Gem State: The Idaho Student Murders

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S3E4: The Ignominy of Perpetual Incarceration Aug 07, 2025

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Our host is joined by KBOI legal correspondent Ryan Black, who helps break down the sentencing hearing and what comes next for Bryan Kohberger.

S3E3: A Stunning Reversal Jul 31, 2025

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Bryan Kohberger shocks everyone and changes his plea, but why? The evidence against him and the surprising revelations that surfaced in the months after the murders.

S3E2: Who is Bryan Kohberger Jul 24, 2025

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Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home. He has just been sentenced to four consecutive life sentences, but who is he? And how does a seemingly ordinary student commit such a heinous crime?

S3E1: Murders in Moscow Jul 24, 2025

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Four University of Idaho students, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Kaylee Goncalves, were brutally murdered in their off-campus home. Bryan Kohberger has just pleaded guilty to the murders, but to understand what really happened that night, we have to go back to the beginning.

Coming Soon: The Idaho Student Murders Jul 21, 2025

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S2E4: The Author Oct 08, 2024

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Tom Evans was Juror #18 on the Lori Vallow Daybell trial. He wrote a book about his experience, and the Lori Vallow case following the trial called Money, Power, Sex: The Lori Vallow Daybell Trial.

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S2E3: The Juror Sep 17, 2024

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Juror #9 joins the podcast to give his account of what it was like to sit on a death penalty jury, and to deliberate the fate of Chad Daybell.

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S2E2: The Detective Sep 10, 2024

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S2E1: The Reporter Sep 03, 2024

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Gem State returns for Season 2 in the trials of Chad and Lori Daybell. Chad faces the death penalty, and this time around we are getting a behind the scenes view with some of the people closest to this case.

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S1E11: Life Aug 04, 2023

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At the sentencing hearing for Lori Vallow Daybell we hear from two people we have not heard from yet, Lori Vallow herself, and Judge Boyce. Hear what Lori Vallow has to say for the first time in her own words, and what Judge Boyce thinks about it all when pronouncing her sentencing.

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