Idaho Justice

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Speaker 6 This is the police body camera video captured on November 13th, 2022, as Moscow, Idaho police responded to a 911 call.

Speaker 9 Yep, where's she at?

Speaker 10 Where's she at?

Speaker 11 She's just closer.

Speaker 11 Yes, he's coming.

Speaker 9 Moscow Police Department is being here again for yourself.

Speaker 14 But nothing would prepare police or this tight-knit community for the shocking murders that they discover in this house on King Road.

Speaker 17 A murder mystery in Idaho, four University of Idaho students were found dead in their off-campus apartment. It's now being investigated as a homicide.

Speaker 18 We all underestimated how interested the rest of the nation and the world would be in this case.

Speaker 20 Nobody was prepared.

Speaker 22 Roommate on scene states something about a male being in the room with them.

Speaker 21 Trying to get further.

Speaker 12 You may think you've heard this story, but tonight, we'll take you inside the investigation.

Speaker 8 We'll show you body camera video from the officer who first responded to the scene, and then the frantic moments that one of the surviving roommates recounts a man in a mask inside the house.

Speaker 11 I couldn't really see much of him, but I'm almost positive. He's wearing a full-blown outfit.

Speaker 11 And he had this mask that was just over his forehead and over his mouth.

Speaker 27 You'll hear from the friends who were on the scene that morning even before police arrived.

Speaker 32 As soon as you get there, you know something's wrong.

Speaker 33 And then what happened next?

Speaker 35 I went into the house.

Speaker 19 I think I walked just right in the door and Hunter already was like, everybody get out. And

Speaker 19 then he was like, somebody call them one.

Speaker 38 And you'll hear from investigators who launched a nationwide manhunt to unmask and arrest the killer who was found found thousands of miles away from the crime scene.

Speaker 41 You interviewed Brian Koberger.

Speaker 19 Yes.

Speaker 17 He would try to go and ask, well,

Speaker 17 why are you guys really here? And we said, well,

Speaker 17 I feel like you probably know why we're here.

Speaker 6 But this all began in 2022.

Speaker 24 It was the start of a new school year, a time of anticipation, hope, promise.

Speaker 18 Coming back to school at the University of Idaho really starts in the middle of August. You're packing up your car, it's filled to the brim.

Speaker 18 You can fit your entire life into a couple of boxes in the back of a sedan.

Speaker 19 What a time.

Speaker 37 Moscow at the beginning of the semester was definitely

Speaker 1 a very happy place and like you step on campus and it's like okay this feels right this feels good to be here.

Speaker 19 Everyone's really excited. The new people, the new classes, things we can do, people to meet.

Speaker 46 You know, you raise your kids and you're, you know, you just wonder,

Speaker 48 you know, at what point are they gonna kind of feel like they're independent enough to kind of fly the

Speaker 48 out of the nest, I guess, if you will. It's a cliche, but.

Speaker 34 Starting to adult.

Speaker 48 Yeah, starting to, you know.

Speaker 50 Among the students arriving here are 21-year-old seniors, Kaylee Gonzalves and Madison Mogan, along with Dana Cornodel, a 20-year-old junior, and 19-year-old sophomore Ethan Chapin.

Speaker 5 Four students just starting out, not knowing that soon their lives would violently collide with a PhD student in criminology at another university just across the state line.

Speaker 18 So on November 12th, is when that iconic photo is taken. The last known photo of the four victims, all together with their roommates, Bethany and Dylan.

Speaker 18 All six of them before their big night on game day.

Speaker 18 They've had so many Saturday nights just like this. There was nothing out of the ordinary about this Saturday night in Moscow, or so they thought.

Speaker 14 Hours later, friends make a horrific discovery.

Speaker 21 Ryan on location of your emergency?

Speaker 55 Something is happening.

Speaker 55 We don't know what.

Speaker 21 What is the address of the emergency?

Speaker 55 One month to.

Speaker 34 What is the rest of the address?

Speaker 55 Oh, King Smooth.

Speaker 27 What unfolds next is the stuff of nightmares.

Speaker 19 We saw it on our phones before. They told us directly.

Speaker 56 It was like, what?

Speaker 19 Quadruple homicide?

Speaker 57 We're calling Kaylee, it's going to voicemail.

Speaker 58 We're calling Maddie. She's not picking up.

Speaker 57 And in our minds,

Speaker 58 it wouldn't have been Kaylee and Maddie both. So I think that my mind just immediately went to like, nope, nope, nope.

Speaker 60 The most important thing to me was who did this?

Speaker 61 Why did they do it?

Speaker 60 This is Moscow.

Speaker 12 It doesn't take very long before state police, then the FBI all join the search for this this killer.

Speaker 17 We realized that there was a security camera right next door to our residence.

Speaker 17 Once we had that, we quickly realized that we had this white vehicle. And so that was the introduction of the white Elantra for us.

Speaker 34 We don't know when this person's going to strike again, if they're going to strike again, and the pressure on us to solve alone our own internal pressure was huge and at the same time, you've got the public pressure to find the perpetrator.

Speaker 13 There's a crush of media.

Speaker 56 It overwhelms the tiny town of Moscow, along with the lives of everyone touched by these shocking murders.

Speaker 60 There were, you know, YouTubers and TikTokers outside the house, you know, that want to live stream at our front door.

Speaker 19 And then someone comes up and like, oh, hey, yeah, what do you have to say?

Speaker 63 What do you have to say?

Speaker 31 like dude like get out of our face it just went absolutely insane but that's how the world is now so she's just trying to get through the days is really all i was doing you don't feel safe in any situation like that for months like you there's no feeling secure or safe i mean after the first couple of weeks we're like this guy's gonna get away with this

Speaker 37 But then, nearly seven weeks after the murders, finally, an arrest.

Speaker 64 And we want to get right to our breaking news.

Speaker 18 A specialized team of state troopers and federal agents taking brian koberger into custody early friday morning my mom just came into my room and she's like hey hey they they caught him they caught him i mean my first thought was who is that i have no clue who you are it was really shocking to learn he was a wsu student who had moved out to washington and pullman that summer to study at washington state university he was pursuing a phd in criminology and justice.

Speaker 66 For the first time, you'll see some of the hundreds of photos released by authorities just this week.

Speaker 23 They offer a glimpse into the secret life of Brian Koberger, and you'll hear what investigators learned from analyzing his digital life.

Speaker 45 He was a loner, no friends, no one really, except for his parents. He called them mother and father, even through text message.

Speaker 68 He didn't take a selfie to send it to someone else. It was very vain.
It was very much just him recording himself for that purpose only.

Speaker 29 But first tonight, we want you to get to know Kaylee, Maddie, Xana, and Ethan, who they were, how they lived their lives.

Speaker 69 And you'll hear how investigators say Koberger planned meticulously to end it all.

Speaker 17 Dylan had opened her door, and as she looked out, saw an individual in all dark clothing.

Speaker 18 Then she thought she heard a male voice say, I'm here to help you.

Speaker 43 And the crucial mistake he made that led authorities right to his doorstep.

Speaker 34 Boom, now we have something in this house from a joke.

Speaker 17 That was definitely the first aha moment.

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Speaker 30 Greek life at U of I is pretty tight-knit.

Speaker 39 We all do things together.

Speaker 19 The Soroidian fraternity is for their own little community.

Speaker 19 When I joined PiPi, I met Xana and I just felt welcomed in.

Speaker 19 You know how you meet some people and they're like, don't want to talk to you. She would talk your ear off.

Speaker 19 We had an entire friend group that we were always together. Xanna, Maddie, Emily.

Speaker 1 We were attached to the hip probably the first day that we met.

Speaker 14 We just clicked immediately.

Speaker 19 And I was like, oh yeah, these are my people. These are gonna be my people.

Speaker 74 Hi, my name is Xana Crenodl.

Speaker 30 I'm a marketing major here at the University of Idaho.

Speaker 69 20-year-old Xana Crenodle loved the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 12 She loved her friends.

Speaker 30 And she highlights both in this video that's posted on her sister's social media.

Speaker 74 And I really like just hanging out with my friends all the time and being super involved in school events.

Speaker 54 Xanna also really loved electronic dance music.

