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‘A Letter? Really?’: Nancy Grace Erupts Over Prosecution Leaving Idaho Victims’ Families ‘Out Of The Equation’

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Former HLN host Nancy Grace tore into “weak” Idaho prosecutors Wednesday, saying they left the families of four murdered college students “out of the equation” when making a plea-bargain in a quadruple-murder case.

Bryan Kohberger accepted a plea bargain Monday on four counts of first-degree murder of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Kernodle’s boyfriend Ethan Chapin in November 2022, agreeing to plead guilty in exchange for not facing the death penalty. Grace said the prosecution needed to “man up” and be prepared for a trial.

“I’m a crime victim. A lot of what happened at my fiancé’s murder trial is really blurry to me… but I do remember the felony prosecutor speaking to me and Keith’s family before he went forward with a trial or any potential sentencing and spoke to us and had agreement with us,” Grace told “America’s Newsroom” co-host Bill Hemmer. “Long story short, I feel that the family was left out of the equation. I’ve got the letter that they sent the family. A letter? Really? A letter instead of a meeting?”

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“Listen, there is DNA… on the murder weapon she found under the dead body. What more do you really need?” Grace said. “I find it’s weak. Sounds to me like somebody didn’t have the spine to take the case to trial.”

Prior to making the plea deal, the judge denied defense motions to suggest that someone else committed the crime and to further delay the trial, which had been scheduled to start August 11. Hemmer asked why Grace claimed the prosecutors lacked the “spine” to take the case to trial.

“Yes, it will be a long trial. It’s gonna be a battle start to finish and you don’t know the outcome. You are rolling the dice, but that’s what trial work is. Man up, get in there, do it,” Grace responded. “That’s what they are paid to do. They have an incredible treasurer trove of evidence. And all this business about the family gets to look him in the eye at sentencing. He probably won’t even look at them. And at sentencing they speak, he doesn’t. We will never know what really happened. We would learn that at trial, but there’s not going to be a trial.”

“He will be forever shrouded in the mystique like Ted Bundy… and BTK,” Grace continued. “You know what is going to happen, Bill Hemmer? He will take this deal, go to jail and then one day we will see him on a Zoom at some big symposium where he tells his side. Total B.S.”