[Berriochoa] That night, I had left an apartment complex
near the King Road house at 4 a.m.,
and I remembered thinking to myself that it was eerily quiet.
Usually, you can see the last remnants of people leaving a party,
but it was silent.
[Johnson] This is gonna sound really weird,
but, that night, me and Emily woke up in the middle of the night.
[Alandt] As soon as I woke up, I saw Hunter locking the door.
I don't think I've ever locked that door.
[Johnson] It felt like there was something pulling me towards doing that.
[Berriochoa] I hustled up and got home as quick as I could.
It was like my intuition was telling me something was wrong before I even knew.
[Epperly] The probable cause affidavit revealed what Maddie, Kaylee,
Xana and Ethan were doing that night before they died.
It's painted the most detailed picture yet of what happened that night.
[Alandt] A few weeks after that night, Dylan had expressed to me what happened.
She heard Kaylee and Maddie come home,
and she heard them chitchatting on the couch for a while.
Uh, the couch was on the wall of her bedroom,
and she was pretty much sleeping through it.
[Paterson] The surviving roommates, Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen,
confirm that all members of the King Road residence
were asleep by 4 a.m.
That's with the exception of Xana Kernodle.
At 4 a.m., DoorDash drops off an order for Xana.
[Epperly] At 4:05 a.m., a white Elantra is seen
driving in front of the King Road house, making a turn and then parking.
[Paterson] And cell phone data shows that Xana was on TikTok around 4:12 a.m.
[Epperly] That is when Dylan hears some commotion, kind of, upstairs.
She thought she heard someone say, "There's someone here."
She looked out of her bedroom door on the second floor
and didn't see anything.
Dylan said that she remembered hearing crying.
And she thought she heard a male voice say,
"It's okay. I'm going to help you."
[Paterson] Video from next door at 4:17 a.m. captures the sound
of a whimper and a loud thud.
A dog barking can also be heard on the footage.
[Epperly] Dylan opens her door for a third time,
and she describes seeing a man with bushy eyebrows.
[Paterson] This person walked past her bedroom
and out the sliding glass door of the back room.
She said that she just scaredly closed the door,
like, boom.
Dylan got really scared.
She was trying to lock her door
-and she started calling Bethany… -[phone buzzing]
…calling Xana, calling Ethan, calling Kaylee, calling Maddie.
[buzzing continues]
Trying to see if anyone's awake 'cause she's like, "What the hell's going on?
Someone needs to get up and tell me who was here."
Eventually, she just decided to go for it,
and she made a run for it to Bethany's room down in the basement.
Dylan was like, "Did you hear any of that?"
And Bethany was like… [scoffs] "No."
And so, I think that Dylan was probably just like,
"I must have imagined it,
and if you didn't hear anything, then let's go to bed together safely."
I think that she 100% heard the murders of Xana and Ethan.
I am confused on how one of the roommates saw him,
but then the cops were not called until noon.
Eight hours were in between.
I… I just… I have n… I have no words.
[Franklin] When we hear stories about people faced with something
that's unexpected, that's scary, that's happening, um,
that could be threatening or dangerous, and they act in ways we wouldn't expect,
it's actually exactly how we should expect them to behave.
Because you're not gonna be necessarily thinking logically or rationally
in the manner that you would, like,
you and I are sitting here and talking about it.
Folks are not gonna understand that this behavior
is the behavior of somebody who's just experienced trauma.
[Wood] I'm sure Dylan and Bethany see these hurtful comments,
and they can't really say anything back to it.
But, you know, they are not speaking out for obvious reasons.
Legal reasons.
And that's what the public, I don't think, necessarily understands.
[Alandt] I think it's very important for everybody to know
that "what if" doesn't matter
because if she had known what was going on,
it would have been too late anyways.
It wasn't until the morning when she'd realized,
"Holy shit. That couldn't have been a dream."
And that's when I got my phone call from her.
They hadn't even gone upstairs or anything.
She just called and said, "Something weird happened.
I thought it was a dream. I'm not quite sure anymore.
I tried to call everybody to wake 'em up
and no one's answering."
I was like, "Okay. I'll come over."
[Lauteren] That morning, Emily had said, like,
"Dylan wants us to come over."