Speaker 19 We called her DJ DJ Xan because she was always like, oh, I'm gonna play music while we get ready. Like I have a video where she's jumping on the couch and the MacBook's jumping with her.

Speaker 19 Her face is so okay, your laptop.

Speaker 77 I've never met someone like Santa before.

Speaker 19 Ever.

Speaker 78 There was one night it had snowed and we see a sled and we just went flying.

Speaker 28 Her smile was contagious.

Speaker 79 I don't know that I ever saw Xana not happy.

Speaker 60 Cracking jokes, non-stop.

Speaker 31 If you ever had a bad day, maybe, you know, had a rough day, she'll make you happy.

Speaker 34 Like somehow, she'll make you laugh.

Speaker 80 There'd be mornings I'd wake up and I would pull out of the oven a burnt pizza because she tried to make pizza the night before and fell asleep.

Speaker 1 Xana, did you try to make pizza last night?

Speaker 39 And she'd be like, I guess so.

Speaker 38 In August of 2022, Xana moves into 1122 King Road with several friends.

Speaker 24 That includes Maddie Mogan, and together, the two girls work as servers at the Moscow restaurant Matt Greek.

Speaker 56 Also spending a lot of time at their house was Xana's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin.

Speaker 14 He's a triplet starting his second year at the University of Idaho with his sister Maisie and brother Hunter.

Speaker 82 The Chapin family invited me to their Idaho home.

Speaker 30 They opened up their photo albums sharing memories of the son and brother they lost.

Speaker 14 Was it always just assumed that the three of you would go to the same college?

Speaker 35 Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 34 It would have been tough to split us up, I feel like.

Speaker 35 We've kind of done everything together. Why not do college together?

Speaker 35 Me and Ethan join the same fraternity. Sigma Kype, I just kind of followed whatever he did.
I knew wherever we went, we were going to have a good time no matter what.

Speaker 48 I mean, he was kind of the dominant triplet, I would say.

Speaker 47 He just

Speaker 46 always had these two in tow.

Speaker 19 The boys were always together. And we met them, and they were immediately funny, like great guys.
And we were like, oh, you guys are being our friends.

Speaker 83 Alrighty, my name is Ethan Chapin. I grew up playing basketball and a lot of sports.
We were a pretty athletic family, so

Speaker 83 lots of sports, just kind of staying active and

Speaker 83 yeah, no questions, just ready to get going.

Speaker 35 We played every sport together, every time we went in the car, it was together, partied together, just everything we did.

Speaker 83 There was never a dull moment.

Speaker 35 Ethan always made things interesting and exciting.

Speaker 79 Whenever there would be a party, we'd be singing country songs. Fall in Love by Bailey Zerman, that was one of the first songs that Ethan and I had memorized together.

Speaker 60 I appreciated Ethan just for being just a goofball. You know, I mean, he was just funny as all hell.

Speaker 19 We knew Ethan and Xana liked each other. Me and Emily were like, they're gonna be together.
I know they like each other. And Xanta was like, no, no, no.

Speaker 19 And then Xana ended up being like, oh, he's cute.

Speaker 29 Tell me a little bit about watching Ethan and Xana.

Speaker 35 They were both such similar people. Like, they were both very outgoing and

Speaker 35 just fun to be around.

Speaker 34 Anytime they walked in a room, it would just kind of like everyone would be like, oh, Ethan and Xana.

Speaker 35 So it was kind of cool just to see them hang around. They always just kind of brought that same energy anywhere they went.

Speaker 25 It was an energy they also brought into singing a Luke Comb song.

Speaker 84 Beautiful,

Speaker 84 crazy.

Speaker 12 Or camping with their friends and spending time with Ethan's family.

Speaker 73 I liked her from the beginning. I remember one time you told Ethan that you could see him with her or something.

Speaker 19 Do you remember that?

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 73 I think that clicked for him.

Speaker 19 It's like my mom liked her.

Speaker 14 After visiting the triplets in early November, Stacey posts on Instagram, it's November 6th, she writes, best day.

Speaker 29 And they leave feeling like the kids are starting to find their footing as young adults.

Speaker 46 It was just an amazing weekend.

Speaker 48 We had lunch with Santa on Friday.

Speaker 46 We ate it Mad Greek.

Speaker 35 Going to the football games and just hanging out with all the kids.

Speaker 65 It was fun.

Speaker 48 And we drove away that weekend. We just were like,

Speaker 48 we've done it.

Speaker 46 We have three

Speaker 48 independent, self-sufficient kids.

Speaker 46 It was an amazing weekend. It was just an amazing weekend.

Speaker 85 It's just after that weekend on November 7th that according to a post on her sister's Instagram, Xiana turns in this English essay and it talks about having just seen a show with a bunch of her closest friends.

Speaker 29 And she wrote, It was amazing getting to experience one of my favorite songs with some of my best friends. That is one of the most important things you can do in life.

Speaker 69 Enjoy the ride, not the destination.

Speaker 19 She really liked living in the moment. She always wanted to be doing something.

Speaker 14 And as Xanna and her friends are savoring that college life, a student just across the state line is having a very different experience.

Speaker 18 Koberger started to get a really bad reputation on campus. He was starting to really lose control of his life.

Speaker 24 What do we know now about the criminology student whose work went beyond the classroom?

Speaker 61 His eyes really opened up when he's talking about Jeffrey Dahmer, a BTK, or Ted Bundy.

Speaker 14 2,500 miles away from Moscow, Idaho,

Speaker 14 are the Pocono Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Speaker 10 This is a rural community in Pennsylvania. It's really a lot of skiing and resort type communities.

Speaker 10 There's approximately 160,000 people living here, so it's a really backcountry sort of place in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 41 It's also where a young Brian Koberger grew up.

Speaker 56 He lived in this Monroe County home with his father, Michael, a maintenance worker, his mother, Mary Ann, who worked in education, and his two older sisters.

Speaker 33 What kind of household was Brian Koberger raised in?

Speaker 10 I would call his household an everyday common household.

Speaker 10 His parents were extremely involved in his life. I think even over the course of the last three years, he spoke daily with them.

Speaker 30 Tell me about education for Brian.

Speaker 10 Brian went to Pleasant Valley School District. It's on the west end of the Poconos.

Speaker 10 He attended middle school there.

Speaker 10 He then moved on to the senior high school.

Speaker 56 What kind of student was he?

Speaker 10 I'd say based upon what I've learned about the case, Brian was an average student in middle school and I think he advanced while he got into high school.

Speaker 29 On the surface, Brian appeared to have a pretty ordinary childhood, but when you talk to people who knew him, this quiet young man seemed to be struggling socially.

Speaker 14 Brian was an overweight kid growing up.

Speaker 88 It's come to light that some people that were on the same bus as him said that people would throw stuff at him because of his weight.

Speaker 89 They would make fun of him.

Speaker 10 We had issues being picked on when he was overweight and as it progressed in the high school, he got isolated from his friends that he had at that time.

Speaker 34 Every information we had was socially awkward, very few relationships.

Speaker 34 You know, as far as never really had what I would consider to be a girlfriend.

Speaker 66 I will say though that he was kind of skittish in a way, like he didn't really want to talk to people, not very social.

Speaker 10 A lot of things changed in his life.

Speaker 10 He had gone through a transformation.

Speaker 30 And are you talking about a physical transformation?

Speaker 10 Both physically, mentally, and I think just generally in life.

Speaker 10 He was overweight and he had lost a considerable amount of weight heading into maybe his ninth grade or 10th grade year.

Speaker 10 When he started losing the weight and trimming down, he'd like to do boxing or he worked out at the local gym. We had a trainer that he grew very fond of.

Speaker 56 And was that important in his life?

Speaker 10 Based upon everything that I've learned, it was very important. It kept him losing the weight, steaming forward, better improving his life.

Speaker 82 But that newer, thinner, more athletic version, Brian 2.0, if you will, also masked a deeper, much more troubling turn in his life.

Speaker 17 We know from our investigation into him, and we had looked at his past, and we know that he had some struggles with drug use earlier in his life.

Speaker 34 We find a history of an arrest in 2014.

Speaker 34 So of that history of arrest, we can get police reports. And part of the thing that came out of the police report said that there was a heroin addiction at the time.

