The Moscow Murders and More

Bobby Capucci
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Moscow is a city located in northern Idaho, United States, with a population of approximately 25,000 people. It is the largest city and the county seat of Latah County. The city is situated in the Palouse region, known for its fertile soil and rolling hills, and is surrounded by wheat fields, forests, and mountains.Moscow is home to the University of Idaho, which is the state's flagship institution and a major research university. The university is a significant contributor to the local economy, and many businesses in the city are directly or indirectly tied to the university. The city also has a thriving arts and culture scene, with several galleries, museums, and performance venues.In terms of recreation, Moscow has several parks and outdoor recreation areas, including the Latah Trail, the Moscow Mountain Trail System, and the Palouse Divide Nordic Ski Area. The city also hosts several annual events, including the Moscow Farmers Market, the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, and the Renaissance Fair. However, things would change forever after Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were murdered in the early morning hours of November 13th, 2022. What followed in the wake of the murders captivated not only the nation but the whole world as the authorities scrambled to find the person responsible for the heinous crime. This podcast will document the Murders In Moscow from right after the murders were committed all the way through the real time evolution of the trial of the person that the authorities say is responsible, Bryan Kohberger. We will also cover other stories that are based in the world of true crime that are currently in the courts or that are headed that way. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

  1. 3h ago

    Mega Edition: The Kaylee Goncalves Elan Financial And TikTok Warrants (10/1/26)

    Investigators obtained a warrant for TikTok records connected to Kaylee Goncalves as they worked to reconstruct the victims’ digital activity and determine whether Bryan Kohberger had interacted with any of them before the murders. The warrant sought subscriber information and account data associated with TikTok accounts belonging to Kaylee, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle, covering the period investigators believed could be relevant to the case. Police later received data tied to all three women and preserved it as evidence. Investigators were looking for any communications, follows, searches, account interactions or other digital activity that might reveal a connection between Kohberger and the victims before November 13, 2022, making the TikTok warrant part of the broader effort to answer whether Kohberger knew of or had monitored any of them beforehand. The warrant served on Elan Financial Services focused instead on Kaylee’s financial records. Moscow police served the warrant on December 22, 2022, seeking records connected specifically to Kaylee Jade Goncalves as investigators examined transactions and account activity that could help reconstruct her movements, purchases or contacts before her death. Much of the underlying material was later sealed or redacted, so the public record did not disclose the full contents of what Elan produced or exactly what investigators hoped a particular transaction might establish. Taken together, the TikTok and Elan Financial warrants showed how broadly detectives were examining Kaylee’s life, looking not only at social-media activity but also at financial records in an effort to map out her final months and identify any connection, encounter or activity that might help explain what happened at the King Road house. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

  2. 5h ago

    Mega Edition: What Happened To Layla Santanello? (10/1/26)

    Layla Santanello disappeared from Kingsport, Tennessee, on June 27, 2023, after a series of troubling sightings around the Americourt Motel. Santanello, then 20 years old, had spent the previous night at the motel and was later seen barefoot, going door to door before running toward a nearby tree line. Early the next morning, she was spotted in a field next to the motel and asked a warehouse employee for a cigarette. Her last confirmed sighting came when she was seen walking along the nearby Greenbelt. After that, she vanished without a trace and has not been heard from since. Investigators now believe Santanello encountered a group of people after leaving the motel and that some of those individuals know what happened to her. Authorities have said they believe she is likely dead, but no one has been charged and no suspect has been publicly named. Her disappearance has remained unsolved despite searches, interviews and continued appeals for information, while her family has worked to keep attention on the case. More than three years later, the central mystery remains unchanged: what happened after Layla left the Americourt area, who she met, and why no one with knowledge of her final movements has provided the information needed to bring the case to a conclusion. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

  3. 7h ago

    Mega Edition: Melanie Gigg And Her Testimony From The Lori Vallow Trial (10/1/26)

