[Paterson] Moscow's one of the safest towns,
not only in Idaho, but probably in the United States.
[Eckles] And where else can you go and there's a moose walking on campus?
It is absolutely breathtaking.
[Jim] It's just a little college town.
You've got just what they need for all the kids that are going to school there.
[Johnson] That's where I found my best friends.
[Alandt] Our group was pure happiness.
[Johnson] When our friend group was together, that was our world.
We were all, like, this is it.
This is all we need.
[Alandt] Xana! [chuckles]
[Paterson] These kids looked like they were just
having the best time of their lives.
-[Alandt chuckles] -[Kernodle] Come on. Let's go.
[Paterson] Nobody ever could have imagined what was about to happen.
[reporter 1] Four college students were killed early Sunday morning,
their bodies found in an off-campus house near the University of Idaho.
[Alandt] From the moment that I walked up the stairs,
I knew something truly tragic had happened.
[Phoebe] To live in the little town of Moscow, Idaho,
you think nothing's gonna go wrong.
And then, suddenly, the whole entire world knows where Moscow, Idaho is.
[sirens wailing]
[Karen] You're just stretching your imagination.
Why they would hurt these children?
Why they would hurt my child?
[Johnson] That was the most scared I've ever been in my life.
[Berriochoa] It could have been anybody in Moscow.
[Couch] It just didn't make any sense.
Who would do this?
[reporter 2] Is it possible that the killer
was acting out of some kind of hatred of women?
[reporter 3] Rumors are rampant about how these students died.
-[Alandt] We were getting death threats. -[Johnson] They're our best friends.
Who's to say that's not gonna happen to us?
[reporter 4] The attack was targeted with a "edged weapon."
[sirens wailing]
[Jim] I do want the story out there.
The right story.
[Paterson] The question everybody wants answered is why?
Why these four kids?
[birds chirping]
[Karen] Dropping Maddie off,
freshman year at the University of Idaho…
as we just even parked for the orientation,
just waiting in line, like, moms were hugging their daughters.
And I had to look away 'cause every time I saw that,
I just wanted to ugly cry.
She was so excited, and I'm just trying to keep it together.
I absolutely always knew that I wanted to be a mom.
I was a very young mother. I was 22,
so I was always so protective of Madison,
this beautiful, peaceful little girl.
I'd never let Maddie cry.
Like, never.
Um, I always made sure that she was comfortable.
The whole thing about, "You don't like the bassinet? All right. [chuckles]
Come sleep in our bed. You don't like the crib?
I'm not gonna fight this.
I'm not gonna let you have a moment of sadness."
[Scott] When I met Maddie, she was three years old.
Now, she is just a…
just a character.
Maddie's Karen's mini-me.
They looked alike and they acted alike and everything.
Maddie was the flower girl at our wedding.
For a long time, she just called me Scotty, you know?
And then when she got older, she ran into some of her friends, and sh-she…
she goes, "No, this is my dad."
And… [stammers] …that felt really good hearing… hearing that.
It just made me feel so proud to be called dad.
[Karen] One day in sixth grade, Maddie says,
"I want to go stay at my new friend's house. Her name is Kaylee."
And I was like, "All right, well…
[stammers] …I want to go meet the family first."
[Scott] I met the Goncalves family,
Kristi and Steve, and we hit it off with them too.
And at that point on, I was like, all right,
I know this is going to be a great union.
I know this is going to be… I-I trust the family.
[Scott] Maddie and Kaylee, they were inseparable.
You'd listen to 'em and you'd think they were sisters.
Kaylee is a powerhouse.
She'd be going 90 miles an hour, and Maddie would just sit back
and listen and then say, like, two words, and then Kaylee'd get all fired up again.
[chuckling] So Maddie has always been the quiet one.
They played off each other perfectly.
-[students chattering] -Our teacher's gone.
We're just sitting here chilling.
-I love Lexi. Is this her phone? -[Mogen] Yes.
Oh, here's my teacher.