And I remember, when I set foot in the house, Hunter was like,
"Get out. Somebody call 911."
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."
[siren blaring]
[Epperly] Police entered the house and went up to the second floor.
They went into Xana's bedroom
and found her and Ethan dead with stab wounds.
Police then went up to the third floor and into Maddie's bedroom,
where they found both Maddie and Kaylee in Maddie's bed,
dead with multiple stab wounds.
I believe what you're gonna find out is that this killer
was stalking a particular individual.
Maddie could have been an intended target
'cause both Kaylee and Maddie were sleeping together in Maddie's bedroom.
Maddie would have been the first person the killer had access to
when they entered the room over here.
If that's true, then does that mean she was the target?
[Epperly] They said the attack was targeted,
then they said they're not sure if one person was targeted.
I don't know how he would have found them to stalk them.
[no audible dialogue]
We don't hang out with Wazzu people,
so I just don't know how they would have ever, like, met
for him to stalk them.
And I don't know how he knew where they lived.
[Paterson] One of the things that makes this case strange
is that most often the perpetrator knows the victim,
but we still do not know if Kohberger did it at all.
And if he did it,
if he had a relationship at all with these victims,
did he know them at all?
Those are answers we don't have yet.
Because when it comes to Bryan Kohberger, we know very little about him officially.
A lot of what we know really just comes from his records at school,
the fact that he applied for certain internships,
that he was fascinated with what motivates people to commit crimes.
He was someone who traveled to school and then bounced.
So you didn't really think too much of him,
and you would try to get personal, and he wouldn't give you much.
He never had any friends he really associated with.
I don't think too many people paid much mind to him.
I mean, people say, "Oh, he was a loner,"
or, you know, "He allegedly had problems with girls."
My exact words for that were, "This person has trouble with women."
[Paterson] And when you look at the victims,
they're attractive, they're involved in Greek row,
they look like the kind of kids that were popular,
you know, surrounded by friends.
My supervisor pulled me aside in her office.
She's like, "Off the record, what do you think happened here?"
And I said, "I think this was an incel."
The definition there is "involuntarily celibate."
So this is a sort of person that cannot connect with the other gender sexually
and maybe feels some resentment toward that gender.
[reporter 1] Hayley Willette says they met in 2015
when he took her to a movie,
then insisted on escorting her to her dorm room.
He kept trying to tickle me, and I would ask him to stop,
and he would get very serious.
I proceeded to pretend to throw up in the bathroom,
hoping that he would leave,
and then he messaged me, and he said that I had good birthing hips.
[reporter 2] I still think the more we find out, that this was incel rage.
Rage against women,
uh, because of his history, uh, with women starting in high school
where the girls would be, uh, bullying him.
Certain men feel like they are owed a relationship with a woman.
Uh, that that's not something they should have to earn.
It's something that they should be given.
I did hear about a situation where Kohberger had followed a student
out to, uh, her car,
like, trying to flirt with her,
and she reported it to someone in the Criminal Justice Department.
[Paterson] At Washington State University,
he starts getting into altercations with students,
and we find out later that he was fired from his TA-ship.
[reporter 3] He got more feisty and belligerent,
even arguing with his professors
until December 19th, Bryan Kohberger is officially terminated
by Washington State University.
And I'm pushing 'em for documents.
I wanna know about the stuff about Kohberger with the girls,
if that's true. I wanna see his record.
But, again, it's just tricky
because there's rumors about his behavior at the school,
but none of it's verified until we have the documentation.
[Ferraro] At DeSales University,
some of the people that Bryan and I studied that were serial killers,
were Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Kemper and Elliot Rodger.
So Elliot Rodger, he was a young man in college
that was basically jaded and hated his life
because he lacked the attention from friends, family
and, most of all, uh, women.
So Elliot Rodger, one day…
First, he invited some people over that he claimed to be friends with,
he stabbed them to death.
He then went out with firearms to a sorority
and killed, um, a number of women in the sorority.
He then drove around, shot multiple other people in public,
and he ended his own life in his vehicle.
But after the fact, there was a written manifesto
and he basically tells you,
"This is what I did. This is why I did it."
Rodger's sexist rants are part of a culture
that breeds violence against women.
