October 22, 2025 • 27 mins
When independent journalist Olivia Vitale — known online as The Chronicles of Olivia — began covering the murders at 1122 King Road, she had no idea how personal the story would become. What began as a reporting trip to Idaho turned into something unexpected: a connection with Kaylee’s brother, Steven. Together, Olivia and Steven share their extraordinary love story — a rare light that emerged from unimaginable darkness.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I decided to search the names of each victim on TikTok,
and when I looked up Kaylee's name, it said follow back.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We started talking every day. Within four or five calls,
we were sleeping on the phone.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I knew early on. I just knew that Stephen was
the one.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
This is the Idaho Massacre a production of KAT Studios
and iHeartRadio, Season three, Episode ten, The Chronicles of Gonsalves.
I'm Courtney Armstrong, a producer at KAT Studios with Stephanie
Lydeger and Gabriel Castillo. I'm Courtney Armstrong, a producer at
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KAT Studios with Stephanie Leideger, Alison Bankston, and Gabriel Castillo.
When independent arest Olivia vitally known online as the Chronicles
of Olivia, first decided to cover the murders at one
one two two King Road in Moscow, Idaho, she had
no idea where the journey would lead. Kaylee, a true
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crime fan herself and a follower of Olivia's work, had
been drawn to her stories long before the tragedy. When
Olivia learned that one of the victims had been a fan,
she felt a deep responsibility to help share their story.
Olivia packed her bags and flew to Moscow, Idaho, and
what began as a reporting trip quickly became something far
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more personal. As she covered the Brian Coberger case head on,
Olivia found an unexpected light in the darkness, a beautiful
relationship with Kayley's brother Stephen, a small piece of hope
amid an unimaginable tragedy. Today, we're joined by Olivia Vitally
and her fiancee, Stephen Gonzalvez to share their extraordinary love story.
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They're joined by Katie Studio's producer Alison Bankston.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Olivia, We're going to start with you if you can
just tell me a little bit about yourself. You know,
your platform, your career is a journalist, what you're known for,
Just a biography of your career and what kind of
brought you into the scene.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
So it started about Gosh, I would say maybe five
years ago now for with Gabby Patito. I never intended
on being a journalist. I never woke up one day
and was like I'm going to do journalism. It just
happened very organically. I happened to be living about forty
minutes away from Brian Laundry's parents home, and this is
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when Gabby Patito was missing, and I just was very
curious and I was seeing a lot of videos going
around and I was like, this is insane. It's happening
very close to where I live. So my mom and
I drove over there and I began documenting on TikTok
and that was kind of the beginning of my journalistic journey.
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So I started for a few years covering stories boots
on the ground. There's something about doing boots on the
ground that I just enjoyed more than just being at
home talking about a case. I like to be there
and get a different perspective. And so I think people
followed me because I was showing them something that mainstream
media wasn't really showing them. It was like a more
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personal view on things. And in some cases families would
reach out to me personally. I would meet with them
and so I would show their story and give them
some spotlight. Because I did gather quite a bit of
followers over the years, so it kind of helped give exposure.
And that's really the whole point of what I was doing,
is bringing spotlight to cases, and that was something I
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was really passionate about.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And you're really good at it too. You know, there's
a lot of true crime journalists out there who are
doing stuff on TikTok, but you've garnered quite a big following.
What's kind of aside from being to a journalist and
great to getting interviews?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
What's your secret?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
What makes you good at what you do?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I would say maybe because I like I think of
it in terms of technology and social media. It's the
way that it's been created is people kind of have
short attention spans, and I describe things in a way
where it's easy for most people to understand. It's fairly
I used to make videos that are pretty short, like
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under a minute, even so people would just get the
information that they needed to know quickly, and I feel
like that's another reason why people really watched my videos.
And then the way I edited them and stuff was
a little bit more creative. I would say, but I
never went to school for editing or anything. I just
learned through YouTube tutorials and then on my own through
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trial and error. But I think people just they like
the perspective I was giving them.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
One hundred percent, and you have quite an ac for it.
You know, I think you're a great editor. I love
watching your content. Olivia, you know, can you take me
back to the day when you found out what had
happened at eleven twenty two King Road. Where were you
when you found out the news and what kind of
got you to say, I want to cover this case.
I want to see what I can do here.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I actually found out a few days later. I think
it was like three days later. A friend of mine
showed me a video and I was on TikTok and
I started to see videos about it, and obviously it
was very shocking, and I decided to search the names
of each victim on TikTok and when I looked up
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Kailee's name, it said follow back, and that just going
to hit me differently, and I just felt even more
compelled to go out to Idaho and bring awareness to
the story and document it. Brian Cooberger at the time
was not found yet, and so there was a lot
of heightened anxiety on finding the person who did this,
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And so I do think that Kaylee following me really
prompted me more to go out there.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Stephen, did you know that your sister was a follower
of Olivia's.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, I didn't really know anything about Olivia until she
interviewed my family.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It was December twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Okay, yeah, so that was when night I kind of
became aware of her.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
When Olivia first came into your life. And that documentary
you made with Stephen's family is fantastic, and I just
love to hear about the process of that and how
it got set up and what it was like kind of,
you know, being introduced to this family.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yes, So I went to Idaho two times, and the
first time was about three weeks after November thirteenth, and
then the second time was a few weeks later. And
it was on my second visit where I got a
email from Steve Gonzalvez. And when I received the email, yeah,
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Stephen's dad. And at first when I got the email,
I thought maybe it was a troll, And so I
DMed one of Stephen's sisters who I had been talking
with on Instagram, and I was like, is this your
dad phone number? She was like, yes, it's him, and
so I started talking with him and he invited me
and my friend who I was with in Idaho to
come to their home and interview them, and so we
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drove out there, we did the interview and it was
you know, it was obviously very hard to do and
it was emotional, and I wanted to ask questions more
so pertaining to the memories of the girls and who
they were.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
And Stephen, what makes Olivia different from some of the
other reporters that it kind of had reached out to
you guys, what made you want to trust her?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I mean, she wasn't a part of some big network
or anything that had a lot to do with it.