[Karen] From sixth grade on,
there was hardly a moment that it wasn't Kaylee and Maddie.
Um, they were both applying to the same colleges
'cause they were never gonna leave each other.
That wasn't gonna happen.
[giggling] I love you.
I love you. [giggles]
[Karen] They decided that they were going to the University of Idaho.
The girls were just excited as can be,
and we were so excited for Maddie and Kaylee
to start this new chapter of their lives.
It just felt right.
-I knew that Maddie would be safe here. -[bell tolls]
[students cheering]
At that time, the girls were much more
about the sorority life than the academics.
["If I Know Me" playing]
♪ I bet you bought that beer With you daddy's card ♪
They had their minds set on what college experience they wanted to have.
♪ We can take a different route I know you're from a different town ♪
[Phoebe] Kaylee and I became members of Alpha Phi.
We became pledge sisters.
-Kaylee always played pranks. -[chuckles]
One time, she had, like,
glued her top lip with nail glue to, like, her… up to her nose.
And she thought it would be the funniest thing to prank
her boyfriend at the time, saying her lip filler went wrong.
-[friend laughing] -She did lots.
She would do things all the time.
Kaylee Goncalves, special agent.
I'm with the FBI. Do you have a second? [chuckles]
[Phoebe] And then she'd be like, "Just kidding!"
I mean, that was her happiness right there. [chuckles]
Maddie was one of the first people to ever make me feel included
at University of Idaho.
[Alandt] She was one of the cool girls that was older,
and she was pretty and super funny.
[Squidward] "Spongebob, Patrick, do you mind?"
[Couch] Me and Maddie were in Pi Beta Phi.
We were kind of the older girls.
We were so happy that we found each other,
and we knew we were going to be best friends forever,
and we just kind of took Emily and Xana under our wing.
I'm a Barbie cowgirl.
[friend] What do you have to say about it?
Yeehaw.
[Couch] Xana, she was a wild child.
She could make friends with everyone.
She didn't know a stranger.
[Alandt] After moving in, we all had to go sit on the lawn.
And everybody had to stand up and say who you were.
A girl stood up and said, "Hi, my name is Xana.
It's like Xanax, but without the 'X'."
She was the only name that I remembered.
We were hip to hip, through and through.
Like, all the way throughout.
♪ I'ma ride my ri-- ♪
-[Alandt] No. [chuckles] -[chuckles]
She didn't wear makeup,
so she didn't care about, like, looks, really.
[no audible dialogue]
We would all wear sweatshirts out to parties.
It was just very much like we didn't care, but we did.
-[Alandt] You look like a monkey, dude. -[chuckles]
Watch this.
[Alandt] One of the fraternities, Sigma Chi,
had just rushed a new group of freshmen.
[Lauteren] People were like, "Oh, my God. There's two really hot twins
that are joining Sigma Chi."
I was like, okay, I wanna meet them.
[Myers] First day that I met Ethan and Hunter,
seeing these two big, 6'4'', goofy twins coming out.
Took about 30 seconds before we were all laughing hysterically,
and it just felt like a perfect match.
All righty.
My name is Ethan Chapin. I'm a freshman.
I'm from Mount Vernon, Washington.
What I hope to learn in this class is just…
I don't know, I'm just really interested 'cause it is part of my, like,
career path and major and all that.
So just ready to get going.
[Hunter] I mean, we were triplets, me and Ethan and Maizie.
♪ Sixty-five years… ♪
[Hunter] Ethan, with his personality, I'd say he was like, almost magnetic.
He was a natural leader in that way,
and I was perfectly fine being the follower
because he'd always have something fun to do and we'd always go and do it.
Ethan was definitely, like, the leader.
Like, I would go to him, and Hunter would go to him.
[Hunter] We were always together.
There was never a time longer than a 12-hour period
where we were separated.
We were raised very centered around family,
so we were friends with everyone,
but we were best friends with each other.
