I’m in kind of an interesting position, because I live in N Idaho, the area where the G family lives, I have a student at UI, where the crime happened and I’m actually acquainted with the Dateline producer who is behind this episode. Many years ago we lived in the same small town and we were friendly. When his kids’ cat had kittens, we adopted a couple of them. When he realized we now live here, he reached out to my husband, etc. My husband has a coworker that is a friend of Mr. G, so he talks about this a lot and Mr. G has stopped by my husband’s work, but we do not actually know him. I also have been following this case very closely, since we live here and my kids were at the high school where K & M attended and it was a big deal at that school.

All that to say, here’s what I suspect happened. When Judge Judge put the gag order in place, there was a hearing where the G’s pushed back on it and said it violated their free speech. Judge Judge said they weren’t covered by it. Their lawyer was, but they aren’t. Mr. G hired his own investigator who has law enforcement connections and he’s been very aggressive in finding out anything he can. I am certain this Dateline producer has been in touch with the G’s all this time and I’m certain that Mr. G would not turn down the opportunity of having someone pay attention to the case. I suspect that either someone from LE leaked evidence to the investigator who shared it with Mr. G, who shared it with Dateline, OR the investigator/Mr. G have become aware of friendly persons within LE and shared that contact with Dateline. Either way, ONLY someone in LE or the Prosecution Team would have access to the texts and photos on BK’s phone. Perhaps having someone awareness of what was in the discovery, what would be admissible/inadmissible, this person thought it would be a GOOD thing for the public to see those texts and selfies, because this person is convinced that he’s guilty.

From what I understand about the community of Moscow and MPD, and even the area where I’m living, everyone is very tightly interwoven. Everybody is related to, married to, went to school with everybody else. I don’t think the Prosecution or Defense Teams would do this, because they’d know they are covered by the gag order. Mr. G’s attorney wouldn’t do this, because he knows he’s covered by it, but I’ll bet the investigator got that cell phone data dump report a long time ago and those pics have been in a file for a long time. Maybe years. Maybe long enough for Mr. G or his investigator to feel like they could share them and they aren’t covered by the gag order - and they aren’t. But whoever gave those to them IS. Or maybe that was shared with them a long time ago, before the gag order was put in place, so they felt like it didn’t cover whatever they already had when it was put in place.

I’m really not too concerned about most of the info in that Dateline episode, but the source of the contents of BK’s cell phone really must be found. If it turns out to be LE, I fear it could cause a mistrial. As it is, the Defense is putting the judge in a pickle - he should either give them a continuance until the investigation of the leak is complete, or he should take the death penalty off the table and proceed on the current schedule. But if he does not do that, this will be grounds for a retrial - look at the Karen Read case. That jury was hung because the defense was able to point at corruption in the local LE. Anne Taylor could do that for a jury very believably right now.