When the Night Comes Falling A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

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Something that's been lost in the whole coverage of this case and trying to get to the bottom of a perplexing mystery is the lives that were lost.

These children will never have the opportunity to have changed these lives.

I'm gonna have the last laugh.

He's always right.

I believe until the moment he's arrested, he still believes that he's gonna get away with things and he's gonna be back teaching in the next semester at Washington State University.

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He literally wrote the book on it. It was a bestseller called When the Night Comes Falling, A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders.

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It's not a production company that's exploiting this case but it's an author because recently a new book has been published and it's all about the Idaho 4 murders. This book was written by Howard Blum who worked as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair... his latest one is called When the Night Comes Falling, a Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders.

In this book Howard lays out the timeline of the murders. He claims that Maddie Mogan was in fact the target and that she was the one killed first.

All of the book is fact. At several points in the book, I theorize about what people are saying or thinking. But the basic elements, the police procedurals, how the killer is caught, the background of the young students, and the subtitle of the book is a requiem for the Idaho Stevens murderers. He also says the book is full of speculation.

Law enforcement has not said that Maddie was a target, nor have they released a full timeline of who was killed in what order. Howard opened his book up by writing from Brian's dad's perspective and also wrote about how the murders changed the victims' families forever.

Maddie's family released a statement saying Mr. Blum's book, in our opinion, is fiction. We have never spoken with him about the contents of his book.

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The Kirkus Review says it, quote, thoughtfully probes into the motives of key players in this intriguing yet profoundly unsettling story.

It was an intriguing title. Well, When the Night Comes Falling, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

And I thought, well, falling from the sky is a little too much. So just when the night comes falling.

It's such a harrowing account, and it's so well written. Hearing you speak about it now, it gets me so queasy.

And I'd like to think that when the night comes falling is the best source of information to what really happened.

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i'm now writing a book about the with vicki ward about the uh the uh Idaho murders and um they certainly have a very strong suspect there they have whole bergen jail and uh but we'll see where that goes

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I have poured over every document, every search warrant, every return, every witness statement that I could get my mitts on.

I believe, oh yeah, good times, freezing!

I managed to finish this book in one day. I practically could not put it down.

I had it in two forms. I printed out what I had and had it on my iPad so I could look at it no matter where I was.

You had me sitting in the Costco parking lot in the heat reading your book, trying to get to the next chapter before I came back home.

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Renowned author and author of a brand new book, which is amazing. I read the entire thing cover to cover. When the Night Comes Falling, a Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders.

What do you make of what you are hearing?

Well, what I've been hearing all along is that the defense is going to be trying to get the evidence as we speak. So how can they hand it over when they don't have it yet?

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And guys, remember, we're not having high tea at Windsor Castle. Jump in with your own theories and questions. The state could use them.

I'm curious as well, and you devote a lot of time to this in your book, When the Night Comes Falling, about the delay on Dylan Mortenson's part. She actually sees the killer leaving the home. There is a serious delay.

I think she was locked in a state of terror. I also believe Coburger, as he descended and passed her on his way out of the house, was locked in his own state of mania.

If Dylan had spoken out, if she had tried to penetrate the moment that he was locked in, I think she would have died.

And so Howard Bloom said that he believed Keely was the target. Now, Bloom is saying Maddie was the target and Keely was in the way.

You often have to go to state of mind as a trial lawyer.

And, you know, I think you were with us at some point at CrimeCon before last, Joe Scott, when I finally got to meet Ethan's mom, who is just amazing. No, you were not with us. But then later when you were speaking, she stood up and started talking.

Also, we are learning from Howard Bloom's new book, When the Night Comes Falling, that there is blood evidence that Ethan Chapin jumped up and confronted Brian Koberger to protect his sweetheart, Zanna Kurnodle.

I know that you have researched this so much that it may have become, you know, SOP to you. But to us, the revelations that you make in your book are, let me just say, illuminating.

In his book, Howard Bloom describes at the very beginning the austere room where the murder case was worked at police headquarters.

And he says law enforcement divided their facts, marshaled their evidence into two categories, empirical and rhetorical. Empirical, the hard evidence. Rhetorical, the why. And that's what we are doing tonight. Again, Howard Bloom, thank you for your book and for joining us again to part two of the analysis.

And we barely scratched the surface, the analysis of what you have learned about the Koberger investigation. Thank you to our other expert witnesses. But especially to you for joining us as we seek justice in our own way.

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I have poured over every document, every search warrant, every return, every witness statement that I could get my mitts on.

I have flown to Idaho, to Moscow, Idaho in the midst of winter and trudged through the snow to look at the scene as best as I could to drive the route, I believe, oh yeah good times, freezing!

I still learned so much from reading Howard Bloom's book the name When the Night Comes Falling A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders Wow, even the title made me stop and in the midst of everything we all do in regular life, you know working your children your cat your dog your mom I Managed to finish this book in one day. I practically could not put it down.

I had it in two forms I printed out what I had and had it on my iPad so I could look at it no matter where I was Howard Bloom It's amazing. You had me sitting in the Costco parking lot in the heat Reading your book trying to get to the next chapter before I came back home. I appreciate that.

I've never been accused of being kind before so I will take that with a box of salt. I want to get right to it.

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And I wanted to honor them. I wanted to honor the lives, uh, that they lived.

Oh, wow. That's awful when you think about it. I know just the other day they celebrated, I guess a better word is marked, uh, Kayla Gonsalves' what would have been her 23rd birthday.

And I think that's one of my things, the favorite things I love about the book when the night comes falling by Howard Bloom, B-L-U-M.

And that's how he describes it at the university. But Brian tells his father, I'm going to have the last laugh.

He was disdainful of these students. I mean, all the things that you would expect if this guy really is a quadruple murderer, he wasn't perfectly normal in the classroom.

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Howard Bloom joining us, you probably know him very well by now, all of you legal eagles, because I sure do. I felt like I knew him before I ever actually met him on air because he's the author of When the Night Comes Falling, a Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders. You can find him at HowardBloom.com.

I think it's a very cynical move by the defense. What they're trying to do ultimately is buy time. Whether the trial takes place in Moscow, where it should take place, where the community needs to have its literally wounds healed, or it takes place in Boise is not going to make a difference to the verdict.

And another thing about Howard Bloom's book, When the Night Comes Falling, a Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders, he and I got a ton of hate mail online the last time he discussed his book.

Now if you disagree with him fine, but this is not fiction that he wrote in When the Night Comes Falling.

It was a extremely violent and brutal crime. Consider the suspect went into the third floor bedroom and found Maddie. I believe she was awoken from sleep. Imagine being awakened from deep sleep and then by a man above you with a knife. He slaughters her.

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again... straight out to Howard Bloom, spelled B-L-U-M, pronounced Bloom like the flower, author of a hit book, When the Night Comes Falling, a Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

the definitive book on Brian Coburger. It's called When the Night Comes Falling, and I've got to tell you, I read every word

And it was really illuminating, Howard. Very illuminating.

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Howard Bloom ... research and investigation over months culminating in his new book. When the night comes falling, a requiem for the Idaho student murders.

author of When the Night Comes Falling, a Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders.

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Howard Blum, a renowned author, he wrote, When the Night Comes Falling, Requiem for the Idaho Students Murder.