Speaker 14 According to police reports that were reviewed by ABC News, in February of 2014, Brian Koberger had recently exited a rehab center and rejoined his family.

Speaker 23 And while he's home from rehab, Brian took his sister's iPhone.

Speaker 91 He called me to come pick him up and he wanted to sell a phone.

Speaker 54 In July of 2023, I spoke with a former classmate of Koberger's and he says he was unwittingly roped in to help co-burger

Speaker 14 at his request we're only using his first name

Speaker 91 so you're saying that you were leaving a party and he called you yeah he called me to come pick him up and to go like sell a phone somewhere and I was just like okay

Speaker 40 there's documents that ABC myself included have seen that show he stole his sister's phone.

Speaker 91 Oh, I didn't even know all that.

Speaker 40 So you thought he was trying to sell his own phone?

Speaker 84 Yeah.

Speaker 14 And at this time, did you know he had just gotten out of rehab?

Speaker 91 That I did not know either.

Speaker 40 Why do you think he was trying to sell that phone?

Speaker 91 Oh,

Speaker 91 we were trying to get something with it.

Speaker 91 That was a goal for sure.

Speaker 34 His father turned him in because at that point, they were kind of at their wit's end for dealing with the substance abuse addiction.

Speaker 62 Those same police reports, again reviewed by ABC News, confirm that Coburger was charged with misdemeanor theft, but local officials told us that he didn't serve any jail time.

Speaker 27 And what about the family dynamics at that time?

Speaker 10 I think the family supported him throughout the entire process.

Speaker 10 His family would say that they believed him to be sober ever since high school.

Speaker 10 Obviously that evolution led to him getting higher education, doing better in schooling, focused more on something that he really wanted to do, which was criminology.

Speaker 10 When he graduated high school, I think he actually got a security job right out of high school working for Pleasant Valley School District.

Speaker 10 He then transitioned after a year or two and he did attend Northampton County Community College where his interest in criminology grew.

Speaker 52 So he goes to Northampton Community College and then from there goes to DeSales.

Speaker 10 He goes to DeSales University to finish his degree, which this is an individual that appeared to be highly intelligent and turned his life around.

Speaker 14 According to a pretrial motion that was submitted by defense attorneys, the doctors had recently diagnosed Koberger as being on the autism spectrum along with OCD.

Speaker 29 And in the filing, they also state, Mr.

Speaker 14 Koberger has met the criteria for this diagnosis since childhood.

Speaker 53 Brian's defense team said that he suffered from autism spectrum disorder.

Speaker 25 Is that something the family thought he also suffered from?

Speaker 10 I don't know if the family thought that he suffered from a disorder.

Speaker 54 So, what provokes a person who appears to have overcome a difficult adolescence to then murder four people?

Speaker 54 And how did his life take a turn when Koberger left Pennsylvania to pursue his PhD at Washington State University?

Speaker 18 Professors said if we give him a PhD, we're going to end up seeing on the news that he's committing some kind of crime.

Speaker 93 We all probably wish we had a friend like Maddie and Kaylee were to each other.

Speaker 26 In August of 2022, five young women, including Kaylee Gonzalvez and Madison Mogan, all move into a house together.

Speaker 15 It's just off campus, right here on King Road.

Speaker 94 Kaylee and Maddie met in sixth grade, and they

Speaker 93 were always at each other's house or at Kaylee's sister's house.

Speaker 57 They were more than best friends. They were even more than sisters.
They were absolutely each other's everything through thick and thin.

Speaker 34 So that's Maddie at Christmas when she was just little. She looked so excited.

Speaker 94 Maddie, Maddie Mae, we called her.

Speaker 93 She was our first and only child that we ever had.

Speaker 94 And she was such a happy baby, just super easy and fun and smart and was just the joy of all of our lives.

Speaker 29 Maddie's dad, Ben, and her mom, Karen, divorced when Maddie was really little. Karen then married Scott Laramie, who raised and loved Maddie as his own.

Speaker 14 And together they appear in the Prime Video Daku series, One Night in Idaho, The College Murders.

Speaker 95 Maddie was Karen's mini-me.

Speaker 95 They looked alike and they acted alike and everything.

Speaker 95 For a long time, she just called me Scotty, you know.

Speaker 95 And then when she got older,

Speaker 95 it just made me feel so proud

Speaker 34 to be called that.

Speaker 18 I was very young, Mother.

Speaker 77 I was 22.

Speaker 77 So I was always so protective of Madison.

Speaker 77 This beautiful, peaceful little girl.

Speaker 24 I'd never let Maddie cry.

Speaker 90 Like,

Speaker 19 never.

Speaker 12 Kaylee is the daughter of Steve and Christy Gonzalves.

Speaker 54 She's the middle child of five kids, including her older sister, Olivia.

Speaker 14 And they grew up together near Cordelaine.

Speaker 57 I remember the day Kaylee was born. I was about four and a half years older than Kaylee.

Speaker 29 And you're a big sister, but you also ended up being best friends.

Speaker 52 What was it like to watch her evolve and become a young woman?

Speaker 97 It was the best.

Speaker 57 From the moment Kaylee was born, she was Henri, stubborn, Spitfire, so confident, so sure of herself. There was no timid bone in her body.

Speaker 59 Kaylee was the middle child, and she's your classic middle child syndrome.

Speaker 42 She would try to be really sweet at first, and then once you knew you liked her, then she could be a little bit more herself, which was a little honorey and do a prank on you or Kaylee was funny.

Speaker 19 Kaylee is this bubbly smiley girl and Maddie's always been described as just a little bit quieter.

Speaker 36 Yeah.

Speaker 54 How do they click?

Speaker 57 I think that something in Kaylee's soul recognized something in Maddie's and vice versa and it was never

Speaker 57 a question because

Speaker 57 As quiet as Maddie maybe was when they first met, man,

Speaker 58 man, she she blossomed.

Speaker 78 And as sharp and bullheaded as Kaylee was, man, she softened.

Speaker 57 And they complemented each other.

Speaker 96 You wouldn't see Kaylee without Madison. You wouldn't see Madison without Kaylee.

Speaker 96 My name is Donna Stobb. I'm an English teacher at Lake City High School.
And I had Kayleigh and Madison in an English class when they were juniors in 2017.

Speaker 96 So it was probably my second class of the day, if I remember correctly.

Speaker 61 And these two girls walked in just talking and laughing, life of the party.

Speaker 42 Her mom made it a point, too, that she was like, I just want her to have one friend that she can depend on. I don't care about her being super popular.
She's just, I just,

Speaker 10 if this could be the friend, and it just worked out that way.

Speaker 64 So then when college comes they were like we're gonna go to college together during high school they mentioned it early on they were going to go off to college together that was their plan living near cordalane idaho they were just about 85 miles or so from the university of idaho campus

Speaker 18 it's not until 2022 that kaylee and maddie live together they move into that house on king road with their friends Kaylee and Maddie were always at each other's houses, but this was the first time they'd really really gotten to live together and be roommates for real.

Speaker 80 That was definitely just a house where we all got to hang out and feel welcome.

Speaker 1 And, you know, we would have parties.

Speaker 35 Everyone who lived there just liked to have a good time, and so they'd always invite people over. That usually turned into some sort of social gathering, maybe a party.

Speaker 34 But

Speaker 34 I mean, it was always people that everyone knew, so

Speaker 35 everyone could just go there and feel safe.

Speaker 19 We were college kids. You're still innocent.
You're like, nah, nothing's going to happen.

Speaker 14 By their senior year, Maddie and Kaylee were looking forward to graduation, starting their next chapter.

Speaker 18 In mid-November in Moscow, it starts to get really cold. It's getting dark earlier.
There's a chill in the air.

Speaker 88 And soon.

Speaker 14 The lives of everyone in that house would be forever linked by tragedy.

Speaker 29 A tragedy no one could have ever imagined.

Speaker 80 Once the cop showed up and the ambulance arrived, we all were, where's Kaylee Maddie? Where's Kaylee Maddie? We were calling him, we were texting him, we were, you know, no answers.

Speaker 14 In May of 2022, 27-year-old Brian Koberger graduates from DeSales University.