[Stacy] Our kids are IVF. They're true test tube babies,
so you go through that whole process. [chuckles]
So we were at the doctor and, you know,
I had to do an ultrasound to see if I was pregnant. And…
Uh… [clicks tongue]
…he started scanning Stace's belly and…
[inhales sharply] …one,
and there was another one, and then there… [chuckles]
…there was the third one. [chuckles]
So, Jim died and I was like, "Okay, wow," you know?
I don't know. I had a moment, honestly, I had a moment where I was like,
"Okay, I guess this is now our… our life."
I was standing in the kitchen and, you know, I…
My water broke, but it was actually, like, Ethan's foot. [chuckles]
He was at the bottom.
So Ethan got tired of those living conditions.
I mean, I don't want to call him the dominant triplet, but he just…
he just had a big personality.
-[Stacy] Come on! -[clapping]
-[chuckles] -[Ethan grunts]
I don't know, he just made you laugh.
As a parent, what a great thing to have our kids at the same school.
What a great thing for your three kids to still be spending time together.
[Hunter] Throughout college, we had this group of friends
that we hung out with almost every day of the week.
Uh, this is actually King Street, where I've lived the past two years,
and I really like just hanging out with my friends all the time…
[Wood] King Street is a very iconic place.
It's known as the "party place."
I met Xana my junior year, her sophomore year.
I had Xana on Snapchat and I saw her location on King Street.
I texted her and I said, "Oh, my gosh. I'm your new neighbor.
I actually just signed a lease right across the street.
Here's where I'm living."
[Hunter] We'd always hang out with everyone at the King Road house,
which is less than a block away from our house, like a 30-second walk.
[Johnson] I just called it Xana's house.
The friend group came over all the time to Xana's house.
[Lauteren] Maddie and Kaylee lived on the top floor,
Dylan and Xana in the middle,
and then Bethany was in the basement. [chuckles]
I knew Bethany and Dylan from Pi Phi really well.
[Johnson] Dylan is Emily's little.
And, in sorority terms, that means like a little sister.
[Lauteren] We would just sit together, talk and, like, hang out,
and, literally, play country music.
["Beautiful Crazy" playing]
It's a video?
[all] ♪ She drives me wild ♪
♪ Beautiful, crazy… ♪
[music fades out, ends]
Yeah.
[chuckles] Ow, you're--
[Wood] Ethan, look at me.
Smile. [chuckles]
[Lauteren] Ethan and Xana.
Everybody else knew they liked each other before they did.
[Johnson] Ethan and Xana were hanging out constantly.
I was so eager for it,
mainly because I liked Ethan so much. [chuckles]
[Alandt] Me and Hunter had been dating,
and Hunter and Ethan were becoming best friends.
We were all hanging out, us four, more.
We just all knew it was different with Ethan and Xana.
[Hunter] They are like the same exact person,
just a boy and a girl.
Like, you get the vibe of Ethan walking into a room
and, like, everyone lightens up.
You got the same exact thing from Xana.
[Alandt] This was a great thing for Xana.
It was great for Ethan too.
[Stacy] Parents' weekend, November 5th and 6th.
It was 2022.
It was the kids' second year of college,
and it was the most amazing weekend.
We could tell that Ethan was serious with Xana.
[Jim] It was so fun.
You could just see where they were starting to "adult."
And, for Stacy and I, that was huge for us.
We left Sunday morning, and, literally, as we were driving out of town,
Jim and I, and I mean this…
[stammers] …we literally high-fived each other.
We were like, "We've done it."
We've done it.
We're good. [chuckles]
And that's such a huge satisfaction, as a parent, you feel.
[birds chirping]
And then to have it taken away in seven days,
it was very short-lived.
You're supposed to raise your kids so that they fly.
And we'd had j… literally had a week of that. One week.
-[church bell tolling] -[crows cawing]
[Johnson] It started off like any normal day.
I had slept over at Emily's apartment.
I mean, we got a call.
Uh, I didn't really think much of it.
[Alandt] Dylan had called us.