Kaylee followed her. Kaye had spoken of her in the past.
There was just the simple things along those lines. She's
very personable, she was extremely professional, and it was really
at the end of the day, it was my dad's decision. Obviously,
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my dad's done a lot more interviews than I have,
and this was what felt like was right at the time,
and that was the route we decided to go.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
And Steve, when you actually weren't a part of that
first documentary, I know that you weren't in that specific interview.
You met Olivia at a different time. I believe it
was when she was out in Moscow in December of
twenty twenty three filming the demolition of eleven twenty two
King Rhade.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yeah, she came up to Quarterline.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Quarterline's about a two hour drive from Moscow, and she
came up to Quarterlaine to meet with my dad. They
were having lunch, and then my dad invited me. He
said there was going to be some reporter there. We
had had a similar lunch like that was some reporter
from the UK or something along the line, so I
thought it was going to be something similar to that.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I was like, all right, yeah, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
We met at a restaurant here in town, and I
didn't know that that was the Chronicles of Olivia at
that point.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I just kind of heard the name.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I'm not a fan of true crime in any facet,
never really have been.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
So I went. We met.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I mean, we didn't talk to each other really. I'm
like a kind of shy person, and so I didn't
really speak much. And my mom was talking a lot
more that day than me. My mom was with us,
and she was talking a lot with Steve, and I
was talking too, but I wasn't like talking to Steven
and like getting to.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Know him and this and that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He was just there and I was there. I don't know,
it was weird. We didn't think anything really of it.
We're just like, Okay, I.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Left the whole event thinking that her mom was the
Chronicles of Olivia and I was like, wow, that's that's
who it was.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I'm like, okay, I'm like that's cool. Who was her
little assistant or whatever?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But yeah, other than that, that was kind of how
that was the first time we were ever together. If
we didn't necessarily hit it off or anything, but yeah,
that was the first time.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And when did you guys start hitting it off?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Months later? But Stephen's dad has a part in this,
because every now and then you would send me pictures
of them fishing in a picture of Steven holding a
trout and stuff. And I think one time I liked
one of the pictures. I put a little heart on
and then didn't your dad say something like that girl?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
She says, you're cute Gonzo.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's my nickname Gonzo, And I was like, oh really,
I'm like, how does she even know what I look like?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
And She's like, I send her pictures of you all
the time, and I'm like, okay, what are you sending her?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And he shows me and I'm wearing some stuff like
this and like sweatpants and a baggy hoodie and it's
stained up because I'm fishing in the middle of Montana,
you know, four hours away from home. And I'm like, wow,
thanks Dad, Like, I really appreciate that one. If she
did like me, she doesn't anymore. And yeah, that was
probably we really didn't start hitting it off, like you said.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It wasn't a couple months later. It was almost a
year later on the dot.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, basically. Oh yeah, yeah, almost.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
A year from that December day.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And then I was on Instagram one night and I
came across her page somehow. I followed her at that point,
and I liked one of her posts because she never
posts herself on her main page of the Chronicles of Olivia,
and I scrolled and I was kind of stalking her
out a little bit. I'm like, what does she do
after all? I'm like, oh, that's the Chronicles of Olivia,
not the other lady. And then there was a picture
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that she posted of herself and I liked that one
that was from like what two months earlier or something
like that. And then she DMed me that night and
we started talking. That was in November, almost a year ago.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, and then I invited Stephen to come on set
for the NBC documentary, and so that's when we really
met was I believe it was the night before the shoot.
It was January twelfth, and we had dinner at Texas Roadhouse,
just to break the ice a little bit before showing
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up and filming, Like I wanted to at least get
to know him. So we had dinner and we didn't
even go out after that. We just had dinner. That
was it, right, Yeah, And then the next day we
filmed and then we went out and got drinks in
downtown Quarline and we had a lot, had a fun.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
We ended on the beach and then we went up
and drove and met my dad at Caddy Shot okay.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And then I was like, well, I don't want to
drop you off yet. I was like, do you want
to hang out? And you were like sure yeah, And
then I know spot. I took you to Crickets and
then we wanted to Iron Morrison. I think that's where
the night No, then we drove to the one Smoker
bar that police was terrible.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It was the last place open in a Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
This was a Sunday at like three o'clock in the morning.
We were closing down bars. I had work at six
o'clock the next day, and then yeah, that was We
ended up hanging out properly shit over twelve hours.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, let's stop here for a break. We'll be back
in a moment. Steven Gonsalvez and Olivia Vitally first began
hitting it off while filming nbcpacocks documentary The Idaho Student Murders,
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produced by us Here at Kat's Studios on January thirteenth,
twenty twenty five. They spent the day filming at a
remote cabin in Quarterlaine, Idaho. Olivia interviewed Stephen for the documentary,
and the two spent time taking in the snow covered
beauty of the lake, reflecting on the case as Stephen
shared memories of his sister Kayleie. Through that experience. Their
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connection grew as they worked side by side on a
story that held deep meaning for both of them, and
dinner and drinks after a day of filming led to
them falling for one another. Here's Olivia Vitally and Stephen Gonzalvez,
joined by Katie's Studios producer Alison Bankston.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Stephen and Olivia, what was it like filming together? You know,
I know that these film shoots. I've been on quite
a few of them too, but sometimes they can feel
a little bit awkward. You know, they're kind of hard
to get used to. There's all these cameras around. What
was it like first bonding in that type of violent.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I learned that she was a lot more awkward than
I had expected.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I expected.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
You know, you meet reporters, they're cold and you can
kind of tell these stories just don't really mean anything,
and I was expecting to get that impression from her,
and it was not the case at all. And I
was just, you know, in between scenes or whatnot, just
trying to make jokes light in the situation when something
like this happened to your family. You know, my sisters
have lost friends because their parents wouldn't let them come
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over anymore because we're like the bad omen or whatever.