Speaker 29 He's seen in this commencement video getting a master's degree in criminal justice.

Speaker 61 My name is Josh Ferraro. I knew Brian Koberger from our time at DeSales University.
We were paired up for this long project. We were all picking partners, and he was someone who was still there.

Speaker 61 So I said, Hey, do you want to be my partner? And yeah, that's how we met. He's like, Yeah, you know, my mission is to be a cop, something I want to do.

Speaker 61 But he didn't delve too much into his personal life. This guy's a lonely guy, keeping him himself.
I invited him to one of my parties one time. He's like, No, I'm good, man.

Speaker 61 And I'm like, All right, the offer is there, but no problem.

Speaker 60 Like, it's just trying to be nice.

Speaker 6 One of the classes the two men share as undergrads is psychological sleuthing, and it's taught by the renowned professor of forensic psychology, Dr.

Speaker 16 Catherine Ramslin.

Speaker 100 My area of expertise is extreme offenders, serial killers, mass murderers, but primarily serial killers.

Speaker 16 2020 spoke with Dr.

Speaker 14 Ramslin back in 2019 about her work studying the serial killer known as BTK.

Speaker 100 I think BTK is a very useful example of somebody who can grow up in a fairly normal childhood and become a serial killer.

Speaker 61 In that class, you study mass murders, you study serial killers, and she really delves into the psyche of their mind. Brian Koberger was really, really invested in the class.

Speaker 61 He took really quick notes and he'd ask a lot of questions. His eyes really opened up when he's asking a question or getting to the answer, talking about Jeffrey Dahmer or BTK or Ted Bundy.

Speaker 61 He was very proud of his intellect.

Speaker 29 While at DeSales, Koberger conducts a Reddit survey for an academic research project looking to understand the mind of a criminal.

Speaker 34 He put an online request to speak to convicted criminals

Speaker 34 to discuss the emotions they were feeling and decision-making that they went through when they were committing crimes. How did they choose their victims, all this stuff?

Speaker 30 In June of 2022, Koberger moves across the country to Pullman, Washington, pursuing a PhD in criminology at Washington State University.

Speaker 34 The University of Idaho and Washington State University are located just seven miles from each other.

Speaker 34 The student body are constantly traversing to come over to the different areas, whether it be for classes or social.

Speaker 101 There is definitely a crossover with the two universities. We're all one big community.

Speaker 67 At 27 years old, Koberger has never lived on his own before, and he moves across the country and lives here in this off-campus apartment complex.

Speaker 66 He spends the summer exploring the region, taking some of those selfies just released by authorities, and making several trips across the state line into Moscow.

Speaker 67 His cell phone records would later show that his phone pinged off a tower in that area 23 times in the months before the murders.

Speaker 6 He even gets pulled over one night in August.

Speaker 10 Hey there, I stopped you going a little fast.

Speaker 25 He's accused of speeding on the Pullman-Moscow Highway.

Speaker 79 Were you wearing your seatbelt when I stopped you?

Speaker 72 Judge, no. No.

Speaker 22 That's no good.

Speaker 22 Right.

Speaker 22 Just being honest with you.

Speaker 79 Yeah, I appreciate that.

Speaker 79 You guys are.

Speaker 79 There's

Speaker 79 absolutely no point.

Speaker 43 After the officer tells Koberger he's getting a $10 seatbelt citation, Koberger has some questions for the officer.

Speaker 22 I'm obviously an honest person, right? I told you I wasn't part of my seatbelt.

Speaker 72 It came from my own knowledge.

Speaker 24 Koberger accepting the citation.

Speaker 79 All right, have a good night.

Speaker 56 Tell me what the internship was that Brian Koberger applied for.

Speaker 63 So it was actually part of WSU's criminal justice justice PhD program where the student would be embedded in the police department to conduct research.

Speaker 43 How would you describe how he communicated with you on yourself?

Speaker 63 Just awkward, just a little bit socially inept perhaps. I didn't feel he could develop rapport and trust with my staff and didn't really speak in a fluid conversational manner.

Speaker 63 And so for those reasons, I didn't think he'd be a good fit for us.

Speaker 43 But Koberger does get a position as a teaching assistant at the university, which helps pay for his tuition.

Speaker 71 He was the TA for my criminal justice 420 class, which was criminal procedures. He was a little bit more strict with his grading.

Speaker 71 He gave several comments of feedback, you know, like saying, oh, well, this is a little bit too broad. This is not descriptive enough, stuff like that.

Speaker 102 Brian Koberger was pretty quiet. He didn't really talk too much.

Speaker 101 He kind of didn't really look at us directly.

Speaker 102 And he just seemed really kind of awkward.

Speaker 81 And outside of class, Koberger doesn't appear to be very social.

Speaker 45 He was a loner.

Speaker 85 Jared and Heather Barnhart analyzed Koberger's digital life, including his cell phone and computer records for investigators.

Speaker 68 He had 18 total contacts in his phone. One person was labeled as maintenance and another was AT ⁇ T.

Speaker 68 There were no texts to friends.

Speaker 10 It was just his parents.

Speaker 45 He called them mother and father even through text message. He would say, mother, where is father? Why isn't father answering me? And she would respond, your dad is in the garage, Brian.
He's working.

Speaker 45 It was all mother and father, hours of talking, text messaging.

Speaker 45 And we found all those selfies.

Speaker 68 Like very much staged selfies trying to catch himself in a certain manner.

Speaker 68 It's not weird that he was taking selfies. The weird part is that he never did something with it.
He didn't take a selfie to send it to someone else.

Speaker 24 As the semester progresses, instructors at WSU start to raise concerns about Koberger's conduct in the program.

Speaker 18 Koberger started to get a really bad reputation on campus.

Speaker 71 Sometime in November, I remember the professor saying, hi, so I'm switching some of my TAs.

Speaker 83 He didn't get any more in-depth.

Speaker 18 He didn't seem to respect female professors, was showing up late to class, having some weird social problems where like he would block doorways when students were trying to talk to him.

Speaker 17 They felt uncomfortable around him. They felt that he would try to at times trap them.

Speaker 18 And there were lots of allegations that he was bothering girls and this is especially problematic when there's a power dynamic.

Speaker 17 There was a common complaint of he's very controlling, that he's manipulative, that he treated women a certain way compared to men. disrespect.
He just had an odd, strange behavior.

Speaker 18 The university was on to him and professors said, we need to cut funding from this guy.

Speaker 18 If we give him a PhD, he's going to become a professor and we're going to end up seeing on the news that he's stalking women or he's committing some kind of crime.

Speaker 68 He received an email describing that he was on a performance improvement plan with the university in this role. It was somewhat satisfactory, but there were some problems.

Speaker 17 WSU did not intend to have him back as a teaching assistant.

Speaker 18 He was starting to really lose control of his life, kind of spinning out, away from home, isolated.

Speaker 41 Koberger is about to turn his PhD work into reality.

Speaker 20 He goes from a student to a killer.

Speaker 17 Is it somebody that trains and practices over and over and over and over again, and then at some point do they feel like they have to execute?

Speaker 37 Like a sick way of carrying out his thesis.

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Speaker 35 Hunter Johnson came up to me and I was like, Where's Ethan and Xana? And he's like, They're not here anymore. It's like, What do you mean they're not here anymore?

Speaker 35 He's like, I think they were murdered last night.

Speaker 19 He was like, Yeah,

Speaker 19 all four.

Speaker 90 We were like, What?

Speaker 19 It doesn't make no sense.

Speaker 98 Now to the murders of those four college students from the University of Idaho.

Speaker 52 And now, what happened minute minute by minute.

Speaker 50 You go into Zana's room.

Speaker 43 What did you see?

Speaker 34 Stabbing is close, personal, long-term. You got to be committed.

Speaker 30 The number of times that Kaylee was stabbed, there's no sugarcoating it.

Speaker 56 The first person to find them.

Speaker 32 As soon as you get there, you know something's wrong.

Speaker 7 And a survivor who saw the killer in the house, the third time she opens her door, she sees a male male figure.

Speaker 11 I just shut the door and walk in because I didn't know what to do.

Speaker 15 Now, just released inside his home and his mind.