[reporter] Rodger wrote,
"All of those beautiful girls I've desired so much in my life but can never have
because they despise and loathe me, I will destroy."
After Bryan Kohberger is arrested,
I start thinking, "Okay, Pappa Rodger, Elliot Rodger."
If you listen to some of the manifestos of Elliot Rodger,
he talks about hating all the girls from Alpha Phi,
the same sorority that Kaylee was in.
[Slaven] Bryan was interested in a lot of things that we learned,
but he did have more of an interest in Elliot Rodger.
I talked to other girls in the class,
where we were all bothered by what Elliot Rodger did,
but Bryan did not seem bothered.
[Franklin] Incel.
In my professional opinion,
this is a particularly dangerous version of misogyny
because incel communities have this presence in an online space.
They can say things and provide support for things
that perhaps they wouldn't do in a face-to-face context
because they would be concerned about what the social consequences
or the repercussions would look like.
[mouse clicking]
And because it's immediate,
the speed, the algorithm, the… [stammers] …the echo chamber,
and the anonymity perhaps leads people to think
that their ideas are not so extreme.
Elliot Rodger was glorified and valorized
and martyred among communities that were coming together
in these online spaces.
[typing]
[Paterson] It was just so terrible.
For a while, there was actually a subreddit called Brynation.
It was sort of this Bryan Kohberger fan club,
where people were posting all these theories
about how he could be innocent and writing him letters in jail,
and women sending him money, which is really something else.
We know with the advent of social media,
people are becoming more lonely, more isolated.
So, I think this problem is likely growing
as we see people become more isolated due to technology.
[Lauteren] When they caught Bryan Kohberger,
there was, like, all the fake accounts that came on Instagram
pretending to be Bryan Kohberger.
And I got a DM from one of them that was like,
"Hey, it's Bryan. Sorry for killing your friends."
And I, like, read it and I was like, "What the f…
What the hell?"
I just remember seeing that, and I was like,
"I can't believe, like, somebody sat down and wrote that."
It almost feels, like, scary 'cause I was like,
"This is like… means that people are, like, capable of, like, copycatting it."
[Berriochoa] Until there is a mechanism to stop this kind of thing
from happening on social media,
it's always gonna continue happening, and it's gonna get worse.
I mean, since this case, specifically,
the King Road house has basically become a tourist attraction.
This is where Bryan Shitbag Kohberger
murdered Kaylee, Xana, Ethan and Maddie.
It's not a… It's not an art exhibit. It's, you know… This happened.
It's real. We feel it.
[Eckles] I can only imagine how hard it's been for them at times.
You know, the suspect is in jail just down the road
and whenever there's a trial thing, there's media cameras on campus.
It's overwhelming.
[anchor] We start with breaking news out of Idaho,
where prosecutors have filed to seek the death penalty
against the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students.
Wow. The state must really feel they've got a…
like, a rock-solid case to go after the death penalty.
They've certainly got what it takes to seek a capital punishment here.
[pundit] They're saying that his acts were especially heinous
and that he has an utter disregard for human life.
If they're able to prove just one of these factors,
Bryan Kohberger could be put to death.
[Epperly] Because this is a death penalty case,
there are dozens of court hearings.
And so, it's going to take much longer than other types of cases.
[judge] So, Miss Taylor, where do we start?
Your Honor, in this case,
we have a lot of records that we have to go through.
I know that the court has heard about 51 terabytes of information
that we've received.
There is no possible way I can even read or watch everything I have now
or react to things that are still coming in
if we're to have a deadline in time for trial.
It's impossible for us to do it, so we are not going to be ready.
The defense has, more than the prosecution,
said it's gonna take them longer to prep for trial.
That they're not ready yet.
That's not uncommon in most cases,
but, at this point, they are the ones who are pushing the timeline back.
I don't understand why he can ask for more time… [sighs]
…'cause I wish I had more time with my son.
I don't. I can't buy more time.
[sighs] There's absolute frustration
in that they're just buying time.
They're trying to find loopholes.
Every day is just longer and longer.
You keep putting it off. I mean, a lot could happen,
and the more you put it off, the more can happen.
[Paterson] So the trial's been postponed indefinitely.