And I don't want anybody to ever feel that way
around me, or or you got to dance.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Around subjects or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So I was just cracking jokes the whole day, trying
to make light of the situation.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
We were giggling. I was giggling a lot, but I
know you were, like, you have a very sarcastic attitude
sometimes and you were very sarcastic, and I was like,
oh my goodness, and it was just funny. We were
just kind of like it almost felt like we were
two kids. It was just hipping rocks and you could
tell a lot of people. I've seen comments online people
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talking about the rock scene and how they could sense
something that people can kind of feel that there was
something there. And I when I look at that video,
I see it now.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
When we were working through that footage, we were like,
they're going to end up together. This is so cute.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
You could just see the chemistry between the two of you,
and I love how much fun you guys had with it.
And then so after this really fun, great night out,
which those are always the best dates when they don't
end until like the very very end of be like,
oh my god, it's been twelve hours and you know
you're really starting to fall for each other. When did
you guys decide to kind of take it to the
next level after you know, meeting this weekend?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well, I mean what she went home that Monday, the
fourteenth January.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You were going to take me to breakfast if I
had stayed.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yeah, I was like, you should have stayed.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
We could have got lunch together, because I was just
about to go on my lunch at work, and I
was like, that sucks because she got to the airport
like four hours earlier or something ridiculous, and I was like,
you're just gonna chill at the airport. I was like,
we could have got lunch. I guess that was making
a move. I was trying to keep a professional you know,
I'm a representation of my last name and that it's
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kind of larger than me.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
She took that as flirting, and maybe.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It was because, oh yeah, I was like, oh, like
the fact that he wanted to have a breakfast or
lunch brunch with me, that means that he you know,
I don't know. I just felt someone. I was like hmm.
And then we kept were snapchatting mostly and you said
something along the lines of I might have to make
it out to North Carolina or something. I was like,
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he likes this boy, and then we just kept talking.
And then it was about two days later I called him.
And I think it was the reason why I called
him was because we were texting at that point and
I was just like, why do I just call him
instead of it's easier to call someone them just writing
out things. And I also really wanted to get to
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know him more. I was intrigued. It was very intrigued
by him, and so I just wanted to call him
and he.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Picked up and we started talking every day. Within four
or five calls, we were sleeping on the phone.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
And really that was cute. Then we planned our I
asked a question.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I don't know how it even got brought up, because
we were going through my camera roll or something and
some pictures of a cruise that me and my family
went on back in twenty eighteen something like that, and
I asked her.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I was like, have you ever been on a cruise?
She's like, yeah, I've been on a cruise. I was like, okay,
I went. When was the last time.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
She's like, I was four. I was like, that doesn't count,
like you went when you're four. Okay, let's go on
a cruise then, and she was like okay. And then
I caught off guard a little bit. I was like,
all right, we start planning it, and then I'm getting
to the point where I'm booking it and I'm like
scrolling over the checkout button.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I'm waiting for her to be like no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Like, are you serious about this? That whole conversation. She
never did. I hit check out. The cruise was booked
at that point. That was for Valentine's Day at least
Valentine's week, and we met up in Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You guys should have a movie. Honestly, this is like
making me giddy over here. So cute. I'm a big
stucker for the details, and I love the cruise stories
so much. I know that you got you sent us
a few photos of you guys on that cruise. Can
you tell me about some of your favorite memories from it?
Because I think that is just the sweetest, cutest thing, Like,
you know, you're newly in love, You're on this really fun,
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kind of cooky, fun like exciting cruise. I love to
hear some of your favorite moments from it.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Oh yeah, dolphins, Oh that was so fun.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Dolphins were like we were booking excursions. I think this
was like the week before we left, and I was like,
what do you want to do? And I picked out
a couple and I threw one in there that I mean,
I really didn't want to do, but I knew she would,
so I threw it in there and it was the dolphins.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Excursion and I was like, damn it, that was the
one she picked right, like, I don't want to hate dolphins.
I'm like, that's so dumb.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And then we did and wow, those things are a
lot cooler than I really expected.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Oh we went to the beach and belize.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, they had like two dollars shots, two dolls.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
We barely made it back.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Barely made it back, Oh my gosh. And then the
Cosumel absolutely loved Cozumel. So we were snorkeling and I'll
never forget we were both snorkeling and there was a
bunch of fish that came around me and Stephen was like, gosh,
I wish I had a picture like a camera, an
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underwater camera, because you looked like a mermaid with the
fish around you and stuff, and it was really magical.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
That sounds like a blast, like the rum shots, the dolphins.
It sounds like a dream vacations. And then how did
you kind of make long distance work? At first? You know,
after the cruise you came back and you were official.
Did you have to do any long distance or did
you kind of start moving right away right.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
After the cruise. We flew from Louisiana to North Carolina,
and he spent four days with my mom and I
up there, and he got to see where we were living,
and we would FaceTime when he was not at work.