She and Xana, they were roommates,
and she was like,
"Something weird happened last night.
I don't really know if I was dreaming or not,
but I'm really scared.
Can you come check out the house?"
She was like, "I'm in the basement with Bethany."
She said, uh, "I called for Xana a few times and she hasn't responded,
but will you just come over?"
I was like… [mocking] "Ha ha, sure. Should I bring my… my pepper spray?"
[normal] Uh, not thinking anything of it.
[Lauteren] I lived with Emily at the time, and then I remember her being like,
"Oh, yeah. Let's go to Xana's. Dylan wants us to come over."
She's called us before and been like, "Oh, I'm scared.
Can you bring your boyfriends over?"
But not … It was never anything serious. It was just, like, a pan fell.
Like, actually no-nothing 'cause it's Moscow.
Then we were like, "Oh, yeah, we'll just go over, and Hunter…
And… [stammers] …he'll just check it out."
I don't think I've ever locked a single door in Moscow.
When Dylan had called, I didn't think it was urgent.
So I started walking to Xana's house,
and when we got there, Dylan and Bethany had exited the house.
They… Frightened, just kind of, like, uh, ha…
just hands on their mouth, like,
I-don't-know-what's-going-on type thing.
When I was going up the stairs, Hunter Johnson was already in the house.
We were just a bit behind.
As soon as I stepped in the house, I was like, oh, something is so not right.
Like, you could feel it almost.
The stairs are immediately when you walk in the door to the left.
Then you walk upstairs and there's the living room.
And then all the way down the hall is Xana's room.
Hunter was ahead of me and Emily.
I set foot in the house and immediately was pushed out.
And Hunter was like, "Get out. Somebody call 911."
Yeah.
Hunter had enough courage to tell them
to call the police for not a real reason.
He worded it very nicely. He said, "Tell them there's an unconscious person."
Hunter saved all of us extreme trauma
by not letting us know anything.
[Lauteren] A-And Dylan was the one that was on the phone with 911.
And I had to take the phone from her 'cause she was so completely hysterical.
They're like, "What's the address? What's the address?"
I was like, "1122 King Road."
And she was like, "Well, what happened?" I was like, "I don't know."
And then,
I think that's when Hunter was like, "They didn't have…"
He just looked at me and he was shaking his head.
He was like, "They didn't have a pulse."
And, I mean, even when he said they had no pulse, I still was like,
"Oh, the paramedics are gonna come and, like, revive them."
[sirens wailing in distance]
And then the cops came.
And I saw all the paramedics, like, carrying the bags,
but they never actually went up the stairs or inside at all.
[Hunter] I woke up at about twelve o'clock to my Sigma Chi brother
at the edge of my bed, shaking me.
He's like, "Hunter, you gotta wake up.
Uh, there's cops on King Street." I was like, "What do you mean?"
He's like, "There's cops right in front of the King house."
It's like, okay, that's probably normal.
There's more noise complaints there than…
[chuckles] …anywhere else on campus.
And my brother Ethan basically lived at the King Road house with Xana.
[Wood] At twelve o'clock, I look outside of my window,
which faces 1122 King Road,
and I see my friends standing outside,
Hunter, Emily.
The police were starting to put the caution tape up,
and that's when I knew something really bad happened.
And I ran outside and the first person I grabbed was Emily,
and she was crying.
And Dylan made a comment of,
"I can't believe somebody would do this."
And I whispered to Emily, "Where's Xana?"
And she said, "She's inside…
and I think she's dead."
I think all I wanted was to go wake Xana up.
[inhales shakily] And I knew it wasn't gonna happen.
[Hunter] So I was walking over to the King Road house,
and I saw a group of people sitting on the ground,
and it's all the people I've been hanging out with.
[footsteps]
And they all just had this look in their face when I walked up,
like the world had ended.
-[chattering on radio] -[sirens wailing]
[Lauteren] I remember seeing Hunter walking up,
and I remember us all turning and being like, "Oh, my God.
