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Two of the families of the Idaho college student murder victims are furious over the Bryan Kohberger plea deal ... but the other two families are fully behind the move.

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00:00There is extreme anger by at least two of the families who had family members slaughtered

00:10in the Idaho murders, where Brian Koberger has now cut a plea deal with prosecutors where the

00:17death penalty is off the table. He will plead guilty as early as tomorrow to four counts of

00:24murder and then spend the rest of his life behind bars. Two families say it is an outrage and they

00:32weren't even notified ahead of time that this was going to happen.

00:36Right. And there is, as Harvey said, the anger is coming from the Gonsalves family. Their daughter,

00:43Kaylee, was killed that night and also from the Kernodal family. And Zanna Kernodal was

00:54the victim that night. But both of their families have said they were not only blindsided by this,

01:01but they are angry and did not want this outcome. They wanted their day in court to face

01:09Brian Koberger and it didn't happen. The judge has to approve this and

01:13that could be a wild card. We don't know. They're going to go to court tomorrow

01:17and presumably they're going to ask the judge to accept the plea. There have been cases where

01:22judges have rejected it. I don't really see it here. But I will say this. We found another case

01:29in the late 90s. 96. And it was interesting because it was similar. There was a stabbing,

01:35two people stabbed. The same DA who was the DA now was the DA then. And they did the same thing.

01:43They took the death penalty off the table. And in this case, we have been calling the DA. We've been

01:49hammering them on the phones. They are radio silent. No explanation for why they're doing

01:55this. As a matter of fact, we talked to one of the family members who said they had a meeting late

02:01last week and they were trying to prepare them for trial. And then all of a sudden, this happens.

02:06Right. So that's and that's the reason for the anger. Now, we should say that there are

02:11two other families that are on board with this and actually think that this is going to save them

02:18and the families of all the victims, a lot of heartache and going through this trial and

02:23potentially years of appeals.

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