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The biggest bombshells from Netflix’s ‘The Idaho Murders’ documentary
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A harrowing new docuseries on Netflix, "The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare," is shedding new light on the gruesome 2022 death of four University of Idaho students.
In November 2022, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were fatally stabbed at an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho.
Years later, on July 2, 2025, former Washington State University criminology student Bryan Kohberger, now 31, pleaded guilty to the crime, and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms in prison. He didn't say why he committed the horrifying crime.
A year later, on July 26, 2026, Kohberger claimed in a shocking turn of events that he is innocent and wants to withdraw his guilty plea. The latest twist in the case was not part of the series.
See below for the biggest bombshells from the three-part docuseries, which is now streaming on Netflix.
When surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke called the police, she tearfully said, "Something's happened in our house and we don't know what."
Funke said in the 911 call that her friends were, "not waking up" and and "passed out," not realizing their friends were dead.
The responding officers’ bodycam footage shows Mortensen, Funke and other friends — with their faces blurred out — sitting on the curb outside the house, as cops investigated the scene.
One of them tearfully told a cop, “you could have told us what happened before they sent a text.”
When the cop replied, “I have no idea what you’re talking about,” the victims’ friend explained, “they sent a text [message] to the entire university – before even telling us what happened.”
Blaine Eckles, the Dean of Students at the University of Idaho, explained onscreen that he was “flabbergasted” when the cops told him, “We have four dead individuals, and we think they may be college students."
He added that the protocol for crimes was to use an internal emergency alert system, to “get information out immediately” to everyone’s phones.
Anthony Dahlinger, chief of the Moscow Police Department, noted that the college didn’t give police a warning before they released the alert, and cops would have preferred if they had “collaborated.”
Cooper Atkinson, who was friends with Chapin, recalled that the alert said “homicide,” which was “a heavy word” that made everyone “freak out.”
“Most of us knew they weren't alive anymore, but didn't know what happened,” he said, adding that the college community was beset by “ongoing panic, phone calls, texts.”
Surviving roommate Mortensen was home the night of the murders, recalling that she heard a scream, and she heard one of her deceased roommates say, “Someone’s here.”
Mortensen told police, “I locked my door, because I was so scared.”
She added, “I remember hearing this guy’s voice that I didn't recognize saying, ‘You're going to be OK. I’m gonna help.’” She noted that he didn’t say it in “a nice way,” but rather, “in a weird way. Like, a weird tone.”
Kohberger was arrested over a month after the slayings, on Dec. 30, 2022.
In the weeks before police took him into custody, social media was abuzz with conspiracy theories about who killed the four students.
Atkinson recalled onscreen that he got messages on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, from people asking what he knew.
“There were accusations flying left and right. There were just no answers, so people were finding answers themselves,” he said.
Atkinson added that it was “hard” because they were “processing” it, and “trying to deal with our friends who just got killed – and also, protect ourselves from the internet.”
Chapin’s friend Peter Elgorriaga said, “I got a few of those messages – people saying that I’m the killer, I’m gonna get caught. Like, what are you saying?”
The murders happened between 4:00 and 4:25 a.m. on Nov. 13, 2022. The surviving roommates didn’t call the cops until nearly eight hours later, close to noon.
Kristi Goncalves, Kaylee’s mother, recalled that she asked the coroner if the victims could have been saved if someone called 911 sooner.
Kacy Johnston, who was friends with Kernodle, said that she “didn’t blame” the surviving roommates for “making the phone call late.”
“I can only imagine if it were me in either one of their shoes – I would have never believed what occurred in the house that night,” she said.
Dahlinger explained that there are “many reasons” why the victims’ friends didn’t call the police sooner.
“People are in shock, it's traumatic. I mean, I can't imagine being of that age, and being able to comprehend that this horrific thing just occurred,” he said.
Lilly Karaban, who was Kohberger’s classmate when he was studying Criminal Justice at Washington State University, said that she sat next to him in a class called, “Minds of a Serial Killer.”
“I remember him asking a question about every single topic in that class,” she said, adding that the class would “roll their eyes” because he asked so many questions.
She recalled that Kohberger “adored” that class, and it was like “a switch went off” in him.
Karaban remembered seeing Kohberger “sitting by himself, not talking to anybody” before class.
When class began, he was "a different person" and "actively taking notes on everything.”
She added, “I never saw him socialize, I never saw him at any party, any sporting event. He was in his own world.”
After Kohberger's arrest, Alivea, Kaylee’s sister, found a questionnaire that he allegedly posted on Reddit aimed at people who had been incarcerated for crimes.
“Some of the questions were, ‘why did you choose that victim or target over others?’” she said.
Another alleged question shown was, “Before making your move, how did you approach the victim or target?”
He also allegedly asked people what they were “thinking and feeling” after committin...
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