We had like twenty hour facetimes.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Olivia, when did you make the decision to move to
Idaho from Asheville?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Literally, I mean even on the cruise, I knew I
was going to happen, Like there was no doubt in
my mind. But yeah, I knew early on. I just
knew that Stephen was the one. I don't know how
to explain it, but I always thought it was just like,
like not even possible. I thought it was something.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
In the movies.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Let's stop here for a break. We'll be back in
a moment. After Olivia moved to Idaho from Asheville, North Carolina,
her relationship with Stephen continued to grow. The two moved
in together and are now preparing for their next chapter,
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a wedding next year. From acquaintances to fiances, their story
has been one of connection, resilience, and new beginnings. Here's
Stephen Gonzalez and Olivia Vitally, joined by KAT Studios producer
Alison Bankston.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I'd love to hear your guys' proposal story. You know,
who proposed to who? Where was that? Just kind of
paint a picture of that beautiful day for me.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So it was on Tubbs Hill. And we have like
an inside joke about Tubbs Hill from the NBC doc
because we filmed a scene, but none of the footage
was used in the documentary. But there was a connection
with Kayleie and Maddie. They liked to swim there. It's
a very popular spot where a lot of kids in
the Quarterline area spend there's summer's visiting Tubbs Hill and
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jumping off the little cliff there. So we ended up
getting engaged because it is a pretty spot. It's you
see the whole lake, it's a beautiful view. You can
watch the sunsets there and that's where we watched the
sunset one day and Stephen proposed to me and yeah,
it's cute.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Stephen, When did you know that you wanted to propose
to Olivia?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
That's hard to put into words.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
With Olivia, We're always doing something, we're always having fun,
always laughing, and I mean there was no exact moment
we took things. Definitely quicker than most people will, but
I never really felt that time had helped too much,
So we made the decision early on.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
She wanted me to propose on the cruise. No, yes,
he did. He said that.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
You absolutely said that crazy, so I knew she was
on board, and I definitely knew that I was. So
they didn't really feel in any sense in dating for
five six years ago.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Olivia, what's your favorite thing about Steven? What made you
fall in love with him?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
There's a lot of things. I would say. One thing
is I feel really safe with him, and he has
that provider mentality. We just fit very well together and
have very similar values, like the same values and wants,
which I think is really important in a relationship is
making sure you guys are on the same page with
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very important life decisions and things. And other than the
fact that we're always laughing and we are just literally
best friends, I would say having the same values. Well,
I'm also Latin. I'm half Cuban Italian, but I'm kind
of spicy and he knows how to handle me. He
can handle the Latina. Yeah, he's He's awesome.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
What does the future look like for Steve and Olivia?
What thinking for your wedding. What are you thinking for
you know, the great beyond.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, we are planning for July fourth of next summer,
and we want to start a family as soon as possible,
so I want to have a lot of kids. And
that's another thing is the first night that we hit
it off in quartline, he asked me a question, he said,
how many kids do you want to have? And I
played it really cool when I didn't want to scare
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him off, and I didn't want to say, oh, I
want to have like seven plus. I just said two
or three, like, kept it pretty conservative, and you threw
out a big number, like.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I want to have like a full football team.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah, And I was like, oh, wow, well I need
to match that. So then I was like, I want
to have like ten, and then he was like really,
and then I was like yeah. Then that was one
thing that one of our values is we want to
have a big family. So that's definitely something we want
to get started here soon.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
And Steven, is your dad pretty pumped you ended up
with Olivia since he was trying to be the matchmaker
in the beginning. That's part of the story is extremely
cute too.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, I mean I'm not the most social guy. I
don't go out a whole lot. I don't do any
of that stuff. I'm not a party er. Never happened.
So I told him I was single for good and
he was always like, dope, be like that gonzo, YadA YadA, No,
you're not, you're twenty five, you're twenty four. Whatever it
was at the time. And then me and Olivia got
together and we were talking one day and he's like,
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I thought you were cooked. He's like, I thought you
were a single forever. He was like, thank god you
found that girl.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
And Olivia, how does it feel to be part of
the INSOLVENSSA?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We know.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
One thing I've always admired about them is again, they're
the g's, you know, they're just very, uh like resilient,
and that's something I really love about them. But family
is really important to them, and that's another thing that's
important to me. And we just all, you know, click
and hang out and do things, fun things together. And
the holidays are coming so we'll be doing like more
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stuff and we're like a regular family. We just hang
out and have fun. And there's a lot of kids
too in the family, and we never talk about the murders,
like never ever talk about Steve and I Like, We'll
like see maybe things in the news, or I'll be
scrolling on TikTok the video will pop up of someone
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talking about it, but we don't talk about it. Really,
We're just like more and more. I know it's how
we technically met, but we don't talk about it all
the time, Like we're just living our lives.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Do you guys ever feel like Kaylee's kind of your
guard angel that you brought you two together.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, I mean in some ways in the sense that now,
had she never followed, Olivia and my dad never would
have reached out to her. In that case, we never
would have even met. So yeah, definitely in some ways.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Stephen and Olivia have also launched a new social media
platform to share updates on their life and love story.
To follow along, visit their YouTube page at Chronicles of
Gonsalves that's g O n C l Ves. Next week
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on the Idaho Massacre, please join us as we wrap
up our season. Your favorite KT studio's host will reflect
on the case in its entirety now that it has
come to a close. We'll also hear from Moscow's Mayor
Art Betge about how this tragedy forever changed the town,
and Kaylee Gonsalves's brother, Stephen Gonsalvez, returns to share more
(26:58):
of his personal thoughts on the case. More on that
next time. For more information on the case and relevant photos,
follow us on Instagram at Kat Underscore Studios. The Idaho
Massacre is produced by Stephanie Leideker, Alison Bankston, Gabriel Castillo
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and me Courtney Armstrong. Editing and sound design by Jeff Toois.