    Melanie Gibb’s testimony gave jurors an inside look at the belief system Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell had built around themselves before the deaths of Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow and Tammy Daybell. Gibb testified that Lori and Chad divided people into categories of “light” and “dark,” claimed some individuals had become possessed by evil spirits or turned into “zombies,” and performed religious “castings” they believed could drive those spirits out. She said Lori had described Charles Vallow, Tylee and JJ as dark or possessed before they died, while Chad and Lori believed they had been married in past lives and had a special spiritual mission connected to the 144,000. Gibb also testified that she personally saw nothing abnormal about JJ’s behavior even though Lori claimed he had become possessed. Gibb also became central to the prosecution’s case because Lori falsely told police that JJ was staying with her after he had already disappeared. Gibb initially repeated part of that story, but later contacted investigators and secretly recorded a December 2019 phone call confronting Lori and Chad about where JJ really was. On the recording, Lori refused to reveal his location and insisted he was safe, while Chad suggested Gibb was being influenced by dark forces. Gibb told jurors that Alex Cox later made a disturbing comment suggesting she did not want to know what had happened to JJ. Her testimony tied the couple’s increasingly extreme beliefs directly to the deception surrounding the missing children and gave prosecutors a firsthand witness who had watched Lori and Chad’s ideology become more radical as people around them began dying. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

  4. 9h ago

    Murder In Moscow: The Order To Preserve Crime Scene Evidence In Moscow

    On December 30, 2022, the court granted Bryan Kohberger’s request to preserve the crime scene at 1122 King Road and the physical evidence collected during the investigation. The order required the house, surrounding property, outbuildings, trailers, vehicles and curtilage to remain preserved, with the residence locked and crime-scene tape left in place. The court initially ordered that the scene remain preserved through February 1, 2023, unless another order changed that deadline. Prosecutors did not object to the defense request, allowing Kohberger’s attorneys and experts time to inspect and document the house before it was eventually altered and later demolished. The order went beyond preserving the house itself. It required the state to retain all samples and evidence collected or generated during the investigation for the defense, specifically including bodily fluids, blood, tissue, notes, slides, photographs and other relevant material. The purpose was to ensure that evidence potentially important to Kohberger’s defense would not be destroyed, consumed or otherwise become unavailable before his lawyers had the opportunity to examine it. The order became particularly important because defense experts later conducted multiple visits to the King Road residence, photographing and creating detailed 3D laser scans of the interior before the house was ultimately demolished. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

  5. 11h ago

    Murder In Moscow: Bryan Kohberger And The "Perfect Crime" Theory

    One theory surrounding Bryan Kohberger was that his academic background in criminology may have influenced how he allegedly approached the King Road murders, with some commentators suggesting he tried to create what he believed would be a nearly perfect crime scene. The theory pointed to the apparent use of a knife rather than a firearm, the lack of an obvious murder weapon left behind, the limited amount of physical evidence publicly tied to him and the alleged steps taken before and after the killings to avoid detection. His studies of criminal behavior, forensic evidence and law-enforcement methods fueled speculation that he may have believed he understood how investigators build cases and therefore knew what kinds of evidence to avoid leaving behind. But the idea of a “perfect crime” ultimately ran into the reality that even a carefully planned scene can generate evidence in unexpected ways. Prosecutors pointed to DNA on the knife sheath, surveillance footage of a white Hyundai Elantra, cellphone records and other evidence they said connected Kohberger to the murders. The theory therefore became less about whether he actually created a perfect crime scene and more about whether he may have tried to outthink investigators and failed. If that was the intent, the case became an example of how one overlooked object, one digital trail or one surveillance camera can unravel even a crime that may have been planned with forensic awareness in mind. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

  6. 13h ago

    Tyler Robinson Preliminary Hearing Transcripts (Day 2 Part 17) (9/30/26)

    Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recovered along the alleged escape route. A screwdriver found on top of the Losee Center and a towel recovered from a wooded area near the rifle became major points of testimony. The State Bureau of Investigation introduced an FBI laboratory report concluding that DNA from both Robinson and his roommate, Lance Twiggs, was present on the screwdriver and towel, evidence prosecutors argued helped connect Robinson to the rooftop area and to the abandoned rifle. The hearing also featured argument over the State’s allegation that Kirk had been targeted because of his political and religious views, an issue relevant to the victim-targeting enhancement prosecutors had attached to several charges The defense spent much of the day attacking how strongly the forensic evidence could actually be interpreted. FBI forensic examiner Amanda Bakker was questioned for roughly three hours as defense attorney Michael Burt dug into the technical details of the DNA testing, mixtures, statistical interpretation and the limitations of what the results could establish about when or how DNA was deposited on the objects. Robinson’s lawyers also pushed back against the State’s motive theory, challenging the attempt to characterize the killing as being driven by Kirk’s religious beliefs in addition to political disagreement. By the end of day two, prosecutors had added important physical evidence to the surveillance case presented on day one, but the defense had begun laying out the approach it would use throughout the hearing: concede that certain items contained Robinson-associated evidence while aggressively challenging what that evidence actually proved about possession, timing, motive and the circumstances of Kirk’s killing. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

