Brian Entin on Charlie Kirk Missing Roommate, Gabby Petito & Masked MONSTER | 353
Julian Dorey · 7 Nov 2025 · 2h 46m
Guest: Brian Entin · Host: Joey Def, Julian Dorey
Brian Entin, a national correspondent who spent over a decade in local news before covering the Gabby Petito case, walks through his career reporting on some of the biggest crime stories of the last several years. He describes camping out in a tent on a neighbor's lawn near Brian Laundrie's house for weeks, paying that family to use their property, and the ethical lines he weighed around following the Laundries, sitting on information he learned from police, and how the case's massive social-media following shaped coverage decisions. He details his reporting on the Charlie Kirk shooting, including a visit to the rooftop where Tyler Robinson allegedly fired, and raises specific questions about the crime scene being paved over quickly, the lack of an autopsy, and communication missteps by officials, while stopping short of endorsing conspiracy theories. He also recounts covering the Bryan Kohberger case from days after the murders through the surprise guilty plea, his relationships with victims' families including the Gonzalez and Chapin families, and his own theory about Kohberger's possible motive. Throughout, he reflects on the emotional toll of getting close to grieving families, the ethics of local TV news versus online outrage culture, why he avoids taking ideological sides, and his newer venture building an independent YouTube channel alongside his network job.
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- Introduction and background in local news
- Growing up in Miami, love of local news
- Camping on neighbor's lawn near Laundrie house
- Legal and ethical lines covering Petito case
- Brian Laundrie's disappearance and search
- Body cam video and police mistakes in Moab
- Missing white girl syndrome and launching Missing series
- Charlie Kirk assassination coverage and rooftop visit
- Questions about crime scene, autopsy, and official statements
- Starting his own YouTube channel
- Victim families' differing reactions to the plea deal
- His father's career as a criminal defense lawyer
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“Unless you're really there on the ground, you don't realize that this is not a game. This is not entertainment. It's like real people.”
“I don't care if if you killed someone,”