Like, somebody's gonna have to tell him what just happened."
I'm like, "What the hell's going on?"
Like, "Where's Ethan?" And they're like, "Ethan's not here anymore."
[chuckles] "What do you mean Ethan's not here anymore?"
I was like, "Well, where'd he go?" [chuckles]
And they're like, "Y-Your brother's dead." [chuckling]
I was like, "That can't be true."
[stammers, sighs]
And then Hunter Johnson was like,
"I think Xana, Ethan were murdered last night."
I didn't even know how to respond to it 'cause it's, like, so unreal
that someone I had spent almost every minute of my life with…
[stammers, chuckles] I don't even know. Just… Sorry.
[sighs, chuckles]
-[breathes deeply, sighs] -[bones cracking]
The first person I called was Maizie.
Literally, all Hunter said was, "You just need to come to Xana's."
And I asked him why, and he was like, "Just come."
"Don't ask any questions. Have someone drop you off."
[wind whistling]
I remember sitting in the car feeling like…
[softly] Oh, my God. I'm gonna cry.
[cries, inhales deeply]
I was, like, feeling like something was wrong.
It was weird.
I just knew.
[Stacy] I was at the grocery store.
I'd run into a friend, and we were standing,
having a short little, you know, "hello" conversation.
And my phone started to ring. And it was…
it was Hunter's voice.
He just said, "Ethan's not here." That's what he said.
He goes, "Ethan's not here." And I'm like, "Well, go get him."
And he just kept repeating it, like,
"They're not… No, you don't understand what I'm telling you.
They're not here. Ethan and Xana are not here."
And I'm like, "Well, go and get them."
Like, I couldn't face the fact that he was dead.
He's like, "No." [sighs] He s… I think he said to me…
He goes, "Mom, you don't understand. They're not on this Earth anymore."
I believe that's what he said to me.
I didn't believe it. [chuckles]
[sniffles] I didn't cry. I didn't…
I just left my cart and walked out of the grocery store. [chuckles]
And I got in the car, and I was just driving down the road and I called Jim.
[Jim] She said, "Ethan was killed."
And I… I wasn't sure what I heard.
I-I-I go, "What?"
"Yeah, something happened to Ethan, and he… and he's been killed."
So, we packed some clothes, and we jumped in the car and…
and drove to Moscow.
-[chattering on radio] -[sirens wailing]
[Lauteren] So, we're sitting on the driveway.
The cops were not speaking to us at all.
I don't even think they were looking at us.
[Hunter] None of the cops would talk to us.
And we were like, "Should we ask them a question?"
Like, "What the fuck just happened?"
I feel like they should talk to us 'cause we're the people sitting outside.
[Lauteren] We sat there for so long with no information.
It just was like, why are we sitting?
Everybody kind of gets that communication that Ethan and Xana are not…
are not alive.
Then it finally clicked.
Oh, my gosh. Where's Kaylee and Maddie?
Their phones are pinging in there. Their phones are inside that house.
[Alandt] We didn't know if they were home. We didn't know if they were in there.
We didn't know anything. We couldn't get ahold of them.
I was sitting next to Dylan,
and she really wanted to find out where they were,
and we never went up there.
[phone buzzing]
We got very frustrated with the police.
We're like, "You can't tell us anything?"
[Lauteren] Word spread so fast in Moscow.
Everybody on King had their windows open and were, like, peeking through the blinds
'cause they saw all the cop cars and, like, the caution tape up by then.
[Karen] My phone rings and it's Maddie's boyfriend, Jake.
And my heart kind of stopped for a second,
and he said, "Karen, do you know what's going on in Moscow right now?"
And I-I was like, "No… I have no idea."
So he said, "There's been a homicide at Maddie's house.
We think Xana's dead."
And my heart just sank.
Like… [stammers]
-[phone buzzing] -I called Maddie and Kaylee,
and there was no answer.
So I called the Moscow Police Department,
and they were like, "Well, we can't… we can't really tell you anything."