  7. 15h ago

    Independent Report Details Security Failures Before Charlie Kirk Assassination (9/30/26)

    A 158-page independent review of the September 10, 2025 assassination of Charlie Kirk found significant security failures at Utah Valley University before and during the event. According to the report, the university did not conduct a formal security assessment, did not create a written event action plan and applied its own major-event policies inconsistently despite obvious risk factors, including Kirk’s high profile, expected protests, uncertain attendance and the use of an outdoor courtyard surrounded by elevated vantage points. Only three university police officers were initially assigned to secure an event that ultimately drew several thousand people, and there was no structured coordination with Kirk’s private security team or outside law enforcement. The report also found there was no dedicated real-time monitoring of campus security cameras, no meaningful line-of-sight assessment and no comprehensive pre-event security briefing. The review also found that Utah Valley University allowed Turning Point USA to control key decisions that directly affected security, including ticketing and the choice to keep the event outdoors even after concerns were raised about the venue. Because TPUSA handled registration, university officials reportedly lacked an accurate estimate of how large the crowd would become, and police did not request additional outside resources even after attendance swelled into the thousands. The report did not conclude that university officials acted maliciously or with willful disregard for safety, but it identified numerous shortcomings serious enough to produce nearly 150 recommendations for reform. Kirk’s family has since issued a wrongful-death notice against the university, alleging that reckless security decisions contributed to his death, while UVU President Jon Anderson has acknowledged the report’s findings and said the school has begun implementing changes. to contact me: bobbbycapucci@protonmail.com source: Charlie Kirk assassination report highlights several security failures at Utah Valley University Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

  8. 17h ago

    Judge Engelmayer Denies Ghislaine Maxwell's Attempt To Overturn Her Conviction (Part 8) (9/30/26)

    Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s attempt to overturn her conviction and 20-year prison sentence, dismantling the arguments she raised in a sprawling petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. Maxwell claimed that newly released Epstein-related records, alleged prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony and withheld evidence demonstrated that her trial had resulted in a miscarriage of justice. Engelmayer was unequivocal, finding that nearly all of her claims were either procedurally barred because they had already been raised or could have been raised on appeal, or were simply unsupported by the record. He described the evidence presented against Maxwell at trial as overwhelming and concluded that the purportedly new material she relied upon did not undermine the jury’s verdict. Engelmayer also found that much of the material Maxwell portrayed as exculpatory was either irrelevant or actually reinforced the case against her. He rejected all 10 principal claims in her petition, denied her request for an evidentiary hearing and refused additional discovery, concluding that she had failed to show any constitutional violation warranting relief. The court also declined to issue a certificate of appealability and certified that an appeal would not be taken in good faith for purposes of proceeding without paying filing fees. The August 25, 2026 ruling therefore left Maxwell’s conviction and sentence fully intact while closing one of her remaining avenues for challenging the verdict in federal court. to contacct me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

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Moscow is a city located in northern Idaho, United States, with a population of approximately 25,000 people. It is the largest city and the county seat of Latah County. The city is situated in the Palouse region, known for its fertile soil and rolling hills, and is surrounded by wheat fields, forests, and mountains.Moscow is home to the University of Idaho, which is the state's flagship institution and a major research university. The university is a significant contributor to the local economy, and many businesses in the city are directly or indirectly tied to the university. The city also has a thriving arts and culture scene, with several galleries, museums, and performance venues.In terms of recreation, Moscow has several parks and outdoor recreation areas, including the Latah Trail, the Moscow Mountain Trail System, and the Palouse Divide Nordic Ski Area. The city also hosts several annual events, including the Moscow Farmers Market, the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, and the Renaissance Fair. However, things would change forever after Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were murdered in the early morning hours of November 13th, 2022. What followed in the wake of the murders captivated not only the nation but the whole world as the authorities scrambled to find the person responsible for the heinous crime. This podcast will document the Murders In Moscow from right after the murders were committed all the way through the real time evolution of the trial of the person that the authorities say is responsible, Bryan Kohberger. We will also cover other stories that are based in the world of true crime that are currently in the courts or that are headed that way. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

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