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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Brian Coberger, the guy who admitted and pled guilty to
killing four Idaho college students. How long ago was that,
like three or four years ago? It was a while ago,
sounds about right.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah, So officially sentenced to life without parole. There's no
surprise there, there's no there's no real reason to discuss it.
But a lot of people in following that case and
now there's the resolution.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So have you seen any of the I don't know,
like the docs or the lot of docks about it. Yeah,
it's just man, of course, it's it's sad and heartbreaking
and a horrible thing, right, But you dig into some
of the things that were surrounding that moment I watched
I don't know. I think it was one of those
like twenty twenty kind of deals on it and how
(00:46):
he had he was in college, he was in some
sort of like criminology degree where he was basically what
it seemed like because he was almost trying to investigate himself.
One of his Google searches before he committed the murders,
he searched how to know if you're a psychopath.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Geez, yeah, man, We've been talking a lot about mental
health and talking to AI when you have no one
else to go to. Is I mean, do we know
if you had friends, like people who may have been
able to pick up on maybe some behavioral discrepancies before
he just decided to do something like this.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I don't know. I mean, not that I'm aware of it.
It doesn't seem like he really had much of a
he kind of he'd moved out there for college. I
think he was working on his master's degree.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Now, this is the thing when you talk about people
who commit some of these crimes, it's just a weird
loneliness about them, and people just like they don't have
a lot of people. Is there anything we can do
about that? I mean, I'm not telling people that you
got to be friends with everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You see.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well it Well, sorry to interrupt. There's an interesting thing
now I'm thinking about it. I was in high school
as like a junior, I think, and I was in
French class. And you know, when you get to your
June year, it's like year three of a foreign language.
Not everybody makes it that far, right. A lot of
people just do a couple of years. They don't really
care to do all four years. But you needed a
little bit to graduate. So I've in French class and
(02:11):
we're down to like thirty kids in the French class
at French three. One of them is this guy named Chris.
Chris is very quiet, kind of by himself, acts kind
of weird, doesn't seem to care that people notice about it.
I didn't know him or anything, but my French teacher
liked me and thought that I was a nice person.
So she sat me next to him, you know, like
(02:32):
to saying like, hey, you guys are going to work
on this project together kind of thing. And she kind
of said, hey, you know, it'd be great if you
could be friends with Chris while we're in the class,
you know and stuff. So I was thinking, why would
she say that to me other than the fact that
she noticed some sort of behavioral issue that maybe he
was having and he just doesn't have friends because he
(02:53):
just kind of lacked some social awareness or self awareness.
And I don't I don't want to make it sound
like she thought that he would commit some crime down
the line, but you know, a seventeen year old kid
could use a friendly voice every once in a while,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, well, and it makes you think about what I
think about in this conversation is nature versus nurture? Yeah,
I just can't. I can't wrap myself around the idea
that nature would ever make someone this way. So, yeah,
(03:32):
where was the missing link? Where was the moment when
someone could have leaned in or.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Honestly, like, where was the moment where there was some
sort of ability to detect that maybe this guy was
a bit more erratic. I mean, if he's self conscious
enough to search, how do you know you're a psychopath?
I would imagine that there probably would have been some
noticeable outward behavior. But maybe when you're in a place
like a college, people just kind of see right through
(04:00):
that because there's a lot of different types of people
around you anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And maybe when you're that age and you're already down
that path far enough, maybe there's a younger age we
need where the leaning in really needs to happen in earnest. Yeah,
they missed that by a few years on this guy,
for sure. More coming up on news radio eleven ten
KFIB
Brian Coberger, the guy who admitted and pled guilty to
killing four Idaho college students. How long ago was that,
like three or four years ago? It was a while ago,
sounds about right.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah, So officially sentenced to life without parole. There's no
surprise there, there's no there's no real reason to discuss it.
But a lot of people in following that case and
now there's the resolution.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So have you seen any of the I don't know,
like the docs or the lot of docks about it. Yeah,
it's just man, of course, it's it's sad and heartbreaking
and a horrible thing, right, But you dig into some
of the things that were surrounding that moment I watched
I don't know. I think it was one of those
like twenty twenty kind of deals on it and how
(00:46):
he had he was in college, he was in some
sort of like criminology degree where he was basically what
it seemed like because he was almost trying to investigate himself.
One of his Google searches before he committed the murders,
he searched how to know if you're a psychopath.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Geez, yeah, man, We've been talking a lot about mental
health and talking to AI when you have no one
else to go to. Is I mean, do we know
if you had friends, like people who may have been
able to pick up on maybe some behavioral discrepancies before
he just decided to do something like this.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I don't know. I mean, not that I'm aware of it.
It doesn't seem like he really had much of a
he kind of he'd moved out there for college. I
think he was working on his master's degree.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Now, this is the thing when you talk about people
who commit some of these crimes, it's just a weird
loneliness about them, and people just like they don't have
a lot of people. Is there anything we can do
about that? I mean, I'm not telling people that you
got to be friends with everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You see.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well it Well, sorry to interrupt. There's an interesting thing
now I'm thinking about it. I was in high school
as like a junior, I think, and I was in
French class. And you know, when you get to your
June year, it's like year three of a foreign language.
Not everybody makes it that far, right. A lot of
people just do a couple of years. They don't really
care to do all four years. But you needed a
little bit to graduate. So I've in French class and
(02:11):
we're down to like thirty kids in the French class
at French three. One of them is this guy named Chris.
Chris is very quiet, kind of by himself, acts kind
of weird, doesn't seem to care that people notice about it.
I didn't know him or anything, but my French teacher
liked me and thought that I was a nice person.
So she sat me next to him, you know, like
(02:32):
to saying like, hey, you guys are going to work
on this project together kind of thing. And she kind
of said, hey, you know, it'd be great if you
could be friends with Chris while we're in the class,
you know and stuff. So I was thinking, why would
she say that to me other than the fact that
she noticed some sort of behavioral issue that maybe he
was having and he just doesn't have friends because he
(02:53):
just kind of lacked some social awareness or self awareness.
And I don't I don't want to make it sound
like she thought that he would commit some crime down
the line, but you know, a seventeen year old kid
could use a friendly voice every once in a while,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, well, and it makes you think about what I
think about in this conversation is nature versus nurture? Yeah,
I just can't. I can't wrap myself around the idea
that nature would ever make someone this way. So, yeah,
(03:32):
where was the missing link? Where was the moment when
someone could have leaned in or.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Honestly, like, where was the moment where there was some
sort of ability to detect that maybe this guy was
a bit more erratic. I mean, if he's self conscious
enough to search, how do you know you're a psychopath?
I would imagine that there probably would have been some
noticeable outward behavior. But maybe when you're in a place
like a college, people just kind of see right through
(04:00):
that because there's a lot of different types of people
around you anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And maybe when you're that age and you're already down
that path far enough, maybe there's a younger age we
need where the leaning in really needs to happen in earnest. Yeah,
they missed that by a few years on this guy,
for sure. More coming up on news radio eleven ten
KFIB
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