Speaker 68 He was on a website called Serial Killer Timelines, and he just went down this list and clicked one after another after another.

Speaker 5 And the police body camera from the crime scene.

Speaker 22 I think we have a homicide.

Speaker 105 Secure the outside first.

Speaker 17 He made an absolutely critical mistake.

Speaker 49 What was the target?

Speaker 14 Just over the hill is the University of Idaho campus.

Speaker 39 This is Greek Row, the Sigma Chi house right there.

Speaker 30 And as you cross the street, you enter that off-campus housing.

Speaker 5 And this area in particular is really popular.

Speaker 6 Students sort of pass down the houses from generation to generation and in August of 2022, this is where five young girls moved in together.

Speaker 6 They're full of optimism, excited about life, and they're posting videos showing all of it online.

Speaker 30 We just called it the older girls' house.

Speaker 19 Maddie stayed there and then Kaylee moved there and then Xana moved there and then Bethany and Dylan moved there.

Speaker 14 And the sixth housemate was Kaylee's golden doodle.

Speaker 56 His name was Murphy.

Speaker 30 She was really excited to have the house dog, is what she called it, and everything I like to do with my dog.

Speaker 18 The King Road House is a three-story white house right in the middle of Party Central. The house is three levels.

Speaker 24 It has six bedrooms, two on each floor.

Speaker 18 Bethany's bedroom is on the first floor. Xanna and Dylan's bedrooms are on the second floor, along with the kitchen and the sliding glass door leading out to the porch.

Speaker 18 Kaylee and Madison's bedrooms are on the third floor. And Ethan was over at the King Road house a lot.

Speaker 78 It was always friends of Ethan that would go over, friends of Xana. friends of Kaylee and Maddie.
There was never anybody

Speaker 37 who shouldn't have been there.

Speaker 60 People didn't really have any interest in going into houses where they didn't know anybody.

Speaker 83 It was a party neighborhood.

Speaker 60 Just in the sense that, like, you walked over to that area on Friday and Saturday nights, listening for where people might be at, and then you see someone you know, you wander over.

Speaker 5 It's Saturday, November 12th. It's the last home game for the University of Idaho Vandals.
Celebration is in the air. Students start tailgating early.

Speaker 19 We had a lot of pregames before the football games. If the game was early, we would try and wake up early.

Speaker 19 Santa would usually be FaceTiming me, trying to wake me up, be like, hurry up, like, let's go.

Speaker 31 I had gotten texts from Ethan being like, why aren't you here yet? So I was like, okay, I won't keep you waiting any longer.

Speaker 19 The house on King, it was the cutest place to take pictures. Like you could go on the third floor patio.

Speaker 38 That patio was the scene of so many happy moments.

Speaker 14 Maddie's mom, Karen Laramie, shared those moments in the prime video docuseries, One Night in Idaho, The College Murders.

Speaker 77 Kaylee texted me with the picture of Maddie on her shoulders.

Speaker 19 Just loving this amazing happy moment.

Speaker 77 I called Maddie and she put me on FaceTime. And then I was having a conversation with all of them.

Speaker 69 Kaylee Gonzalves posted this last photo to Instagram writing, one lucky girl to be surrounded by these people every day.

Speaker 31 We were with our whole friend group, which was a normal weekend for us. We're just hanging out with our friends.
And then from there, we all kind of split off.

Speaker 19 And we were like, bye, I love you. Gave each other a hug.

Speaker 31 The triplets, they went to Maisie's formal. I think Xana just waited for Ethan probably.

Speaker 79 Ethan spent the beginning part of that night at the Betty's Ball with his sister. From there, he left with me back to Sigma Kai.

Speaker 52 The party continued after the formal

Speaker 52 and Ethan really wanted you to come party.

Speaker 73 So he started off by texting me. I think he said, dog, come hang out.
We all want you here. And was like, spam texting me and I said, I'm going to bed, I think.

Speaker 19 It was like nine, or I'm not going to go.

Speaker 73 And then he said, love you.

Speaker 18 And I didn't even respond to that.

Speaker 73 I think I was asleep by then.

Speaker 29 And the I love you kind of stood up, though.

Speaker 73 Well, yeah, yeah, definitely.

Speaker 27 Because you didn't just normally text that to each other.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 18 After the game, Kaylee and Maddie head down to the corner club.

Speaker 18 It's a big hangout for college students.

Speaker 18 They're having some drinks, hanging out with friends, and then they decide they need a snack, so they head downtown and they order mac and cheese from the grub truck.

Speaker 67 We live in this world right now where there are cameras everywhere.

Speaker 14 So we know that Kaylee and Maddie were at the food truck around 1.30 in the morning.

Speaker 59 Maddie was running around in that huge jacket, hugging people. Kaylee was just on her phone just laughing at Maddie.

Speaker 97 And she was just smiling and she was, they were happy, they were so happy.

Speaker 18 Maddie and Kaylee get a ride back to the King Road house using a ride share.

Speaker 82 And by 2 a.m., everyone's home.

Speaker 53 They're settling in for the night.

Speaker 18 It's like a sleepover. Kayleigh sleeps in Maddie's bed, just like they've done since they were kids.

Speaker 8 But Xana stays up.

Speaker 18 Xanna orders DoorDash, and it gets delivered to the King Road house a little after 4 a.m.

Speaker 17 She takes it up to the kitchen, puts some of her food onto a plate, and she's eating that in her bedroom. She's on social media the latest of 4.12 and just shortly after that.

Speaker 69 Everything seemed so normal in that home on King Road. But by the next morning, nothing would ever be the same.

Speaker 34 Emily got a call from Dylan around

Speaker 31 11-ish.

Speaker 106 That's when I felt like I needed to go over.

Speaker 33 And then what happened next?

Speaker 65 I went into the house.

Speaker 21 Right on the location of your emergency.

Speaker 55 Something is happening.

Speaker 55 Something happened in our house. We don't know what.

Speaker 34 We were complete panic.

Speaker 31 It's... This is...

Speaker 31 This is real.

Speaker 19 By 2 a.m., all the roommates are back home and settling in for the night.

Speaker 37 Police say, around 3 a.m., shortly after leaving his apartment and heading towards Moscow, Brian Koberger turns his cell phone off.

Speaker 18 We can see Koberger's car on footage captured by a surveillance camera that was at the neighbor's house.

Speaker 18 He keeps circling the area. He's making multiple passes at the house.

Speaker 17 We believe that Brian Koberger entered the house sometime shortly after he's last seen on the video.

Speaker 17 Somewhere probably around 4.10 a.m.

Speaker 14 Police say Koberger entered through a sliding glass door in the back of the house.

Speaker 14 Investigators believe Xanna was in her room with her boyfriend Ethan asleep in her bed, Dylan's across the hall, Bethany downstairs.

Speaker 14 And on the third floor, Kaylee and Maddie had fallen asleep together in Maddie's room.

Speaker 17 Xanna was up.

Speaker 17 We see activity from her watch of just steps that were taken. We know that she's eating, she's on social media at 4:12 and just shortly after that.

Speaker 14 After entering the house, investigators believe Koberger walked through the kitchen and went upstairs to the third floor, where he found Kaylee and Maddie together asleep.

Speaker 17 Kaylee and Maddie were both killed very quickly, but they were stabbed repeatedly many times.

Speaker 34 Stabbing is close, personal, long-term, violent action.

Speaker 34 You've got to be committed to do a homicide.

Speaker 18 What investigators think happened is that Xana heard the commotion.

Speaker 17 At some point, Xanna comes, we believe, up the stairs. Brian Koberger either hears something or he hears the stairs.
Something alerts him and takes him away from what he's doing in that bedroom.

Speaker 41 Investigators say Xanna turned and ran and that Koberger followed, chasing her downstairs to her bedroom.

Speaker 17 Xanna, after that initial contact in the doorway, she's fighting him. We know that because she has defensive wounds all over herself.
She fought like hell.

Speaker 17 And we think at that point, he realizes that there's a fourth person.

Speaker 17 And that's Ethan that's in the bed. So he reaches over and stabs Ethan.
It killed Ethan instantly. He continues to fight with Santa and ends up on the floor where ultimately he does finally kill her.