Music by Jared Aston. The Idaho Masacre is a production
of KAT Studios and iHeartRadio. For more podcasts like this,
visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen
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I decided to search the names of each victim on TikTok,
and when I looked up Kaylee's name, it said follow back.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We started talking every day. Within four or five calls,
we were sleeping on the phone.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I knew early on. I just knew that Stephen was
the one.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
This is the Idaho Massacre a production of KAT Studios
and iHeartRadio, Season three, Episode ten, The Chronicles of Gonsalves.
I'm Courtney Armstrong, a producer at KAT Studios with Stephanie
Lydeger and Gabriel Castillo. I'm Courtney Armstrong, a producer at
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KAT Studios with Stephanie Leideger, Alison Bankston, and Gabriel Castillo.
When independent arest Olivia vitally known online as the Chronicles
of Olivia, first decided to cover the murders at one
one two two King Road in Moscow, Idaho, she had
no idea where the journey would lead. Kaylee, a true
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crime fan herself and a follower of Olivia's work, had
been drawn to her stories long before the tragedy. When
Olivia learned that one of the victims had been a fan,
she felt a deep responsibility to help share their story.
Olivia packed her bags and flew to Moscow, Idaho, and
what began as a reporting trip quickly became something far
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more personal. As she covered the Brian Coberger case head on,
Olivia found an unexpected light in the darkness, a beautiful
relationship with Kayley's brother Stephen, a small piece of hope
amid an unimaginable tragedy. Today, we're joined by Olivia Vitally
and her fiancee, Stephen Gonzalvez to share their extraordinary love story.
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They're joined by Katie Studio's producer Alison Bankston.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Olivia, We're going to start with you if you can
just tell me a little bit about yourself. You know,
your platform, your career is a journalist, what you're known for,
Just a biography of your career and what kind of
brought you into the scene.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
So it started about Gosh, I would say maybe five
years ago now for with Gabby Patito. I never intended
on being a journalist. I never woke up one day
and was like I'm going to do journalism. It just
happened very organically. I happened to be living about forty
minutes away from Brian Laundry's parents home, and this is
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when Gabby Patito was missing, and I just was very
curious and I was seeing a lot of videos going
around and I was like, this is insane. It's happening
very close to where I live. So my mom and
I drove over there and I began documenting on TikTok
and that was kind of the beginning of my journalistic journey.
(03:04):
So I started for a few years covering stories boots
on the ground. There's something about doing boots on the
ground that I just enjoyed more than just being at
home talking about a case. I like to be there
and get a different perspective. And so I think people
followed me because I was showing them something that mainstream
media wasn't really showing them. It was like a more
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personal view on things. And in some cases families would
reach out to me personally. I would meet with them
and so I would show their story and give them
some spotlight. Because I did gather quite a bit of
followers over the years, so it kind of helped give exposure.
And that's really the whole point of what I was doing,
is bringing spotlight to cases, and that was something I
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was really passionate about.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And you're really good at it too. You know, there's
a lot of true crime journalists out there who are
doing stuff on TikTok, but you've garnered quite a big following.
What's kind of aside from being to a journalist and
great to getting interviews?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
What's your secret?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
What makes you good at what you do?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I would say maybe because I like I think of
it in terms of technology and social media. It's the
way that it's been created is people kind of have
short attention spans, and I describe things in a way
where it's easy for most people to understand. It's fairly
I used to make videos that are pretty short, like
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under a minute, even so people would just get the
information that they needed to know quickly, and I feel
like that's another reason why people really watched my videos.
And then the way I edited them and stuff was
a little bit more creative. I would say, but I
never went to school for editing or anything. I just
learned through YouTube tutorials and then on my own through
(04:49):
trial and error. But I think people just they like
the perspective I was giving them.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
One hundred percent, and you have quite an ac for it.
You know, I think you're a great editor. I love
watching your content. Olivia, you know, can you take me
back to the day when you found out what had
happened at eleven twenty two King Road. Where were you
when you found out the news and what kind of
got you to say, I want to cover this case.
I want to see what I can do here.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I actually found out a few days later. I think
it was like three days later. A friend of mine
showed me a video and I was on TikTok and
I started to see videos about it, and obviously it
was very shocking, and I decided to search the names
of each victim on TikTok and when I looked up
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Kailee's name, it said follow back, and that just going
to hit me differently, and I just felt even more
compelled to go out to Idaho and bring awareness to
the story and document it. Brian Cooberger at the time
was not found yet, and so there was a lot
of heightened anxiety on finding the person who did this,
(05:55):
And so I do think that Kaylee following me really
prompted me more to go out there.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Stephen, did you know that your sister was a follower
of Olivia's.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, I didn't really know anything about Olivia until she
interviewed my family.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It was December twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Okay, yeah, so that was when night I kind of
became aware of her.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
When Olivia first came into your life. And that documentary
you made with Stephen's family is fantastic, and I just
love to hear about the process of that and how
it got set up and what it was like kind of,
you know, being introduced to this family.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yes, So I went to Idaho two times, and the
first time was about three weeks after November thirteenth, and
then the second time was a few weeks later. And
it was on my second visit where I got a
email from Steve Gonzalvez. And when I received the email, yeah,
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Stephen's dad. And at first when I got the email,
I thought maybe it was a troll, And so I
DMed one of Stephen's sisters who I had been talking
with on Instagram, and I was like, is this your
dad phone number? She was like, yes, it's him, and
so I started talking with him and he invited me
and my friend who I was with in Idaho to
come to their home and interview them, and so we
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drove out there, we did the interview and it was
you know, it was obviously very hard to do and
it was emotional, and I wanted to ask questions more
so pertaining to the memories of the girls and who
they were.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
And Stephen, what makes Olivia different from some of the
other reporters that it kind of had reached out to
you guys, what made you want to trust her?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I mean, she wasn't a part of some big network
or anything that had a lot to do with it.