We just don't know how long we're actually gonna have to wait.
[Epperly] No matter what the reality is,
until the trial's over, this is gonna have a huge impact on Moscow.
[Maizie] It was kind of, like, dying down a little bit
'cause nobody heard anything new, and then it kind of started again.
It's kind of how it's been, like, a new thing comes up and…
and then it dies down again, and then there's a new thing, and then…
You know?
[Paterson] I mean, could you imagine you're a student,
you're trying to just concentrate on your classes,
and now, for over a year,
anytime you turn on the TV or go on social media,
it's, like, all about this case?
People just couldn't let this case go.
I need to see something besides theories, pings and one piece of touch DNA.
It just doesn't make sense to me
that someone who has studied criminology for years
would leave what's been described by police as a messy crime scene.
This entire court is a sham operation
to cover for people who really did what happened in Moscow, Idaho.
I was under the impression that it would stop, but it didn't.
The first thing that pops up when you Google my name
is still my name connected to four murders.
I'm getting ready to graduate here soon,
and I don't even know how that's gonna affect my ability to get a job.
There's still websites where me and Emily are getting called killers.
Even after posts like Kohberger being arrested, it's just, like,
"Still, these two are behind it."
[cyber sleuth] Idaho Four murders,
quick look at Emily Alandt and Hunter Johnson.
Emily Alandt was, for a while, at least, dating this dude, Hunter Johnson.
There's a bunch of speculation that Hunter and Kaylee had a thing on the side,
which angered Emily, and that was tied to the murders in some way.
There's almost this expectation or pressure
when you go through something like this
that you're supposed to remain poised and respectful.
And I didn't want to.
Because, to me, these people didn't deserve respect.
This is her house.
[Berriochoa] They were causing so much unnecessary pain to the community,
and, eventually, it just became too much.
And I did go private because I, as one person, couldn't take it anymore.
I ended up deleting TikTok, Instagram
and, like, every news media outlet on my phone
just 'cause I didn't want to look at it.
It's like I'm trying to grieve… [chuckles] …in any way possible,
and you guys are not helping with it.
[Alandt] I'm not a huge social media person anymore.
I just… I don't go on it very much.
All my, like, social media is private.
I had no… I had no desire to talk to anyone about anything.
[sniffles]
I think that most accounts were on public.
You don't really think to put it on private.
But there is so much information that is out in the world about you
that you don't even know or post.
Especially when you're in a small town and you're posting where you are,
people are going to be able to figure out very quickly.
So I put my account on private.
[Wood] When they were making rude remarks about my friends who are no longer here…
I didn't want to be on social media. I didn't…
And I… In social media, I…
I feel like I have a love-hate relationship with social media.
People post the good, happy times.
Nobody wants to post a picture of them crying at two o'clock in the morning
because they're still grieving their friends.
[Alandt] I think that the only thing that mattered was…
peace for families.
[Hunter] Our family's view was just to stay out of it.
Like, we're going to do what we do best and just be with each other.
And we don't need the media for anything.
It's not like they're gonna help us bring our brother back.
[Stacy] The very first thing I told my kids
when this heinous thing happened was like,
"This won't sink us as a family. We'll figure it out together."
We'd spent five months in the depths of hell,
and then we just realized,
"Okay, we just have to figure out how to move forward."
So we just made a deal with each other that from that day forward, for our kids,
for our family, for our friends,
that we would wake up every day and put our best foot forward.
You forget you have a choice.
You have a choice to get up and to live your best life.
But I still can't imagine what it must be like to be Maizie and Hunter.
[chuckles, whimpers]
[sniffles] So…
[sniffles]
I mean, to have that kind of a bond with your sibling, you know,
somebody you don't know life without, and have them gone.
[sniffles] But it is what it is.
[inhales deeply] Honestly.
[Hunter] There's never a moment in my life now
where the thought of Ethan not being here isn't there.
Like, that thought is just engraved in my head that he's not here.
And, uh, it's something that I don't think will ever go away.
[Maizie] It's kind of… Sounds bad to say back to normal,
but I think we both, kind of, just try and… [sniffles] …pretend like it's normal.