Speaker 20 At 4:17 a.m., less than 10 minutes after investigators believe Brian Koberger entered the house, the neighbor's surveillance camera captures what police describe as a loud thud, the sound of a whimper, and a dog barking.

Speaker 14 That camera is just about 50 feet from Xana's bedroom.

Speaker 17 In Xana's room, some things were pushed around, were moved around, and I think that's something that you're probably hearing on the video.

Speaker 15 Because she was fighting.

Speaker 106 Right.

Speaker 43 After Cobreger walks out of Xana's room, he then comes face to face with another one of her roommates. It's Dylan.

Speaker 17 Dylan was awakened by just some type of noises.

Speaker 17 Initially, she thought it was the dog, Murphy.

Speaker 18 Then she thought she heard a male voice say, I'm here to help you.

Speaker 17 We believe that is Brian Koberger saying that to Xanna. He's doing something to try to calm her, to make her relax of who he is and why he's in this residence.

Speaker 17 Dylan, as she had overheard multiple things throughout this time period, she had opened her door a couple different times.

Speaker 18 The third time she opens her door, she sees a male figure.

Speaker 34 The description was a thin, tall individual wearing a mask, almost described as a basketball player, physique, and bushy eyebrows.

Speaker 17 She momentarily saw him,

Speaker 17 and then he turned and he left the residence.

Speaker 34 He knows people were awake, probably believing at some point somebody called the police.

Speaker 34 I've got to get out of here. The fight was Anna.
Could have just wiped him.

Speaker 34 We'll never know what what made him pass that door up and head out.

Speaker 18 After that, Dylan is terrified. She starts texting Bethany, her roommate.
Did you hear that? I'm trying to call the other roommates. They're not answering.

Speaker 34 You've got somebody who had been drinking,

Speaker 34 was in and out of slumber, and somebody walks through in the middle of the night and still wonders in her own mind, did she see it or did she dream it?

Speaker 18 She makes a mad dash for Bethany's room and decides to run downstairs and spend the rest of the night with Bethany.

Speaker 14 As night turns into day, everything in Moscow is still quiet.

Speaker 14 But investigators say that Brian Koberger is awake.

Speaker 43 He's active.

Speaker 25 That includes spending more than an hour and a half on the phone with his mom and posing for a selfie, giving a thumbs up.

Speaker 12 Police say just after 9 a.m., Koberger is on the move and he's headed back to 1122 King Road.

Speaker 17 He's not seeing anything on the news. I think he certainly would expect this is going to be everywhere immediately.
So I think that his curiosity has absolutely gotten to him.

Speaker 17 And so he goes back to the area. But for all of his training, for all of his things that he's studied,

Speaker 17 crime scene and serial killers, PhD program for criminology, he made an absolutely critical mistake in that house that night.

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Speaker 19 I woke up in the morning, just kind of like chill, Sunday. Emily and Hunter came and were hanging out in my bed with me.
And then

Speaker 19 Dylan called Emily and asked us all to come over.

Speaker 31 I could overhear what was going on. She sounded freaked out.
I just had a gut feeling and something in me told me that I need to just go.

Speaker 32 As soon as you get there, you know something's wrong.

Speaker 19 I walked just right in the door and Hunter already went up.

Speaker 19 And then he was like, okay,

Speaker 36 everybody get out.

Speaker 43 Hunter finds Xana and Ethan murdered, but he decides to shield his friends from that reality.

Speaker 15 And he tells them only that someone inside is unconscious and to call 911.

Speaker 21 911 location of your emergency.

Speaker 55 Something happening in our house. We don't know what.

Speaker 21 Sasatching Moscow Law Ambulance for unconsciousness 1122 King Road Street.

Speaker 9 Where's she at?

Speaker 10 Where's she at?

Speaker 11 She's out close.

Speaker 9 Where at?

Speaker 9 Up here. Up here.

Speaker 9 Okay, give that.

Speaker 22 13, I think we have a homicide.

Speaker 17 I don't think any of us were prepared for that it's four young, completely innocent kids.

Speaker 9 Lots of police on it.

Speaker 22 Two college-aged people appearing both to be deceased. Lots of blood.

Speaker 9 Please far in.

Speaker 84 We're on the third floor going up. We have another one.

Speaker 22 We have two additional deceased on the third floor.

Speaker 105 Secure the outside first.

Speaker 9 Screw the front door.

Speaker 105 There's a back entry. I was going going to start taping it all off.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 9 Here.

Speaker 105 Can you guys go over to the dumpster for me, please?

Speaker 80 We were just placed on the street to sit down and wait.

Speaker 80 We were all cold. We were all scared.
Our brains just started to continue to spiral.

Speaker 11 I kept calling your name and she wouldn't answer when I saw the guy.

Speaker 12 Outside, police speak to Dylan.

Speaker 13 She's distraught.

Speaker 28 She's the roommate who told police she saw a masked man in the house that night.

Speaker 9 Describe the guy that you saw.

Speaker 11 He's a little bit taller than me.

Speaker 11 I'm almost positive. He was wearing a full black outfit.

Speaker 11 And he had this mask that was just over his forehead and over his mouth. And he didn't say anything to me, like, at all.
I just shut the door and locked it because I didn't know what to do.

Speaker 11 And I think he went out like the side door, the sliding door in the kitchen that goes up to the backyard.

Speaker 22 We have footprints coming out the back and open door.

Speaker 17 When we got there, that sliding glass door was left halfway open.

Speaker 50 You go into Xana's room.

Speaker 43 What did you see?

Speaker 17 Xanna was there.

Speaker 72 She was laying on the floor.

Speaker 17 And Ethan was on the bed.

Speaker 35 I got woken up by my friend. We had partied pretty hard the night before.
He's like, there's a ton of cops over at Xana's house.

Speaker 35 I walked over there. I didn't see Ethan outside, so I figured he was inside helping whoever needed to be helped.

Speaker 9 Okay, you might hang out here, please.

Speaker 35 Hunter Johnson came up to me and I was like, Where's Ethan and Xana? And he's like, They're not here anymore. I was like, What do you mean they're not here anymore?

Speaker 35 He's like, I think they were murdered last night.

Speaker 34 And you're at the grocery store.

Speaker 48 And I was talking to a friend.

Speaker 45 Fine. That's okay.

Speaker 48 And

Speaker 48 my phone kept ringing, and it was Hunter on the other end.

Speaker 48 And he just said he's not here. And he kept repeating it.
And so I was like, well, go get him, go find him. And he just kept saying it.
And he goes, no, mom, you don't understand.

Speaker 48 Ethan and Xanai are not on this earth anymore.

Speaker 48 I just was like,

Speaker 48 just no way.

Speaker 48 And I drove down the road and called Jim. And you know, it makes it real when you have to repeat it.

Speaker 34 It drives me crazy because I've always wanted to protect my family. And there was really nothing there that I could have done.

Speaker 34 Instantly,

Speaker 34 he was taken.

Speaker 19 We still didn't know where Kaylee and Maddie were.

Speaker 19 We didn't know where Murphy was.

Speaker 19 And then you of I sent the homicide text.

Speaker 14 Throughout the day, the University of Idaho sent campus-wide text messages with updates on the investigation about a homicide and an unknown suspect.

Speaker 67 But at 5.17 p.m., students get a text message that says, for the first time, four people have been killed.

Speaker 80 That was the moment that we knew where Kaylee and Maddie were.

Speaker 80 At what time do you think she was?

Speaker 14 The two surviving roommates, Dylan and Bethany, have received a lot of criticism.

Speaker 69 for not calling 911 immediately on the night of the murders.

Speaker 37 But they both told police they weren't certain that what Dylan thought she saw was real.

Speaker 11 I told her, Connected I need to come to your room because she was the only one that was answering me, so I just ran down there.

Speaker 11 And for a second, I stopped and I saw Xana passed out, and I thought maybe she was just like sleeping or something.

Speaker 9 I didn't think anything, but I just took out of it, and we just fell asleep.

Speaker 11 And then we woke up this morning, and no one was answering.

Speaker 17 We understand the disbelief that she's going through. What 19-year-old kid is going to come up with and assume what actually happened was happening.

Speaker 82 Investigators now know they're a few hours behind the killer.