And Scott kind of downplayed it.
He's like, "You know, it's probably something so, like,
blown out of proportion kind of thing."
I go, "Let's just go down and have lunch with her.
We'll go and pick her up, and we'll… [stammers] …see what's going on."
[Karen] We got in the car, we got gas, and we headed down to Moscow.
I called the police department again and I said,
"I know you can't tell me anything,
but can you confirm that there's an active homicide investigation
at 1122 King Road?"
And she said, "Yes."
It was on speaker so that Scott could hear, like, this is real.
Whatever this is, it's real.
The whole time,
my mindset was that we were gonna go pick up Maddie and Kaylee
and bring them home, and console them and hug them,
and figure out just… [stammers] …what happened.
[Myers] My stomach dropped.
I didn't know what to think.
I saw the ambulances, cops.
So, the cops still not speaking to us. And then…
[phone buzzing]
[Hunter] All of our phones go off
and there's an alert that says, "Homicide on King Road."
Everyone simultaneously just started bursting into tears.
[Lauteren] We all get the first Vandal Alert,
which is like Amber Alert, but for just University of Idaho students.
[Wood] "Investigating a homicide on King Road."
That didn't say how many. It didn't say who.
[Lauteren] "Homicide being investigated."
Where's Kaylee and Maddie?
We got another Vandal Alert.
[phone buzzing]
[Hunter] "Four students found dead."
Quadruple murder.
And we look at the text and we're all like, "What the f… What?"
Because nobody had said anything to us.
That was before the cops even told us that Maddie and Kaylee had passed
and that they were in there.
I don't even know if I looked at my phone or if somebody showed me. [sniffles]
But peop… They were, like…
some of the girls started, like, yelling at the police guys.
I show him my phone. And I go, "What the fuck is this?"
And he just looked at me. He goes… He, like, grabs my phone and he's like,
"I didn't even know they were sending this. I'm so sorry."
And we were like, "Well, what does this mean?"
He was like, "All four of them."
And at that moment, I think it's when everything kind of became real…
[inhales deeply]
…and I was like, "Oh, my God."
Like…
"What's going on?"
[sirens wailing]
"What happened inside of that house?"
[chattering on radio]
[Myers] I was texting Emily asking what's going on.
And I was informed by her that Hunter went into Xana's room
and found them with wounds, a lot of blood.
-And this looked and felt like an attack. -[shutter clicks]
-A malicious, you know, attack. -[shutter clicks]
-[Lauteren] Who would do that?
Like, there's literally nobody that disliked them.
They asked us all to come to the police station.
I'd never been to a police station, so I didn't realize what was gonna happen.
They took us one by one in an area with a single cop.
[Johnson] They would ask me normal things like,
"What were you doing the day before?
Do you know of anyone who might want to do things like this?"
But I don't know anyone who would ever want to do that.
"What happened? What did you see?"
They were trying to clear us, mostly. I th… I-I'm assuming.
[Karen] So we got to the police department.
I remember running up the stairs and just trying to find anyone to talk,
like anyone to… [inhales sharply]
…just… [breathes shakily] …anyone.
And, finally, they put us in a little room,
and they came into the back door… [sniffles] …and kind of opened this file.
And the officer kind of explained,
"There has been a homicide in your daughter's house,
and there are four victims."
And, instantly, we were like, "What?"
[cries] It just made no sense.
[sniffles, breathing shakily] And he said Maddie was a victim.
[sniffles]
And then I said, "What about Kaylee?"
He said Kaylee was… [inhales sharply] …also a victim.
[crying]
I just remember just being so angry.
I was like… like… [stammers] "This can't be true."
I mean, this is Idaho. I mean, we're…
Things like this, you see it on TV, you know,
[stammers] …East Coast or something like that, or…
And then we found out about the other two.
And it's, like… [inhales deeply, stammers] …what is going on here?
This is ridiculous. This is unbelievable. It's, like… No.
[Karen sighs] They couldn't tell us anything.
