders grotesquely unfolds in newly unsealed court records,
detailing Brian Coberger's scratched face and the monstrous brutality he
inflicted on the victims. A teaching assistant noted fingernail like
(00:24):
scratches on Coberger's face after the slaughter, suggesting a desperate struggle.
The King's Road crime scene was a blood soaked nightmare,
according to documents, Walls smeared with blood, cast off, floors
pulled with gore, and bodies found so disfigured some were unrecognizable.
(00:45):
Kaylee Gunsalvas's father, Steve Gonsalvis, spoke to the media after
the sentencing.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It was horrific with what Kaylee went through.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah, she stabbed over thirty packlus times. She was strackers
and nail and others associated quite a bit of damn
share face, unicate freely.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
So this guy is just absolutely it is a little
bit like.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Vember thirteen, four Am Goldberger now thirty will find the
low ground in this case is to write about the
sharp guard about this case force lifting. The nonmmation order
does not require target he found and kayle council.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Or others who were previously bound by to speech, and
the state is indicated that they don't intend.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
To until after the sentence.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We've beaten suffering blood at this point, I just don't
think that that I can justify the continuation of themation
order last writes the public information leads and severe case
in vain is artery injuries Paramount Madison suffering determined that's
the gag gas and line to liver lacerations, meaning the
(01:58):
pace proceed directood the broad Caburger's DNA three sto multi
descending to the second Coberger the pounds twenty just after
her down July, she was guilty murders. We finded a
clear deal with defensive hills her hands, including seconds she
(02:22):
was from her coffering damions and multiple times family bedroom
enabled calling and death anty over the highly cris her
long and prosecutors a criminal justice student at the time,
Er twenty found that meticulously covered meditated that resulting in
the des jugular and.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Severed the AOD and Chapman.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Surviving roommates, Dylan dead and her.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Masked figure with your ride with the package after tearing
a spring to and investigators pointed to DNA evidence, I'm
going to cell phone data and surveilling intensified Coberger phone,
which house plast twenty three times most of the time
Walmart employee recalled him asking a scheme asked.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Colberger reportedly had knuckle wounds and claiming facial injuries from
a car accident. The case took an eleventh hour turn.
On July second, Coburger accepted a plea deal avoiding death
by firing squad after defense setbacks like deny DNA and
cell phone records, suppression, pleading guilty for life without parole,
(03:30):
and waiving all appeals. While some families accepted the plea, others,
like Kayley's father Steve, called it a quote deal with
the devil end quote. At his July twenty third sentencing,
Coburger stoneface declined to speak, uttering three menacing words quote,
I respectfully decline end quote. Further in raging families, Judge
(03:51):
Stephen Hitler called him a quote unquote coward, adding quote,
we won't ask why anymore. It gives him power end quote.
The murder and remains missing, no sexual motive found. With
the gag order lifted, more documents may emerge, hopefully revealing
the horrifying truth why that house was chosen and the
four lives inside so brutally slaughtered and extinguished. In the meantime,
(04:16):
as Coburger begins his life sentence, he is quote just
a number behind bars end quote, as Steve Gonsalves declared,
ensuring the victims Kaylee, Maddie, Sannah, and Ethan are the
only ones remembered. More Crime and Justice News after this.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I'm Sidney Sumner.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
The DOJ maybe releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, that really happen.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
That's been a directive by President Trump.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I'm reviewing.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
After months of promises to release more of the files
associated with the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, government of Justice
and the FBI release a joint statement claiming there isn't
anything else to publish and a rumored client list does
not exist. The FBI says searches of their records revealed
more than three hundred gigabytes of data, but most of
(05:14):
that accounts for photos of Epstein, images and videos of
minor victims in over ten thousand videos and images of
child sex abuse material and other pornography. The DOJ insists
that any further releases would only harm Jeffrey Epstein's victims,
who number more than one thousand. This as reports surface
(05:34):
that President Trump was informed there were no more files
to release back in May, along with being briefed that
his name among several other high profile individuals were mentioned
in the documents. Attorney General Pam Bondi says the mentions
do not constitute any evidence of wrongdoing. However, Epstein's answers
regarding his relationship with Trump in a twenty ten deposition
(05:57):
are leading many to believe otherwise.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Have you ever had a personal relationship with Donald Trump?
What do you mean by personal relationships? Have you socialized
with him? Yes, sir, Yes, yes, sir. Have you ever
socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under
the age of eighteen?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Though?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
I'd like to answer that question at least today, tell
me all you'd have to be served by fifth, sixth
and fourteen, then.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
The redser I'm Drew Nelson. A three year old boy
dies in Birmingham, Alabama after being left in a hot
car for five hours by a child welfare transport worker.