Speaker 14 But as they walk into Maddie's third floor bedroom, police get their first big break.

Speaker 34 The comforter's over, the girls take the comforter off. Lo and behold, there's a knife sheath laying right there.

Speaker 18 They find a sheath for a K-bar style knife. There's no murder weapon, but the sheath is there.

Speaker 17 That was definitely the first aha moment.

Speaker 34 We have something in this house from the joke.

Speaker 62 Four murdered students,

Speaker 88 a panicked campus,

Speaker 6 and now the world's eyes on Moscow, Idaho.

Speaker 98 Now to the murders of those four college students from the University of Idaho.

Speaker 61 As investigators try to figure out what happened in that house on King Road, we've told the public very clearly from the beginning that we believe it was a targeted attack.

Speaker 18 They said, oh, this was a targeted attack, nothing to worry about. And my first question was, but you don't have anybody.

Speaker 18 That means there's somebody still out there.

Speaker 18 How could we not worry?

Speaker 61 We don't want to put our investigation in jeopardy by releasing what we have.

Speaker 34 The investigation grew massively. We were trying to get every piece of video footage from that day from every surveillance camera in town captured from that night.

Speaker 18 Right across the street from Xana's bedroom is a house. They have surveillance footage of a white Hyundai Elantra circling the house in the early morning hours of November 13th.

Speaker 17 We quickly realized that we had this white vehicle during this time leaving at a very fast high rate of speed

Speaker 34 you can see it is burning out of that neighborhood

Speaker 34 so we believed at that point this was the vehicle of our subject

Speaker 34 so we narrowed it down to a 2011 to 2016 elantra

Speaker 34 Believe it or not, when we ran Idaho registrations and just looking local, we had over 25,000.

Speaker 109 The search to track down that car has no limits.

Speaker 101 We are just wanting to talk to the individuals who are in that vehicle.

Speaker 29 Investigators also have a crucial piece of evidence found at the crime scene left behind by the killer.

Speaker 69 A sheath for a K-bar knife.

Speaker 34 This knife sheath was found under Maddie's body in the bed.

Speaker 17 Immediately, it stood out because it was in stark contrast to the entire house.

Speaker 34 About four days in, the lab came back and said they had a sole-source male DNA found on the button of the nice sheath. But there was no matches in CODIS for that DNA.

Speaker 17 Once we know we had the DNA from the sheath, then we flew that to Othrum and then they started to develop and work their part of it.

Speaker 87 Authram is a company in which we build technology to basically bring certainty to investigations.

Speaker 87 Forensic genetic genealogy is a tool that we use to identify someone or find a nearest relative.

Speaker 87 So I got a call and I was asked what is the fastest that we could produce a result.

Speaker 87 Kristen was adamant that we get these folks answers.

Speaker 111 I can't imagine that being my child and knowing that there's someone out there that could help. We have to help.
How fast can we get this DNA?

Speaker 106 It was a sergeant from the Moscow Police Department who got on a plane in Boise.

Speaker 106 They flew directly to Texas and hand-delivered it to Authram.

Speaker 111 They brought us down a tube of DNA that was remaining from that knife sheath.

Speaker 87 That DNA extract contained a lot of DNA. It was not a trace amount of DNA.
It was 500 times more DNA than we generally see in our low-quantity DNA cases.

Speaker 14 The technology at Othrum is then able to build a profile that's uploaded to genealogy databases, which search for people who are connected to that unknown DNA.

Speaker 87 In this particular case, there was a unique biogeographical ancestry that allowed us to kind of narrow the search even early on.

Speaker 87 And what we found is that there was a multi-generational American family based in Pennsylvania, genetic relatives that were related to the person we were looking for.

Speaker 12 While there's a massive multifaceted investigation working to find him, Ryan Koberger leaves Washington and heads home to Pennsylvania for winter break.

Speaker 30 He drives across the country with his father in that white Hyundai Elantra.

Speaker 19 Hello, how you doing?

Speaker 68 How y'all doing today?

Speaker 18 So it's a long trip from Moscow, Idaho, all the way to Pennsylvania. Koberger's pulled over twice during this time.

Speaker 35 Right up on the back end of that van that pulled you over for tailgating.

Speaker 68 So y'all work at the university there?

Speaker 22 Actually, we work there.

Speaker 18 And he's pulled over for following a vehicle too closely, both times.

Speaker 51 By the time the Kobergers arrive back in Pennsylvania, the FBI had taken over that genetic genealogy search from Othrum.

Speaker 67 And just over a month after the murders, investigators get a name.

Speaker 34 On December 19th, the investigative genealogy team leader calls in and he says, hey, Darren, he goes, I have a first name for you. It's Brian.

Speaker 34 And he goes, hey, we also have a last name for you, Koberger. And he drives a white Hyundai Lantra.

Speaker 17 Once we had his name at that point, immediately we knew that he was in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 50 When did the surveillance on him start?

Speaker 17 Immediately.

Speaker 34 He only left the house three times, and he was noticed to be wearing rubber gloves all the times he had left the house.

Speaker 18 They need a way to test that DNA, so they pulled the trash.

Speaker 34 The agent on scene had made contact with the trash company to be able to ride the truck to collect the trash.

Speaker 34 They sort anything that could contain DNA. They found an item in the trash that had male DNA that comes back and says, we have DNA in this trash that is the father of the DNA left on the knife sheath.

Speaker 106 Once we had the DNA paternity match from the trash pole.

Speaker 43 From a Q-tip specifically.

Speaker 106 Yeah, we knew at that point that we had the person whose DNA was on that sheath.

Speaker 34 At that point, you have what you need to get an arrest warrant for Brian Coburger.

Speaker 6 And news of an arrest spreads fast.

Speaker 64 The big story on Action News tonight is a major break in the murder of four Idaho college students.

Speaker 103 People in this sleepy Poconose community are stunned.

Speaker 34 We got light feed.

Speaker 34 We saw the armored vehicles roll in, them make entry, and we get the call out in custody.

Speaker 64 And we want to get right to our breaking news as we come on the air, the arrest of a 28-year-old man in Pennsylvania in connection with the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students.

Speaker 29 Nearly seven weeks after the brutal murders, an arrest is finally made.

Speaker 34 Pennsylvania State Police make that arrest. We've got live feed coming from the helicopter from Pennsylvania State Police.

Speaker 34 We are getting constantly updated on what's going on, telling us, yes, they've got Brian in the house. We saw the armored vehicles roll in, them make entry, and we we get to call out in custody.

Speaker 110 Detectives arrested 28-year-old Brian Christopher Kohlberger in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 67 Kohlberger faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary.

Speaker 64 Authorities have not revealed a possible motive just yet.

Speaker 103 People in this sleepy Poconose community are stunned that one of their own has been arrested in connection with this grisly crime.

Speaker 34 Agents from the Scranton office of the FBI after the arrest interviewed Brian's parents. They were, you know, aghast.
We do know

Speaker 34 there was conversation among the family about, hey, Brian does drive a car like that.

Speaker 34 Do you think, you know, and it was immediately

Speaker 34 quashed. There's no way Brian could do this.
No way.

Speaker 34 Nobody can comprehend that their child is capable of something like this.

Speaker 50 What was his reaction to the national media attention?

Speaker 10 He was very surprised, actually. He didn't realize that it would garner national media news, I would say.

Speaker 19 Really?

Speaker 10 Yeah, it actually was. It was surprising

Speaker 10 because he inquired as to which outlets were actually circling.

Speaker 112 Police department, search warrant, come to the door.

Speaker 13 After the arrest, police in Washington searched Koburger's apartment.

Speaker 24 And in these just-released photos, you can see the Spartan place he left behind.

Speaker 38 One of the few personal items they found is a birthday card from his parents.

Speaker 10 He was

Speaker 10 taken back to the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks immediately upon being arrested and had given what turned out to be about a two and a half, three hour statement.

Speaker 10 What was a significantly long time that he interviewed until he asked for an attorney?

Speaker 54 What did he tell you about that interview?

Speaker 10 He was very limited. I didn't want to know a lot about the case because he was going to have an attorney that would represent him on the murder charges.

Speaker 10 I want to make sure he's aware of how the process is going to play out. I want to make sure he understands that the death penalty may be considered in the case.