Kaylee followed her. Kaye had spoken of her in the past.
There was just the simple things along those lines. She's
very personable, she was extremely professional, and it was really
at the end of the day, it was my dad's decision. Obviously,
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my dad's done a lot more interviews than I have,
and this was what felt like was right at the time,
and that was the route we decided to go.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
And Steve, when you actually weren't a part of that
first documentary, I know that you weren't in that specific interview.
You met Olivia at a different time. I believe it
was when she was out in Moscow in December of
twenty twenty three filming the demolition of eleven twenty two
King Rhade.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yeah, she came up to Quarterline.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Quarterline's about a two hour drive from Moscow, and she
came up to Quarterlaine to meet with my dad. They
were having lunch, and then my dad invited me. He
said there was going to be some reporter there. We
had had a similar lunch like that was some reporter
from the UK or something along the line, so I
thought it was going to be something similar to that.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I was like, all right, yeah, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
We met at a restaurant here in town, and I
didn't know that that was the Chronicles of Olivia at
that point.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I just kind of heard the name.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I'm not a fan of true crime in any facet,
never really have been.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
So I went. We met.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I mean, we didn't talk to each other really. I'm
like a kind of shy person, and so I didn't
really speak much. And my mom was talking a lot
more that day than me. My mom was with us,
and she was talking a lot with Steve, and I
was talking too, but I wasn't like talking to Steven
and like getting to.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Know him and this and that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He was just there and I was there. I don't know,
it was weird. We didn't think anything really of it.
We're just like, Okay, I.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Left the whole event thinking that her mom was the
Chronicles of Olivia and I was like, wow, that's that's
who it was.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I'm like, okay, I'm like that's cool. Who was her
little assistant or whatever?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But yeah, other than that, that was kind of how
that was the first time we were ever together. If
we didn't necessarily hit it off or anything, but yeah,
that was the first time.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
And when did you guys start hitting it off?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Months later? But Stephen's dad has a part in this,
because every now and then you would send me pictures
of them fishing in a picture of Steven holding a
trout and stuff. And I think one time I liked
one of the pictures. I put a little heart on
and then didn't your dad say something like that girl?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
She says, you're cute Gonzo.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That's my nickname Gonzo, And I was like, oh really,
I'm like, how does she even know what I look like?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
And She's like, I send her pictures of you all
the time, and I'm like, okay, what are you sending her?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And he shows me and I'm wearing some stuff like
this and like sweatpants and a baggy hoodie and it's
stained up because I'm fishing in the middle of Montana,
you know, four hours away from home. And I'm like, wow,
thanks Dad, Like, I really appreciate that one. If she
did like me, she doesn't anymore. And yeah, that was
probably we really didn't start hitting it off, like you said.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
It wasn't a couple months later. It was almost a
year later on the dot.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, basically. Oh yeah, yeah, almost.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
A year from that December day.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And then I was on Instagram one night and I
came across her page somehow. I followed her at that point,
and I liked one of her posts because she never
posts herself on her main page of the Chronicles of Olivia,
and I scrolled and I was kind of stalking her
out a little bit. I'm like, what does she do
after all? I'm like, oh, that's the Chronicles of Olivia,
not the other lady. And then there was a picture
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that she posted of herself and I liked that one
that was from like what two months earlier or something
like that. And then she DMed me that night and
we started talking. That was in November, almost a year ago.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, and then I invited Stephen to come on set
for the NBC documentary, and so that's when we really
met was I believe it was the night before the shoot.
It was January twelfth, and we had dinner at Texas Roadhouse,
just to break the ice a little bit before showing
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up and filming, Like I wanted to at least get
to know him. So we had dinner and we didn't
even go out after that. We just had dinner. That
was it, right, Yeah, And then the next day we
filmed and then we went out and got drinks in
downtown Quarline and we had a lot, had a fun.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
We ended on the beach and then we went up
and drove and met my dad at Caddy Shot okay.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And then I was like, well, I don't want to
drop you off yet. I was like, do you want
to hang out? And you were like sure yeah, And
then I know spot. I took you to Crickets and
then we wanted to Iron Morrison. I think that's where
the night No, then we drove to the one Smoker
bar that police was terrible.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It was the last place open in a Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
This was a Sunday at like three o'clock in the morning.
We were closing down bars. I had work at six
o'clock the next day, and then yeah, that was We
ended up hanging out properly shit over twelve hours.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah, let's stop here for a break. We'll be back
in a moment. Steven Gonsalvez and Olivia Vitally first began
hitting it off while filming nbcpacocks documentary The Idaho Student Murders,
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produced by us Here at Kat's Studios on January thirteenth,
twenty twenty five. They spent the day filming at a
remote cabin in Quarterlaine, Idaho. Olivia interviewed Stephen for the documentary,
and the two spent time taking in the snow covered
beauty of the lake, reflecting on the case as Stephen
shared memories of his sister Kayleie. Through that experience. Their
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connection grew as they worked side by side on a
story that held deep meaning for both of them, and
dinner and drinks after a day of filming led to
them falling for one another. Here's Olivia Vitally and Stephen Gonzalvez,
joined by Katie's Studios producer Alison Bankston.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Stephen and Olivia, what was it like filming together? You know,
I know that these film shoots. I've been on quite
a few of them too, but sometimes they can feel
a little bit awkward. You know, they're kind of hard
to get used to. There's all these cameras around. What
was it like first bonding in that type of violent.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I learned that she was a lot more awkward than
I had expected.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I expected.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
You know, you meet reporters, they're cold and you can
kind of tell these stories just don't really mean anything,
and I was expecting to get that impression from her,
and it was not the case at all. And I
was just, you know, in between scenes or whatnot, just
trying to make jokes light in the situation when something
like this happened to your family. You know, my sisters
have lost friends because their parents wouldn't let them come
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over anymore because we're like the bad omen or whatever.
