Great to talk About The Idaho Four with Mosheh Oinounou, the inspiring TV News producer-turned-entrepreneur and founder of the wildly successful Mo News that is here on substack, but also on Instagram and other platforms.
Watch the full conversation on Vicky Ward Investigates.
Thank you Tom Kudla, Char Grant, Barbara Grinell, Danielle, Kris O, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.
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Yesterday I spoke to Ava Wood, a University of Idaho graduate about how she’s feeling in the aftermath of Bryan Kohberger’s sentencing for a quadruple homicide.
Ava was close friends with Kohberger’s four victims: Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Had Bryan Kohberger gone to trial, rather than opting for a plea deal at the eleventh hour, she would likely have been in the witness box because she had received a subpoena from Ann Taylor, Kohberger’s defense lawyer, something that confused and worried her.
In The Idaho Four, James Patterson and I describe how Ava went to 1122 King Road late morning on November 13th 2022 because she heard police sirens, and when she looked out of her kitchen window she saw an ambulance arriving and Emily Alandt, Xana’s best friend sitting on the ground, shivering and crying. (Emily and her boyfriend Hunter Johnson had been called to the house by Dylan Mortensen who had seen Kohberger the night before and had thought she was hallucinating, until, hours later, none of her roommates answered their phones). Hunter Johnson had entered the house and discovered the bodies of Xana and Ethan Chapin.
Watch the two part conversation on Vicky Ward Investigates.
Hey Everyone,
There’s a lot to post: today I spoke to the brilliant Wajahat Ali for an hour and then to Ava Wood, a University of Idaho student who features prominently in The Idaho Four. I will be posting both those interviews in the next 24 hours.
But, some breaking news: I just heard from James Patterson my co-author, that our book The Idaho Four is Number One on both the NYT Non-Fiction hardcover list and on the combined print and ebook nonfiction list – for a second week!
Thank you for supporting this important book!
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Last week I talked with Wajahat Ali about Jeffrey Epstein. You can watch it at Vicky Ward Investigates
What a couple of weeks it has been!
First, I want to thank all of you for bearing with me these past weeks through the launch of The Idaho Four. I know you’ve been inundated with videos of me talking about little else…
But:
Last night, I was still wiping away tears after the oh-so-powerful victim impact statements made by three victims’ families in the sentencing of murderer Bryan Kohberger in the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho when I got a call from Jim ( aka my co-author, the legendary James Patterson) who told me that The Idaho Four had made it to Number One on the New York Times Non-Fiction list. (And, that it had also made it to the top of the New York Times’ combined print and e-book non-fiction list.)
I stopped crying when I heard that!
Getting to Number One has always been my goal for this book, partly because, as I reminded Jim, when we first teamed up he cleverly challenged me: “I know you’ve been on the NYT bestseller list before, but I don’t think you’ve ever been Number One before…”
That’s a dangerous thing to say to someone as competitive as me!
But I always felt in my bones that this book would touch people.
Because there was something about this horrific tragedy that spoke to all of us, including people who don’t care about True Crime. The four murdered college kids, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were so brimful of promise; so beautiful; so vibrant.
The photograph of them taken the day before they died, the same photograph that is on the book’s cover, radiated joy, possibility, and also normalcy.
And yet what happened to them was anything was anything but normal.
Read the full Substack article at Vicky Ward Investigates.
Yesterday afternoon, Chris Cuomo and I shot the breeze about Epstein, Trump, The Idaho Four and much else.
He and I wondered aloud why both the President and Attorney General, Pam Bondi didn’t do what they are, in fact, now doing, and ask the Court to un-redact grand jury material. It was, we agreed “a head-scratcher’.
Until, it wasn’t.
When I read the Wall Street Journal piece that was published online hours later, about Ghislaine Maxwell’s folder containing alleged birthday messages from Trump, Leslie Wexner and Alan Dershowitz to Jeffrey Epstein, I immediately did a google-search for the one thing that was missing from the piece: the year of his fiftieth birthday.
I discovered that Epstein’s 50th birthday was January 20th 2003.
That gave me chills. Why? Because it was around that date that my piece on Jeffrey Epstein, in the March edition of Vanity Fair hit newsstands. (The magazine always hit newsstands weeks before the month it was published in).
Read the rest of my thoughts and watch the full conversation at Vicky Ward Investigates.