I feel like that's mostly why I just don't pay attention to anything else because
I just focus on, like, the good things about him.
Not what all else is going on.
[Jim] After the memorial, we were gonna meet up at the cemetery
and try to find a place to put him.
Um…
It was very hard for me.
I… [smacks teeth]
…told Stace that, uh, we can't do this right now.
With… This isn't gonna happen.
Do you put him in the little crematorium?
It just wasn't right.
It's just not a place where you, hmm, put your…
Where-Where do you put your kid?
Right? Where do you put your kid?
So I decided that… [sighs]
…the best place for him to be…
was home.
So he will sit in the basement, uh,
until one of us pass.
[clicks teeth]
[stammers] He's safe.
[clicks teeth, breathes shakily] And I can, uh…
[sniffles] …um,
I can go down and talk to him anytime I want.
And I do.
[Karen] This is where Madison grew up. This is where she lived.
We didn't honestly get a lot back.
Just to be… [stammers]
[interviewer] Meaning you… you didn't want it back? Or you just…
Wasn't able to come back.
So the stuff that was able to come back,
I went through and, like,
"Oh, some of this is silly. Some of this is very sentimental."
Like, I still have the yellow sweater that she was wearing that day.
The sleeves are still rolled up. [sighs]
So I found this sweatshirt when we went down.
It was the first family weekend.
And Maddie really wanted this sweatshirt and it wasn't her size.
We couldn't find it and I found it in like a total different place.
And when I found it, I was like, "Scott, look. We found the sweater."
And then, I'm on video with her and she's cutting it.
I'm like… We were on FaceTime. I'm like, "What are you doing?"
She's like, "This is how everything is worn, Mom."
I'm like, "Okay, I gotta get used to this. I gotta let it be."
But yes… [sighs] …super glad we got that back.
I feel like the struggle getting to this point was,
"I can't do this.
Uh, I just can't."
But it's just not mentally healthy to waste time,
other than laughing about Maddie, talking about Maddie.
It's really all we do.
There is very little place in my heart for holding on to anger.
That's not what you heal from.
A year ago, I couldn't have spoken to you at all.
I couldn't have articulated any of this.
And it's taken friends, family, time,
to slowly creep out of that really, really bad place.
And it's also reminding myself, like,
how would Maddie and Kaylee want to see me?
Would they want to see me crying in my pajamas and can't get out of bed?
Or would they want to see me talking about them
and how happy and how amazing they are?
And that's a struggle.
You never know how strong you are until strong is all you can be.
This has always been her space, always will be her space.
And… it's a place to come and just feel at peace,
feel her presence.
[sniffles]
365 days since my life changed forever.
[sniffles] All of our lives changed forever.
I read somewhere that once you lose someone you love,
you gain an angel.
Well, we have four amazing angels watching over all of us every day.
Ethan was very, very witty.
I think that was the most, like, noticeable thing about him.
He's just always trying to be funny, and I loved that about him.
-Minions! Tonight we steal the moon! -[friends cheer]
[Myers] I remember all, you know, the different memories that we shared.
[laughing]
[Myers] Any time that I go to Taco Bell… [chuckles] …I think of Ethan.
That was his favorite place by far.
He was the first person I saw that opened up,
he pre-opened up all of his Taco Bell packets
so that he wouldn't have to stop, uh, eating.
He could just feast.
And I remember I thought that was the funniest thing.
And now every time I go to Taco Bell, I make sure that I, you know,
pre-open like four or five first, you know, so I don't have to stop.
I could go on and on about the person Xana was,
but the little memories are what replay in my head over and over.
Her backflips she would attempt,
which usually resulted in her failing and popping right back up laughing,
yelling, "I'm okay!"
[laughing]
Xana loved music. We called her "DJ Xan" all through college
because she had the best music to play, and she was always playing it.
She would bring her MacBook almost everywhere,
and it doesn't matter where we were at.
She would get on any chair and just stand with her laptop.
[Couch] A lot of things come to my mind when I think about Maddie.
Me and my friends would always reenact how she would dance,
and we have so many videos of it just kind of putting her hand out
and, like, bouncing like this.
She just never cared who was watching.
[chuckles]
[Phoebe] Kaylee always had such a happy and joyful outlook on life.