Speaker 82 You thought right away it would be a death penalty case.

Speaker 26 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 10 I had zero doubt.

Speaker 5 Brian Koberger agreed to be extradited and he was flown across the country to the Moscow-Pullman airport and then brought here to the Leyto County Jail to face murder charges while the world watched on.

Speaker 18 When they brought him off the plane, people were like, we got him. Thank God he wasn't a local.
He wasn't one of us.

Speaker 14 Koberger's attorneys enter a not guilty plea for him, insisting that he's innocent.

Speaker 37 But prosecutors decide to pursue the death penalty.

Speaker 14 And as they prepare for trial, they dig into every part of Koberger's life, particularly his digital life, sifting through his Amazon purchase history that showed he bought a K-bar knife and sharpener back in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 30 And they look at his cell phone and computer searches right up until the days before his arrest.

Speaker 68 On Christmas night, in the 11 o'clock hour, heading into the very early morning of the 26th, he was on a a rudimentary like website called Serial Killer Timelines. Just a list of hyperlinked names.

Speaker 68 And he just went went down this list and clicked one after another after another for like two hours.

Speaker 68 December 27th, there's some sort of a show that he watched.

Speaker 68 It's a YouTube and it's Ted Bundy sort of standing facing forward with a hood pulled up and over the front and on 1229, just two days later, he's taking a picture of himself looking like Ted Bundy.

Speaker 14 And although investigators weren't able to make a direct link between Brian Koberger and any of the victims, those digital forensic experts did find something interesting on his phone.

Speaker 45 The FBI gave us keywords and said, okay, search for these things. We needed victim names.

Speaker 90 We needed what did they call their Wi-Fi.

Speaker 45 So all these things we searched for it. And I remember saying to Jared, I have a hit for Mad Greek.

Speaker 51 Remember, Mad Greek is that Moscow restaurant where Maddie and Xana both worked.

Speaker 45 This search for Mad Greek, however he arrived at it, was done through the Google Maps app.

Speaker 68 What we can say is that Mad Greek was presented to him on his phone.

Speaker 10 It doesn't necessarily draw a hard line to these victims.

Speaker 64 Now to the sudden and stunning turn in the Idaho College murders case.

Speaker 64 After insisting his innocence for nearly three years, defendant Brian Koberger today pleading guilty to fatally stabbing four students.

Speaker 18 Koberger had maintained his innocence the entire time, but he decided to change his plea from innocent to to guilty. That was huge.

Speaker 14 And as part of that plea deal, prosecutors agree to take the death penalty off the table.

Speaker 106 We got what we wanted, and we got what the want of.

Speaker 52 When you say we got what we wanted, though,

Speaker 50 that we does not include all of the victims' families.

Speaker 52 There are victims' families that have been very public about wanting more, perhaps a taped confession, the location of the murder weapon.

Speaker 26 You don't felt like you, you didn't feel like you could have asked for those things.

Speaker 106 There was no legal way we could have compelled those.

Speaker 106 And quite frankly,

Speaker 106 there is nothing that he could have said that I think would have been credible or believable.

Speaker 106 And the minimizing and the lies that would have even been more damaging and frustrating to everybody.

Speaker 59 Received. Thank you.

Speaker 30 Without a trial.

Speaker 26 Koberger moves right to a sentencing hearing and the loved ones for the victims finally get their own day in court.

Speaker 65 All right, so with that let's start with then impact statements.

Speaker 58 I just wanted to reclaim their power.

Speaker 57 The truth is they're as dumb as they come.

Speaker 82 Sloppy, weak, dirty.

Speaker 62 Brian Koberger pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder.

Speaker 43 But he still has to sit and face the families of his victims.

Speaker 65 All right, so with that, let's start with then impact statements.

Speaker 38 The first statement comes from one of the two surviving roommates, Bethany Funk.

Speaker 29 She's unable to be in the courtroom herself, so her statement is read by her friend and also one of the first people to arrive at the house that day, Emily Alon.

Speaker 99 I was so frantic that morning and scared to death, not knowing what had happened.

Speaker 99 And when I made the 911 call, I couldn't even get out the words.

Speaker 99 And from then on, I don't remember a thing.

Speaker 99 I wish more than anything I could hug them one last time.

Speaker 99 And I wish I could tell them how much I love them.

Speaker 99 I will keep living for them as long as I am lucky enough to still be here.

Speaker 29 And then it's the second surviving roommate, Dylan Mortensen.

Speaker 79 Dylan, just take your time, all right?

Speaker 19 I was barely 19 when he did this. I was forced to learn how to survive the unimaginable.

Speaker 19 I couldn't be alone.

Speaker 19 Then there were the panic attacks. The guy that slammed into me like a tsunami out of nowhere.
I can't breathe.

Speaker 19 I can't think.

Speaker 19 I can't stop shaking.

Speaker 19 Living is how I honor them. Speaking today is to help me find some sort of justice for them.

Speaker 19 He may have taken so much from me, but he will never get to take my voice.

Speaker 62 One after another,

Speaker 6 family members describe the loved ones they lost.

Speaker 49 And notably among them is Kayleigh's sister.

Speaker 56 Olivia Gonzalves.

Speaker 57 My sister Kaylee and her best friend Maddie were not yours to take.

Speaker 57 They were not yours to study, to stalk, or to silence.

Speaker 58 The whole time I just wanted to reclaim their power, reclaim their voice, especially in a way that, you know, really was the end to this chapter.

Speaker 51 You got under a skin.

Speaker 77 Absolutely.

Speaker 30 Disappointments like you thrive on pain, on fear, and on the illusion of power.

Speaker 66 The truth is,

Speaker 57 the scariest part about you is how painfully average you turned out to be.

Speaker 57 The truth is, you're as dumb as they come.

Speaker 66 Stupid, clumsy, slow, sloppy, weak, dirty.

Speaker 7 Did you say everything that you wanted to say?

Speaker 57 For the most part, yes.

Speaker 46 I didn't want to break eye contact, so that gaze was so intense

Speaker 57 and it really did feel like a standoff.

Speaker 57 You want the truth? Here's the one you'll hate the most. If you hadn't attacked them in their sleep, in the middle of the night, like a pedophile, Kaylee would have kicked your

Speaker 57 ass.

Speaker 54 The Chapin family was not at the sentencing.

Speaker 37 They chose instead to honor Ethan privately.

Speaker 37 Hi!

Speaker 14 The Chapins recently got to visit that DNA lab that played such a crucial role in solving this case.

Speaker 30 It came after a chance meeting a few years back.

Speaker 46 This stranger, who I did not know, came up and she just wrapped her arms around me and hugged me and she just said, we are working on your case and you don't have to worry.

Speaker 111 Everything will be okay.

Speaker 46 Everything's going to be okay. That there will be justice in the outcome.

Speaker 111 I mean, that was what I was trying to relay. Right.

Speaker 46 And that's how it felt.

Speaker 44 Jim and I would rely on that information to, you know, in your toughest days, you were like, Kristen told us not to worry, and we use that.

Speaker 29 The Chapins now want to help advocate for the work being done at this lab.

Speaker 46 Maybe our family could become a face for the victim side of what these people do.

Speaker 13 If we can make a positive impact for the future on some level, it's important.

Speaker 84 I miss him every day.

Speaker 34 When you lose your son at 20, it's a different loss.

Speaker 34 And I miss him every single day.

Speaker 60 Alrighty. It's nice that, you know, when we have so many different photographs and videos and we can still hear their voices, they were some really, really cool people.

Speaker 19 It helps to remember them and not what happened to them.

Speaker 80 Hopefully one day they're just seen as who they are and not what happened to them.

Speaker 101 And just as college is starting again, there's now a memorial garden at the University of Idaho with a plaque bearing the name of each of the four victims.

Speaker 113 A touching tribute. As for Brian Coburger, David, he received four life sentences, one for each of his victims, and an additional 10 years for burglary.

Speaker 113 As part of that plea deal, he waived his right to an appeal. That's our program for tonight.
Thanks so much for watching.

Speaker 24 I'm Deborah Roberts.

Speaker 98 And I'm David Muir from All of Us here at 2020 in ABC News.

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