Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin were all asleep when he entered their college rental home and stabbed them to death. Xana Kernodle (Chapin's girlfriend) valiantly fought back against the intruder, who was masked at the time, but ultimately succumbed to her injuries: She suffered numerous defensive wounds and was stabbed more than 50 times.
The crime was so disturbing that even law enforcement officers were unsettled by what they saw, and the victims' families and friends still have a slew of unanswered questions, not the least of which is, Why them?. While the new NetflixdocuseriesThe Idaho Murders: College Nightmare(that hits Netflix today, July 29) doesn't answer all of their questions, it does shed some light on certain aspects of the horrific crime that many hadn't known about before.
University of Idaho murder victims Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan ChapinIdaho Statesman / Getty Images
One element missing from the docuseries is Kohberger's withdrawal of his guilty plea, which took place on Monday, July 27, 2026—long after the docuseries was completed.
"A lot went wrong in those plea discussions. I really do want that to be heard. Unanswered questions seem to multiply with each piece of discovery unsealed," Kohberger said in a statement. "The intention is for all of those questions to be investigated and answered appropriately in a trial setting."
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Hunter Johnson, a friend of the victims, was at the house when police came. Johnson told police that one of the housemates told him that an intruder was in the home, so he came over. He grabbed a knife to protect himself and was who called the cops when he found them dead, with Kohberger long gone from the scene.
The crime scene was so brutal that some the local police chief needed mental health treatment afterward.
Moscow Police Department chief Anthony Dahlinger said he was home on his day off when the bodies were discovered and knew that when he got the call to come to a crime scene that it was going to be bad.
Roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke were home at the time of the slayings and hid in a locked bedroom. Online sleuths and those uninvolved with the case frequently asked why the roommates took eight hours to call for help. Dahlinger acknowledged that the roommates were likely in shock and terrified to make any sounds for fear of the killer coming for them as well.
Further, a coroner told the victims' families that even if someone called 911 sooner, the victims would not have survived their injuries.
Dylan Mortensen told police she saw a man in the hallway and heard him speak to Kaylee Goncalves.
Mortensen said that she saw a lean, masked man in the hallway before she knew what was happening. Once she did, she and Funke hid in a locked bedroom, and Mortensen heard a man's voice tell Goncalves, "It's going to be OK. I'm gonna help you," but he that he didn't sound helpful or kind, calling his tone "weird."
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The University of Idaho sent out a bulletin about the murders before all of the victims' families and next of kin had been informed.
A neighbor's outdoor camera captured a light-colored vehicle coming in and out of the King Road neighborhood several times throughout the night of the slayings, but the video wasn't clear enough to determine a specific make, model or license plate. Investigators worked with a special analyst, who determined it was a Hyundai Elantra from the years 2011 to 2016. Investigators sifted through thousands of vehicles before narrowing it down to Kohberger's.
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Bryan Kohberger worked close to Xana Kernodle's sister.
According to forum posts from Kohberger, he suffered from a neurological condition called visual snow syndrome, also called visual static. According to Cleveland Clinic, visual snow syndrome can be likened to seeing the world as if it's in a snow globe that's been shaken, or like watching an old antenna TV through static. Kohberger wrote posts saying he didn't know what it was like to see people well or "live in the real world." Depersonalization, or the sense of feeling disconnected from one's self, can be a symptom that visual snow-afflicted patients experience, as well as depression, anxiety and irritability.
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DNA evidence was scant in the case, so investigators had to think outside the box to obtain it.
Police employed investigative DNA geneaology, which can potentially match DNA to blood relatives whose DNA may be accessible in databases.
Police decided to wait for the family to dispose of their trash for collection, which they could legally collect. The day they came to collect the Kohbergers' trash, they saw Kohberger walking down the street. A Q-tip they recovered from the family's garbage tested positive to be the father of the person whose DNA was on the knife sheath that was found at the Idaho college rental where the murders happened. Kohberger has no brothers, so the cops had their man.
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