She was just ambitious and wanted…
I think she just wanted to experience anything and everything she could.
And that was… how she was gonna live her life.
She decided it and she just did it.
Whenever there's, like, a nice sunset or, like, really pretty sunset,
like, we'll always text each other and be like, "Oh, Kaylee's saying hi."
[phones chiming]
[Myers] As I sit back and think of all the memories,
I've learned dwelling won't do anything.
It's important to remember all the good times
and be grateful for the relationships we were all able to form
with Ethan, Xana, Madison and Kaylee.
Even if it was for a short amount of time. [sniffles]
To know Ethan, Xana, Madison and Kaylee
was to love Ethan, Xana, Madison and Kaylee.
We will now take a moment of silence.
[Phoebe] I think that the world has made their idea
of who Kaylee, Maddie, Xana and Ethan were.
And so I think it's important to still emphasize, like,
who they were as friends and who they were as people.
They aren't just these victims.
I-I don't think there'll ever be a full acceptance and closure of this…
horrible thing that happened.
[Johnson sniffs]
[Johnson] Do we need to put that sweet soy glaze thing in here now?
Oh, I don't know. Read about it.
[Johnson] We graduated and we've been in Boise since 2023 of February.
We just have been, like, putting pieces together since everything.
Like, slowly.
We were forced to, like, grow up.
Um, and there's… There was never, like, you never get,
like, told when you're gonna have to grow up.
It's just, like, that was when it was for us.
[Alandt] There's no longer thoughts of the world being a sweet, great place
that you always know and truly believed it was.
You know, I had long life goals for myself.
I had a vision of what I wanted my life to look like.
And I've given up on… [stammers] …some of my goals
just 'cause I realized I'm a different person.
I'm still working on the new me to be able to, um,
get to a place to set goals again.
[Lauteren] I hang out with a completely new group of people at U of I now,
and it's kind of sad to say that.
But it just was, like, at the time, it was nice to be with people that,
like, honestly, didn't personally know them.
Which is so weird to say.
[Wood] It's a very bittersweet moment to say goodbye to my apartment.
This was my first off-campus housing apartment.
I loved it. Now, I'm moving out.
This is my spare bedroom.
This window faces 1122 King Road.
They still have the same caution tape up 368 days later.
It's a constant reminder that that's a crime scene that is still ongoing.
[Hunter] My first two weeks back into school, uh, I didn't handle it very well.
It's been a long road of emotions and roller coaster rides.
It's like separation anxiety, almost.
Finally, I'm doing pretty well though.
A lot of people really helped me out and helped me get my life back on track.
But my window is on the very end of our fraternity,
which faces the opening of where that house is.
So I wake up every morning and I open up the blinds,
and that house is the first thing I see, boarded up, looking like shit over there.
I just want it to go away so I don't have to look at it anymore.
[reporter] It's a haunting reminder of an unthinkable tragedy,
but soon the house at 1122 King Road will stand no more.
The University of Idaho is saying in a statement,
"It's time for its removal
and to allow the collective healing of our community to continue."
There is still so much speculation about what really happened in that house.
There are still so many unanswered questions.
[Johnson] When the trial comes, I will probably be very nervous.
I've never had to deal with something like this,
but, at the end of the day, I want justice.
Justice for the families and for the friends.
[Lauteren] I would feel the most, like, closure
if the suspect actually admits he did it,
or it's, like, confirmed in the trial and he gets put in jail.
Forever would be nice.
[Alandt] I don't follow the case at all anymore.
I don't have care in the world to keep
seeing everything be untrue.
I think the-the hardest part about this process
is nobody has it right.
[no audible dialogue]
And it's frustrating to see…
so many people talk about Bryan Kohberger.
I think he's a loser that shouldn't get talked about at all.
I think the only true story should be about their lives.
[Hunter] Getting the story out there feels right
because it's really important that I'm the one telling it
instead of some random ass person.
[Stacy] There's just parts of it that need to remain just ours.
You know, we care that we are the ones who tell his story
and capture his true spirit.
[Karen] I loved… I love those girls.
We're not gonna talk in past tense.
I will love them.
I'll remember them.
I will cry about them.
I will continue to keep them alive. s.