{"id":350141,"date":"2023-02-10T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/?p=350141"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:26:50","slug":"horror-in-idaho-what-really-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/2023\/02\/10\/horror-in-idaho-what-really-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror in Idaho: What Really Happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Victims a few days before the murders. PHOTO: @kayleegoncalves on Instagram <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On Nov. 13, 2022, four students at the University of Idaho were found stabbed to death in a house near the campus in Moscow, Idaho. Ethan Chapin (20), Madison Mogen (21), Xana Kernodle (20) and Kaylee Goncalves (21) fell victim to leading suspect Bryan Kohberger who is facing four counts of first-degree murder and a count of felony burglary. It took police more than six weeks to identify a suspect, and now the 28-year-old is held in custody without bail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Moscow Police, Goncalves and Mogen went out to the Corner Club Bar in Moscow from approximately 9:00 pm on Nov. 12 to 1:45 am on Nov. 13. Chapin and Kernodle, who were dating, went to the Sigma Chi House on the University of Idaho campus between 10:00 pm on Nov. 12 to 1:30 am on Nov. 13. Two other roomates who survived the attack, Dylan Mortenson and Bethany Funke, were also out in Moscow that night. At approximately 1:30 am Goncalves and Mogen were seen on video at a local food vendor called the \u201cGrub Truck.\u201d Both of the roomates made statements that all of the occupants of the off-campus rental home on King Road were home by 2:00 am on Nov. 13 and asleep or in their rooms by 4:00 am. The statements made by the roomates were revealed in the chilling 18-page affidavit released on Jan. 5 that outlines key evidence that exposes Kohenberger as a suspect. However, at approximately 4:00 am, Kernodle received a DoorDash order to the King Road Residence and went back to her room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the affidavit, Mortenson stated that she originally went to sleep in her bedroom located on the second floor and was awoken at around 4:00 am by strange noises, crying and a man\u2019s voice saying something to the effect of \u201cit\u2019s ok, I\u2019m going to help you.\u201d The roommate opened her door two times, and on the third time saw a figure clad in black clothing and a mask who appeared to be a man with bushy eyebrows walking towards her. The male walked past her, and Mortenson stood \u201cfrozen\u201d according to court documents. Investigators believe that the murders took place between 4:00 am and 4:25 am. According to ABC News, authorities were not alerted until 11:58 am by a 911 phone call from one of the roommate\u2019s phone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While investigating the crime scene, a knife sheath was found on the bed of Mogen and Goncalves\u2019 bedroom on the third floor. A single source of DNA was found on the button snap of the knife sheath that connected the sample to another sample of DNA collected from trash of Kohberger\u2019s parents\u2019 home in Pennsylvania. The trash revealed that Mr. Kohberger was most likely the father of the person who left DNA on the knife sheath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the night of the murder, a white Hyundai Elantra was seen on surveillance footage from 3:29 am to 4:20 am. A Washington State University police officer discovered that the car belonged to Kohberger on Nov. 29. On Nov. 13, the car made three passes by the King Road Residence and then left the area. At around 4:04 am, the vehicle entered the area a fourth time and was seen quickly departing the area at approximately 4:20 am. During the time of the murders, records revealed that Kohberger disconnected his phone from the network and did not turn it back on until 4:48 am. However, at around 9:12 am, Kohberger\u2019s phone was detected near the crime scene for nine minutes according to the New York Times. According to the affidavit, the suspect\u2019s phone account was opened on June 23, 2022, and his phone \u201cprovided coverage to the area of 1122 King Road on at least twelve occasions prior to Nov. 13, 2022.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan Kohberger had taken a keen interest in criminology in his past. He received his bachelor\u2019s degree from DeSales University in 2020 and Masters of Arts in Criminal Justice in June 2022, according to the New York Times. Kohberger then became a PhD student at the department of criminal justice and criminology at Washington State University where he worked as a teacher\u2019s assistant. Even after the murders, Kohberger went on with his normal routine of attending class, grading papers and leading class discussions. After hearing the news of their son\u2019s arrest, Kohberger\u2019s family was in \u201cshock\u201d and wrote that \u201cwe have fully cooperated with law enforcement agencies in an attempt to seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence rather than judge unknown facts and make erroneous assumptions,\u201d said to Jason Labar, the chief public defender of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, in a statement released on the Kohberger\u2019s family behalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kohberger appeared in court on Jan. 12 for a status conference and delayed the preliminary hearing until June 26 to ensure enough time to gather evidence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The preliminary hearing will allow both sides to provide evidence and call witnesses to the stand. It will last about five days to decide if Kohberger, the suspect, is innocent or guilty of murdering four University of Idaho students. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Nov. 13, 2022, four students at the University of Idaho were found stabbed to death in a house near the campus in Moscow, Idaho. Ethan Chapin (20), Madison Mogen (21), Xana Kernodle (20) and Kaylee Goncalves (21) fell victim to leading suspect Bryan Kohberger who is facing four countsContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":350150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-","post-350141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pacenews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/files\/2023\/01\/idahomurderscmyk-scaled.jpg?fit=2003%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TYqQ-1t5r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350331,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350141\/revisions\/350331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}