Early in the morning of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were found brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho. The victims were Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. 

On Wednesday – in a sentencing hearing at Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho – Bryan Kohberger received four life terms as well as ten years for felony burglary. Those sentences will run consecutively and Kohberger has waived both any right to appeal or any chance of parole as part of a plea deal that sees him avoid the death penalty. 

On today’s episode of On The Case, to go through that sentencing and what we’ve learned in the days since, editor and investigative reporter Laura Collins is joined again by acclaimed journalist Howard Blum, whose latest work When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders has become an instant bestseller, and by forensic and clinical psychologist Dr. Gary Brucato, a visiting scholar at Boston College and co-author of The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime. 

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Early in the morning of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were found brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho. The victims were Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Maddie and Kaylee, both asleep in Maddie’s bed, were killed first. It was just after 4am but Xana was still up having ordered a food delivery; he stabbed her next before moving onto kill Ethan where he slept. There were no signs of forced entry - the lock of the door he slipped through was broken - and two other roommates inside the house survived. Weeks later, after an investigation shrouded in secrecy, authorities arrested the then 28-year-old Washington State University criminology Ph.D. student Bryan Kohberger at his family home in Pennsylvania. On July 2nd, Kohberger pled guilty to the murders, as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. His sentencing has been set for Wednesday July 23rd, and he will spend the rest of his life in prison. 

In this episode On The Case, Laura Collins, an editor and investigative reporter at the Daily Mail in New York, sits down with Howard Blum, whose latest work When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders has become an instant bestseller, to discuss the story so far and get into some of the questions that still remain unanswered. 

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In December 2024, Urfan Sharif along with his wife Bainash Batool and brother Faisal Malik went to prison for their roles in the murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif. 

This followed a 10-week trial at the Old Bailey where jurors and journalists were in tears when they heard in horrifying detail the abuse Sara suffered at the hands of her family members. In this episode Andy Jehring is joined by the Daily Mail’s crime and security editor Rebecca Camber who covered the trial for the paper. Together Andy and Rebecca go through every twist and turn of this highly unusual trial.

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In the early hours of the 10th of August 2023, Surrey police receive a phone call from a man named Urfan Sharif. During the phone call he confesses to killing his own daughter, 10 year-old Sara Sharif. What the police didn’t realise was that he was 1000s of miles away in Pakistan. He had gone on the run with his wife, brother and remaining children. In this episode we follow the extraordinary man-hunt conducted by the Pakistani police to flush out the wanted fugitives. We also examine the diplomatic minefield the police had to navigate in the absence of an extradition treaty between the UK and Pakistan.

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In 2003, a man named Urfan Sharif arrived in the UK on a student visa after leaving his home in Jehlum, Pakistan. Sharif spent the next 20 years terrorising and abusing the women and children in his life. In this episode, Andy tracks these 20 years by speaking to other journalists that have covered this case. We also have an exclusive interview with Angelika, the woman who Sharif dated when he was 26 and she was still only a teenager. She recounts the controlling behaviour that eventually led to her being held captive and violently attacked. Finally we look at the missed opportunities that authorities had to stop Sharif, who would eventually go on to murder his 10-year-old daughter Sara in 2023.

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When Ellie Baxter’s mum and dad wanted help setting up their new business, they called in a young local said to be a whizz with computers.

Ten years later they were found dead - and Ellie was accused of her parents’ murder…

Now, with the real culprit behind bars, she tells a story with more plot twists than any TV drama…

In this episode, Ellie exclusively tells Katie Knight about what it was like to come face to face with Luke D’Witt – her parents’ killer and someone she thought of as a friend – for the first time since his arrest and how she only learned about the exact horrifying circumstances of her parents’ murder in the courtroom, where she was a witness for the prosecution. 

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When Ellie Baxter’s mum and dad wanted help setting up their new business, they called in a young local said to be a whizz with computers.

Ten years later they were found dead - and Ellie was accused of her parents’ murder…

Now, with the real culprit behind bars, she tells a story with more plot twists than any TV drama…

In this episode, Ellie exclusively tells Katie Knight about the moment that she discovered her parents’ bodies, at home in Mersea over Easter Weekend in 2023, and about her subsequent arrest on suspicion of their murders. 

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When Ellie Baxter’s mum and dad wanted help setting up their new business, they called in a young local said to be a whizz with computers.

Ten years later they were found dead - and Ellie was accused of her parents’ murder…

Now, with the real culprit behind bars, she tells a story with more plot twists than any TV drama…

In this episode, Ellie exclusively tells Katie Knight how her parents’ killer Luke D’Witt, who they treated like a son, wove an extraordinary web of lies and deceit so that he could control and ultimately take their lives by secretly overdosing them on the prescription medicine promethazine. 

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As a single father, the situation becomes too much for Marlon and he asks for Scarlett to be taken into care as he believes this is the only way to keep her safe. During her stay in some of the care homes, Scarlett encounters more predators and when she tries to report them, she isn’t believed. 

Now aged 19, Scarlett is finally free of her groomers and her father Marlon is calling for a national enquiry into the grooming gangs that are terrorising the UK.

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As Scarlett gets drawn deeper and deeper into her groomers clutches, she begins to go missing for weeks at a time. Her dad Marlon, in desperation, spends his nights searching for his daughter. He reports her missing to the police over 50 times in the space of a year but the police do nothing. And when the police finally do get involved, she’s arrested and strip-searched when she’s only 14 years old. 

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