Witnesses to the Idaho college murders have spoken out for the first time in a new docuseries.
According to ABC News, the documentary depicts the morning after four University of Idaho students — Xana Kernodle, 20, Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21 — were murdered in their off-campus home in 2022.
The witnesses interviewed for the upcoming Amazon Prime series One Night In Idaho: The College Murders were the first to discover the crime scene.
Emily Alandt, her boyfriend Hunter Johnson, and their roommate Joise Lauteren lived just down the road from the off-campus house where the victims were discovered. Dylan Mortensen, one of the surviving roommates, called and invited the three of them over.
“When Dylan had called, I didn’t think it was urgent, so I start walking to Xana’s house, and when we got there, Dylan and Bethany [Funke] had exited the house,” Alandt told me. “They looked scared. “Just hands on the mouth, like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on.'”
She stated that her boyfriend, Johnson, entered the house to investigate and that she immediately sensed something was wrong when she entered.
Johnson was the first to discover the crime scene and can be heard on a 911 call instructing his friends to “get out, get out, get out” of the house.
The docuseries also features Chapin’s siblings and parents, as well as Mogen’s parents.
The series will premiere on Prime Video on July 11, one month before murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s trial begins.
Kohberger was arrested in Pennsylvania more than a month after the murders occurred. According to a probable cause affidavit, police linked him to the crime scene using DNA found in a knife sheath.
Investigators also traced his location using his cell phone and obtained surveillance footage of a car that appeared to be the same make and model as his driving away from the murder scene.
According to Kohberger’s defense team, he was driving alone on the night of the murders and claims innocence.
He is charged with four counts of murder and one count of felony burglary. If convicted, Kohberger could face death.