And I don't want anybody to ever feel that way
around me, or or you got to dance.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Around subjects or whatnot.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So I was just cracking jokes the whole day, trying
to make light of the situation.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
We were giggling. I was giggling a lot, but I
know you were, like, you have a very sarcastic attitude
sometimes and you were very sarcastic, and I was like,
oh my goodness, and it was just funny. We were
just kind of like it almost felt like we were
two kids. It was just hipping rocks and you could
tell a lot of people. I've seen comments online people
(15:04):
talking about the rock scene and how they could sense
something that people can kind of feel that there was
something there. And I when I look at that video,
I see it now.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
When we were working through that footage, we were like,
they're going to end up together. This is so cute.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I thought it was.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
You could just see the chemistry between the two of you,
and I love how much fun you guys had with it.
And then so after this really fun, great night out,
which those are always the best dates when they don't
end until like the very very end of be like,
oh my god, it's been twelve hours and you know
you're really starting to fall for each other. When did
you guys decide to kind of take it to the
next level after you know, meeting this weekend?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well, I mean what she went home that Monday, the
fourteenth January.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You were going to take me to breakfast if I
had stayed.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yeah, I was like, you should have stayed.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
We could have got lunch together, because I was just
about to go on my lunch at work, and I
was like, that sucks because she got to the airport
like four hours earlier or something ridiculous, and I was like,
you're just gonna chill at the airport. I was like,
we could have got lunch. I guess that was making
a move. I was trying to keep a professional you know,
I'm a representation of my last name and that it's
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kind of larger than me.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
She took that as flirting, and maybe.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It was because, oh yeah, I was like, oh, like
the fact that he wanted to have a breakfast or
lunch brunch with me, that means that he you know,
I don't know. I just felt someone. I was like hmm.
And then we kept were snapchatting mostly and you said
something along the lines of I might have to make
it out to North Carolina or something. I was like,
(16:36):
he likes this boy, and then we just kept talking.
And then it was about two days later I called him.
And I think it was the reason why I called
him was because we were texting at that point and
I was just like, why do I just call him
instead of it's easier to call someone them just writing
out things. And I also really wanted to get to
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know him more. I was intrigued. It was very intrigued
by him, and so I just wanted to call him
and he.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Picked up and we started talking every day. Within four
or five calls, we were sleeping on the phone.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
And really that was cute. Then we planned our I
asked a question.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I don't know how it even got brought up, because
we were going through my camera roll or something and
some pictures of a cruise that me and my family
went on back in twenty eighteen something like that, and
I asked her.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I was like, have you ever been on a cruise?
She's like, yeah, I've been on a cruise. I was like, okay,
I went. When was the last time.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
She's like, I was four. I was like, that doesn't count,
like you went when you're four. Okay, let's go on
a cruise then, and she was like okay. And then
I caught off guard a little bit. I was like,
all right, we start planning it, and then I'm getting
to the point where I'm booking it and I'm like
scrolling over the checkout button.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I'm waiting for her to be like no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Like, are you serious about this? That whole conversation. She
never did. I hit check out. The cruise was booked
at that point. That was for Valentine's Day at least
Valentine's week, and we met up in Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You guys should have a movie. Honestly, this is like
making me giddy over here. So cute. I'm a big
stucker for the details, and I love the cruise stories
so much. I know that you got you sent us
a few photos of you guys on that cruise. Can
you tell me about some of your favorite memories from it?
Because I think that is just the sweetest, cutest thing, Like,
you know, you're newly in love, You're on this really fun,
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kind of cooky, fun like exciting cruise. I love to
hear some of your favorite moments from it.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Oh yeah, dolphins, Oh that was so fun.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Dolphins were like we were booking excursions. I think this
was like the week before we left, and I was like,
what do you want to do? And I picked out
a couple and I threw one in there that I mean,
I really didn't want to do, but I knew she would,
so I threw it in there and it was the dolphins.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Excursion and I was like, damn it, that was the
one she picked right, like, I don't want to hate dolphins.
I'm like, that's so dumb.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And then we did and wow, those things are a
lot cooler than I really expected.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Oh we went to the beach and belize.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, they had like two dollars shots, two dolls.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
We barely made it back.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Barely made it back, Oh my gosh. And then the
Cosumel absolutely loved Cozumel. So we were snorkeling and I'll
never forget we were both snorkeling and there was a
bunch of fish that came around me and Stephen was like, gosh,
I wish I had a picture like a camera, an
(19:29):
underwater camera, because you looked like a mermaid with the
fish around you and stuff, and it was really magical.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
That sounds like a blast, like the rum shots, the dolphins.
It sounds like a dream vacations. And then how did
you kind of make long distance work? At first? You know,
after the cruise you came back and you were official.
Did you have to do any long distance or did
you kind of start moving right away right.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
After the cruise. We flew from Louisiana to North Carolina,
and he spent four days with my mom and I
up there, and he got to see where we were living,
and we would FaceTime when he was not at work.