Caterius kJ Sparks was found dead Tuesday inside a parked
car on Pine Tree Drive. He'd been left behind by
a worker from Covenant Services, a company under contract with
(06:46):
Alabama's Department of Human Resources. The car was turned off,
the windows were up, Please said. kJ was picked up
around nine am for a supervised visit with his biological father,
Coretorius Sparks Senior that happened at the DHR offs in Bessemer.
The visit ended around eleven thirty that morning. The worker
was supposed to return kJ to daycare. Instead, she stopped
(07:07):
for food, went to a tobacconist's shop, then return home
and left kJ in the car. He was left there
from about twelve thirty pm to five thirty pm. By
the time the Foster family came to pick him up,
he was missing. Six forty pm, emergency responders were called
to the worker's home. kJ was found still fastened in
the car seat. He was pronounced dead there. Attorney Courtney French,
who now represents the family, said, quote a heartbreaking and
(07:30):
preventable tragedy based upon a preliminary investigation with the current
extreme outside temperatures and the heat index of one hundred
eight degrees. The interior temperature of the car where kJ
was trapped likely exceeded one hundred and fifty degrees. Both
kj's biological and foster families are in mourning. Cotorius Sparks
Senior spoke to WBrC about the last time he would
hold his son.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Word Tama springs affil right now, soon till I leave
my son. First thing he said, dead, I want to
go to when we leave and like and they really
hurt me, like he said, every time I see him
on the visa dead, I want to go to as Ad.
Don't worries, You'll be with me soon.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
The family has hired an attorney to investigate further. The
DHR released a short statement saying quote, a child in
DHR custody was being transported by a contract provider when
the incident occurred. The provider has terminated their employee. Due
to confidentiality, DHR cannot comment further regarding the identity of
the child or the exact circumstances. Police say the worker
(08:26):
has been cooperative and was questioned by Birmingham Police. The
investigation continues Ernest Miller is a cousin in kj's foster family.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
We went to the bad Parts. He had a blast,
he was in the swimming pool. We just had a
great time as a family. We just got back Friday.
We were all looking forward to him growing up and
being a part of his family and Jesus.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Calm kj's parents said in a statement through their attorney, quote,
this is a parent's worst nightmare. Our baby should be alive.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I'm Nicole Parton, a deputy share berr from Miami Dade County, Florida,
was taken into federal custody on Wednesday after being charged
with two counts of child exploitation. Carly Miranda Bloom, fifty one,
who served with the Miami Dade Sheriff's Office for more
than twenty years, faces serious allegations of receiving and producing
(09:19):
visual related sexual images of a minor. This according to
a press release from the US Attorney's Office in the
Southern District of Florida. Bloom is accused of exchanging explicit
videos with the seventeen year old girl with whom she
was having a physical relationship. The allegation state that Bloom
recorded herself engaging in sexual acts with the underage girl
(09:42):
and traveled across state lines to meet her. When their
relationship began to fall apart, Bloom allegedly made threats against
the girl's life. A criminal complaint obtained by an independent
news station WPLG, indicated that authorities received a tip on
July fourteen regarding Bloom's involvement with the miner. Situation escalated
(10:04):
when the girl was detained under the Baker Act while
attempting to board a flight to Miami the day after
her eighteenth birthday. Bloom went to the airport to collect
the girl's luggage. Witnesses reported that the girl's mental health
had significantly worsened during the year she was allegedly involved
with the officer. After accessing the teenager's cell phone, investigators
(10:27):
reportedly found multiple graphic videos of Bloom with the girl,
including instances where Bloom was accused of violently choking the girl.
Further examination of their communication led authorities to conclude that
the messages exchanged were of a romantic or sexual nature
that the two were involved in a relationship. Bloom allegedly
(10:49):
expressed a countdown to the girl's eighteenth birthday and referred
to her as her wife, promising to marry her once
she was of age. The complaint included explicit messages dating
back to February, featuring graphic photos and videos sent by
the girl to Bloom. Some of Bloom's text messages were
reportedly violent, with one staying I really need to rape you.
(11:11):
When the girl attempted to end the relationship, Bloom's responses
allegedly included threats of leave me and see what happens.
I will drive my favorite knife through your throat and
watch you slowly die. I swear on my grandparents. WPLG
reported that investigators learned Bloom intended to fly to Atlanta, Georgia,
(11:33):
to see the girl once she was discharged from being
baker acted. Bloom was arrested in Atlanta on Wednesday. In
a statement to local CBS affiliate wfor Miami Dade Sheriff
Rosy Stutz expressed her shock, saying this is very disturbing
and a betrayal of the badge, the public trust, and
the oath to which she was sworn to uphold. She
(11:56):
emphasized that the alleged actions contradict the principles upheld by
law enforcement officers and by humanity as a whole, The
officer has been discharged from her position and is currently
being held without bond for the latest crime. Injustice news,
follow crime alert hourly update on your favorite podcasting app
(12:17):
with this crime Alert. I'm Nicole Parton.
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