They had no details.
So our minds were just circling.
What could have happened here?
What possibly happened in that house?
[Scott, shakily] They were s-still working the scene…
and they couldn't let us near it, or…
We couldn't s… we couldn't see anybody or the girls.
They're just like… Oh.
We're like, "Well, what are we supposed to do?"
[sighs] I remember sitting in the, um, parking lot of the Moscow Police,
and as we're just barely getting in the car, I said to Scott,
"There was nothing we could have done."
[sniffles]
"There was nothing we could have done."
[sniffling, gulps]
[stammering] The… These are your own kids going off to college, you know?
And they're supposed to be safe and have a good time,
you know, get an education.
[stammers] Something like this isn't supposed to happen.
[crickets chirping]
I've been here in Moscow on scene since about 3:00 p.m.
Since I've been here, I've watched Moscow police cars
come in and out of this neighborhood,
where officials found four people dead.
Moscow Police say they responded to a call here on King Road
for an unconscious individual.
This is very much a developing situation,
and we will continue to stay on the ground
until we have more information to report back to you.
[Jim] We drove to Moscow.
Um, we got there, I think it was, like, nine o'clock at night.
We drove to the jail,
and we sat down with the police and they told us what had happened.
[Stacy] At that point,
I don't think anybody even knew the extent of… [stammers] …anything.
There was just these four incredible college kids.
We just knew they were gone.
The university had rented a… a block of rooms.
After the police department,
we took each of the kids and they picked up a couple of things,
and we had to go sleep in this hotel room together.
[Hunter] We're just sitting in the sliding doors of a hotel lobby
just crying, like, out loud.
[Stacy] We had an adjoining room, and Maiz and Hunt were in there,
but we all wound up just laying together and…
You know, there's not a lot you can… What do you talk about in that moment?
[Jim] The kids were kind of in the same state of mind as Stace and I were.
They really were like, "What has just happened here?
What has happened to our family? What happened to Ethan?"
I remember I didn't sleep.
I mean, I don't think any of us slept for days.
[Wood] The university said that we are putting people who were closely affected
in a hotel room for the night to get you off King Street.
Um, and I said, "Okay. Yeah." Like, "We don't feel safe here.
Honestly, we don't feel safe anywhere."
Emily and Hunter were there. Josie, Dylan, Bethany.
[Johnson] That's when I first really cried. It was right there.
I mean, I just explained to my mom.
I was like, "I don't know what's going on,
um, but this is what just happened to me this morning.
Um, what do I do?"
[Wood] We sat in the hallway.
Hunter was still in shock. I think we all were,
but he was just so…
Very, like, ghost.
And I think Emily was really, really worried about him.
[Johnson] I think the realism actually set in,
and I was very terrified.
I mean, I didn't sleep that whole first night.
[Alandt] Me and Hunter went to bed scared.
And every noise we heard, we thought we were gonna be attacked.
I was like, "Is there someone here right now? I don't even know."
Like, I… I was… I'm… I was truly scared.
[footsteps echoing]
[Alandt] Fear of unknown got to all of us.
Why would it happen to me?
Why would it happen to my friends? [inhales shakily]
They're our best friends. So if they… that just happened to our best friends,
like, who's to say that's not gonna happen to us?
[crickets chirping]
[reporter 1] News out of Idaho,
where four college students were killed early Sunday morning.
Their bodies found in an off-campus house.
[reporter 2] Police do still have this house here
blocked off with crime tape, investigating here.
[reporter 3] Police say it was a targeted attack near the University of Idaho.
[reporter 4] …saying that it was an isolated and a targeted attack,
but no supporting information around that.
[Alandt] It was random to all of us,
but they said it was targeted.
We were a big group of friends.
Why would you target those four specifically?
And so, there's a big realization
that we had been stalked for so many months
and had no clue.
And we would have no clue if we were currently.
There's this person out there who had just murdered our brother,
and he's still out there somewhere. d just murdered our brother,