We had like twenty hour facetimes.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Olivia, when did you make the decision to move to
Idaho from Asheville?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Literally, I mean even on the cruise, I knew I
was going to happen, Like there was no doubt in
my mind. But yeah, I knew early on. I just
knew that Stephen was the one. I don't know how
to explain it, but I always thought it was just like,
like not even possible. I thought it was something.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
In the movies.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Let's stop here for a break. We'll be back in
a moment. After Olivia moved to Idaho from Asheville, North Carolina,
her relationship with Stephen continued to grow. The two moved
in together and are now preparing for their next chapter,
(20:52):
a wedding next year. From acquaintances to fiances, their story
has been one of connection, resilience, and new beginnings. Here's
Stephen Gonzalez and Olivia Vitally, joined by KAT Studios producer
Alison Bankston.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I'd love to hear your guys' proposal story. You know,
who proposed to who? Where was that? Just kind of
paint a picture of that beautiful day for me.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So it was on Tubbs Hill. And we have like
an inside joke about Tubbs Hill from the NBC doc
because we filmed a scene, but none of the footage
was used in the documentary. But there was a connection
with Kayleie and Maddie. They liked to swim there. It's
a very popular spot where a lot of kids in
the Quarterline area spend there's summer's visiting Tubbs Hill and
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jumping off the little cliff there. So we ended up
getting engaged because it is a pretty spot. It's you
see the whole lake, it's a beautiful view. You can
watch the sunsets there and that's where we watched the
sunset one day and Stephen proposed to me and yeah,
it's cute.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Stephen, When did you know that you wanted to propose
to Olivia?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
That's hard to put into words.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
With Olivia, We're always doing something, we're always having fun,
always laughing, and I mean there was no exact moment
we took things. Definitely quicker than most people will, but
I never really felt that time had helped too much,
So we made the decision early on.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
She wanted me to propose on the cruise. No, yes,
he did. He said that.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
You absolutely said that crazy, so I knew she was
on board, and I definitely knew that I was. So
they didn't really feel in any sense in dating for
five six years ago.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Olivia, what's your favorite thing about Steven? What made you
fall in love with him?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
There's a lot of things. I would say. One thing
is I feel really safe with him, and he has
that provider mentality. We just fit very well together and
have very similar values, like the same values and wants,
which I think is really important in a relationship is
making sure you guys are on the same page with
(22:59):
very important life decisions and things. And other than the
fact that we're always laughing and we are just literally
best friends, I would say having the same values. Well,
I'm also Latin. I'm half Cuban Italian, but I'm kind
of spicy and he knows how to handle me. He
can handle the Latina. Yeah, he's He's awesome.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
What does the future look like for Steve and Olivia?
What thinking for your wedding. What are you thinking for
you know, the great beyond.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, we are planning for July fourth of next summer,
and we want to start a family as soon as possible,
so I want to have a lot of kids. And
that's another thing is the first night that we hit
it off in quartline, he asked me a question, he said,
how many kids do you want to have? And I
played it really cool when I didn't want to scare
(23:51):
him off, and I didn't want to say, oh, I
want to have like seven plus. I just said two
or three, like, kept it pretty conservative, and you threw
out a big number, like.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I want to have like a full football team.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah, And I was like, oh, wow, well I need
to match that. So then I was like, I want
to have like ten, and then he was like really,
and then I was like yeah. Then that was one
thing that one of our values is we want to
have a big family. So that's definitely something we want
to get started here soon.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
And Steven, is your dad pretty pumped you ended up
with Olivia since he was trying to be the matchmaker
in the beginning. That's part of the story is extremely
cute too.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, I mean I'm not the most social guy. I
don't go out a whole lot. I don't do any
of that stuff. I'm not a party er. Never happened.
So I told him I was single for good and
he was always like, dope, be like that gonzo, YadA YadA, No,
you're not, you're twenty five, you're twenty four. Whatever it
was at the time. And then me and Olivia got
together and we were talking one day and he's like,
(24:50):
I thought you were cooked. He's like, I thought you
were a single forever. He was like, thank god you
found that girl.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
And Olivia, how does it feel to be part of
the INSOLVENSSA?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We know.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
One thing I've always admired about them is again, they're
the g's, you know, they're just very, uh like resilient,
and that's something I really love about them. But family
is really important to them, and that's another thing that's
important to me. And we just all, you know, click
and hang out and do things, fun things together. And
the holidays are coming so we'll be doing like more
(25:23):
stuff and we're like a regular family. We just hang
out and have fun. And there's a lot of kids
too in the family, and we never talk about the murders,
like never ever talk about Steve and I Like, We'll
like see maybe things in the news, or I'll be
scrolling on TikTok the video will pop up of someone
(25:45):
talking about it, but we don't talk about it. Really,
We're just like more and more. I know it's how
we technically met, but we don't talk about it all
the time, Like we're just living our lives.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Do you guys ever feel like Kaylee's kind of your
guard angel that you brought you two together.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, I mean in some ways in the sense that now,
had she never followed, Olivia and my dad never would
have reached out to her. In that case, we never
would have even met. So yeah, definitely in some ways.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Stephen and Olivia have also launched a new social media
platform to share updates on their life and love story.
To follow along, visit their YouTube page at Chronicles of
Gonsalves that's g O n C l Ves. Next week
(26:35):
on the Idaho Massacre, please join us as we wrap
up our season. Your favorite KT studio's host will reflect
on the case in its entirety now that it has
come to a close. We'll also hear from Moscow's Mayor
Art Betge about how this tragedy forever changed the town,
and Kaylee Gonsalves's brother, Stephen Gonsalvez, returns to share more
(26:58):
of his personal thoughts on the case. More on that
next time. For more information on the case and relevant photos,
follow us on Instagram at Kat Underscore Studios. The Idaho
Massacre is produced by Stephanie Leideker, Alison Bankston, Gabriel Castillo
(27:19):
and me Courtney Armstrong. Editing and sound design by Jeff Toois.
Music by Jared Aston. The Idaho Masacre is a production
of KAT Studios and iHeartRadio. For more podcasts like this,
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